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Games Boost Chip Industry
News Chip companies, particularly Intel, have long put money into developing ever-better multimedia technologies to give consumers and businesses a reason for investing in more powerful CPUs. To a degree, [games] have been responsible for driving chip...
[April 19, 2001, 16:08]
Stirring Things Up In The US Chip Industry
News The president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) recently visited the country to learn more about how it is encouraging the development of its own chip industry. Scalise and a group of SIA representatives recently visited San Francisco...
[July 10, 2006, 14:45]
Intel: Teraflops Industry Standard Chip On Way
News Intel also announced two system-on-a-chip (SOAC) devices; a network processor code-named Tolapai and the CE 2110 Media Processor. The company claims an eight-fold throughput improvement for around 20 percent less power than the equivalent four-chip...
[April 17, 2007, 13:02]
Chip Industry Looks To 2GHz In 2001
News Microprocessor manufacturers will crack the 2GHz speed barrier and 3G devices will spur on the semiconductor industry in 2001, leading analysts predicted Thursday. Other industry watchers agree that 3G will have an impact on this area.
[January 19, 2001, 11:56]
News Burst: Chip Industry Warned Of Imminent Slowdown
News Advanced Forecasting (AFI) said Tuesday that a "significant slowdown" could hit most of the integrated circuit industry in early 2001, following slower growth for the rest of this year. A Silicon Valley analyst firm has warned that a downturn in...
[August 16, 2000, 10:21]
A Low Cost Lithography Process For Flip-Chip Applications In Advanced Packaging Industry
White Papers As in any other sector of the semiconductor industry, the electronics packaging industry is driven by the demand for packages that are ‘smaller, faster, cheaper. This paper presents a low cost thick resist manufacturing process that meets bump...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Chip Designers' Dream Team: 10GHz Or Bust
News If the chip industry hopes to continue boosting processor speed, it will have Chuck Gwyn to thank. How is the technology that you folks work up here going to get disseminated to the rest of the chip industry?
[February 15, 2001, 14:36]
Transmeta Chip Could Knock Intel Off Its Perch
News The revolutionary low-power Crusoe microprocessor from Transmeta could pose a significant threat to Intel's grip on the mobile chip industry, according to an article in the Financial Times (FT) Friday.
[January 14, 2000, 14:06]
Chips Look Chipper
News November's sales strongly illustrate the continuation of the industry growth pattern that began in mid-1998 and these numbers show a healthy chip industry with across the board sector growth," said Scalise.
[January 4, 2000, 14:07]
Chip Glut Weighs On Semiconductor Makers
News Industry leaders and analysts have been giving optimistic signs about a recovery in the computer chip industry over the past few days, but a new report finds that there is still a massive semiconductor glut that could linger into the middle of...
[August 14, 2001, 17:16]
Wireless Is More For Chip Sales
News Activity in the wireless sector helped keep worldwide chip sales afloat in November, the Semiconductor Industry Association said Monday. The November sales of the global chip industry underscore the healthy recovery that has been building momentum...
[December 31, 2002, 9:28]
Chipmakers Face Massive Consolidation
News The semiconductor industry will consolidate, with nearly 40 percent of today's chip vendors disappearing over the next few years, market researcher Gartner said in a forecast released this week. The chip industry has seen steady growth in number of...
[September 16, 2004, 9:40]
Chip Market Heats Up In July
News In a sign of continued growth in the chip industry, global sales of semiconductors rose to $12.9bn (£8.21bn) in July, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The increase in chip sales comes amid other hopeful news for the information...
[September 3, 2003, 15:55]
Intel To Reveal Chip-packing Breakthrough
News Chip packaging is arcane, often overlooked and absolutely crucial to the future of the semiconductor industry. Packaging has never been one of the glamorous jobs in the chip industry. The more power you have, the more pins you need to take power in...
[October 8, 2001, 10:06]
Euro Chip Sector Faces Leaner Times
News The European semiconductor market will see a further drop in sales in 2002, according to predictions from within the chip industry. Chip sales are a key indicator of the strength of the IT industry, so the WSTS's predictions suggest that the worst...
[October 26, 2001, 14:23]
IBM Taking Moore's Law By The Horns
News New technology breakthroughs from IBM Research promise to extend the reach of Moore's Law, the chip industry's most closely held measure of performance. Right now, IBM, and the chip industry as a whole, is at 180 nanometers, or 0.18 micron.
[August 11, 2000, 15:03]
The Future Of Chip Design
News Every year, the movers and shakers in the chip industry convene at the International Electron Devices Meeting to share their research and provide important clues about where electronics technology will be three to five years down the road.
[October 13, 1999, 15:01]
Intel And AMD Face Yo-yoing Chip Market
News With chip giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) preparing to report earnings early this week, industry pundits are divided over whether or not a slowdown in the chip market is looming. During previous downturns, the PC chip market, which...
[July 17, 2000, 14:17]
Dataquest Predicts: Biometric Chips Pioneer Growth
News Excited by the prospects for chip technology in Biometric devices, Bauer also highlights communications, smart cards and the car industry as sources for increased chip production. Bauer is not as gloomy as some pundits about the chip industry in...
[June 7, 1999, 12:30]
Asia Helps Lift May Chip Sales
News The chip sector was a little bit merrier in May. April chip sales totalled $11.1bn. The steady increase in sales indicates that the semiconductor market is mounting a recovery from last year's chip slump, according to the SIA.
[July 2, 2002, 7:57]
