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Chip sales continue slow recovery
News The figures are good news for the hard-hit chip industry, which has seen sales slide dramatically this year due to the global economic slowdown and particularly to sluggish consumer demand. He reiterated earlier forecasts that the worldwide chip...
[December 3, 2001, 17:05]
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 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 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 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 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 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 giants go their own ways (Part 2)
News The chip maker this week made public an aggressive plan to follow Intel into the 64-bit processor market in 2001. The rival Itanium chip from Intel will be 64-bit, but it will also include 32-bit "emulation" for non-64-bit optimised applications.
[October 7, 1999, 10:56]
Chip sales show positive trend
News After a huge drop last year, the global chip market should regain positive ground in 2002, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics. The worldwide chip market should grow 2.3 percent in 2002 to $142bn, the industry group said on Tuesday.
[October 29, 2002, 14:43]
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 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 market in decline
News Siemens experienced the strongest growth among leading vendors, growing by 9.2 percent last year and climbing to number eleven in chip charts. According to Joe D'Elia, senior chip analyst the DRAM market is to blame.
[April 1, 1999, 7:42]
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]
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]
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 implant aims to replace cashcards
Talkback Idots -- Someone will kill you and chop your arm off and use the chip! Little or no common sense, it will just increase abductions, if you want to stop theft improve the policing!
[November 30, 2003, 13:54]
Chip ushers in the disposable mobile
News A chip breakthrough announced by Texas Instruments (TI) on Monday looks set to lower the cost of entry-level mobile phones. TI has created a single chip that integrates most of the computing functionality needed by a mobile phone.
[January 25, 2005, 13:20]
Chip slaps cuffs on pox bug
News American researchers have demonstrated a chip capable of detecting and potentially analysing a single virus. It was created using variants of standard silicon chip production technology. Inside the chip, a tiny diving-board like cantilever vibrates...
[February 16, 2004, 15:40]
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 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]
