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Intel Faces Delays To 0.13 Micron Move
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Concern over the delay highlights the increasing importance of chip equipment manufacturers to the continued success of the PC chip industry.
[April 30, 2001, 13:08]
Strong ARM Elbows Out Competition
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Embedded chip designer ARM Holdings (quote: ARM) showed Intel and AMD a thing or two Wednesday, reporting strong earnings for its full year, unlike most high-tech companies at the moment.
[February 1, 2001, 9:02]
3G To Boost Chip Revenues
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Research firm IDC offered some hope to the troubled communications chip industry -- the semiconductors that power mobile phone handsets and other portable devices -- predicting that...
[February 28, 2001, 15:27]
Rambus Patent Lawsuit Backfires On Shareholders
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Shares of Rambus, which owns intellectual property for chip-making technology, plummeted on Thursday amidst speculation over an impending lawsuit.
[March 16, 2001, 11:05]
Rambus Shares Leap On Trial News
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Shares in Rambus, the microchip intellectual-property company, surged more than 32 percent on Thursday as speculation mounted that it has a stronger case than previously thought in its...
[March 23, 2001, 11:08]
Transmeta Shares Drop As Lock-up Ends
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum End of lock-up period sees chip manufacturer lose almost a quarter of its stock market value Shares in chip-maker Transmeta plummeted 23 percent on Monday after investors were freed...
[May 8, 2001, 12:02]
News Roundup: Intel Extends The PC
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Dell, Toshiba: We want Intel's power-saving chip Wed, 28th Feb The companies will use Intel's new 700MHz power-saving mobile Pentium III chip in their mini-notebooks
[February 28, 2001, 15:47]
Manufacturers Continue Investing In Future
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Figures from chip designer ARM shed light on outlook of troubled high-tech manufacturers Despite the drastic downturn in the fortunes of high-tech companies, semiconductor makers and...
[May 9, 2001, 15:26]
AMD Unveils Pumped-up Duron
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Advanced Micro Devices has released a 900MHz version of its Duron processor to try to expand its lead in the budget chip market. Compaq Computer is offering the new 900MHz chip in its...
[April 3, 2001, 8:09]
Xeon Server Chips Delayed
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum A chip packaging flaw leads Intel to hold back the release of Foster - its first ever Xeon processor based on Pentium 4 - until the end of May
[May 9, 2001, 8:10]
IBM Puts Linux On TV
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum IBM is launching the latest initiative to bring Linux into set-top boxes, working with MontaVista Software to bring its Hard Hat Linux to the PowerPC-based, single-chip Set-Top Box...
[May 17, 2001, 7:33]
Nvidia Banks On Budget Chip
News Graphics chip leader Nvidia introduced a new graphics processor on Wednesday aimed at the budget end of the workstation market. The Quadro FX 500 is the latest entry in Nvidia's line of FX processors, which got off to a shaky start after repeated...
[May 22, 2003, 11:15]
NEC Unveils Multitasking Set-top Chip
News The chip incorporates a dual-CPU (central processing unit) architecture, bearing two 225-MIPS CPUs. Japanese electronics company NEC has unveiled a new all-in-one chip that can act as a digital video broadcast decoder and power next-generation...
[April 22, 2003, 10:55]
Cell Processor Unveiled
News The eight "synergistic" processors are a step forward from current computing system designs, in which the graphics chip draws pixels and the central processor does everything else. The chip that will run the next version of the PlayStation will...
[February 8, 2005, 9:05]
Chip Firm Predicts Dramatic Recovery For 2002
News A US semiconductor research group is predicting the world chip market will grow 21 percent in 2002, more than triple the estimates of most analysts. In the meantime, delays in new chip fabrication plants and the elimination of this year's inventory...
[November 19, 2001, 13:55]
IBM May Launch AMD-based Servers
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum The move would be AMD's most significant move yet into the market for enterprise PCs, servers and desktops, now dominated by Intel, the world's largest chip maker.
[March 12, 2001, 12:44]
Via Plans 1.2GHz Chip As Strong Sales Boost Confidence
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Earlier this week, Via took the wraps off a new roadmap for its processors, revealing plans to launch an x86-compatible chip running at 1.2GHz by the end of 2001.
[May 3, 2001, 13:57]
Intel Fixes Delayed 3GHz Pentium 4
News The 3GHz chip was supposed to come out two weeks ago, but Intel discovered an anomaly with the processor in its labs on the eve of the launch and subsequently delayed the introduction. The problem has now been permanently fixed with a BIOS (basic...
[April 22, 2003, 10:18]
Glitch Discovered In UltraSparc III
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Though Sun is distributing a program that fixes the problem, the patch disables a feature of the chip and thus cuts computer performance under some circumstances, Holman said.
[April 5, 2001, 8:36]
AMD Dubs New Chip Athlon 4
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum Advanced Micro Devices is going to call its next chip the Athlon 4. As part of its ongoing rivalry with Intel, AMD will call its new chip, coming out next week, the Athlon 4, according...
[May 10, 2001, 8:12]
