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Chips to talk without wires
News It will take a lot of work, but Sun Microsystems says it is making headway on a technology that will allow chips to communicate without circuit boards or wires. There is a huge need for higher-bandwidth kind of chips," Robert Drost, a senior...
[August 3, 2004, 8:50]
Chips are down for Intel
News Intel is also aggressively trying to move into new markets, such as mobile phone chips, which could be hampered if Intel cuts its capital or R&D budget. See Chips Central for daily hardware news, including interactive roadmaps for AMD, Intel and...
[February 21, 2001, 7:40]
Chips, the Universe and Everything
News Last week, Intel took ZDNet UK to the European, Middle East and African launch of its new quad-core chips. A word from our sponsor: Intel showed off its new Core 2 Duo Extreme chips in these fetching perspex and neon boxes running various games.
[November 23, 2006, 11:21]
2000 Roundup: Chips broke 1GHz, but market yawned
News 2000 was the year PC chips broke the 1GHz barrier, though to judge by the declining growth rate for PCs in the US, this was no great revolution. Microsoft announced details of its Xbox game console for the first time -- and, contrary to reports at...
[December 26, 2000, 6:10]
Chips may be down for Transmeta manufacturing
News Transmeta, the mobile-processor manufacturer that has lost millions of dollars over the past four years, is seriously looking at getting out of chips. Designing, manufacturing and selling chips is exceedingly costly, even when the actual...
[January 5, 2005, 8:15]
Chips to hit size barrier by 2012
News Ever since the birth of the transistor, researchers have wondered how small the logical building-blocks of computer chips could get and still work. The size-limiting structure on chips is a layer of insulating material known as the gate oxide.
[June 25, 1999, 9:44]
Chips to rain down at CeBIT
News Intel and AMD are expected to release a flood of chips next week as the world's biggest trade show rolls into Hanover, Germany. AMD will likely also discuss its plans for manufacturing chips using its 130-nanometer manufacturing process, which will...
[March 8, 2002, 8:49]
Chips clock up new approach
News Instead, he's focusing IBM's work on other areas, such as on-the-fly reconfiguration that will let chips automatically adapt to different jobs. The open approach will involve IBM disclosing more technical information than before about its chips...
[June 10, 2004, 11:50]
Chips to fight viruses
News Execution Protection by AMD, technology contained in AMD's Athlon 64 chips, prevents a buffer overflow, which is a common method used to attack computers. The circuitry is already inside existing Athlon 64 chips, but it can't be activated yet.
[January 9, 2004, 7:45]
Chips hot as iPod sales soar
News Wolfson produces mixed-signal semiconductors for the digital consumer electronics market, including chips for the iPod and Sony's PSP. The chips change digital signals to analogue, so are vital components of electronics goods such as digital music...
[October 26, 2005, 12:45]
Barrett: Chips with everything
News Intel this year will focus on what it does best: crank out chips and expand factory capacity. The chipmaker will produce new families of chips for desktops, notebooks and mobile phones this year, chief executive Craig Barrett said in a speech at...
[February 19, 2003, 11:25]
Intel revs workstation, server chips
News Next week at the Intel Developer Forum, the company will announce 2.8GHz and 2.6GHz Xeons for single- and dual-processor workstations and servers and reveal more details on chips coming in the near future.
[September 5, 2002, 8:20]
Dual-core Intel chips hit the market
News A few PC makers will start selling PCs containing dual-core chips from Intel on Monday, three days ahead of the debut of the dual cores. Dell, Alienware and a few others are preparing to take orders on Monday for PCs containing these chips, an...
[April 18, 2005, 9:05]
AMD's dual-core chips debut
News Intel may have come out with dual-core processors a few days earlier, but AMD says it is bringing out dual-core chips to the market where it counts. The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker released its first three dual-core Opteron processors for...
[April 21, 2005, 10:55]
AMD unveils two new notebook chips
News Advanced Micro Devices released two notebook chips on Sunday, building on a recent surge of sales of processors for portables. Like other Athlon 64 chips, and Intel's Prescott, the new notebook processor will block many security threats...
[July 19, 2004, 9:15]
Intel reveals network computing chips
News Intel this week unveiled new chips that enable more powerful and space-efficient computers to be created for telecommunications networks. Faster chips are needed to handle the load imposed on next-wave data networks by applications such as 3G or...
[September 6, 2002, 10:49]
Sun chips hit a snag
News And sign up for the weekly Chips Central newsletter. CMT uses numerous small, simple processors for executing many operations simultaneously instead of large chips a single operation very fast. Both chips will be sold in parallel with new products...
[June 5, 2003, 7:39]
Accounting for Circuitry Type in Assessments of Wire-Length Distribution Models for ULSI Chips
White Papers This paper presents a method to take the contribution of circuitry type correctly into account in new assessments of on-chip wirelength distribution models for ULSI chips. Improved comparisons of model estimates with measurements are obtained for...
[April 11, 2005, 3:00]
AMD launches low-cost mobile chips
News AMD and Intel both have to contend with chips from Transmeta, which claim to use far less power, though this is currently achieved somewhat at the expense of processor speed. See Chips Central for daily hardware news, including interactive roadmaps...
[January 16, 2001, 12:20]
