September 22, 2008 - Industry News
Dark days ahead for component makers
The chips will stay down for the tech industry until at least the end of 2009, say component suppliers. According to the Financial Times, ...
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September 10, 2008 - Technology News
E-Step Xeons prove more efficient
Intel released five new Xeons, collectively known as the E-step parts, all of which promise greater efficiency than their predecessors. There ...
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August 14, 2008 - Technology News
Japanese boffins invent a sensitive robot nurse
One problem has long troubled Japanese bio-mechanics, as they seek robotic solutions to the challenge of caring for an increasingly ...
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July 9, 2008 - Industry News
HP buys most chips
The low price of chips of late means OEM consumption is growing slower than OEM revenues, Gartner reckons. The oufit's Semiconductor DQ ...
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June 26, 2008 - Industry News
Intel scraps Technology Journal
After a good 12-year run, the Intel Technology Journal (ITJ) is being put down by Chipzilla, in what is indeed a great loss to tech-philes ...
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May 16, 2008 - Industry News
AMD to outsource more CPU production to TSMC
Taking another step towards perhaps becoming a fabless chip firm, AMD will apparently be outsourcing its CPU production to Taiwan Semiconductor ...
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May 15, 2008 - Industry News
Intel's shaken Chinese chip firm back to work by Friday
Intel reckons it will be business as usual again this Friday for employees of the company’s chip packaging factory in the Chinese city ...
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May 9, 2008 - Industry News
Taiwanese semiconductor firms prepare to storm China
A Semiconductor quarterly report reckons liberal Taiwanese investment policies will cause an exodus of lower-profit production over to ...
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May 8, 2008 - Industry News
Samsung blasts into top ten foundries list
Samsung Electronics delivered 413% revenue growth in chip production in 2007, according to researchers at IC Insights. Only three of the top ...
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February 18, 2008 - Industry News
Unlike gov’t, exporters see no cause for cheer
Contrary to government expectations, prospects for the exports sector will remain bleak this year due to the peso’s continuing rise against ...
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January 31, 2008 - Technology News
Honda invents 3D chipset
Honda Research, the R&D unit of Honda Motors , has built a 3-D chip made from a smorgasboard of three different chips and actually got the ...
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January 29, 2008 - Industry News
NEC devises chips for even tinier gadgets
The devices we watch films on could get even smaller thanks to NEC, to the chagrin on film directing purists like David Lynch, who recently ...
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January 2, 2008 - Industry News
Electronics sector seen to meet 5% growth target
The country’s top export earner expects to meet its 5-percent growth target for 2007 despite the anticipated slowdown in the country's ...
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September 24, 2007 - Industry News
AMD's future has limitless possibilities
Before, during and after the latest IDF, speculation went wild on what would happen to AMD over the next six months or so. With Intel Penryns ...
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September 17, 2007 - Industry News
AMD To Make Tri-Core Processors
AMD,in a move to differentiate their processor line, has decided to begin selling three core processors. Is it weird? A little. ...
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August 23, 2007 - Industry News
AMD moves up in semiconductor league table
Sales of microprocessors will be flat this year, DRAM and NAND are down, and phones ain't what they used to be, said IDC. But the market ...
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July 26, 2007 - Industry News
Chip stocks plummet as markets get jitters
AMD was down by over a dollar on the NYSE while at press time Intel, tied closely to the NASDAQ declined by 76 cents. AMD ...
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July 25, 2007 - Industry News
Kingston crowned king of DRAM makers
Kingston Technology has been ranked top by chip counters at Isuppli, who reckon it haulks in the most revenue of all DRAM suppliers. Isupply ...
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May 30, 2007 - Industry News
Manufacturers selling memory for less than it costs
Increase In Dram production by South Korean manufacturers are causing prices to continue to crash, the CEO of market research firm iSuppli ...
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May 16, 2007 - Technology News
AMAT tools up really big solar panels
APPLIED MATERIALS is getting into the solar power business in a big way, and its customers are starting to break cover. One of them, Signet ...
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April 23, 2007 - Industry News
Intel may well be at its peak
On the plane from Beijing to Singapore, I thought again about the past week spent in the Chinese capital - my regular monthly haunt anyway. Intel put ...
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April 3, 2007 - Industry News
Semiconductor industry sales 'disappoint'
Worldwide Semiconductor sales increased 4.2 percent year-on- year in February, says a depressed Semiconductor Industry Association. ...
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March 21, 2007 - Industry News
HP and Dell to boost LCD panel orders
HP and Dell are expected to be hitting up LCD panel and TV makers in Taiwan for more orders this year as they push into the consumer electronics ...
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March 15, 2007 - Technology News
IBM shifts Cell to 65 nanometres
IBM announced yesterday that the company has started production of 65nm Cell processors. The company said it has begun producing the new ...
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March 8, 2007 - Technology News
Intel dumps Flash halogens
Intel says it has managed to stop using halogens in the packaging for its Flash memory for mobile phones. The chip firm's use of halogens in chip ...
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