Chips

Qualcomm Confirms Major Job Losses And Cost Cuts

‘Strategic Realignment Plan’ included within third quarter results

9 years ago

Intel Switches Out For Data Centre Success In Waning PC Market

But pushes back 10nm "Cannonlake" chip release to 2017, potentially damaging data centre progress

9 years ago

IBM Intros Cloud Services For Designing Chips For Mobile, Wearables

IBM's High Performance Services for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) help small and midsize businesses and startups design chips faster

10 years ago

Intel Buys Altera In £11bn Chip Deal

Intel will acquire Altera for $54 per share in an all-cash transaction to drive into more profitable growth areas

10 years ago

Toshiba Moves Accounting Probe Into Chip Business

Following an independent investigation set up earlier in May, Toshiba will now probing accounting irregularities in its TV, PC and…

10 years ago

PayPal Deploys Applied Micro’s ARM Servers In Data Centres

Applied Micro Circuits' X-Gene SoC passes PayPal performance benchmarks

10 years ago

Samsung To Splash Extra £6Bn On South Korean Chip Plant

Samsung chip factory could focus on DRAM chip production, as well as mobile processors

10 years ago

AMD Suffers £120 Million Loss, Dumps SeaMicro Server Business

AMD blames "challenging PC environment", with revenues down 26 percent year-over-year

10 years ago

ARM Acquires Two Bluetooth Firms, Bolsters IoT Business

British ARM picks up Wicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices, adding strength to low-power wireless communications portfolio

10 years ago

Intel’s Pursuit Of Altera Ends After Price Disagreement

Altera officials reportedly turn down a per-share price of more than $50, thought at least one analyst doubts whether the…

10 years ago

MWC 2015 – Intel’s Powerful New Chips Are Aimed At Budget Smartphones

Atom X3, X5 and X7 processors unveiled at MWC to power 2015's entry devices, says Intel

10 years ago

Intel To Merge PC And Mobile Chip Operations

Mobile division has struggled as Intel faces strong opposition from likes of Qualcomm and Nvidia

10 years ago

IBM Pays £931m To Offload Semiconductor Business

IBM will pay Globalfoundries $1.5bn to take on chip operations

10 years ago

MediaTek Chips Will Double Data Allowances With Opera Max Compression

MediaTek is to integrate Opera Max into its processors, offering mid-range Android smartphone users the chance to double their data

10 years ago

Intel Hires Qualcomm Exec To Boost Mobile Efforts

Intel poaches Amir Faintuch from Qualcomm in bid to improve prospects in smartphones, tablets and M2M

10 years ago

Qualcomm Small Cell Chip To Boost Indoor 4G Coverage For SMBs

Wireless routers could soon offer cost-effective Wi-Fi and 4G for SMBs and consumers with Qualcomm FSM90xx

11 years ago

Qualcomm To Buy Wireless Gigabit Chip Maker Wilocity – Report

Qualcomm's possible Wilocity purchase fuels interest in Gigabit Wireless tech

11 years ago

Fujitsu And Panasonic To Combine Chip Design Efforts

The new venture will be fabless, hire employees from both companies

11 years ago

Intel Expands Chip Agreement With Altera

Intel widens its foundry partnership with Altera to develop cheaper and faster multi-die components

11 years ago

techUK Forum Will Find Partners For UK Electronics Firms

New techUK e-net network aims to fix up smart chip makers with the companies that need their skills

11 years ago

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

11 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