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Rambus trial delayed until April
News Rambus is suing Infineon for patent infringement, claiming the German manufacturer owes it royalties for production of synchronous dynamic RAM and double data rate DRAM, two types of memory currently used in computers.
[March 19, 2001, 9:30]
Carbon nanotubes rise up food chain
News The nanotube-based memory is also nonvolatile, which gives it an advantage over conventional computer memory, or DRAM, and is faster than many forms of flash memory, Schmergel said. A large semiconductor maker has signed a deal with Nantero to use...
[July 2, 2004, 9:10]
Handspring wireless handhelds to launch on Monday
News The devices will use a 33MHz Dragonball VZ processor, 16MB of DRAM and rechargeable batteries. Delivering on promises to become more focused on wireless communications, Handspring plans on Monday to announce devices that combine a handheld...
[October 12, 2001, 12:12]
2000 Roundup: Chips broke 1GHz, but market yawned
News The company also demonstrated its first system using DDR DRAM, an advanced memory technology designed for super-fast systems. 2000 was the year PC chips broke the 1GHz barrier, though to judge by the declining growth rate for PCs in the US, this...
[December 26, 2000, 6:10]
Micron module promises to boost server memory
News Traditional RDIMMs limit the amount of memory that can be accommodated because of their leading profile, but LRDIMMs eliminate the problem by reducing the module load," said Robert Feurle, vice president of DRAM marketing at Micron, in a statement.
[August 5, 2009, 15:29]
New handheld aims to bridge digital divide
News Simputer also sports 32MB of DRAM, 24MB of permanent flash memory and a 320-by-240-pixel black-and-white screen. A non-profit group in India has created a simple, inexpensive, multilingual handheld device aimed at bringing computing to Third World...
[May 25, 2001, 16:21]
Cisco may gain from old inventory
News Some of the inventory was custom, but there are DRAM chips and all this other stuff that can still be used. When Cisco Systems reports its second-quarter results on Wednesday, one thing to watch for is whether it will boost the bottom line by...
[February 1, 2002, 13:16]
Inside Intel: Otellini proclaims end of Internet age
News At the moment Pentium 4 can only be used with Rambus DRAM, which is newer and more expensive. Intel is looking to a new generation of PC-based consumer applications such as digital video editing to sell its latest mainstream processor, but admits...
[June 6, 2001, 17:23]
Report: Chip market to grow, but slowly
News The market for DRAM memory chips will grow 35 percent to $15bn this year, and 35 percent again in 2003 to $20bn. The semiconductor market is picking up steam, but it won't return to the heady growth of the dot-com era any time soon, an industry...
[November 7, 2002, 8:14]
64-bit PCs still searching for software
News And as DRAM prices decline, 4GB of memory will become more common as a default option, he said. Now that they're 64 (bits, that is), personal computers are still searching for developers to need them and feed them.
[August 3, 2007, 13:28]
The Day Ahead: Chatting with Applied Materials
News Memory outlook: Memory prices have fallen, but DRAM makers are investing to boost capacity. Commentary: Applied Materials' outlook for the current quarter shows a few short-term wild cards for the chip sector, but investors may be well advised to...
[November 16, 2000, 11:57]
Micron pumps up DDR2 memory production
News Rambus has designed a potential competitor for DDR2, dubbed XDR DRAM, which will appear next year, according to the company. Micron Technology revealed on Monday that it has begun producing large numbers of DDR2 chips, a new generation of memory...
[December 8, 2003, 14:45]
MetaRam: Putting terabytes of memory into servers
News Instead of talking to four 1Gb DRAMs, we make it think it is talking to one 4Gb DRAM. MetaRam chief executive Fred Weber is talking about putting terabytes of memory into servers. The San Jose, California-based company, which is just coming out of...
[February 26, 2008, 11:26]
AMD goes for Intel with 'Spitfire'
News AMD will differentiate Spitfire from its high-end Athlon chips with higher levels of cache, faster bus speeds and double data rate DRAM memory, among other things. For its part, Intel will introduce an improved version of its Celeron chip later in...
[March 28, 2000, 7:32]
IDF: New memory technologies on the way
News This can be very fast -- almost as fast as DRAM -- but needs two transistors per bit. As well as BIOS chips for PCs, the technology is ubiquitous in consumer electronics -- with the increase in digital media, world consumption has never been higher.
[February 27, 2002, 9:51]
Intel feels cool response to Pentium 4
News Intel plans to offer "Brookdale," a Pentium 4 chipset that will work with more common synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), in the third quarter of this year. Intel's new Pentium 4 chip may find itself caught in the summer doldrums.
[June 1, 2001, 9:30]
Rambus sues Hitachi over patent infringement
News Rambus Tuesday filed suit against Hitachi for alleged wilful patent infringement on several semiconductor products, seeking injunctions against the manufacture, use and sale of several memory and microprocessor products, and seeking punitive...
[January 19, 2000, 14:57]
Magnetic memory moves on
News Toshiba and NEC unveiled a paper this week that showed methods to cut down power consumption and size in cells of MRAM, a type of memory that may replace conventional computer memory (DRAM) and even flash memory.
[December 17, 2004, 9:45]
Cell Computing launches pocket-sized Pentium boards
News The company has somehow managed to squeeze a 10/100 Base-T Ethernet port, CardBus expansion socket, DRAM, flash ROM and standard PC peripheral connectivity -- together with a Pentium III processor of your choice -- onto a motherboard measuring...
[September 30, 1999, 16:08]
1997 In Review
News DRAM prices were jumping up. January The year began with huge merger news: after being linked with startup Be, Apple said it planned to buy Steve Jobs' Next. The first Pentium MMX PCs began to appear.
[December 31, 1997, 7:00]
