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TI to outsource chip production
News TI's partnership with Sun extends at least through 2004, with several new chip-manufacturing generations coming, said Julie England, vice president of TI's Sun Business Unit. Sun has slid dramatically behind its original processor plans, a common...
[May 20, 2002, 11:10]
Single-component 802.11g chip enters mass production
News Atheros Communications has begun shipping in large quantities its single-chip 802.11g part. The chip, AR5005G, was first announced in January of this year. Atheros combined onto one component what usually takes three parts to make up a wireless...
[April 27, 2004, 9:45]
Copper a perfect fit for speedy chips
News There are whole bays in the [chip plant] where signs say 'No Copper Allowed Past This Point,'" said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight 64. Copper, which conducts electricity better than aluminum, gives designers an avenue to break through...
[October 1, 2001, 14:32]
Chartered signs AMD deal
News The Intel rival known for its Athlon PC and Opteron server processors announced on Tuesday plans to tap Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, a contract manufacturer, for extra chip-production capacity.
[November 9, 2004, 15:08]
Infineon boosts memory chip output
News Infineon Technologies, eyeing a recovery in the memory chip market, is increasing its production capacity through a pair of manufacturing agreements. A wafer, an 8-inch or 12-inch disc on which chips are manufactured, is the basic element of chip...
[March 11, 2002, 15:48]
A Year Ago: The Gigahertz game - is it all just hype?
News Accusing Intel of playing "silly marketing games" around the launch of its 1GHz Pentium III processor, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) says it won't publicise its own 1GHz Athlon chip until it's available in production quantities.
[February 20, 2001, 6:01]
The Gigahertz game: is it all just hype?
News Accusing Intel of playing "silly marketing games" around the launch of its 1GHz Pentium III processor, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) says it won't publicise its own 1GHz Athlon chip until it's available in production quantities.
[February 20, 2000, 6:35]
AMD's chief scientist on smoke and mirrors
News Q:A decade ago you launched the K5 processor -- AMD's answer to the Pentium -- but ran aground on production problems that scuppered the chip's chances as a real competitor. At some point in the evolutionary cycle there comes a limit to how far you...
[September 25, 2003, 15:55]
Intel accelerates 32nm processor plans
News In support of these moves, the company said it was spending $7bn (£4.8bn) over two years across four chip-production sites in the US. Intel has announced a major update to its 32nm next-generation processor plans, revealing substantial new details...
[February 10, 2009, 18:00]
Intel's low-power Crusoe challenger
News When Intel's Frank Spindler disclosed that the chip giant is fast tracking the production of a new ultra-low-power chip for notebooks, there was an interested eavesdropper nearby. Transmeta chief executive David Ditzel was attending the...
[October 12, 2000, 8:19]
Chips weigh heavily on environment
News The researchers, who included Eric Williams from the United Nations University in Tokyo and Miriam Heller of the National Science Foundation, followed a 32MB dynamic RAM chip through every level of its production.
[November 13, 2002, 8:25]
Next Crusoe chip bogged down in testing
News Transmeta is having trouble getting its next Crusoe chip out the door. Despite the delay, the first notebooks using the chip are still expected to come out in the second half, as the company predicted earlier.
[October 10, 2001, 9:45]
Nvidia banks on budget chip
News The Quadro FX 500 is the latest entry in Nvidia's line of FX processors, which got off to a shaky start after repeated delays and production glitches hit the initial desktop versions of the graphics chip.
[May 22, 2003, 11:15]
PlayStation 3 chip to arrive in 2005
News The company also said it was beginning production on a new chip for the PlayStation 2 that would lower manufacturing costs, although the savings might not necessarily make their way to consumers right away.
[October 9, 2003, 17:15]
Quantum dots lead to entanglement breakthrough
News It has many possible uses in encryption, communication, quantum computing, medical imaging and chip production. Another use is in chip production. As the smallest possible feature that can be made on a chip depends on the wavelength, this technique...
[January 11, 2006, 17:45]
Rambus readies faster, cheaper memory
News The wafer, a round disc that's usually 8 inches in diameter, is the basic unit of chip production. Samsung has finished development of a faster, denser -- and cheaper -- RDRAM chip. In the new chip, the density will increase to 567 megabits per...
[September 27, 2001, 16:56]
Analyst: Transmeta should drop out of PCs
News The US chip designer said recently that three new laptops from Sony and Fujitsu, using the 5500 and 5800 chips, signalled the beginning of its recovery, but industry observers are more sceptical. Sony recently launched a new PictureBook laptop, the...
[March 7, 2002, 14:20]
Prices for MP3 players to drop
News The Maverick EP7409 processor, which will be available in full production quantities late this year, integrates many digital music player components onto a single chip, allowing for lower cost and reduced power consumption.
[June 28, 2001, 14:41]
1 GHz: Intel claims it was first...
News But Intel contends it was actually the first to ship a production-level 1GHz chip. Intel officially announced its 1GHz chip Wednesday. But while the chip makers have been busy shipping out their speedy new processors to their partners, which PC...
[March 9, 2000, 10:43]
Stirring things up in the US chip industry
News Scalise and a group of SIA representatives recently visited San Francisco, where they talked to ZDNet UK’s sister site, CNET News, about their proposals for encouraging more domestic chip production. The US share of worldwide chip production has...
[July 10, 2006, 14:45]
