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Chips Blend Library 1.0

Chips Blend Library 1.0

...your pocket with this user-friendly app. View CHIPS blends at scale (CHIP SIZE = 1/8), share them easily, use the favorites feature organize blends... Read more

19 May, 2012
CHIPS Blend Design Tool 4.0

CHIPS Blend Design Tool 4.0

...iPad resemble samples produced from actual product with a realistic simulation of chip size, chip color, and color ratios Read more

9 February, 2012

Magnetic memory set to charge the market

If the current trend for faster, more capable, more reliable computing operating at ever smaller amounts of power continues, the chances are good that we'll see the first MRAM in 2004 Read more

12 February, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

IBM claims optical chip breakthrough

...indium compounds. Ideally, companies experimenting in this arena want to make these chip-size optical components out of silicon wafers to keep the cost low... Read more

21 December, 2006 by Michael Kanellos

Sun loads 16 cores into 'Rock' chip

...these techniques, each of which requires more circuitry and therefore increases the chip size and power consumption. But Rock takes the opposite approach — and then... Read more

8 December, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Sun doubles thread performance with Niagara 2

...than 20 percent to the surface area of the chip, he said; chip size is a key factor in manufacturing expense and therefore in product... Read more

24 August, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Intel abandon plans for 4GHz Pentium 4s

Intel has cancelled the delayed 4GHz Pentium 4 chip and has instead said that it will increase performance by focusing on other chip attributes, rather than just clock speed Read more

15 October, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Flash memory begins to fade

Although the demand for flash memory is as high as ever, limitations in its physical size are forcing manufacturers to look elsewhere Read more

27 March, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Next Itanium to run at 1.5GHz, says Intel

In a sign that Intel is getting better at achieving development goals, it has disclosed that the Madison chip is to run at 1.5GHz Read more

27 November, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Itanium 2 shrinks to fit

...number of good chips produced from a wafer -- also typically decline as chip size increases because of a greater potential for defects, according to analysts... Read more

12 June, 2002 by Michael Kanellos

Intel's McKinley is one big chip

...number of good chips produced from a wafer -- also typically declines as chip size increases because of the greater potential for defects. "It's a... Read more

4 February, 2002 by Michael Kanellos

VIA ramps C3 processor up to 866MHz

...chips from 0.18-micron to 0.13-micron processes, which reduces chip size, heat output and power consumption, and increases speed and efficiency. VIA... Read more

11 September, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Via announces Tualatin support

...July. Tualatin uses Intel's new 0.13-micron manufacturing process, reducing chip size and power consumption and giving Intel additional ammunition against Advanced Micro... Read more

31 May, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Intel's mobile strategy covers all bases

Hoping to get a head start on AMD, the chip giant offers three high-end, low cost, and low-power chips to notebook PC makers Read more

25 October, 2000 by John G.Spooner

Cyrix 6x86MX .25 micron first for Nat Semi plant

...and Cyrix have achieved a major breakthrough over previous technologies, reducing the chip size from 150mm square to just 88mm square. Smaller line widths will... Read more

13 January, 1998 by Marc Ambasna Jones

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