June 29, 2011 - Industry News
As Apple seeks new chip suppliers, theories abound
With Apple seeking to lessen its dependency on Samsung as a processor supplier, a number of chip-supplier scenarios are emerging for Apple's ...
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April 25, 2011 - Industry News
How the iPad changes PC design
Consumers prefer light to heavy. Thin to thick. And that's why more laptops will begin to imitate the internals of the iPad. Reason #1-- ...
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February 17, 2011 - Industry News
Rumor: iPhone 5 to feature A5 processor, iPad 2 stays with A4
The oft-quoted DigiTimes, a Taiwanese tech industry favorite publication, has revealed that Apple is outsourcing the production of its A5 ...
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February 14, 2011 - Industry News
TSV Technology to increase chip speed up to 20X
Micron Technology is set to disclose a hybrid memory technology that it claims will boost performance 20-fold over the memory chips used in PCs ...
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February 8, 2011 - Industry News
How long a wait for PCs, Macs with fixed Intel chip?
How long is the wait for new PCs and Macs packing fixed versions of Intel's latest and greatest silicon? That question has PC makers, not to ...
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January 24, 2011 - Industry News
Apple: Disrupt or perish
While the secret for Apple's success seems patently obvious to most--as obvious as the form and function of the iPhone 4--a more subtle reason ...
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January 20, 2011 - Industry News
Tricky transitions in tech leadership
For every George Seifert there's a Sammy Hagar: making the change from an iconic leader to even a well-groomed successor can be very tricky. The ...
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January 17, 2011 - Industry News
Future iPad, iPhone to have Qualcomm chips
Is Apple moving to a new wireless chipset supplier for the next iPad and iPhone? An unnamed but "reliable" source is quoted by Engadget saying ...
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December 28, 2010 - Top Story News
Intel: Why a 1,000-core Chip is Feasible
Chipmaker Intel has been investigating the issue of scaling the number of cores in chips through its Terascale Computing Research Program, which has so far yielded two ...
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December 20, 2010 - Industry News
Nvidia: Gaming on Intel's next-gen chip
Graphics-chip supplier Nvidia says it will do just fine despite claims by Intel that its next-gen chip will offer a higher-octane gaming experience ...
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December 17, 2010 - Industry News
CES: First Intel next-gen laptops will be quad core
The official rollout of the first "Sandy Bridge" laptops at the Consumer Electronics Show next month will be a quad-core affair. The chipmaker is ...
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December 8, 2010 - Industry News
Why a Moore's Law for green tech doesn't compute
Claiming that green technologies need to follow Moore's Law has been called both inspirationally ambitious and dangerously misguided. No one will ...
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December 6, 2010 - Top Story News
U.S. Chip Industry in Age of iPad
Behind the fly-off-the-shelf popularity of products like Apple's iPad and iPhone are hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs--mostly overseas. Is it possible to create more of those ...
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November 29, 2010 - Industry News
Should you wait for Intel's Sandy Bridge laptops?
Why wait? Sandy Bridge technology is better than anything Intel has offered to date, and it's almost here. Intel is already shipping the processor ...
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November 12, 2010 - Industry News
Computer chip sales cool down in summer
Sluggish demand took a bite out of chip sales and shipments toward the end of the summer, says a new study out from IDC. For the third quarter ...
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November 8, 2010 - Top Story News
Intel's Andy Grove on Manufacturing in America
Among the scores of fabless chip companies and product design houses in Silicon Valley, Intel is a standout. It's an American high-tech company that not only creates but builds ...
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October 25, 2010 - Industry News
Lightbulb wars: More than just LED
The incandescent bulb is under fire for being an energy hog, but don't expect one single lighting technology to take its place. At a General ...
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October 25, 2010 - Industry News
Apple ditching preinstalled Flash on future Macs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs' well-known distaste for Adobe Flash on mobile devices is now extending to the Mac. Many of us testing the new MacBook Air ...
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October 21, 2010 - Industry News
A peek into the future of Intel processors
Intel is on a seemingly unstoppable march toward manufacturing unimaginably small chip geometries of 15 nanometers and beyond. Generally, ...
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October 14, 2010 - Industry News
Can tech make a better pinot?
It is about an hour's drive from my house to Napa and Sonoma. And about four hours back. That's the disclosures out of the way. So now might I ...
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September 29, 2010 - Industry News
Oracle sues Micron over chip pricing
Oracle has sued Micron Technology, alleging the chipmaker overcharged Sun Microsystems for memory chips. Micron and other manufacturers of ...
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September 29, 2010 - Industry News
Fujitsu starts shipping next-gen supercomputer
Fujitsu has begun shipping the brains of a new Japanese supercomputer to be built at the government-funded RIKEN research institute and designed to ...
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September 23, 2010 - Industry News
Would you buy an Intel chip hobbled by design?
Intel may be opening a can of worms with a pilot program that asks consumers to pay an extra $50 to make a processor, hobbled by design, ...
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September 7, 2010 - Industry News
Bill Gates: Better software modeling is a key
A key to many hard problems, from using nuclear power to combating diseases, is better software modeling, Bill Gates said. While it's not ...
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August 25, 2010 - Industry News
Intel CEO: U.S. faces looming tech decline
Intel chief executive Paul Otellini offered a depressing set of observations about the economy and the Obama administration evening ...
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