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New standard to speed chip connections
News Primarion, which develops chip-to-chip connections based on optical fiber, hopes to release a proposal for an optical version of HyperTransport later this year. A key industry group is aiming to come out with a new specification for a high-speed...
[January 30, 2003, 13:55]
Rambus speeds up chip connections
News Redwood is part of Rambus' effort to branch out of memory chip design. Currently, parallel buses can shift data rapidly, but they generally require that the data remains synchronised while it travels from one chip to another.
[February 17, 2003, 7:53]
Another connection revolution proposed
News Called through-silicon vias, or TSV, the technique involves stacking chips vertically in a package and then creating connections between the bottom of the top chip and the top of the bottom chip. Copper wire connections can transfer data at 2.5Gbps...
[March 3, 2005, 10:10]
Intel gets optical with fibre
News That's slower than conventional optical technology -- and even some standard connections in PCs today -- but the entire unit is housed inside a chip package and should be cheaper than current optical parts.
[March 1, 2004, 14:25]
New chipsets underpin Intel's latest desktop PC platform review
Reviews This presents the chip's connections as a grid of conductors flush with the bottom of the case -- a technique previously used on the Pentium II core. Intel's new LGA775 package presents the Pentium 4's connections as a grid of conductors flush with...
[June 19, 2004, 8:30]
Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough
News The main function performed by a package is to create electrical connections between the chip and the motherboard. Similarly, the number of package-to-motherboard connections, called pins, has ballooned to close to 500 on many chips.
[October 8, 2001, 10:06]
Chips to talk without wires
News In part, the problem arises from how the chip connections are built. The pins secure a chip to a board and create the electrical connections. A much higher number of transmitter/receiver pairs than pins can be inserted in a specific area, which...
[August 3, 2004, 8:50]
Storage networking fans move ahead
News The FC9000 currently supports 1 gigabit-per-second connections, not the newer 2gbps speeds in the latest Fibre Channel gear. On the plus side, though, Inrange supports Ficon connections to IBM mainframes.
[May 22, 2002, 12:02]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
News Though he says it will likely take five to 10 years for optical connections to work their way from networking separate computers down to connecting elements inside a chip, Massimini sees the optical transition as an inevitable one.
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
Intel 'peels onion' with nanosurgery
News All the working connections are covered by the network of pins bringing signals to and from the circuit to the outside world: the only part available to the testers is the backside of the chip, a featureless expanse of silicon with no parts exposed.
[September 16, 2003, 11:15]
Wireless specs are on collision course
News Bluetooth's main benefit: providing persistent, wireless connections between different kinds of devices. When a Bluetooth connection collides with a wireless LAN connection, either or both connections can jam, resulting in a transmission error.
[November 15, 1999, 12:57]
SiO2 is cheaper than Cu
Talkback Running everything in a serial format also eliminates most of the clock/data bit-framing issues encountered in 8 and 16 bit parallel connections. High performance servers and storage already use fiber connections for "virtualizing" storage for...
[December 18, 2009, 7:00]
Bluetooth pushes into new markets
News The adapters include a complete Bluetooth stack, meaning that the devices they are connected to do not need to have Bluetooth drivers installed; the Bluetooth connections are recognised as conventional serial port or USB connections.
[June 17, 2003, 13:15]
Unix servers breaking out all over
News The system uses direct connections between processors, forgoing the usual high-speed switch that typically connects processors in high-end systems, Compaq said. The system is based on the top-end 3000 family of Onyx workstations and Origin servers...
[April 9, 2002, 12:03]
Intel hopes for new connection
News PCI EAS uses the same hardware as PCI Express, but would be used in networking equipment, displacing PCI connections or customer interconnects. PCI EAS could connect the chips with switched fabrics-chips that, like a switch, bridge the various...
[November 26, 2002, 7:39]
Xbox uncovered
News Although a small minority of those online use broadband connections, the Xbox will not have dial-up capability. The Xbox will come with an Ethernet port to connect to both DSL and cable broadband connections and an 8GB hard drive that will be...
[November 15, 2001, 11:04]
Wireless card brings Bluetooth and Wi-Fi together
News Wi-Fi -- also known as 802.11b -- is a wireless network that replaces wired Ethernet connections, while Bluetooth is designed to replace single cables such as serial connections and modem leads. In defiance of doomsayers who predicted that...
[May 13, 2002, 17:24]
Comdex 2001: Intel funnels PC advances into motherboard
News It's a vehicle to demonstrate many technologies Intel hopes to see in future PCs, including the faster version 2 of Universal Serial Bus (USB) connections, Serial ATA connections to hard drives, six-speaker audio, and 802.11b and Bluetooth...
[November 13, 2001, 9:42]
Chip glitch hampers latest Xeon launch
News PCI Express ultimately offers lower costs, higher speeds, and new features such as cable connections outside a computer chassis or externally accessible plug-in ports. A glitch in an Intel chip has hampered the launch of an important communication...
[July 30, 2004, 9:00]
England's ARM holds on to chip-licensing top spot
News Rambus initially specialized in designs for high-speed memory, but it is transforming itself into a company that develops chip-to-chip connections. So-called IP semiconductor companies -- which earn their money by licensing designs and patents to...
[June 19, 2003, 14:12]
