June 16, 2010 - Technology News
Writing is on the wall for silicon
Faster chips might be on the way as scientists have demonstrated a new method of "writing" circuits onto graphene. Graphene, the material which ...
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June 4, 2010 - Industry News
Chip industry future is looking even rosier
The outlook for the chip industry has improved from earlier 2010 forecasts, says analyst firm Gartner. Worldwide semiconductor revenue is predicted ...
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May 28, 2010 - Industry News
Samsung talks up its future chip glories
Korean giant Samsung's semiconductor business is getting better each quarter according to its president, Kwon Oh-hyun. He said that the outfit ...
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April 30, 2010 - Industry News
UMC looks to advanced technology
Taiwanese chip foundry UMC has said that it wants to expand its sales of chips from 65nm and more advanced technologies. UMC's CEO, Shih-Wei Sun ...
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April 7, 2010 - Industry News
Semiconductor sales were up 56%
It was mixed news for the semiconductor industry when sales figures were announced by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Figures for ...
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March 30, 2010 - Top Story News
ARM Wrestles With Dark Silicon
Much attention has been focused on Intel's struggle to reduce the power drain of its x86 mobile processors to that of the ARM architecture that ...
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March 22, 2010 - Industry News
Chip industry will grow by 7% next year
Chip foundry TSMC has been consulting its crystal ball and has come to the conclusion that either the global semiconductor industry will grow by ...
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March 9, 2010 - Industry News
MEMs screens speed up e-readers
Screen technology is about the only reason that e-book readers exist as a category distinct from other mobile computers. Their displays, typically ...
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February 23, 2010 - Technology News
Boffins improve memory capacity
Boffins at Arizona State University have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a new way to improve the capacity of memory chips. The ...
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January 22, 2010 - Industry News
Asian chipmakers grow like topsy
Reports are coming in from the Far East that chipmakers are falling all over themselves in a mad rush to expand capacity. Building work has been ...
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January 8, 2010 - Industry News
Marvell launches quad-core ARM CPU
Chip maker Marvell has launched a quad-core ARM processor at CES 2010 in Las Vegas. The chip is based on the same CPU architecture as Marvell's ...
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November 10, 2009 - Industry News
AMD can't get enough GPUs
PC Manufacturers are starting to get worried that they cannot get enough of AMD's new 40nm GPUs. The problem is due to AMD's foundry having ...
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October 27, 2009 - Industry News
China is set to flood the world with chips
After the Chinese semiconductor market dipped in 2009, the industry is expected to be major force in the world markets next year. According ...
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October 20, 2009 - Industry News
IBM and Intel execs accused of insider trading
Intel Capital and IBM executives are facing insider trading charges after allegedly providing information that reaped a massive $25 million in ...
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October 19, 2009 - Industry News
Smartphones strain networks
Smartphones are causing headaches for mobile network operators, and this is set to worsen as demand rises. A report from Airvana found that ...
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October 8, 2009 - Industry News
Light at the end of the tunnel for chip firms
Analysts are 'cautiously optimistic' about the fate of the semiconductor industry, but things are likely to get at least a little worse before ...
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September 10, 2009 - Industry News
Chipmakers consolidate
It looks like the analysts were right. The recession is forcing the chip industry to consolidate with outfits trying to get bigger, either by ...
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September 4, 2009 - Industry News
Qualcomm, Xilinx and Altera cut wafer starts
Top wireless chipmakers Qualcomm, Xilinx and Altera have decided to cut back on wafer starts at their foundries for the last quarter of the ...
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August 26, 2009 - Industry News
Sandisk gets a second run at patent enforcement
Flash Maker Sandisk has been given another chance to protect its patents after a ruling by the US International Trade Commission. The ITC is ...
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August 19, 2009 - Industry News
AMD claims it is good at being discrete
Intel Rival AMD claims it has finally managed to become number one somewhere in the chip market. In a statement the outfit said it's taken ...
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August 11, 2009 - Industry News
EU ombudsman slams commission for being mean to Intel
The EU has been caught on the back foot by a report that the Competition Commission missed evidence that could have helped Intel's case before ...
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August 10, 2009 - Industry News
PC chips fell by 7% last year
IDC has warned that the chip market is in weak condition as sales of PC chips fell another 7% from last year. Its beancounters said that, despite ...
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July 20, 2009 - Industry News
Fear and loathing at Semicon West
Despite vendors grudgingly noting that Semicon West wasn't quite as bad as they had expected it to be this year, an atmosphere of fear and mistrust ...
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July 16, 2009 - Industry News
Global Foundries wants to distance itself from AMD
Global Foundries wants to kick AMD out of its bed and onto the couch, according to some of the company's executives. In a discussion with ...
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July 9, 2009 - Technology News
General purpose GPUs will rule the Earth
General purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) should take the market by storm by the fourth quarter of this year, according to analysts, who ...
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