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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 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 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 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 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]
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 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 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]
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 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]
Xbox chips augment Nvidia results
News Nvidia, the leading maker of graphics chips for PCs and other devices, reported modest sales gains and a sharp jump in quarterly profits Thursday, which it attributed to its deal to supply chips for Microsoft's Xbox game machine.
[August 8, 2003, 15:05]
Intel to announce low-end server chips
News The chips, close relatives of the Core 2 Duo desktop line, are for low-end servers. The 3000 series is based on the Core microarchitecture, which improves the performance and electrical power efficiency of Intel processors, compared with NetBurst...
[September 26, 2006, 12:50]
AMD clocks faster 5K86 chips
News The firm has sold previous chips at low prices in order to compete with Intel, and claims to have been particularly successful in price-sensitive markets such as China. AMD is expected to add 120MHz, 133MHz and 150MHz speeds to its 5K86 line next...
[September 17, 1996, 17:13]
Dell starts selling AMD chips
News The computer maker is offering six Athlon 64 chips on its Web site. The chips are individually packaged for retail sale. Dell is not selling any of AMD's other chips, such as the Opteron processor for servers or the Turion for laptops.
[November 9, 2005, 9:05]
Intel eyes imaging market with new chips
News Intel envisions itself gaining a stronger foothold on the imaging market, as it introduces a new family of chips aimed at products such as copiers and scanners. The chipmaker on Wednesday will introduce its MXP processor family, which includes two...
[September 10, 2003, 10:00]
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]
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]
For AMD, the chips just keep on coming
News However, AMD says its chip's performance outpaces both the 1.2GHz Celeron and certain low-end Intel Pentium 4 chips, when paired with DDR SDRAM (double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM) in a PC. See Chips Central for the latest headlines on...
[November 15, 2001, 16:43]
