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How to make hot chips that stay cool
News However, a 45nm transistor -- the sort likely to be in mainstream chips by 2010 -- leaks 1,000 times as much. Making chips go faster is a matter of making transistors smaller. So, even if you could make your incandescently hot chip, you could never...
[September 10, 2004, 10:35]
Hot chips boost Micron
News Shares of Micron Technology rose on Wednesday after the company announced a surprise first-quarter profit on strong demand for memory chips. The company had net income of $1m (£0.56m) for the first quarter of its fiscal 2004, which ended on 4...
[December 29, 2003, 10:35]
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]
'Overclockers' turn PCs into hot rods
News Overclockers always are cutting themselves on the fans they install or burning themselves on hot chips. If you thought Silicon Valley was a hotbed of innovation, you should see what overclockers have rigged up to cool their chips and keep them...
[April 11, 2000, 9:00]
Tiny chip as hot as Venus
News Boston MicroSystems has made hot-plate chips ranging from 43 microns on a side to 128 microns on a side, although on average they are 100 microns by 100 microns. The hot plates are an example of a microelectromechanical system, or MEMS, or chips...
[July 5, 2004, 14:35]
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. Intel also is on the verge of introducing products with strained silicon, which reduces energy consumption and lets...
[August 18, 2003, 10:10]
Silence is golden, for some
News The most extreme experiment with "underclocking" and "undervolting", the polar opposite of techniques PC hot-rodders use to push chips past their normal speed limits. But truly quiet computing is still largely a niche market, served by specialty...
[January 31, 2005, 15:45]
Microsoft cuts back on virtualisation features
News And it will only support computers with a maximum of 16 processing cores — for example, eight dual-core chips or four quad-core chips. That reality is likely to prevail, even after the second half of this year, when 16-core servers will become more...
[May 11, 2007, 9:36]
Intel wants to turn the heat down on multi-core chips
News IBM released the Power 4, the first dual-core chip for servers, last year and will expand the concept with the Cell and Power 5 chips. And sign up for the weekly Chips Central newsletter. Symmetric multiprocessing chips, such as IBM's Power 4 and...
[August 20, 2002, 12:44]
Intel's latest memory chip flashes by
News Matrix Semiconductor, for example, has developed "tall" chips that can record data once. As an alternative, the manufacturers could use the power savings to increase the phone's overall processing muscle, using the lower-power characteristics to...
[April 17, 2002, 15:38]
The Day Ahead: Silicon Labs has the recipe for a hot IPO
News Silicon Labs' digital signal processing chips are found in mobile phones, cable and satellite set-top boxes, modems and fax machines. Another key item worth noting about the company is that it is "fabless", meaning it relies on third parties to...
[March 23, 2000, 11:48]
Intel and the correct use of power
Blog As Intel delicately drip-feeds information about its chips into the world, the picture builds up: these new devices are far cleverer about managing themselves, watts and all, than any before them, and that cleverness extends into and out of the...
[September 23, 2009, 23:38]
The Day Ahead: ChipPAC's IPO could pack a wallop
News If ChipPAC went public a few months ago it would be a no brainer -- chips and wireless were the two hottest sectors. See Chips Central for daily hardware news, including an interactive timeline of AMD and Intel's upcoming product launches.
[August 7, 2000, 12:33]
Am I mad, in a coma, or have I gone back in time?
Blog Microprocessors are composed of tiny copper electrical wires running over and through silicon chips. That challenge has gotten tougher as companies make ever more-powerful chips by piling on more wires.
[May 3, 2007, 9:43]
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]
Five years ago: K6 will be bargain-priced
News Buyers of K6 systems could be on to a bargain as AMD plans to price its hot new processor 25 per cent below Pentium MMX chips. First published 26 March, 1997. If the forecasts for K6 performance are correct that would equate to a far cheaper chip...
[March 23, 2002, 6:01]
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Downloads Find out if you rank amongst Best Businesses, Blue Chips or Hot New Businesses.FEATURES:5 maps with different characteristics and attributes.Multiple customer types with distinctive personalities.Two modes: Open-ended Career Mode or 30 days...
[November 12, 2002, 6:00]
Compact Hot Flashes
Blog I found some old low-power 500 MHz P3 CPUs chips that I would like to try in the board. It was a nice change of pace from having to ride home @ 5 or 6 or even 7PM in a hot car for at least the first 15 minutes or so.
[June 24, 2009, 10:51]
Unisys booth sends delegates running
News People love to rib Intel for its hot chips and high power consumption these days, but a Unisys representative blamed the mishap on convention centre wiring, pointing out that servers at the show weren't even plugged in.
[April 5, 2006, 17:25]
IBM to spend $5bn on chipmaking
News Demand is white-hot in three critical segments -- chips for big servers, chips to power the explosion in Internet access devices and chips in the networking equipment that ties everything together," chief executive Lou Gerstner said in a release.
[October 10, 2000, 15:01]
