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Chip sales up again
News Global chip sales posted a third consecutive monthly increase in May, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported on Monday. Worldwide chip sales totalled $12.5bn (£7.57bn) in May 2003 -- up 2 percent from the $12.26bn in revenue reported in...
[June 30, 2003, 13:49]
A Year Ago: Chip firms compete to push limits
News Following IBM's announcement last week of new insulated substrate technology, working in conjunction with copper interconnects to improve chip performance, AMD, Texas Instruments and Samsung have revealed more details of their innovations.
[April 16, 2001, 6:07]
Chip makers not stopping at 1GHz
News It is bringing up a new manufacturing facility -- Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany -- that will be the home base for its next-generation, gigahertz-plus Athlon chip. Willamette and the company's forthcoming Timna chip will provide the bookends holding...
[March 10, 2000, 8:42]
Chip implants aim to save lives
News If your ageing father had Alzheimer's, would you plant a chip in his back to keep him safe? The grain-of-rice-size chip will contain a unique verification number that will be tied to a database of personal information including allergies and other...
[May 10, 2002, 10:30]
Chip firm predicts dramatic recovery for 2002
News A US semiconductor research group is predicting the world chip market will grow 21 percent in 2002, more than triple the estimates of most analysts. In the meantime, delays in new chip fabrication plants and the elimination of this year's inventory...
[November 19, 2001, 13:55]
Chip sales remain solid
News Global chip sales in August increased 14 percent from August 2001 and 2 percent sequentially from July 2002, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The SIA, which maintains a three-month average of chip sales, said global sales...
[October 1, 2002, 15:36]
Chip rewires itself on the fly
News The chip combines an existing architecture, the Tensilica Xtensa RISC processor core, with a large reconfigurable area of programmable logic called the Instruction Set Extension Fabric, ISEF. Designers that have had to use multiple digital signal...
[April 26, 2004, 10:05]
Chip wars: Is there life after 1GHz?
News Copper interconnects, which connect transistors inside a processor, serve to help increase clock speed performance over the aluminium interconnects used today by AMD and other chip makers. As Athlon's process technology -- the techniques used to...
[March 8, 2000, 8:59]
Chip sales up in 2003, forecast improves
News The technology research firm predicted that the global chip market would grow 8.3 percent with a total revenue of $168bn (£102.5bn) in 2003, compared with a total revenue of $155bn (£94.5bn) in 2002. The total revenue for the global chip market for...
[May 21, 2003, 8:53]
Chip designers paint a brighter picture
News Chip designers bucked the semiconductor slump of 2001, increasing revenues from sales of technology such as processor cores by 25 percent, according to a new report from market researcher Gartner. Chip designers, including companies such as ARM...
[May 1, 2002, 7:31]
Chip equipment makers feel Intel aftershocks
News The outlook for next year is relatively bleak," said Eric Chen, a chip equipment analyst at Chase Hambrecht & Quist. This is by no means the first sign of bad news for the chip equipment sector. In August, chip-assembly equipment maker Kulicke...
[December 8, 2000, 11:21]
Chip heavyweights hope alliance adds up
News The company will also pitch in on a pilot 300-millimetre chip production line there. The chip makers will work together during the next five years with chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to research advanced manufacturing...
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
Chip breaks speed record in deep freeze
News IBM and Georgia Tech have coaxed a chip to run at 500GHz, a record for a silicon-based device, by dropping the temperature to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit. At room temperature, the IBM-Georgia Tech chip operates at 350GHz, or 350 billion cycles per...
[June 20, 2006, 9:15]
Chip pioneer caught up in Bluetooth patent case
News CSR developed the BlueCore — a silicon chip with an in-built Bluetooth radio transmitter. Previously, such a device would not work because radio waves given out by the silicon chip would effectively deafen the Bluetooth radio.
[January 3, 2007, 12:08]
Chip giants go their own ways (Part 3)
News Compaq said it will work to improve performance of its Alpha processor, adding a new processor core and multithread processing capabilities to its Alpha EV8 chip, due next year. The chip will scale to 2GHz.
[October 7, 1999, 10:59]
Chip market in decline
News Siemens experienced the strongest growth among leading vendors, growing by 9.2 percent last year and climbing to number eleven in chip charts. According to Joe D'Elia, senior chip analyst the DRAM market is to blame.
[April 1, 1999, 7:42]
Chip sales bounce back in August
News Efforts to improve the energy efficiency of consumer products, along with the rise of netbook computers, helped boost global chip sales in August by five percent compared with the previous month, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
[October 5, 2009, 14:17]
Chip sales show positive trend
News After a huge drop last year, the global chip market should regain positive ground in 2002, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics. The worldwide chip market should grow 2.3 percent in 2002 to $142bn, the industry group said on Tuesday.
[October 29, 2002, 14:43]
Chip giants go their own ways
News The giants of the microprocessor industry are marching into next-generation technologies with such conflicting strategies that users may no longer be assured that software written for an Intel chip will work well with rival AMD processors.
[October 7, 1999, 10:50]
Chip market shows signs of life
News Sales growth in the chip market over the second quarter of this year could point to a sustained recovery, the research firm Future Horizons has said. April saw 16 percent month-on-month growth, but the continuation of growth in May means June is...
[July 13, 2009, 13:51]
