October 30, 2008 - Industry News
Intel, AMD increase processor market share in Q3
Both Intel and AMD were able to gain overall processor market share in the third quarter of this year, according to iSuppli. In terms of ...
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September 30, 2008 - Technology News
Nvidia GPU solder joints at a disadvantage over ATI, scientist says
A tiny material issue in Nvidia’s GPUs has cost Nvidia $200 million so far: The problem boils down to the solder bump material, in Nvidia’s ...
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September 17, 2008 - Industry News
New Nvidia GPUs use old solder bumps, cause of GPU failures
It appears that Nvidia has changed its mind on making a hard transition from high-lead to eutectic solder bumps in its GPUs as a strategy to ...
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September 10, 2008 - Technology News
Possible new semiconductors based on carbon fullerenes
Chemistry professor Harry Dorn from Virginia Tech said he developed reliable ways to manufacture and construct 80-atom fullerene molecules ...
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August 26, 2008 - Industry News
Nvidia GPU failures caused by material problem, sources claim
When Nvidia announced in early July that it has noticed a higher than normal failure rate in some of its notebook chips, investors reacted ...
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August 22, 2008 - Technology News
One electron at a time: Scientists close in on quantum computing
Ann Arbor (MI) – Researchers at the University of Michigan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the University of California at San Diego have ...
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August 12, 2008 - Technology News
Nanoantennas envisioned as possible replacement for solar cells
Imagine the possibilities of harvesting waste heat and converting it into electricity. Computer processors could be the source of power for ...
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August 5, 2008 - Top Story News
Strong PC demand boosts chip sales, DRAM & Flash prices plunge
PC sales appear to be much stronger than expected earlier this year, as semiconductor sales showed a solid performance in the first half of ...
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July 24, 2008 - Industry News
Hard drive industry shrugs off economic concerns, posts double digit growth rates
According to iSuppli, 137 million hard drives were shipped during the second quarter of this year, which translates into a healthy 21% gain ...
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July 9, 2008 - Technology News
Stretching the limits of lithography: MIT creates 25 nm structures
The semiconductor industry has been talking about the end of the 193 nm deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography technique, which has been in place ...
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January 29, 2008 - Technology News
45 nm Cell BE promised to cut power consumption by 40%.
Information provided through the ISSCC 2008 program are brief, but the document – which was posted earlier this month on the ICC website – ...
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December 21, 2007 - Technology News
Hybrid semiconductor material found for high-temps
One of the reasons our CPUs today must use annoying, noisy heatsink/fan combinations is to keep them from heating to the point where thermal ...
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December 4, 2007 - Industry News
Chip sales top $23 billion in October
Global semiconductor sales continued their positive growth in October, posting a 5% gain year over year. Revenues came in at $23.1 billion, ...
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November 29, 2007 - Industry News
AMD drops out of top 10 semiconductor ranking
The acquisition of ATI helped AMD to enter the chip top 10 last year for the very first time. Ranked at #8, the company saw its revenues ...
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September 28, 2007 - Technology News
Molecule-wide Carbon-60 nanowires prove great conductors of electricity
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered an assembly technique which provides a way to construct one-dimensional ...
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August 2, 2007 - Industry News
AMD’s four-three strategy to beat Intel
Whether you are a vendor trying to pass Microsoft in Software, Apple with MP3 players, Cisco with networking gear, HP with Printers, EMC ...
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July 23, 2007 - Industry News
iPod and iPhone causing flash memory shortage – report
Brisk sales of Apple’s iPhone and iPod are fueling a worldwide shortage in flash memory chips according to a new report issued by ...
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July 16, 2007 - Technology News
Commercially viable organic solar cells expected to be available in two years
An international team of scientists including Professor Lee Kwang-hee at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, and Professor/Nobel ...
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June 18, 2007 - Industry News
Intel CEO compares AMD’s success to a "comet passing in the night"
The success of the Core micro-architecture has injected a new sense of pride and confidence virtually across all layers of Intel's ...
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June 15, 2007 - Industry News
Playstation 3 accounts for almost 90% of XDR memory shipments
Based on current estimates that Sony has sold about 5.5 million PS3s to date and the fact that the console uses four 512 Mbit XDR devices ...
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May 31, 2007 - Technology News
Dell, Intel and Microsoft to promote flash memory for PC platforms
The new initiative, which is chaired by Intel with Dell and Microsoft serving as "core contributors", aims to create operating system ...
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May 4, 2007 - Technology News
Intel claims 2-year lead over AMD’s 45nm CPUs
Technology presentations in the financial community always have to be taken with a grain of salt. Stock prices today depend heavily on ...
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April 30, 2007 - Technology News
AMD’s Torrenza evolves into first real world applications
It has been about eleven months since AMD has revealed its Torrenza initiative, an effort to open up its hardware and encourage third ...
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April 11, 2007 - Industry News
Intel intros new flagship desktop CPU QX6800
Intel introduced a new quad-core enthusiast processor to bolster its product line for high-performance computers. The new QX6800 CPU increases ...
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March 30, 2007 - Industry News
SiS announces chipset license deal with Intel
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) on March 28 announced that it has signed a long-term licensing contract with Intel for the manufacture and sale of ...
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