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Chip market heats up in July
News In a sign of continued growth in the chip industry, global sales of semiconductors rose to $12.9bn (£8.21bn) in July, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The increase in chip sales comes amid other hopeful news for the information...
[September 3, 2003, 15:55]
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 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 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 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 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 slaps cuffs on pox bug
News American researchers have demonstrated a chip capable of detecting and potentially analysing a single virus. It was created using variants of standard silicon chip production technology. Inside the chip, a tiny diving-board like cantilever vibrates...
[February 16, 2004, 15:40]
Chip glitch hampers latest Xeon launch
News A glitch in an Intel chip has hampered the launch of an important communication technology arriving on Monday with a new generation of servers, sources familiar with the situation said. Intel and server partners plan to launch the "Nocona" version...
[July 30, 2004, 9:00]
Chip implant aims to replace cashcards
Talkback Well, If you really feel like putting a chip into your arm. But when you stuck in the world when the antichrist comes back and it will be manditory for everybody to have a chip in them. I would suggest reading the whole book of Revelations.
[August 18, 2004, 2:59]
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 implant aims to replace cashcards
Talkback Idots -- Someone will kill you and chop your arm off and use the chip! Little or no common sense, it will just increase abductions, if you want to stop theft improve the policing!
[November 30, 2003, 13:54]
Chip IP market sees a boom
News Chip makers are moving toward integrating many functions on a single die -- the so called "system on a chip" -- and are finding it more convenient to buy functions from vendors such as ARM Holdings, MIPS and Rambus.
[June 12, 2001, 9:26]
Chip consortium gathers to outpace Intel
News Fujitsu, Toshiba, NEC and Sony are among chip makers who plan to release specifications for the high-performance CPU by the end of next year, and produce the actual chips in 1998, said the report in Japan's largest business daily, the Nihon Keizai...
[December 19, 1996, 9:51]
Chip ushers in the disposable mobile
News A chip breakthrough announced by Texas Instruments (TI) on Monday looks set to lower the cost of entry-level mobile phones. TI has created a single chip that integrates most of the computing functionality needed by a mobile phone.
[January 25, 2005, 13:20]
Chip equipment orders rise again
News Semiconductor equipment orders outpaced shipments again in April, another sign that the chip market may be on the road to recovery. The Semiconductor Industry Association, another trade group, expects chip sales to increase slightly from $139bn in...
[May 19, 2002, 7:31]
Chip-equipment orders rise slightly
News Several predicted in January that a chip-equipment recovery could begin in the first half of this year, thanks to increased capital spending by large chip manufacturers. Semiconductor equipment orders rose in February, after getting off to a slow...
[March 21, 2002, 6:31]
Chip designers voyage to voltage island
News If by chance a group of chip designers were left alone in a room, their conversation would most likely turn to power consumption. Among the topics Intel will discuss will be creating lower-power on-chip buses (devices that shuttle data back and...
[June 10, 2002, 12:18]
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]
Chip-and-bin plan launched
News Head of environmental services Richard Thompson said the overall aim of the chip-and-bin pilot is to build up a picture of recycling rates at ward level. While their chip-and-bin scheme may well have wound up in the waste paper basket at other...
[September 19, 2005, 9:35]
Report: Chip market to grow, but slowly
News According to a report by the Semiconductor Industry Association, chip sales will grow 1.8 percent to $141bn (about £90bn) this year, and then increase 19.8 percent year-on-year to $169bn in 2003. Chip sales to the Asia-Pacific region (which does...
[November 7, 2002, 8:14]
