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Mobiles to push PCs aside at TechX
News Transmeta's new 5800 chip will run at speeds of up to 800MHz. Compaq and Toshiba will announce a variety of systems based on Intel's Pentium III chip, and HP will officially launch a new Pavilion notebook using Advanced Micro Devices' 1GHz Athlon 4...
[June 22, 2001, 16:15]
Intel plugs Centrino into Wi-Fi
News The new two-chip component, which consists of communications and radio chips, is selling for $25 (£13.72) per part in 10,000-unit quantities. The part allows devices that use the chip to connect to 802.11b and 802.11g-based networks.
[January 16, 2004, 8:00]
Intel reports headway in mobile device market
News Intel's StrongARM SA-1110 processor and its XScale chip for handhelds have found their way into devices from many major handheld manufacturers, including Palm, Sony, Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer.
[May 16, 2003, 7:59]
Start-up software harnesses processing power
News PeakStream's development software product will let programmers take advantage of three chip advancements, said chief executive Neil Knox: multicore processors, increasingly powerful graphics chips and the Cell Broadband Engine chip co-developed by...
[September 18, 2006, 9:45]
DVD groups hold their ground
News Chip giant Intel is also interested in standards, and according to sources, plans to speak with both groups to work out a possible compromise. Sony, Intel and Microsoft, for instance, are now working together to ensure new devices can talk to PCs.
[September 18, 2002, 14:02]
Intel launches new Crusoe-killers
News Intel is today taking its latest potshot at chip startup Transmeta with the release of several new low-power processors for sub-notebooks. Transmeta sent shockwaves through the notebook market last year with the announcement of its Crusoe chip...
[May 21, 2001, 16:02]
Transmeta set to release Linux for Net appliances
News Sony, for example, will offer a pair of new Vaio notebooks, one of which will offer the first 667MHz version of the Crusoe TM5600 chip. NEC will offer two new LaVie notebooks with 600MHz versions of the chip, according to sources familiar with the...
[February 16, 2001, 11:13]
Microsoft may introduce game console in autumn
News The Microsoft machine also is expected to use a graphics processor called GeForce, from Nvidia, a Santa Clara.chip maker. Microsoft, determined to head off Sony in the battle to control digital entertainment, is considering a move that could shake...
[October 26, 1999, 16:27]
Sony to increase PC prices
News Chip suppliers to the flat-panel industry are also increasing supply. Sony is raising prices on some of its PCs, the latest company to fall victim to increasing component costs. On Friday, Sony said it would raise prices of notebooks and desktops...
[April 8, 2002, 9:55]
Roundup: Are PCs losing their grip on the Internet?
News News Burst: Broadcom unveils set-top box chip Thu, 04th May 2000 Chip maker aims to speed up growth of Internet-connected TV Sony, others to start digital broadcast services Mon, 23rd Oct 2000 New set-top boxes will enable viewers to store...
[November 15, 2000, 15:17]
Intel to ship portable demo in handheld push
News So far, Intel has carved out a fairly substantial foothold in the PDA market with the StrongARM processor, the predecessor to its XScale chip. The chip can range from 50MHz, where it consumes about 10 milliwatts of power, to 800MHz, where it...
[January 31, 2001, 8:39]
Qualcomm doubles its chips for next-gen mobiles
News A representative for Texas Instruments, which began supplying dual-processor phone chips last year, said Nokia, Palm, Panasonic, Sony Ericsson and other phone makers have either introduced new two-chip phones, or are in the process of doing so.
[May 23, 2003, 8:01]
New Celeron, price cuts from Intel
News OEMs introducing new products based upon the 300MHz Celeron chip include Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Packard Bell, Sony and Acer. The 300MHz Celeron chip, is now priced at $159 (£97) per unit in 1,000-unit quantities, while pricing for the...
[June 9, 1998, 9:42]
Win a Sony VAIO G11-Series notebook review
Reviews Further security is provided by a fingerprint sensor and a built-in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip. Sony's new G11-Series VAIOs aim to fulfill this brief — and you have the chance to win one courtesy of Sony and ZDNet UK!
[March 12, 2007, 6:52]
Rambus speeds up chip connections
News Redwood is part of Rambus' effort to branch out of memory chip design. Currently, parallel buses can shift data rapidly, but they generally require that the data remains synchronised while it travels from one chip to another.
[February 17, 2003, 7:53]
Transmeta investigating Taiwan foundries
News Transmeta is testing the water with Taiwan-based manufacturing plants, in a move that could eventually boost the chip startup's capacity to manufacture its Intel-compatible chips for the featherweight laptop market.
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
Comdex 2001: Nokia touts new phone standards group
News Among the standards is Java, which lets programs run regardless of which chip and operating system the phone uses. AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens, Sharp, Samsung, NEC and Matsushita are...
[November 13, 2001, 10:04]
Showtime for new video compression
News It is also engineering a multimedia chip to carry its video format that will include support for MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. That announcement followed a deal struck in mid-August among AOL Time Warner, Sony, Vivendi Universal, Viacom's MGM and...
[March 25, 2002, 11:51]
A look at the most exciting gadgets of CES 2009
News The innovation, however, lies inside — the machine is the first to use AMD's new chip bundle for what it calls 'ultra-thin' notebooks. Sony has always denied any intention of producing a netbook, but the Vaio P — billed as a 'lifestyle PC' — has...
[January 9, 2009, 16:30]
Intel leads 400Mbps wireless charge
News Leading Wi-Fi chip manufacturers will be announcing a new industry forum on Monday to help accelerate efforts to create a new, faster Wi-Fi standard, says a source close to the companies. It is supported by Intel, Atheros, Nortel, Samsung, Sony...
[October 10, 2005, 9:35]
