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AMD Leak Reveals Hondo Tablet Chip

Leaked AMD marketing slides show the company’s ‘roadmap’ for Fusion APUs for tablets to coincide with Windows 8

13 years ago

AMD Launches First APU For Desktop PCs

AMD rolls out the Fusion A-Series, its first APU's for desktop users looking for a high-end graphics experience

13 years ago

Does HPC Belong In The Cloud?

The cloud makes high performance computing more widely available - but introduces several problems of its own, says John Hengeveld

13 years ago

IBM Uses Graphene Nano-Chips For Wireless Devices

Minute graphene-based integrated circuits for wireless devices offer better performance for much lower prices

13 years ago

Intel Foundry Relationship With Apple Rumoured

Speculation Intel may become a foundry partner for Apple’s mobile chips, fuelled by Citigroup report

13 years ago

LG Licenses ARM Cortex Mobile Processor Designs

LG is licensing mobile chip designs from ARM, bringing it into greater competition with other chip makers

14 years ago

Intel’s Oak Trail Processor Wrestles ARM In Tablets

Intel's Atom Z670 processors are thin and efficient, but most importantly they can run Windows on tablets

14 years ago

Japan Disasters Will Not Hurt Chip Production

Intel and Qualcomm say their operations' geographical spread will insulate them from Japan's shortages

14 years ago

UKCA Tries To Block Chip & PIN Hack Research Paper

The UK Card Association tried to block a university Chip & PIN report showing how the system can be fooled

14 years ago

Qualcomm Restyles Snapdragon Chip For Phones And Tablets

Qualcomm has redesigned the Snapdragon chip to deliver five times the performance at 75 percent less power

14 years ago

Broadcom Releases Samples Of Its 100Gb Ethernet Silicon

Broadcom unveiled the BCM88600 chip for 100GbE switches to meet the growing demands of data and video network traffic

14 years ago

AMD ‘Llano’ APU Chip Shows Off Its Paces

AMD showed off its upcoming “Llano” APU, which integrates compute and graphics capabilities for notebooks and desktop PCs

14 years ago

Low Power Bluetooth Chips Coming For Smartphones

CSR predicts new applications for the new low-energy Bluetooth standard, working alongside classic Bluetooth

14 years ago

CEO Otellini Says Intel Will Be Major Player In Tablet Market

Intel will be a dominant player in the rapidly-growing tablet market, riding on the strength of its Atom chips, Intel…

14 years ago

Broadcom Unveils New EEE Silicon Chips

Deploying end-to-end silicon in data centres can bring energy savings of more than 70 percent, according to Broadcom

14 years ago

IBM Enters The Power Management Chip Business

Wireless integrated on a power management chip promises to help the drive towards sustainable power and smart buildings

14 years ago

Intel’s Otellini Talks Up ‘Sandy Bridge’

As devices proliferate, Intel wants its technology to form the basis for everything from smartphones to servers

14 years ago

ARM Announces 2.5GHz Cortex Processor

Chip maker ARM announces the Cortex-A15 MPCore which claims five times the speed of current smartphone processors at 2.5GHz

14 years ago

Intel Rolls Out Parallel Computing Tools

Intel has launched Parallel Studio 2011, a new version of its tool set for building applications for parallel systems

14 years ago

HP, Hynix To Manufacture Memristors

Memristors could replace traditional memory technologies such as Flash and hard drives, as well as CPUs

14 years ago

ARM Taking Aim At Green Server Space

Chip designer ARM is looking to move into the low-end server space through virtualisation support

14 years ago

AMD To Unveil Bulldozer And Bobcat Chip Details

AMD is to use the Hot Chips Conference at Stanford University to discuss the technical details of its "Bobcat" and…

14 years ago

Intel’s McAfee Acquisition Means Chip-Level Security

Intel is buying software security firm McAfee for $7.9 billion. It’s now time to bake security into the hardware rather…

14 years ago

Chip Market Grows As Intel Dominates, IDC Finds

Worldwide sales and shipments of PC microprocessor units saw uncharacteristic growth during the second quarter of 2010, IDC has found

14 years ago

Chip Start-Up Focuses On Probability Processing

Many now ubiquitous applications are not looking for the yes/no answers, but rather the best guess answer from among a…

14 years ago

Researcher Warns Of Memory Chip Shortage

A new report has warned that a high demand for DRAM chips, coupled with supply bottlenecks, could lead to a…

14 years ago

Chip Market To Stabilise in 2010, IDC Finds

Analyst house IDC has said that the semiconductor market, which was hit hard during 2009, is beginning to stabilise

14 years ago

Intel Preparing Atom for Android 2.2

Google's Android 2.2 mobile OS will run on the x86 architecture and promote its Atom processor in more netbooks and…

14 years ago

Random Chip Errors Can Improve Performance

Mistakes in silicon chips could help computers continue to get more powerful, according to US researchers

14 years ago

Gartner Raises 2010 Chip Sales Projection

Good news for chip makers after Gartner predicted that semiconductor sales will grow 27.1 percent in 2010, an increase over…

14 years ago