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Sun Chip To Mix Old And New
News The company will present details on Gemini next week at Hot Chips, an annual semiconductor design conference at Stanford University. Among other expected conference highlights, IBM will unveil details about the Power5 processor.
[August 18, 2003, 10:10]
Chipmakers Aim To Unclog Data Paths
News Agarwal and other executives from the company will discuss the architecture further on Monday at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. In 1991, Agarwal was a co-author on a paper presented at Hot Chips on Sparcle...
[August 20, 2007, 11:01]
Dual-core Chips Will Not Share Cache
News A version of Opteron coming in 2005 and Montecito, a future member of Intel's Itanium family also slated for next year, will both have two processor cores, the actual unit inside a processor that performs the calculations, and each core will have...
[August 26, 2004, 8:20]
IBM Furthers Multithreading Revolution
News We're seeing in the order of 40 percent (in performance improvement) being pretty common" in lab tests, Joel Tendler, director of technology assessment in IBM's systems group, said on Tuesday at Hot Chips, a semiconductor design conference taking...
[August 20, 2003, 9:55]
McKinley To Feature At Intel Forum
News In a direct swipe at rival Transmeta, Intel will also introduce proposals for a new benchmark testing system for comparing energy-efficient notebook chips, according to the conference agenda. Brookwood recalled one conference where the company...
[February 23, 2001, 8:15]
The Day Ahead: ChipPAC's IPO Could Pack A Wallop
News The results are expected to be positive, but investors will be reading between the lines on all three companies' conference calls. If ChipPAC went public a few months ago it would be a no brainer -- chips and wireless were the two hottest sectors.
[August 7, 2000, 12:33]
The Day Ahead: AMD 'reasonably Uncrushable' Vs Intel
News On a conference call with analysts, Hector J Ruiz, president and chief operating officer for AMD, struggled to be negative. After three quarters devoid of revenue growth, investors were hoping for any kind of optimism coming from IBM's second...
[July 20, 2000, 13:03]
MAJC Faces Developer Hurdles
News The plan, detailed at this week's Hot Chips conference, makes four basic assumptions. This would also help device makers to keep costs low by using a single processor instead of a number of chips. Sun Microsystems revealed a few of the secrets...
[August 19, 1999, 9:27]
Newisys Piggybacks Opteron Into 32-chip Servers
News The company also is developing servers containing eight, 16 and 32 processors based on Horus, the company revealed at the Hot Chips conference, which took place at Stanford University this week. The ability to create servers with large numbers of...
[August 26, 2004, 8:00]
Sun Doubles Thread Performance With Niagara 2
News Niagara 2 still has eight cores, but each can run eight threads, said Greg Grohoski, one of the chip's architects, speaking at the Hot Chips conference. Based on Sun's Hot Chips presentation, it appears the company has concluded that 64 hardware...
[August 24, 2006, 8:40]
Japanese Chip 'faster Than Supercomputer'
News Tanji spoke at the Hot Chips conference taking place at Stanford University. Samples of the chip, which was designed for life sciences research, can now perform 230 gigaflops, or 230bn operations per second, while running at 350MHz, better than...
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
IBM Hatches Plans For Superprocessor
News At the Hot Chips conference earlier this month, Sun Microsystems discussed plans to fuse two processor cores into a single chip. Whereas most chips can handle just a few calculations at a time, a processor based on Trips architecture will be able...
[August 27, 2003, 15:15]
Motorola's DragonBall Pumps Up On ARM
News At the PalmSource developer conference Monday, Motorola laid out development plans that it hopes will keep DragonBall in hot demand. But Palm announced recently intentions to shift to chips made by ARM Holdings.
[December 12, 2000, 8:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And I trust the company's involvement in the 'Hot Chips' conference in Stanford next month is no pointer to future immolations on the altar of the almighty watt. Reseat all the expansion cards, memory and processor, check the power connections… but...
[July 22, 2005, 18:45]
The Day Ahead: AMD's Quarter Puts Chief In Gloating Mode
News I've listened to just about every major tech chief yap on conference calls, but I have to say Sanders is one of the more entertaining execs. If you listened to AMD chairman WJ Sanders III gloat on the company's earnings conference call, you had to...
[October 12, 2000, 12:13]
Second Half Outlook: Five Business Models To Watch
News Wireless is the next great growth platform," said Sidgmore at a recent investment conference. There'll be a lot of winners, including Broadcom, which makes broadband chips, and infrastructure giants including Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and Lucent.
[July 10, 2000, 13:11]
Compaq Ignites Wildfire Servers
News In a France conference for press and analysts, sources said Compaq will fill in the release schedule for Wildfire, which has generated excitement because it is expected to be the worldÂ’s fastest Unix system and a perfect vehicle for enterprise...
[April 5, 2000, 8:30]
TI Waves Its Wireless Wanda
News The announcement was made on Monday at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) wireless conference taking place in New Orleans. A TI representative said the company is already working on power-saving techniques that will be...
[March 17, 2003, 13:48]
Qualcomm Tops 4Q Estimates, Sets 4-for-1 Split
News We expect to see sequential earnings growth in Q1 versus Q4," Chief Financial Officer Anthony Thornley told the conference call. Company officials earlier this quarter predicted strong earnings this time around, mainly due to robust demand for its...
[November 3, 1999, 11:15]
The Day Ahead: Solectron Tempers Rosy Outlook ... For Now
News Solectron, which makes everything from circuit boards to handsets to networking gear, attracts a crowd because it gives a good overview of the tech sector on its conference calls. Solectron, one of the largest contract equipment manufacturers...
[September 12, 2000, 11:50]
