July 26, 2010 - Industry News
ARM, TSMC plan 20nm SoC production
ARM has signed a long-term deal with Taiwanese chip foundry TSMC to build very small system-on-a-chip processors, the companies said. The British ...
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July 21, 2010 - Industry News
TSMC Breaks Ground on 'Gigafab'
TSMC has begun construction on a 'Gigafab' facility capable of producing chips at the 28-nanometre scale. The fab will be the chip foundry's ..
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July 21, 2010 - Industry News
Who should pay with open core?
Terracotta CEO Amit Pandey has a simple way of defending when companies should pay for components in his open core Java-based caching software, ...
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July 12, 2010 - Industry News
OLED shortage may be problematic for Android smartphone industry
The AMOLED display shortage has been growing in awareness lately, especially with delays plaguing certain smartphones. But according to ...
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July 9, 2010 - Industry News
OLED shortage could be problem for Android smartphone industry
The AMOLED display shortage has been growing in awareness lately, especially with delays plaguing certain smartphones. But according to ...
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June 23, 2010 - Industry News
Is the high-end laptop dead?
A while back, I wrote that I was trading my laptop for a server. Finances have dictated that I tough it out with my MacBook for a while longer, ...
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June 17, 2010 - Technology News
New platform gives ARM-based chips a leg up
A group of semiconductor companies including IBM, ARM and Samsung has introduced a custom chip-manufacturing platform for 32- and 28-nanometer ...
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June 16, 2010 - Industry News
New platform gives ARM-based chips a leg up
A group of semiconductor companies including IBM, ARM and Samsung has introduced a custom chip-manufacturing platform for 32- and 28-nanometer ...
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June 10, 2010 - Industry News
How a decade of antitrust oversight has changed your PC
It was 10 years ago this week that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his final judgment in U.S. versus Microsoft. Two months earlier, after ...
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June 4, 2010 - Industry News
Moore's Second Law fuels open source chip group
Why has IBM brought five of its former competitors together in a bid to design chips for Linux devices? Moore’s Second Law. As you should know ...
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May 28, 2010 - Industry News
3D PCs coming soon then a boom, says report
First, there were 3DTVs. Next up: 3D PCs trickle out in 2010 and then ramp in 2011 and 2012, according to Jon Peddie Research. ...
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May 20, 2010 - Industry News
Quick market upturn may hurt semicon's future
The semiconductor industry experienced record lows during the 2008-2009 recession. But in a quick upturn in fortunes following market growth ...
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May 17, 2010 - Industry News
IDC: 5 years before PCM enters mainstream
Phase change memory (PCM) technology might offer benefits over flash memory, but its high costs and scaling constraints mean the technology ...
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April 21, 2010 - Technology News
Tha amazing memristor - beyond Moore's law and beyond digital computing
I recently visited HP Labs and spoke with Stan Williams, senior fellow at Hewlett-Packard and director of Quantum Science Research, about an ...
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April 20, 2010 - Industry News
The leaked 'iPhone 4G': How did this happen?
People lose their iPhones all the time. But it's not often that a super-secret prototype of a not-yet-released iPhone is carelessly left on the ...
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March 23, 2010 - Industry News
Core processors constrained, holding up new MacBooks
If you're in the market for a new Apple notebook you may be frustrated by Cupertino's lack of a new MacBook Pro. Apple is still hawking MacBook's ...
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March 17, 2010 - Industry News
Chipmakers seek growth via smartphone team-ups
With the adoption of smartphones increasing exponentially, chipmakers have identified this market as a key battleground. Collaboration and ...
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March 15, 2010 - Industry News
SEA semicon market chips in at No. 3
The 2010 outlook for the semiconductor industry in Southeast Asia is rosy, underscored by increased investments in wafer fabs and ...
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February 26, 2010 - Industry News
Intel alliance with TSMC "fizzles" - bad news for Atom versus ARM in smartphones
Intel confirmed this week that a lack of customer demand has put the partnership on hiatus for the short term. Which is to say, there will ...
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February 18, 2010 - Industry News
AMD's big bet on Llano CPU+GPU
Last week I was at ISSCC, an annual chip conference in San Francisco. Intel tends to dominate these conferences, not only because it is the ...
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February 18, 2010 - Industry News
Tablet commandments for PC makers
The Apple iPad is expected to help rejuvenate the tablet industry, with other PC makers also looking to cash in with their own slate products. ...
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February 10, 2010 - Technology News
Silicon good to 2024, graphene to succeed
The ISSCC has started in San Francisco with keynote speaker James Meindl, professor microelectronics, making precise predictions about the future ...
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February 4, 2010 - Industry News
Intel, AMD set to release first six-core desktop chips
In the next few months, both Intel and AMD are slated to release the industry’s first six-core processors for desktop PCs. Chip makers are ...
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January 28, 2010 - Industry News
Chip shipments on the rise as AMD makes gains
AMD pulled back market share from Intel in the fourth quarter, as the PC chip market got back on track after the economic downturn, according to ...
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January 19, 2010 - Industry News
Smartbooks, netbooks, confusions and disappointments
Are smartbooks going to fizzle like MIDs and UMPCs, take over the market like smartphones and netbooks or just confuse things for a while? Would ...
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