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Chip market to grow 23 percent next year
News The return to growth is down to a reduction in the large inventories that have plagued chip makers since the slowdown hit. The semiconductor market will grow 23 percent next year, buoyed by this year's inventory slashing and renewed consumer demand...
[September 10, 2001, 16:19]
Sight to the blind via silicon?
News At ISSCC, researchers from large companies and academia present research papers on cutting-edge chip design concepts spanning the gamut of the semiconductor industry -- communications, microprocessors, memory, nonvolatile memory and wireless...
[February 13, 2004, 14:40]
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]
AMD says it's gaining ground
News Taking a shot at earlier reports, Advanced Micro Devices says it's holding its own in the chip sales fray -- and has new research to back up its assertion. The company took the the technology out, however, and now Clawhammer will be its first SOI...
[September 20, 2002, 13:49]
Japanese chip 'faster than supercomputer'
News Samples of the chip, which was designed for life sciences research, can now perform 230 gigaflops, or 230bn operations per second, while running at 350MHz, better than standard general-purpose chips. Research also continues at the University of...
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
IBM to cool layered chips with water
News Chips built in a three-dimensional stack formation offer more pathways for info to be processed and can shorten the distance chip information needs to travel by as much as 1,000 times, according to Thomas Brunschwiler, a senior engineer in the...
[June 5, 2008, 16:22]
Intel unveils its 80-core processor
News The computing elements are very basic and do not use the x86 instruction set used by Intel and AMD's chips, which means Windows Vista can't be run on the research chip. A chip the size of the current research chip is likely to be too large for cost...
[February 12, 2007, 9:15]
2000: The year of the chip
News The chip market is heading for boom times according to research from Dataquest, published Thursday -- but while US growth has the Internet to thank, in Europe the growth is driven largely by telecommunications.
[January 7, 2000, 10:10]
Intel Atom sales boost global chip market
News Strong sales of Intel's Atom chip accounted for about half of the growth of the entire world microprocessor market in the third quarter, according to a new report from research firm IDC. The report, released on Monday, follows a mid-October IDC...
[November 4, 2008, 12:20]
Imperial College develops 'self diagnosis' chip
News A Centre for Integrated Genetic and Microchemical Analysis is to be set up at Imperial College to continue research and development of the chip. Whilst the 'Lab on a chip' technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may...
[January 29, 1999, 12:24]
UK start-up to commercialise optical silicon
News Si-Light, formed in order to exploit the university's breakthroughs in optical chip research, joins a growing list of companies seeking to use optical technology to break through some of the barriers facing chipmakers as processors grow more...
[November 5, 2003, 17:20]
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]
Chip sales up in 2003, forecast improves
News The technology research firm predicted that the global chip market would grow 8.3 percent with a total revenue of $168bn (£102.5bn) in 2003, compared with a total revenue of $155bn (£94.5bn) in 2002. The total revenue for the global chip market for...
[May 21, 2003, 8:53]
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. Despite falling under scrutiny from time to time, it continues to accurately reflect the...
[August 11, 2000, 15:03]
Intel shows 48-core 'datacentre on a chip'
News Intel has announced the Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC), an experimental 48-core processor designed to encourage research and development in massively parallel computation. Measuring 567 square millimetres — about the size of a postage stamp — the...
[December 2, 2009, 17:00]
Xerox chip makes fibre cheaper
News Researchers at Xerox's Wilson Centre for Research and Technology announced on Wednesday that they have created a silicon chip about the size of a fingertip that contains switches and waveguides for fibre-optic communication.
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
Taiwanese firms share chip secrets
News The project is supported by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute's System-on-Chip Development Centre. Twelve Taiwanese firms are pooling their silicon know-how in a bid to boost the country's chip competitiveness in a cut-throat global...
[April 14, 2003, 13:03]
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]
AMD and IBM deepen chip commitment
News IBM for years has been at the forefront of chip research, pioneering techniques such as silicon-on-insulator, but it sells far fewer chips than companies like Intel. AMD and IBM will work together to devise chip-manufacturing technology for three...
[September 22, 2004, 8:30]
Chip heavyweights hope alliance adds up
News The chip makers will work together during the next five years with chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to research advanced manufacturing processes and materials that result in smaller, faster, more power-efficient...
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
