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AMD Starts Shipping Its 65nm Chips
News AMD has started to ship chips made on the 65-nanometre process, as the manufacturing spat with Intel heats up. AMD chips made on the 65-nanometre (nm) process will consume about 30 percent less energy than the same chips produced on the 90nm...
[December 5, 2006, 8:23]
Intel Opens 65nm Ireland Factory
News Intel has opened a third chip plant focused on 65-nanometre processes as it moves ahead with its latest array of multicore microprocessors. The $2bn (£1bn) factory, based in Leixlip, Ireland, gives the chip giant a wider lead at 65 nanometres.
[June 26, 2006, 9:35]
Intel Starts Producing 1Gbit Flash Memory
News Intel has launched what it claims is "the industry's first volume shipments" of 65nm NOR flash memory products. The multi-level cell (MLC) products — which include a 1Gbit 65nm flash chip — began shipping from Intel's plant in Seoul, South Korea...
[November 10, 2006, 16:15]
Intel Shows Off Next-generation Production Tricks
News Intel has announced its first test production of four-megabit static memories using 65-nanometre technology. This marks a key stage in the company's preparation for 65nm products in 2005, two years after 90nm is due to enter full service.
[November 24, 2003, 20:25]
Intel Details Dual-core Notebook Chip
News Yonah, a notebook chip coming from Intel in the first part of next year, is going to be a lot different than its predecessors, company executives say. The chip, which will be made on the 65nm process, will come with a number of enhancements over...
[June 3, 2005, 9:20]
IBM Licenses 45nm Technology In China
News IBM has licensed its next-generation technology for manufacturing processors to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, the largest chipmaker in China, the companies said on Wednesday. The partnership spotlights the growing technical...
[December 27, 2007, 11:08]
IBM Changes Directions In Magnetic Memory
News At IBM, manipulating magnetic fields are out, and spin-polarised electrons are in. IBM has linked with Japan's TDK to develop so-called spin torque transfer RAM (random access memory) or STT-RAM. In STT-RAM, an electric current is applied to a...
[August 20, 2007, 9:45]
Intel's High-powered Engineers Create Low-power Chips
News One of Intel's boldest commitments at this year's autumn Intel Developer Forum is that by the end of the decade it will produce chips that use ten times less power than the current generation, but with no performance deficit.
[August 26, 2005, 12:55]
Intel Finalises Design Of Penryn Chip
News Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometre (nm) chip that will be out toward the end of next year. The company is also in the midst of making its first Penryn samples. They aren't out of the fab yet, but they are in the fab," said...
[November 30, 2006, 8:43]
Intel Launches Quad-core Tigerton
News Intel has launched its new line of quad-core Xeon products for the multiprocessor server market. Code-named Caneland, its much-awaited Xeon multiprocessor 7300 server platform comprises the new Tigerton quad-core Xeon 7300 series chip, as well as...
[September 5, 2007, 12:06]
Sun Releases Plans To Build On Rock
News Sun has begun engineering work on sequels to two new families of Sparc processors, Niagara and Rock, that use a more advanced manufacturing process. The current Niagara systems, which began shipping in December, employ an aggressive approach to...
[April 18, 2006, 9:25]
AMD To Cut Prices On Desktop Chips
News AMD plans to slash prices on desktop processors on Monday, as new manufacturing technologies make it easier to swallow lower prices. The cuts are as much as 35 percent on high-end dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors.
[February 12, 2007, 8:59]
Barrett Extends Silicon Roadmap
News Moore's Law will boost chip abilities for many years to come, Intel CEO Craig Barrett predicted on Tuesday. The momentum will be kept up first through conventional manufacturing processes, then for many years after that by other technology, he said...
[March 2, 2005, 9:30]
Cosmic Threat To Tomorrow's Computers
Blog Intel's first two billion transistor processor, details of which appeared yesterday, is quite the beast. Tukwila is four cores of 2GHz Itanium embedded in 30 megabytes of on-chip cache, together with Intel's next-generation memory controller/cross...
[February 4, 2008, 23:35]
Intel Shows Off Silverthorne And Tukwila
News Intel has unveiled a slew of details on its portable and enterprise processors, new memory technologies and wireless development, as part of a 14-paper onslaught on the 2008 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, which opened in San...
[February 4, 2008, 17:14]
AMD Details Opteron Upgrade Plans
News AMD will launch Rev F versions of its Opteron chips in the third quarter, a move that ends the single-core server processor era and paves the way for four-core models. The company had discussed some Rev F details before, but in a meeting in San...
[March 7, 2006, 12:35]
Centrino Driving Profits For Intel
News Sales of laptop computers helped push massive sales of Intel chips during the last three months, allowing the chipmaker to report one of its highest grossing quarters ever. Revenue totalled $9.2bn (£5.2bn) during the second quarter, which is 15...
[July 20, 2005, 9:55]
Moore's Law On Course For Another Two Years
News The 45nm process is right on time, according to Intel. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant has created test chips made on the 45nm process and is likely to begin shipping processors, flash, and other chips based on that process in the...
[January 26, 2006, 9:15]
Chipmakers Join Forces On Nano Research
News Chipmakers AMD and Infineon Technologies, together with Taiwan's UMC, are collaborating to create faster, cooler and more power-saving processors expected to be at the heart of the next generation of computers.
[July 30, 2002, 13:14]
AMD Unveils Barcelona At Last
News AMD has unveiled its first set of quad-core processors, three months after the original launch date. Code-named Barcelona, the long-awaited Opteron quad-core server chip comprises four processing cores on a single piece of silicon, and it is this...
[September 11, 2007, 8:36]
