November 28, 2011 - Industry News
Intel outs 15W Pentium 350 chip for servers
Chipmaker Intel has introduced a low-power Pentium 350 processor aimed at low-end servers. Intel had previously talked about its intention to ...
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November 16, 2011 - Industry News
Intel's 4004 microprocessor is 40 years old today
Intel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 4004, the world's first commercially available microprocessor. To call Intel's 4004 just a microprocessor ...
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November 14, 2011 - Industry News
Amazon sells its latest Kindle at a $5.25 loss
Amazon is selling its latest Kindle ebook reader at an estimated loss of $5.25 per unit, ensuring it beats the competition by offering the lowest priced ...
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August 15, 2011 - Industry News
Android tablets take 20% of the market
Android tablets are closing in on Apple's Ipad, having taken 20% market share in the last 12 months, ABI figures reveal. According to the analyst ...
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June 22, 2011 - Industry News
Intel admits that Moore's Law is not enough
Chipmaker Intel has admitted that supercomputers will need twice the ramp up of computing power that Moore's Law alone will be able to deliver within ...
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June 10, 2011 - Industry News
Intel thinks 10% of servers will run Atom chips by 2015
Chipmaker Intel expects that low power servers will make up at least 10% of the market by 2015. Dylan Larson, director of the Xeon platform at Intel ...
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May 19, 2011 - Industry News
Intel will push Atom beyond Moore's Law to catch up with ARM
Chipmaker Intel will aggressively push its Atom processor over the next three years as it tries to narrow the gap between its x86 chip business ...
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January 25, 2011 - Industry News
Nanotechnology creates cool chips
A Team of US Boffins has designed a nanostructure material that will help CPUs and GPUs keep cool. The team from Stanford University's SRC have ...
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January 13, 2011 - Industry News
AMD CEO departure came after months of concern
The sudden exit of AMD CEO Dirk Meyer followed months of concern among some board members that he wasn't doing enough to get the chip designer into ...
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October 28, 2010 - Industry News
FPGA manufacturer claims to beat Moore's Law
Xilinx has announced that it can beat Moore's Law by introducing stacked silicon interconnects. The announcement debuts devices that allow for ...
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September 23, 2010 - Industry News
Intel wants junctionless transistors
Intel has said that it will spend more than $1.5 million in a research collaboration with the Tyndall National Institute at the University of ...
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August 18, 2010 - Industry News
Power management semiconductor industry opens champers
A jolly Christmas is all but here for the power-management semiconductor sector according to analysts Isuppli. The beancounters have added up ...
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August 10, 2010 - Industry News
AMD talks up the GPU
The GPU'S death is greatly exaggerated according to AMD. Writing in his blog, the chip manufacturer's graphics products technical marketing ...
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August 4, 2010 - Industry News
The global semiconductor market is 'on steroids'
iSuppli claims that the global semiconductor market in 2010 has been injected with a powerful dose of steroids. In its latest report iSuppli raised its revenue forecast ...
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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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