Chips

MWC 2014: ARM Not Convinced By Smartphone Saturation Fears

ARM's James Bruce says mid-range smartphones, wearables and internet of things are a huge opportunity

11 years ago

MediaTek Hopes MT6595 Octa Core Processor Can Crack US And Europe

MediaTek hopes new SoC will democratise the smartphone market and allow the company to expand beyond Asia

11 years ago

ARM Cortex-A17 CPU To Boost Mid-Range Handsets

ARM Cortex-A17 targets mid-range smartphones and tablets

11 years ago

Smartphone Saturation Hampers ARM’s Royalty Revenues

ARM reports increase in profits despite high end smartphone slowdown

11 years ago

CES 2014: Imagination’s New GPUs Are 50 Percent Faster

PowerVR Series6XT graphics cores add plenty of new features, including 4K support

11 years ago

Smartphone Demand Boosts ARM Profits By 36 Percent

British chip designer ARM Holdings announces another rise in profits as license fees and royalties rise

11 years ago

New Chips Target ‘Internet Of Things’

AMD, Cisco and Intel are releasing new processors aimed at a market that is expected to hit $14.4 trillion by…

11 years ago

Bristol’s XMOS Joins EU Project For Efficient Chips

The European ENTRA project will build energy awareness into the chip design stage, to make gadgets more efficient

12 years ago

IT Life: Intel’s Stuart Dommett

Working for Intel has provided some thrills for Stuart Dommett

12 years ago

Intel Haswell Rolled Out For Xeon E3 Servers

Intel has rolled out the first Xeon server processors that includes the Haswell architecture

12 years ago

AMD Breaks With Microsoft And Looks To Android, Chrome

AMD processors currently run on Windows, but will reportedly in future also run on Google's Chrome and Android

12 years ago

AMD Kyoto Signals Intel Challenge For Microservers

AMD has introduced its Kyoto processors designed to tackle Intel and ARM in the microserver market

12 years ago

AMD Touts Custom Chip Unit To Battle PC Decline

AMD is expanding beyond its PC origins with a custom-chip unit, which already makes tech for the Playstation 4

12 years ago

British Chip Designer ARM Holdings Posts £89.4m Pre-Tax Q1 Profit

ARM Holdings benefits from continued demand for smartphones and tablets

12 years ago

AMD Posts Mixed Results Amid ‘Difficult’ Conditions

AMD has admitted to operating in a “difficult market environment” as it posted another loss

12 years ago

Chips By Texas Instruments Cut Battery Recharge Time In Half

Semiconductor pioneer improves battery technology for a whole range of mobile devices

12 years ago

ARM Swaps CEO With Less Fuss Than Intel

While Intel looks for a new leader, ARM changes CEO with no fuss, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

ARM CEO Warren East To Retire

ARM leader hands on the baton

12 years ago

Ericsson And STMicro To Divide ST-Ericsson With 1,600 Jobs Lost

Partners decide to shut down loss-making joint-venture

12 years ago

AMD Delivers ‘Richland’ Chips For Tablets, Notebooks

AMD launches its Elite A-Series "Richland" chips that offer better graphics and power consumption

12 years ago

US Engineers Test Self-Repairing Chips

A team from Caltech has developed an integrated circuit that heals itself when damaged

12 years ago

Apple Drops Samsung Chips From Devices – Report

Apple is reportedly migrating away from using the chips of arch rival Samsung for its iPads and iPhones

12 years ago

Samsung To Invest $3.9 Billion Into Texas Chip Plant

Even more mobile processors will be made in the US

12 years ago

Imagination Offers $100 Million For MIPS And Wins

British chip designer outbids CEVA, but pays $40 million more than initially planned

12 years ago

Intel Brings Atom To The Data Centre

The Atom S1200 is Intel’s latest weapon in the fight for the future of the server market

12 years ago

Intel Reveals 22nm Atom Plans

Tri-Gate-based Atoms will beat ARM-based systems on power and performance, says Intel

12 years ago

STMicro Looks To Exit ST-Ericsson Partnership

STMicro wants to compete better with rival semiconductor firms in Asia and US

12 years ago

Imagination Increases MIPS Bid To $80 Million

The UK chip designer finds itself in a bidding war against Israeli company

12 years ago

IBM Chip Breakthrough Makes Light-Borne Data A Real-World Proposition

Silicon nanophotonics should supplement speed up computers for Big Data

12 years ago

ARM Cortex 64-bit Chips Designs Uncloaked

Fresh designs promise more power and more efficiency

12 years ago