January 13, 2012 - Industry News
Imagination uncloaks 'over 20X faster' smartphone GPU
CES 2012 Imagination Technologies has revealed a pair of new GPU IP cores that it claims will supply new heights of performance to the likes of Apple ...
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December 2, 2011 - Industry News
IBM, Micron tag team on 3D memory breakthrough
The Hybrid Memory Cube consortium formed by Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology is leveraging IBM Microelectronics' 3D wafer-baking expertise to ...
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October 26, 2011 - Industry News
ARM elbows through chip market with bumper profits
Business is brisk at British chip designer ARM where pre-tax profit and revenue ballooned during the company's third quarter. The Cambridge-based ...
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August 22, 2011 - Top Story News
The CPU's Future is Threatened
Hot Chips ARM's employee number 16 has witnessed a steady stream of technological advances since he joined that chip-design company in 1991, but he now sees major turbulence ...
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July 11, 2011 - Industry News
Chip makers thrive on tablets, e-readers, cars
The PC market might be cooling a bit, but the world's appetite for tablets and e-readers and cars with all kinds of electronic gadgetry is ...
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May 27, 2011 - Industry News
Tablet marketgasm? Don't make us laugh, say Intel chiefs
Intel execs poured cold water on overheated predictions for tablet sales, pointing out to investors that notebook shipments still massively ...
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May 17, 2011 - Industry News
VIA double stuffs x64 clone chips
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are not the only ones innovating in the x64 chip racket. VIA Technologies has carved out a niche for itself ...
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February 15, 2011 - Industry News
Intel samples 'Medfield' next-gen phone chip
Intel has announced that its "next-generation phone chip", code-named Medfield, is now sampling to customers, with production scheduled for later ...
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January 25, 2011 - Industry News
Smartphone Makers to Embrace Multi-Core Chips
By the end of the 2011, 15% of us will be using smartphones with multi-core processors. So says market watcher Strategy Analytics, which ...
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January 21, 2011 - Industry News
Supercomputer performance leaps off the charts
Webcast In our first HPC channel webcast of 2011, we talk to Rich Brueckner of InsideHPC to take the measure of current HPC performance and talk ...
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November 2, 2010 - Industry News
Intel lets outside chip maker into its fabs
It looks like the makers of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are not quite ready to cede the coprocessor market to GPUs just yet. Achronix ...
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October 18, 2010 - Industry News
Intel sets out tablet stall for Atom
In reporting its third quarter financial results, Intel placed the emerging tablets device category far higher up the agenda than in previous ...
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October 14, 2010 - Industry News
Broadcom to acquire dual-mode 4G chip designer
Communications-chip heavyweight Broadcom announced it will acquire Beceem Communications, a fabless designer of dual-mode 4G wireless chips that ...
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September 3, 2010 - Industry News
Semi biz starts to cool off
While chip makers are not white-knuckled with fear as they were during the economic meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, they were hoping that the ...
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September 2, 2010 - Top Story News
Super-Flash Chips Run On SiOx, Not Graphite
Stateside chip boffins say they have developed a radical new method of building memory, which will smash through the "brick wall" that Moore's Law is about to run into. The underlying ...
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June 14, 2010 - Industry News
New wave of superphones poised to challenge iPhone 4
We have already pointed out that the iPhone 4 faces far more credible competition than its predecessors in terms of smartphones integrating ...
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June 11, 2010 - Technology News
Amazing 'pulse of darkness' ray tech birthed in US gov labs
US government boffins say they have invented a fiendishly cunning new kind of laser running on quantum dots which, rather than producing pulses of ...
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May 21, 2010 - Industry News
Mobile sales soar, but numbers are squishy
Worldwide mobile phone sales are steadily rising, smartphone sales are skyrocketing, and Nokia maintains its lead in both categories. But when ...
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February 2, 2010 - Industry News
December chip sales reach 2007 levels
The Semiconductor Industry Association, a trade group representing the interests of US-based chip and fab equipment makers, said that worldwide ...
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January 8, 2010 - Industry News
AMD's former chip arm to bake Qualcomm wafers
AMD's former chip manufacturing arm GlobalFoundries has inked its third customer for its wafer baking operations: wireless chip-maker ...
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December 28, 2009 - Industry News
Micron's near billion dollar turnaround
DRAM and NAND flash manufacturer Micron recorded a $204m million profit in its first fiscal 2010 quarter, contrasting vividly with a $718m ...
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October 9, 2009 - Technology News
Coin-sized nuclear isotope battery minted
A boffin in Missouri has invented a nuclear-powered battery the size of a penny. Professor Jae Kwon believes that radioisotope batteries can hold ...
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September 28, 2009 - Industry News
Factory's future brightens
South Korean manufacturer Uni-Chem confirmed that it plans to buy Hynix’s shuttered computer chip plant in west Eugene and convert it to ...
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July 31, 2009 - Industry News
GlobalFoundries inks wafer baker deal with STMicro
GlobalFoundries, the wafer baker that was spun out of Advanced Micro Devices in March and which broke ground on a new $4.2bn chip fab in ...
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June 22, 2009 - Technology News
iSuppli: Moore's Law to take a breather
Is Moore's Law, the driving force behind the technology and economics of the chip business, going to take a holiday? The analysts at iSuppli ...
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