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AMD starts shipping its 65nm chips
News AMD chips made on the 65-nanometre (nm) process will consume about 30 percent less energy than the same chips produced on the 90nm process when running at the same speed. The first chips produced by AMD on the new process will be desktop chips.
[December 5, 2006, 8:23]
Intel shrinks chips to 90 nanometres
News Intel announced that its labs have produced memory chips that contain 330 million transistors, through manufacturing technology that will hit the mainstream next year. The experimental SRAM (static RAM) chips measure approximately 109 square...
[March 12, 2002, 16:48]
New wireless tech promises gigabits in the home
News IBM has produced chips based on the evolving 802.15.3c specification, which will be capable of passing high-definition files and other content at distances of around 5-10m. The goal is to get these chips up to 1.4-1.5Gbps per second.
[February 6, 2006, 16:40]
UMC produces first 45nm SRAM
News Taiwanese supplier UMC says it has successfully produced functional 45-nanometre SRAM chips for the first time. The manufacturing process also becomes more efficient, as more chips can be produced from a single wafer.
[November 20, 2006, 23:00]
Transmeta investigating Taiwan foundries
News Several Taiwanese chip foundries have produced proof-of-concept chips based on Transmeta's designs, according to the company. Transmeta is testing the water with Taiwan-based manufacturing plants, in a move that could eventually boost the chip...
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
Cyrix 6x86MX .25 micron first for Nat Semi plant
News Cyrix successfully produced functioning 6x86MX chips on.25 micron technology at its own pilot plant last week but the new chips will be the first Cyrix-designed product to be produced at a National facility since the companies merged last November.
[January 13, 1998, 15:47]
Barrett: Chips with everything
News Chips produced on these larger wafers cost about 30 percent less to make and more than twice as many can be produced at once. Intel this year will focus on what it does best: crank out chips and expand factory capacity.
[February 19, 2003, 11:25]
Intel's McKinley is one big chip
News Yields -- the number of good chips produced from a wafer -- also typically declines as chip size increases because of the greater potential for defects. Intel may make only a few hundred thousand McKinley chips in 2002 and sell them for several...
[February 4, 2002, 8:48]
TI strides towards 65 nanometres
News Intel also has produced SRAM chips with a 65-nanometre process and plans to come out with chips using the process in 2005. The nanometre figure refers to the average size of features on chips produced with the process.
[March 23, 2004, 10:20]
Inside Intel's Dothan review
Reviews Dothan chips are produced on 300mm rather than 200mm wafers, delivering significant economies of scale. Inside, Dothan is the first mobile processor to be produced, like its desktop Prescott counterpart, using Intel's new 90nm process and the first...
[May 10, 2004, 8:20]
Double-gate chip stops power leakage
News In chips produced with the 90-nanometre process, approximately half of the electricity will be lost through leakage, Welser said. Double-gate transistors like the Fin-Fet have emerged as one of the technologies that could help engineers ward off...
[September 9, 2002, 15:15]
Axe falls on AMD low-end processors
News Some 586 and K6-2 chips can still be bought for PCs that have old motherboards, and their place as the most basic processors now generally available for PCs will be taken by the Duron. However, some of the chips to be discontinued that were...
[August 14, 2001, 17:20]
Start-up redesigns fuel cells
News The company's chips can be produced with the chipmaking machinery developed for the semiconductor industry. The Bothell, Washington-based company, which started in 1999, asserts that it can make a fuel cell with eight porous chips that will be...
[February 11, 2003, 8:29]
Intel to open chip plant in China
News That means that the chips produced at the factory will be made on the 90nm (nanometre) process or a more refined process such as the 65nm process. The 90nm and 65nm numbers refer to the average size of the features on the chips produced.
[March 26, 2007, 9:00]
PC bugs: Is the bill coming due?
News What may have made Toshiba particularly vulnerable to the suit, however, is the fact that in addition to making notebook computers that exhibited the data-corruption problem, it also produced the defective floppy-disk controllers as well -- chips...
[January 4, 2000, 15:43]
Moore's Law to roll on for another decade
News So far it hasn't, meaning chips and computers have become simultaneously more powerful and less expensive. Designers are going to have to add technologies such as strained silicon to their chips and to redesign transistors to control energy...
[February 11, 2003, 7:59]
New memory chips get closer, faster and smarter
News Physically very similar to existing memory modules, FB-DIMM is due to be approved by the JEDEC standards body by the end of the year: its chief advantage is that it circumvents the electrical signalling limits that mean as speeds go up, the...
[September 9, 2004, 10:30]
First beta of Banias chip ready
News And sign up for the weekly Chips Central newsletter. Intel is engaged in an arms race with Texas Instruments, Motorola and others to become the dominant power for chips in cell phones and handhelds. Let the Chips Central editor know what you think...
[April 19, 2002, 15:37]
Tiny tubes mean big chip advances
News That's because manufacturers must continue to shrink the size of the components printed on chips to cram more into a given space, thereby increasing performance. IBM believes that nanotubes, which measure five atoms to ten atoms wide and are 10,000...
[April 27, 2001, 10:22]
MIT makes quantum leap in display technology
News See Chips Central for the latest headlines on processors and semiconductors. To find out more about the computers and hardware that these chips are being used in, see ZDNet UK's Hardware News Section.
[January 13, 2003, 15:57]
