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Paint-on lasers promise faster chip future
News In an announcement made earlier this month, the researchers claimed the development could lead to very fast chip interconnections circumventing a future barrier to faster computer designs. The infrared light could, in the future, be used to connect...
[April 19, 2006, 16:15]
US Report: Analysts sceptical of Sun's claims for future chip
News Sun claims the new chip will be faster than Intel's Merced, Silicon Graphics' R12000, and two unannounced chips -- a PowerPC chip from IBM, code-named Boxer and the 21364 Alpha chip from Compaq Computer's Digital subsidiary.
[August 5, 1998, 7:24]
IBM shrinks SRAM cell for future chip generation
News IBM has unveiled what it says is the first working static random access memory cell for a future generation in chip manufacturing, based on a 22nm scale. Although the next generation of chip manufacturing is based on the 32nm scale (the current...
[August 18, 2008, 17:23]
Intel unveils glimpse of chip future
News In the Pentium 4 family, the ALU runs at twice the speed of the chip, so the part would fit into a Pentium 4 style chip that would run at 3.5GHz. Borkar declined to comment on product plans, but said it could go into a next-generation Pentium-style...
[February 17, 2004, 7:30]
Inkjet printers are chip factories of the future
News Inkjet printers could be the chip factories of the future, squirting out circuits made from layers of organic semiconducting ink. Although the company says that performance will never approach that of silicon circuits -- inkjet resolution is of the...
[April 11, 2002, 17:33]
IBM's chip future may woo Sun
Talkback HogWash! Why would Sun ever use the Power processor or Itanium for that matter? Sun SPARC servers outships Power by over 2x and now with Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 servers, IBM can't touch them. I think this is pure FUD from IBM.
[February 9, 2006, 21:25]
A Year Ago: The future of chip design
News A blazingly fast chip, a colorized plastic display, and a six million-pixel image sensor will take center stage at an upcoming gathering of engineers touting the latest ideas from their research labs.
[October 13, 2000, 7:00]
The future of chip design
News A blazingly fast chip, a colorized plastic display, and a six million-pixel image sensor will take center stage at an upcoming gathering of engineers touting the latest ideas from their research labs.
[October 13, 1999, 15:01]
IBM's chip future may woo Sun
News The resulting data leaks make the chip both unreliable and too hot, increasing the need for expensive cooling. IBM moved the battle of the microprocessor vendors up a notch on Monday when it revealed that it was developing a new manufacturing...
[February 7, 2006, 15:35]
Linux: A chipmaker's best friend
News In a sign of how strategic Linux has become, AMD and Intel are angling to lure open-source programmers to their future chip designs. Linux--with a strong developer community and a flexibility that allows the Unix clone to run on numerous chips--has...
[September 3, 2001, 8:41]
Intel Developer Forum: Latest news
News Thurs 28 Feb: Intel says Prescott, the next version of its Pentium 4 chip, will use hyper-threading to beef up desktop performance. Melissa Francis looks at servers running on Intel's Prestonia chip Tues 26 Feb: The market for PC hardware is...
[February 25, 2002, 13:05]
Intel steps up chip cadence
News Faced with unpleasant financial realities in the present, Intel is trying to shift attention to chip innovations coming in the future. That stepped-up release rate will match the speed with which Intel moves to more-advanced silicon chip...
[April 28, 2006, 10:55]
Samsung to share IBM's chips
News Samsung said on Friday that it has simultaneously licensed Big Blue's chipmaking technology, signed on to use IBM Microelectronics' chip foundry service, and joined an IBM-backed partnership focused on future chip-manufacturing processes.
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough
News Chip packaging is arcane, often overlooked and absolutely crucial to the future of the semiconductor industry. In the future, Intel will distribute smaller capacitors throughout parts of the chip. With BBUL, the chip will be embedded entirely in...
[October 8, 2001, 10:06]
Intel admits Itanium embarrassment
News A top Intel executive acknowledged significant problems with Itanium but said Thursday that the company is increasing investments in the high-end chip family to brighten its future. Intel and HP, the initiator of the Itanium project and its biggest...
[March 24, 2006, 9:10]
N+I: Broadcom in ARM tie-up
News ARM, the UK embedded chip designer, has struck a deal to include its processor core designs in future chips from Broadcom, the high-profile communications chip maker. Chip manufacturers use ARM's designs in processors for a wide range of...
[May 7, 2002, 12:05]
Via enters 0.13-micron race
News The Taiwan-based chip and chip set maker announced plans to base a future generation of VIA Cyrix processors, expected next year, on a new 0.13-micron process from its manufacturing partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.
[December 13, 2000, 8:13]
Introducing you to... Opteron
News Opteron is designed for workstation and server use, with a future related chip, the Athlon 64, due later this year and intended for desktops. This won't work with DDR2 or any other more advanced memory technology, when the chip's internal memory...
[April 23, 2003, 15:49]
UPDATE: Transmeta's big blow from Big Blue
News Big Blue said it is still evaluating Transmeta's low-power chip technology for future products. Reviewers have reported only two-and-a-half to three-hour battery life with the chip, hardly an improvement over competing notebooks.
[November 2, 2000, 10:06]
Intel leak foreshadows heated chip market
News Chipsets that support PCI Express, a future chip input-output standard, and DDR2 memory, will come out for the first time, according to the document. Prescott, the next big desktop chip from Intel, is slated to come out at 3.4GHz, while Dothan, an...
[July 10, 2003, 9:21]
