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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 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]
Chips Jigsaw Puzzle
Downloads Yummy jigsaw puzzle of a mixture of white and dark chocolate chips being mixed into some wonderful peanut batter. The texture and pattern of the chips increases the difficulty somewhat. This puzzle is 48 pieces.
[July 19, 2005, 23:58]
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 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]
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]
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 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, 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]
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]
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 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]
IBM gives silicon germanium chips a speed boost
News IBM will announce the availability of its fourth generation of chips based on silicon germanium technology on Friday. The new semiconductors, named 8HP and 8WL, are twice as fast as the previous generation of chips.
[August 5, 2005, 10:30]
Sun cooks Java chips
News Expected to be available in volume late in 1997, the RISC-based chips will ship with 16Kb cache and optional floating point unit. Later in 1997, Sun will follow up the picoJava with microJava processors including application-specific I/O, memory...
[October 14, 1996, 11:56]
AMD readies new Athlon, Duron chips
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is keeping up the pressure on chip rival Intel AMD will shortly introduce faster Athlon and Duron chips for desktop PCs. AMD will dog Intel with frequent releases of faster Athlon chips, starting with a 1.2GHz Athlon...
[October 5, 2000, 8:09]
Apple vs Microsoft - the chips are down
Blog Should you buy your chips ready-made, or cook them yourself? Lewis goes on to conclude that systems houses have no business designing their own chips, and should leave it to external companies that know what they're doing and have plenty of...
[June 11, 2008, 22:07]
Microsoft gets into chips (not really)
Blog Check out this link for the ultimate in Windows-themed chips, as seen in Cairo. Wintel? Bah! Rumours of the Vista flavour being withdrawn for being too fatty are completely made up.
[March 17, 2008, 12:55]
Response of the Week: In chips, bigger is better
News If you recall, last Friday David Birt called Cyrix "a voice of reason in the wilderness that is PC CPU development", and opined: "If Intel is content to pump out bigger, hotter chips with more transistors than ever, it will lose market share.
[February 28, 1997, 15:59]
Xeon server chips delayed
News Intel has delayed by a few weeks the introduction of the first Xeon server chips based on the Pentium 4 design. Current Xeon chips are based on the Pentium III. See Chips Central for daily hardware news, including interactive roadmaps for AMD...
[May 9, 2001, 8:10]
Intel, AMD, Transmeta previews on ZDNet UK Chips Central
News ZDNet UK's Chips Central has revised its interactive chips roadmap to include more detailed information and, for the first time, a preview of upcoming chips from Transmeta. For breaking chips news and editorial comment, click here for the Chips...
[September 28, 2000, 12:09]
