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US Report: IBM Chips As Smooth As Ice
News On Monday, IBM plans to unveil a new "silicon-on-insulator" processor technology that makes the basic building block of silicon chips -- the transistor -- more efficient. While a licensing agreement is not totally out of the question, Intel rivals...
[August 3, 1998, 9:40]
IBM Develops Fast Chips To Link Systems
News IBM said Tuesday it was developing a series of chips to connect multiple computer systems and peripherals like hard disk drives, enabling them to work together as a single high-performance server. IBM said it would base the chips on a technology...
[June 20, 2000, 10:50]
IBM Plots Next PowerPC Chips
News IBM is cooking up a series of late-summer PowerPC launches that could put its RISC processors back in the limelight, especially for Mac users. I have a sneaking hunch that someone at IBM is snickering behind their hand," Granberry said.
[May 25, 2000, 14:25]
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 chips will enable longer battery life and increased functionality in cellular handsets, which should help cell phone...
[August 5, 2005, 10:30]
IBM Brings Vacuum Technique To Chips
News IBM is putting nothing into its chips, and that's a big deal. Researchers at IBM have come up with a way to create vacuum spaces between copper wires in semiconductors, an insulating technique that will allow these chips to increase in speed and...
[May 3, 2007, 9:10]
IBM Paves Way To 100GHz Chips
News As expected, IBM today announced the world's fastest silicon-based transistor, paving the way to speeds five times faster than at present. IBM's transistor is based on a mixture of silicon and germanium, another semiconductor.
[June 25, 2001, 18:23]
IBM Combination Technique Speeds PC Chips
News Researchers at IBM have come up with a new approach to building transistors that could lead to faster, more energy-efficient chips in a few years. The combination design, which will begin to appear in chips later this year, can improve transistor...
[September 9, 2003, 16:55]
IBM Adds Zip To PowerPC Chips
News IBM's first production SOI chips will ship in the new AS/400e server, announced on Monday, and slated to ship in August. IBM will also ship SOI chips in its RS/6000 servers later in the year. IBM plans to use the technology in PowerPC chips...
[May 23, 2000, 8:13]
IBM Boosts Servers With New Intel Chips
News IBM on Tuesday said it has updated its xSeries x255, x360 and x440 servers, each designed to use four or more processors, with Intel's newest Xeon MP chips, which run at speeds up to 2GHz. IBM will also offer the new chips in its x255 in both rack...
[November 5, 2002, 16:33]
IBM Hopes To Use DNA To Build Chips
News Our goal is to use these structures as bread boards on which to assemble carbon nanotubes, silicon nanowires, quantum dots," said Greg Wallraff, an IBM scientist and a lithography and materials expert working on the project.
[February 20, 2008, 17:33]
US Report: IBM To Stop Making Cyrix Chips
News The deal also called for IBM to take 50 percent of the Cyrix chips and market them under its own label. The companies will announce, perhaps within the next month, that Nat Semi will take over all Cyrix chip manufacturing from IBM sources said.
[September 2, 1998, 16:48]
Samsung To Share IBM's Chips
News Last month, Sony invested $325m with IBM to help build capacity for the production of 65-nanometer chips, such as the Cell processor, at the East Fishkill fab. IBM has also signed up Nvidia as a foundry customer and is currently manufacturing chips...
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
Via Chips From IBM
News Back in the late 1990s, IBM manufactured chips for Cyrix. Cyrix, however, had difficulty selling its chips, and company executives often complained about IBM's high prices. Taiwan's Via Technologies has selected IBM Microelectronics to manufacture...
[January 7, 2004, 13:05]
National Semi Chips In To Develop IBM Thin Client
News IBM claimed a first on Wednesday with the launch of the Network Station Series 2200 thin client, using a highly integrated network-on-a-chip processor supplied by National Semiconductor. The Geode processor is the really clever bit, integrating on...
[September 9, 1999, 16:54]
IBM Will Make IDT's Chips
News For companies like AMD, which has been plagued by production problems, contracting IBM to make the chips is an assurance that supply of the processors will not dry up. Chip designer, Integrated Device Technology (IDT), signed up IBM to manufacture...
[March 18, 1998, 10:18]
A Year Ago: IBM To Stop Making Cyrix Chips
News The deal also called for IBM to take 50 percent of the Cyrix chips and market them under its own label. National Semiconductor's Cyrix subsidiary and IBM Microelectronics are dissolving their long-standing manufacturing and licensing partnership.
[September 3, 1999, 6:55]
AMD, Cyrix Want IBM To Cook More Chips
News Poor yields have meant that Intel has continued its dominance in x86 chips despite the fact that its rivals arguably have their most competitive ranges ever. IBM is thought to have significant over-capacity and has a current agreement to make...
[February 27, 1998, 10:13]
Samsung To Share IBM's Chips
Talkback SIR, I am a student of B.Tech 3rd year in electronics and telecommunication branch from "college of engg.roorkee, INDIA".sir i have very interest in chip desining.i am well known of VHDL language.sir please suggest me what should i have to do and...
[March 30, 2004, 9:14]
News Burst: Apple First Customer For IBM's Copper Chips?
News The first chips the company plans to produce are the PowerPC 740 and 750, widely used in Apple's Power Mac computer. It was not clear whether Apple would buy the chips. Full story to follow.
[September 1, 1998, 9:11]
IBM Makes Declaration Of Independence For Chips, Software
News The company's IBM Research Division is following a new path aimed at building more intelligence into computing by creating more autonomous computers. By building hardware and software that allows computers to act more independently, IBM Research...
[March 8, 2001, 9:26]
