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Chip makers release driver source code
News Taiwanese chip makers VIA Technologies and XGI Technology released the source code of various drivers this week in an attempt to improve Linux support for their products. Although chip vendors such as Intel and ATI Technologies support Linux, they...
[April 14, 2005, 15:00]
Chip equipment makers feel Intel aftershocks
News The outlook for next year is relatively bleak," said Eric Chen, a chip equipment analyst at Chase Hambrecht & Quist. This is by no means the first sign of bad news for the chip equipment sector. In August, chip-assembly equipment maker Kulicke...
[December 8, 2000, 11:21]
Chip-equipment orders rise slightly
News Several predicted in January that a chip-equipment recovery could begin in the first half of this year, thanks to increased capital spending by large chip manufacturers. Semiconductor equipment orders rose in February, after getting off to a slow...
[March 21, 2002, 6:31]
Chip designers paint a brighter picture
News Chip designers bucked the semiconductor slump of 2001, increasing revenues from sales of technology such as processor cores by 25 percent, according to a new report from market researcher Gartner. Chip designers, including companies such as ARM...
[May 1, 2002, 7:31]
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. Charles Gwyn -- he prefers to be called Chuck and he spells Gwyn with one N, thank you -- is in charge of an ambitious project to build the...
[February 15, 2001, 14:36]
Chip equipment stocks enjoy Intel-inspired rally
News Despite a gloomy outlook for chip and PC sales through the first half of 2001, chip equipment stocks have quietly rallied, helping boost the Nasdaq Composite Index more than 10 percent this year. Keep in mind chip equipment sales jumped more than...
[January 19, 2001, 14:22]
Chip designers voyage to voltage island
News If by chance a group of chip designers were left alone in a room, their conversation would most likely turn to power consumption. Among the topics Intel will discuss will be creating lower-power on-chip buses (devices that shuttle data back and...
[June 10, 2002, 12:18]
Chip Design Outsourcing Firms Need New Skills and Products
White Papers To survive as chip design moves to higher levels of integration, chip design outsourcing firms must develop new capabilities and new products, such as intellectual property and software. Design services companies have, for many years, provided a...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
Chip and PIN and the PCI Data Security Standard
White Papers Chip and PIN is a British government-backed initiative to implement the Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) standard for credit cards with a built-in Integrated Circuit (IC), also known as IC Cards or Chip and PIN.
[September 2, 2009, 1:22]
Chip breaks speed record in deep freeze
News IBM and Georgia Tech have coaxed a chip to run at 500GHz, a record for a silicon-based device, by dropping the temperature to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit. At room temperature, the IBM-Georgia Tech chip operates at 350GHz, or 350 billion cycles per...
[June 20, 2006, 9:15]
Chip rewires itself on the fly
News The chip combines an existing architecture, the Tensilica Xtensa RISC processor core, with a large reconfigurable area of programmable logic called the Instruction Set Extension Fabric, ISEF. Designers that have had to use multiple digital signal...
[April 26, 2004, 10:05]
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]
Chip makers not stopping at 1GHz
News It is bringing up a new manufacturing facility -- Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany -- that will be the home base for its next-generation, gigahertz-plus Athlon chip. Willamette and the company's forthcoming Timna chip will provide the bookends holding...
[March 10, 2000, 8:42]
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]
Chip heavyweights hope alliance adds up
News The company will also pitch in on a pilot 300-millimetre chip production line there. The chip makers will work together during the next five years with chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to research advanced manufacturing...
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
Chip pioneer caught up in Bluetooth patent case
News CSR developed the BlueCore — a silicon chip with an in-built Bluetooth radio transmitter. Previously, such a device would not work because radio waves given out by the silicon chip would effectively deafen the Bluetooth radio.
[January 3, 2007, 12:08]
Report: Chip market to grow, but slowly
News According to a report by the Semiconductor Industry Association, chip sales will grow 1.8 percent to $141bn (about £90bn) this year, and then increase 19.8 percent year-on-year to $169bn in 2003. Chip sales to the Asia-Pacific region (which does...
[November 7, 2002, 8:14]
Chip glitch hampers latest Xeon launch
News A glitch in an Intel chip has hampered the launch of an important communication technology arriving on Monday with a new generation of servers, sources familiar with the situation said. Intel and server partners plan to launch the "Nocona" version...
[July 30, 2004, 9:00]
Chip giants go their own ways (Part 3)
News Compaq said it will work to improve performance of its Alpha processor, adding a new processor core and multithread processing capabilities to its Alpha EV8 chip, due next year. The chip will scale to 2GHz.
[October 7, 1999, 10:59]
Chip sales up again
News Global chip sales posted a third consecutive monthly increase in May, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported on Monday. Worldwide chip sales totalled $12.5bn (£7.57bn) in May 2003 -- up 2 percent from the $12.26bn in revenue reported in...
[June 30, 2003, 13:49]
