processors

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

Intel Introduces Its Most Powerful Desktop Chip To Date

The 8-core i7-5960X Extreme Edition supports DDR4 memory, up to four discrete video cards

10 years ago

New Xeon Phi Chips Will Have Omni Scale Fabric On Board

Next generation processors will be complemented by high-bandwidth memory designed in partnership with Micron

10 years ago

Russian Government Orders The Development Of Homegrown ARM Chips

The 64-bit Baikal M and M/S processors are meant to replace Intel and AMD inside public sector computers

10 years ago

Intel Touts Programmable Xeon Chip Option

Intel looks to capitalise on demand for its server chips by offering programmable Xeon processors

10 years ago

Intel ‘Very Disappointed’ After It Loses Antitrust Appeal

An EU court has crushed Intel's bid to overturn its record-breaking antitrust fine

10 years ago

ARM Expects Better Q2 After Q1 Revenues Hit By Smartphone Slump

ARM blames an "inventory connection" for slowing growth, but says Q2 should be a lot better

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

64-Bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 And 808 To Offer CAT 6 LTE And 4K Video

New Qualcomm chips are expected to be in smartphones and tablets by early 2015

11 years ago

History Of AMD: Quiz Of The Week

What do you know about the world’s second most popular chipmaker?

11 years ago

Chinese Watchdog Reveals Details Of Qualcomm Antitrust Probe

US chipmaker accused of abusing its dominant market position and could face up to $1bn in fines

11 years ago

Intel Touts High-End Xeon Chips For Big Data

The updated Intel Xeon E7 chip lineup offers up to 15 cores and a number of performance improvements

11 years ago

AMD Adds To Opteron 6300 With 12-, 16-Core Chips

AMD aims Opteron 6338P and 6370P chips at virtualised data centres and cloud environments

11 years ago

Chip Giant GlobalFoundries Chooses Jha As Chief

Former Motorola chief executive Sanjay Jha will take the helm at Globalfoundries ahead of a massive investment in next-generation chip…

11 years ago

IHS: Processor Market Fuelled By Mobile Growth

The continuing boom in smartphones and tablets has taken up the slack for lacklustre PC sales in the overall chip…

11 years ago

Smartphones, Tablets Drive Global Processor Shipments

Mobile devices replace PCs as the driving force behind the global chip business, says analyst firm

11 years ago

Qualcomm Faces Chinese Anti-Trust Investigation

Qualcomm says Chinese authorities have told them the charges are 'confidential' but it denies wrongdoing

11 years ago

New Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 Supports Ultra HD 4K Video

Qualcomm's new chip promises video at Ultra HD 4K resolution, while the IPQ chipset targets the 'Internet of Things'

11 years ago

Intel Opens Up About Xeon Phi ‘Knights Landing’ CPU

Intel promises its upcoming "Knights Landing" chip will deliver significant performance improvements

11 years ago

AMD Bets On APU Servers, Rolls Out The Developer Tools

"If you build it, they will come," goes the thinking at AMD

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

Intel Launches Atom Z3000 Processor Family

The new silicon was developed around the requirements of an average tablet user

11 years ago

ARM Reports Stellar Second Quarter, Expects Good Times To Continue

British chip designer beats analyst expectations, reporting pre-tax profit of £86.6 million

11 years ago

AMD Adopts Optimistic Stance After Tough Q2

The boss of AMD believes the company will return to profitability next quarter after it posted another loss

11 years ago

ARM Takes Aim At Mid-Range Devices With Three New Chips

British chip designer is launching three new designs, as it gets busy at Computex

11 years ago

Four Universities Partner For £5.6m PRiME Chip Research Project

The PRiME project aims to develop future-proof embedded computing solutions

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

Apple Dropping Samsung As Chip Supplier – Report

Reports in Korean media suggest TSMC, not Samsung, will be contracted to make the upcoming A7 processors

12 years ago

Intel Reveals More Details About “Bay Trail” Chips

The new quad-core Atom silicon will be fast enough to power budget PCs

12 years ago

ARM CEO Warren East To Retire

ARM leader hands on the baton

12 years ago