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AMD and IBM deepen chip commitment
News AMD and IBM will work together to devise chip-manufacturing technology for three additional years, a deal that will bring about a quarter of a billion to IBM over four years and give AMD access to cutting-edge chip inventions.
[September 22, 2004, 8:30]
Intel prepares dual-core demo
News Intel will demonstrate a dual-core processor at the Intel Developer Forum next week and provide details on other technology initiatives intended to help the company claw its way out of a very difficult year.
[September 2, 2004, 16:30]
Disposable RFID tags attract millions
News Sweden's Cypak, which has developed a throwaway radio-frequency identification tag, announced that the Swedish Industrial Development Fund has invested 30m kronor (£2.2m) into the company. Cypak's RFID tags are designed to be incorporated into...
[August 23, 2004, 10:20]
Broadband: How South Korea leads the way
News CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reported from Seoul and John Borland from San Francisco. Ever since moving to Seoul to teach English two years ago, Renck has had a high-speed Internet connection of eight megabits per second -- only about average...
[July 28, 2004, 15:55]
Intel reveals Itanium details
News Intel will add a number of features to two upcoming Itanium family chips, as it looks to cut power consumption, raise performance and, hopefully, stoke greater interest among buyers. Montecito, an Itanium 2 that will arrive next year, will sport...
[July 26, 2004, 8:45]
Cycle parts emerge from carbon nanotubes
News Sports equipment maker Easton Sports plans to start producing bicycle components constructed out of carbon nanotubes in 2005, in another step forward for the budding nanotechnology industry. Easton said on Wednesday that it will use nanotubes from...
[September 2, 2004, 10:55]
Mouse explores new surfaces
News Ever have the urge to run a mouse across ceramic tile, lacquered furniture, metal, photo paper or opaque glass? The Logitech MX 1000 laser cordless mouse is for you. The Swiss-American mouse king will announce an optical mouse on Wednesday that...
[September 1, 2004, 8:40]
Gates explains Longhorn changes
News Microsoft on Friday set late 2006 as the deadline for it to ship Longhorn, the next major version of Windows. But to make that date, it had to delay the full implementation of WinFS, an ambitious file system geared toward letting users search...
[August 31, 2004, 11:05]
AMD and Intel gear up for dual-core demos
News Aiming to deflate archrival Intel, Advanced Micro Devices this week will show off its dual-core chips, which will start to trickle out toward the middle of next year. AMD on Tuesday will show off a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server with four dual...
[August 31, 2004, 9:00]
Microsoft picks five countries for cheap Windows
News Microsoft is getting ready to release a cheap, easy-to-use version of Windows XP for developing markets. Windows XP Starter Edition -- an inexpensive version of Microsoft's flagship operating system that does not contain as many features as the...
[August 11, 2004, 9:00]
Sharp monitor delivers 3D without glasses
News Japan's Sharp has created a desktop monitor that lets people see pictures and graphics in 3D without having to wear special glasses. The LL-151-3D is a 15-inch LCD monitor that taps 3D technology Sharp first showed off in late 2002.
[August 10, 2004, 15:05]
DVD profits 'less than £1'
News The revolution in consumer electronics that was supposed to make everyone rich apparently isn't. Commoditisation is hitting China's DVD player manufacturers hard, according to researcher iSuppli. Between January and May, the average selling price...
[August 10, 2004, 9:05]
Start-up breeds better chips
News If start-up Cambrios is right, semiconductors and other computer parts in the future won't be built. They'll be bred. The Californian company is using methods that will allow researchers to build semiconductors or other components by combining...
[August 5, 2004, 11:10]
Nanosys stops IPO
News A litmus test for the nanotechnology industry won't occur this week -- Nanosys on Wednesday announced it will not hold its initial public offering this week as planned. The company said it was withdrawing the IPO due to volatility of capital markets.
[August 5, 2004, 8:35]
Chips to talk without wires
News It will take a lot of work, but Sun Microsystems says it is making headway on a technology that will allow chips to communicate without circuit boards or wires. The technology, called "proximity communication," aims to let one chip transmit signals...
[August 3, 2004, 8:50]
Intel puts 4GHz chip back till 2005
News Intel won't ship a 4GHz version of the Pentium 4 until the first quarter of 2005, the latest in a series of delays for the chipmaking giant. Product plans that the company released to PC makers on Thursday stated that the 4GHz chip, originally...
[July 30, 2004, 14:20]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
News VeriChip, the company that makes radio-frequency identification -- RFID -- tags for humans, has moved one step closer to getting its technology into hospitals. The Federal Drug Administration issued a ruling on Tuesday that essentially begins a...
[July 28, 2004, 12:00]
Google downed by latest MyDoom
News Major Internet search engines were crippled on Monday by a variant of the MyDoom worm, which rendered Google inaccessible to many users and slowed results from Yahoo. The attack also affected smaller engines, including Yahoo's AltaVista and Lycos.
[July 27, 2004, 8:30]
Magnetised protein globules talk in binary code
News Molten silicon, designer molecules, and protein globules from a cow. Someday, one of these materials could be used to store data in cellphones and PCs. A number of start-ups are tinkering with technology that could enhance or replace hard drives...
[July 26, 2004, 10:45]
Dual-core chips will not share cache
News The dual-core chips that Advanced Micro Devices and Intel plan to bring to market next year won't be sharing their memories. A version of Opteron coming in 2005 and Montecito, a future member of Intel's Itanium family also slated for next year...
[August 26, 2004, 8:20]
