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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 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 giants go their own ways
News The giants of the microprocessor industry are marching into next-generation technologies with such conflicting strategies that users may no longer be assured that software written for an Intel chip will work well with rival AMD processors.
[October 7, 1999, 10:50]
Chip furthers AMD's computer overhaul plan
News API NetWorks unveiled a chip Monday that bolsters a technology that Advanced Micro Devices hopes will give its products an edge over rival Intel. The chip, AP1011, enables the use of HyperTransport, a communication technology co-developed by AMD...
[April 3, 2001, 9:02]
Chip equipment orders rise again
News Semiconductor equipment orders outpaced shipments again in April, another sign that the chip market may be on the road to recovery. The Semiconductor Industry Association, another trade group, expects chip sales to increase slightly from $139bn in...
[May 19, 2002, 7:31]
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 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 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 makers cozy up to Linux
News Everyone wants a piece of the Linux action -- even chip makers. Tuesday, the chip maker stepped up its Linux commitment by announcing, in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard, the release of a software developer's kit aimed at IA-64 Linux environments.
[June 13, 2000, 15:05]
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]
IDF: Intel announces TV platform, channel, chip.
Blog Alongside that, Intel is launching an x86 architecture system-on-chip device around which TV manufacturers can build smart products capable of running widgets. Powering all this is a new chip, the Intel Media Processor CE 3100 - previously known as...
[August 20, 2008, 17:35]
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 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]
A Year Ago: Chip firms compete to push limits
News Following IBM's announcement last week of new insulated substrate technology, working in conjunction with copper interconnects to improve chip performance, AMD, Texas Instruments and Samsung have revealed more details of their innovations.
[April 16, 2001, 6:07]
Chip implant aims to replace cashcards
Talkback Well, If you really feel like putting a chip into your arm. But when you stuck in the world when the antichrist comes back and it will be manditory for everybody to have a chip in them. I would suggest reading the whole book of Revelations.
[August 18, 2004, 2:59]
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 implants aim to save lives
News If your ageing father had Alzheimer's, would you plant a chip in his back to keep him safe? The grain-of-rice-size chip will contain a unique verification number that will be tied to a database of personal information including allergies and other...
[May 10, 2002, 10:30]
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 IP market sees a boom
News Chip makers are moving toward integrating many functions on a single die -- the so called "system on a chip" -- and are finding it more convenient to buy functions from vendors such as ARM Holdings, MIPS and Rambus.
[June 12, 2001, 9:26]
Chip consortium gathers to outpace Intel
News Fujitsu, Toshiba, NEC and Sony are among chip makers who plan to release specifications for the high-performance CPU by the end of next year, and produce the actual chips in 1998, said the report in Japan's largest business daily, the Nihon Keizai...
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