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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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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]
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 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]
Agere Chips Ring Up Wi-Fi Internet Phones
News A new set of chips from Agere, announced on Tuesday, aims to make it easier for mobile phone makers to integrate cheap Wi-Fi-based Internet telephone calls into their devices. Agere, formerly the microelectronics division of Lucent Technologies...
[July 15, 2003, 11:50]
Chips In 2001: Intel Gets Obsessed, AMD Goes Corporate
News Despite great success in consumer PCs, AMD's chips have yet to find their way into corporate PCs produced by name-brand PC makers, such as IBM or Hewlett-Packard and doing so won't be easy. Intel plans to keep the pressure on in the first half of...
[December 21, 2000, 8:23]
Intel To Buy Chips And Technologies
News The chip giant said yesterday it has a definitive agreement to acquire San Jose, California-based Chips, a veteran maker of graphics accelerators and other products. Chips claims a 45 per cent share of the mobile PC graphics market, selling its...
[July 28, 1997, 9:29]
'Hammer' Chips Away At Processor Limits
News And sign up for the weekly Chips Central newsletter. But when Hammer chips emerge in the first half of 2003, processors of that complexity will become increasingly common. Other chips with large caches and a high number of transistors include...
[November 27, 2002, 14:50]
Intel Uses EUV Tool To Speed Chips
News And sign up for the weekly Chips Central newsletter. The new tool uses Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) to print extremely small circuit patterns on chips, resulting in smaller features that let chipmakers pack many more transistors onto their...
[April 23, 2002, 8:22]
Intel Removes Lead From Chips
Blog Intel claims its taking an “aggressive stance” towards the use of lead in its chips and has committed to removing its entire 45nm Hi-k family which includes the Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and Xeon processors.
[May 24, 2007, 11:39]
AMD Starts Shipping Its 65nm Chips
News AMD has started to ship chips made on the 65-nanometre process, as the manufacturing spat with Intel heats up. AMD chips made on the 65-nanometre (nm) process will consume about 30 percent less energy than the same chips produced on the 90nm...
[December 5, 2006, 8:23]
Intel To Create 266MHz MMX Mobile Chips
News Intel's new Pentium II chips Early next year, the Santa Clara, Calif.company will add a 266MHz version to the mix, sources said. The chip will be available in 2.5 volt and 5 volt versions, meaning it can be used in both notebooks and desktop PCs...
[July 24, 1997, 9:19]
Packing Chips In Yields Slimmer Phones
News Toshiba has unveiled a chip package for cellphones that can hold up to nine chips, which the company says will give manufacturers greater flexibility when building handhelds. The multichip package measures only 1.4-millimetres high but can hold a...
[January 22, 2004, 10:20]
