February 8, 2010 - Industry News
Chip spies arrested in South Korea
Just what we need in the boring old chip industry, a John LeCarre style tale of corporate espionage, and intrigue. South Korean prosecutors ...
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January 11, 2010 - Industry News
Moore's Law unnatural, proclaims Intel CEO
It took Intel CEO Paul Otellini only about a minute to mention Moore’s Law in his CES keynote on Thursday, remarking that the ‘law’ was “not ...
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January 8, 2010 - Industry News
Intel Touts New Age of Core Computing
Intel has introduced its 2010 Core family of processors, which include i7, i5 and i3 chips. The company also unveiled several product platform ...
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January 5, 2010 - Industry News
AMD extends Vision vision to corporate market
Chip firm AMD said that it has created a version of its Vision brand aimed at the commercial and corporate marketplace. The key message AMD ...
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December 28, 2009 - Industry News
2010 opens with tight fab capacity
Unexpected demand for semiconductor chips at the end of this year means that 2010 will herald the beginning of tight fab capacity and little ...
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October 27, 2009 - Industry News
The future of 4G is murky
Basic design and silicon to achieve power and cost targets for 4G data or phone based devices is still not in place, according to a report from ...
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October 15, 2009 - Industry News
Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market
Unexpectedly good results for Intel's third quarter combined with ASML turning in a profit for its third quarter is bound to bring some hope ...
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October 7, 2009 - Industry News
Chip foundries for the chop, says iSuppli
The number of chip foundries worldwide is likely to be reduced to just three, according to iSuppli. The analyst outfit claims that while ...
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September 28, 2009 - Industry News
Apple designing own chips
There have been persistent rumors over the last few months that Apple is making a move into designing its own semiconductors. People have wondered ...
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September 18, 2009 - Technology News
MIT develops hybrid chip
An MIT team has succeeded in creating a hybrid chip, combining silicon and gallium nitride. Processor speed is dependent on size. "We won't be able ...
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September 15, 2009 - Industry News
Microprocessor diversity threatens X86 hegemony
Intel has managed to expand its lead in the struggling global microprocessor sector by capturing 80.6% of the segment's revenue during ...
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August 20, 2009 - Industry News
Biggest chip packager hit by typhoon troubles
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) said that production lines in the south of Taiwan are being badly affected in the aftermath of ...
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August 17, 2009 - Industry News
Spansion continues contracting
Spun off memory firm Spansion has told Taiwanese journalists that it is backing out of a memorandum of understanding it had with Advanced ...
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August 12, 2009 - Industry News
Semi market stutters all the way through this year
While there is some evidence that things are better in the semiconductor market last quarter than they were before, it's unlikely that things ...
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August 5, 2009 - Technology News
32 nanometer technology gets a run through
Moore's Law isn't dead yet, and the semiconductor guys are already talking about 22 nanometer technology while the 32 nanometer process is for all ...
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July 20, 2009 - Industry News
Graphics market has worst ever year
Sales of graphics chips in 2009 are the worst ever - worse even than when the dotcom bubble went pop. That's according to Jon Peddie Research, ...
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July 15, 2009 - Technology News
3G netbook market growing at rapid pace, iSuppli says
Market researchers continue to believe that the netbook category will be posting significant shipment growth. iSuppli said that 3G netbooks ...
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July 15, 2009 - Industry News
Global Foundries wants firms to delay moving to larger wafers
AMD spinoff Global Foundries has issued a call for the semiconductor industry to get the most out of 300mm silicon wafers before jumping to ...
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July 14, 2009 - Industry News
Chip market spurts but still has the collywobbles
Future Horizon CEO Malcolm Penn said: "Second quarter growth is usually pretty pathetic. There have been only three historical precedents when ...
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June 30, 2009 - Top Story News
Teardown reveals thin profit margin on Mac Mini
Apple may rake in stunning profits on its iPods and iPhones, but as far as computers are concerned, the company cannot break out of the common ...
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June 23, 2009 - Industry News
Fab shortage looms
Frightened executives in command of commissioning semiconductor fabrication plants have reacted to the economic meltdown with so much caution that ...
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June 16, 2009 - Industry News
Toshiba on track for 16nm process
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba is heralding the return of germanium in a new semiconductor process that promises to be viable at 16nm - roughly ...
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June 9, 2009 - Industry News
AMD's Atom smasher - notebooks not netbooks and not yet
AMD CEO Dirk Meyer told Digitimes that the products using the new chip will be notebooks rather than netbooks, reasoning that the netbook ...
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May 13, 2009 - Industry News
Intel Atom sales slumped in first quarter
Market research firm IDC released a survey of microprocessor sales in the first quarter of this year and its not good news for the Netbook market. ...
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May 12, 2009 - Industry News
NAND memory goes Flash, bang, wallop
The price of NAND flash memory is stabilizing after manufacturers slowed down supply of chips. But even after that action, sales of branded ...
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