July 28, 2008 - Industry News
Chipmaker paints bleak economic picture
Chartered Semiconductor, which builds chips for companies like IBM and Samsung, says it is looking at a bleak economic picture for the ...
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July 16, 2008 - Technology News
Intel Centrino 2 launch was not about the processor
There was relatively little said Monday at the Centrino 2 launch about new processors. Almost as little as was said about side shows such as ...
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July 16, 2008 - Industry News
AMD, Nvidia graphics chip designs diverge
Nvidia's GTX 280 and GTX 260 are designed to deliver the biggest performance bang per chip. A so-called "monolithic" approach packs ...
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July 1, 2008 - Industry News
Qualcomm vs. Intel: You decide
Qualcomm has Snapdragon. Intel has Atom and Moorestown. Which of these chips is (will be) a more viable, compelling chip for the fit-in-your-...
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June 23, 2008 - Industry News
Microsoft after Gates, Bill without Microsoft
As Bill Gates prepares to walk away from Microsoft, both the man and the company he founded will face challenges getting along without each ...
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June 23, 2008 - Technology News
AMD, Nvidia graphics chip designs diverge
Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia are launching graphics chips based on distinctly different design philosophies. Nvidia chips are big and ...
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June 20, 2008 - Industry News
Intel researchers shine light on ray tracing
Brighter, crisper images are the goal for top Intel researchers in their work on future graphics technology. I talked Wednesday with Intel's ...
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June 19, 2008 - Technology News
AMD eyeing netbooks with low-power chip?
Electronista spotted a post from a German site called Eee PC News on an AMD processor apparently known as the "BGA CPU," according to what ...
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June 18, 2008 - Industry News
Tech giant Intel joins IBM and Applied in big solar bet
Following on the 2006 and 2007 announcements of technology giants Applied Materials and IBM moving into the solar sector, Intel has joined the ...
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June 17, 2008 - Technology News
AMD, Nvidia graphics chip designs diverge
Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia are launching graphics chips based on distinctly different design philosophies. Nvidia's GTX and GTX 260 are ...
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June 12, 2008 - Industry News
AMD refutes 'Kuma' chip cancellation claims
AMD says it is on track to deliver a dual-core chip code-named Kuma, refuting speculation that certain Kuma models have been canceled. ...
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May 29, 2008 - Industry News
AMD: 'Huge, monolithic' chips not our style
Advanced Micro Devices' ATI graphics chip unit doesn't want to build "huge" chips like rival Nvidia, an executive says. But an Nvidia ...
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May 21, 2008 - Industry News
U.S. cell phone sales take a dip
Sales of cell phones in the U.S. declined during the first quarter of 2008, as the maturing market was hit by a slowing U.S. economy. Nearly ...
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May 16, 2008 - Industry News
IBM replants chip-cooling tech in solar farms
IBM has developed technology that will let solar cells withstand the heat of more than a 1,000 suns. At a technical conference on ...
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May 13, 2008 - Industry News
Nvidia CEO details his beef with Intel
Jen-Hsun Huang doesn't pull any punches. And Intel is a favorite punching bag these days. I had a chance to sit down with the Nvidia ...
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May 13, 2008 - Industry News
RIM makes a Bold BlackBerry debut
World: Say hello to the RIM BlackBerry Bold. *Cue dramatic music.* You may know it as the RIM BlackBerry 9000, but, Research In Motion ...
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May 5, 2008 - Technology News
OptiSolar sets sights on world's largest solar farm
OptiSolar aims to build the largest solar farm in the world some 100 miles north of Los Angeles. It would amount to 550 megawatts and ...
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April 28, 2008 - Industry News
Is the CPU dead or alive? Nvidia says a little of both
Nvidia's hostility toward Intel is on a high boil these days. In its latest dig against the central processing unit (CPU) and the company ...
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April 24, 2008 - Technology News
LED lightbulbs: Are you ready to make the switch?
High price and a strange color. No, we're not talking about a hairdo. Those are the two factors that have kept light-emitting diodes, or ...
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April 15, 2008 - Top Story News
Wall Street hopes Intel, AMD still singing
If you want to gauge the tech winds, follow Intel. At least, that's the theory employed by economists trying to forecast the performance of ...
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April 14, 2008 - Industry News
Gordon Moore on the early days of the chip industry
Part of the challenge of making semiconductors in the 1950s was developing your own equipment. "All of the equipment for the photo ...
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April 11, 2008 - Industry News
Gordon Moore on the early days of the chip industry
Part of the challenge of making semiconductors in the 1950s was developing your own equipment. "All of the equipment for the photo ...
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April 10, 2008 - Industry News
Is the worst over for AMD?
AMD's processor business has been in the dumps for well over a year. But a resumption of quad-core shipments and a reduction in its workforce, ...
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April 2, 2008 - Industry News
Intel says we're close to a very cool future for mobile devices
Personal digital assistants, cell phones, smartphones--whatever you want to call them--keep getting smaller, thinner, and lighter. Congrats to ...
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April 2, 2008 - Technology News
Intel trots out wireless chips, discusses eight cores at IDF
Intel has started shipping its long awaited low-power chip for wireless devices, but the company is clearly starting at the high end of the ...
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