December 18, 2008 - Technology News
Netbooks vs. Laptops: Nvidia 9400M 'Ion' chipset stirs competition
Just because there isn't an Apple netbook doesn't mean there isn't a chance to crowd the market. Nvidia is launching its GeForce 9400M "Ion" ...
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December 16, 2008 - Technology News
Survey: Keyboards, DRM to become scarce in 2012
Step aside, keyboards, laptops, and 9-to-5 jobs. A survey of more than 1,000 Internet activists, journalists, and technologists released ...
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December 9, 2008 - Technology News
Intel claims quantum leap in fiber-optic detectors
Intel has developed silicon-based photoelectric detectors that could cut the cost of fiber-optic communications to a fraction of their current ...
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October 27, 2008 - Technology News
Improving chip density by a factor of 100
According to the semiconductor industry, maskless nanolithography is a flexible nanofabrication technique which suffers from low throughput. ...
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October 27, 2008 - Technology News
Improving chip density by a factor of 100
According to the semiconductor industry, maskless nanolithography is a flexible nanofabrication technique which suffers from low throughput ...
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October 23, 2008 - Technology News
Intel slams ARM for 'slow' iPhone CPU
"The shortcomings of the iPhone are not because of Apple," Intel's director of ecosystems for its ultra-mobility group Pankaj Kedia said ...
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October 1, 2008 - Industry News
ARM joins IBM mobile-chip alliance
Semiconductor design company ARM will join IBM, Samsung and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in a group aiming to develop mobile-chip ...
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September 30, 2008 - Technology News
New nanotechnology to speed up computers
University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers have developed new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up ...
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September 3, 2008 - Industry News
India, Vietnam lead Asia's chip growth
Sizeable domestic addressable markets and strong government support for foreign investments are making India and Vietnam two of the region's ...
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September 2, 2008 - Industry News
Asian chip market to hit US$160B
The semiconductor industry is set to enjoy a year-on-year growth of 6.4 percent to reach US$160 billion in 2008, according to new forecast ...
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August 25, 2008 - Top Story News
Intel teases shape-shifting programmable matter
Mobile phones in future could be thumb-sized in pockets, and in practically an instant, be effortlessly transformed into PDA-sized devices to ...
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August 20, 2008 - Industry News
Ericsson, STMicro form semiconductor joint venture
Ericsson and STMicroelectronics have formed a joint venture to sell semiconductors and platforms to mobile manufacturers. The deal ...
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August 19, 2008 - Top Story News
IBM shrinks SRAM cell for future chip generation
IBM has unveiled what it says is the first working static random access memory cell for a future generation in chip manufacturing, based on a ...
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August 13, 2008 - Top Story News
Is AMD getting ready to split?
It is widely expected that Asset Light will part AMD into two companies – one that is led by newly crowned CEO Dirk Meyer and a focus on the ...
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August 11, 2008 - Technology News
Material bends, stretches and conducts electricity?
In the latest twist on electronics, Japanese scientists said on Thursday they have developed a rubbery material that conducts electricity, a ...
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July 29, 2008 - Industry News
Apple CEO Jobs life not in danger
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who has been dogged by investor concerns about his health, does not have recurrent cancer or a life-threatening health ...
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July 22, 2008 - Industry News
AMD on road to recovery, says research firm
While AMD's processor business is showing strength, the company is still in a worse position than Intel to face a dip in demand for the rest of ...
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June 26, 2008 - Technology News
Aussie scientists push transistor barrier
We are interested in the fundamentals of what can and can't be done," said Michelle Simmons, program manager at the research centre's UNSW ...
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June 17, 2008 - Technology News
Nanoscale microscope on a chip
New Scientist recently reported that a UK company is developing a microscope on a chip four times more powerful than the best scanning ...
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June 16, 2008 - Technology News
A 30-picowatt processor for sensors
University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have developed an ultra low power microchip which ‘uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and ...
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April 21, 2008 - Technology News
AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010
Speaking at a Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned that ...
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March 17, 2008 - Industry News
Samsung to spend $1.4 billion to upgrade chip lines
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, said on Friday it will spend $1.37 billion (1.35 trillion won) to upgrade ...
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March 12, 2008 - Industry News
TSMC, others start work on $14.7 billion chip complex
Top contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and two other Taiwan chipmakers began work on Tuesday on new plants for a ...
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February 27, 2008 - Industry News
TI expands application chips beyond phones
TI, which faces competition from Qualcomm in the wireless market, said it would address broader markets by expanding its OMAP product line, ...
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February 26, 2008 - Industry News
AMD Phenom triple-core coming soon
AMD's triple-core Phenom processors should be arriving soon. The company said last month that shipping the new Phenom 8000 series–along with ...
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