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Probability chip start-up bought by Analog Devices

...Lyric Semiconductor, the designer of a probability chip architecture for error correction and general-purpose computing, has been purchased by... Read more

15 June, 2011 by Jack Clark
Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

...on Intel's lead in cloud-computing hardware. Tilera hopes its novel chip architecture, which puts up to 100 Risc-based cores on a processor... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

ARM reveals Mali GPU for next-generation devices

The Mali-T658 processor has 10 times the graphical performance of the Mali-400 and four times the compute performance of the Mali-T604, prepping the chip for use in high-end phones, tablets and smart TVs Read more

11 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

Tilera's 100-core processors take on Sandy Bridge

Chip designer Tilera has unveiled a low-power processor that can scale between 36 and 100 cores and is aimed at cloud applications Read more

22 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Microsoft signs deal to license ARM chip architecture

The partners have signed a new licensing deal covering ARM's chip architecture used in portable devices and handsets, such as smartphones running Windows... Read more

23 July, 2010 by Jack Schofield
Prioritized Direction Based Switch for Bufferless Network on <endeca_term>Chip Architecture</endeca_term>

Prioritized Direction Based Switch for Bufferless Network on Chip Architecture

This paper represents a bufferless Network on Chip (NoC) architecture for a generic multi-array based architecture. A... Read more

1 August, 2011

ARM buys Texan chip validation firm Obsidian

The British chip architecture firm ARM has bought Obsidian Software, a Texas-based processor verification... Read more

20 June, 2011

ARM profits from smartphone and tablet market growth

Pre-tax profits at the British chip architecture firm ARM have gone up by more than a third in... Read more

27 April, 2011

CES: Nvidia licenses ARM tech for supercomputer chip

...Nvidia will license chip architecture from ARM for a new chip, code-named Project Denver, that... Read more

6 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

New platform gives ARM-based chips a leg up

...very hard to do yourself," Ian Drew, vice president of marketing for chip architecture provider ARM, told ZDNet UK. "As we reduce the geometries, you... Read more

15 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
ARM gears up for fight against Intel

ARM gears up for fight against Intel

The chip architecture firm assesses its arch-rival's mobile prospects and explains how... Read more

22 February, 2011 by David Meyer

Intel and FTC make antitrust compromise

...an FTC antitrust case, but has tentatively agreed to not modify its chip architecture to inhibit competing chips performance Read more

5 August, 2010 by Jack Clark
Network-on-Chip Design for High Performance Demanding Multimedia Application

Network-on-Chip Design for High Performance Demanding Multimedia Application

Systems-on-Chip architecture integrates several heterogeneous components on a single chip. A key challenge... Read more

20 October, 2011
Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge chips set for launch

Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge chips set for launch

...efficiency, according to the company. While the processors use broadly the same chip architecture as their 32nm Sandy Bridge predecessors, this has been shrunk to... Read more

23 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Acorn pioneers honoured by US computing award

...bit RISC processor — the basis of smartphone titan ARM's low-power chip architecture. Meanwhile, Edward Feigenbaum was honoured for his work on artificial intelligence... Read more

30 April, 2012

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