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Fuming nitric acid, robots and fraud: chasing counterfeit chips

...it is perhaps easier to get hold of some unofficial time on chip-making machinery than in Silicon Valley's heavily controlled environment. The results... Read more

26 June, 2010
Sci-Fi Pong 1.4

Sci-Fi Pong 1.4

...the father of the Video Game industry, designed the first video display chip making video games possible. Pong is one of the first publicly available... Read more

24 March, 2011

Intel applies chip tech to disease detection

Technology that analyses the chemical composition of chips could help detect the early stages of disease Read more

23 October, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

IBM claims new chip making breakthrough

IBM will today announce that it has conquered an ancient and arcane problem to help make faster semiconductors, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal this morning. Read more

22 September, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Intel, AMD, Motorola to team on chip making technology

Intel, AMD, Motorola and the US's Department of Energy's Virtual National Lab will today announce that they have teamed up to develop a breakthrough chip manufacturing technology. Read more

11 September, 1997 by Martin Veitch

IBM to share chip intelligence

...Sony and Toshiba will be able to incorporate some of IBM's chip-making advances, such as Silicon on Insulator, into future processors for consumer... Read more

2 April, 2002 by John G.Spooner

Intel posts mixed third quarter results

The chip-making giant's revenue was higher than expected in the third quarter... Read more

13 October, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

AMD and Fujitsu combine flash operations

...two companies will create a new company to unify their flash memory chip making businesses, in an effort to cut costs and boost production Read more

1 April, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Tech insider-trading scheme sees six charged

...regarding the negotiation process surrounding AMD's decision to spin off its chip-making arm and receive outside investment, and obtained other insider information for... Read more

19 October, 2009 by Tom Krazit
Google sets up Android team in Taiwan

Google sets up Android team in Taiwan

...Netbook, is working on bringing Android to the line, and Motorola's chip-making spinoff Freescale has also expressed interest in the Android-for-netbook... Read more

13 March, 2009 by Stephen Shankland

Intel invests in UK chip-design firm

...market, particularly in Asia Pacific countries. Intel has been pouring cash into chip-making facilities of late, including a plant in China and a $300m... Read more

3 July, 2007 by Gemma Simpson

AMD to cut prices on desktop chips

...late last year. It takes a few months to get a new chip-making technology up and running. But now that it's a little... Read more

12 February, 2007 by Tom Krazit

Intel quad-core chips launched

The Xeon 5300 and Core 2 Extreme processors give Intel a much-needed win over AMD Read more

14 November, 2006 by Tom Krazit

Apple releases Windows dual-boot tool

...released the first Intel-based Macs with Intel's Duo dual-core chip, making the machines two to three times faster than similar Macs with... Read more

5 April, 2006 by Candace Lombardi

IBM clambers onto 45nm bandwagon

...2007, while Philips, Freescale and STMicroelectronics are working together until 2007 on chip-making processes for 90nm, 65nm, 45nm and 32nm nodes. Last week IBM... Read more

25 May, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

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