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'The microprocessor is dead' says Sun
News Eventually, Papadopoulos predicted, almost an entire computer will exist on a single chip -- not a microprocessor but a "microsystem". Microprocessors are dead," Papadopoulos said, trying to provoke an audience of chip aficionados at the...
[October 15, 2003, 11:55]
Via chips from IBM
News IBM will manufacture the "Esther" microprocessor for Via. Via commands less than 2 percent of the microprocessor market worldwide, but the company's chips can be seen in PCs available in Wal-Mart Stores and in "white box" -- or unbranded...
[January 7, 2004, 13:05]
IBM to reveal Power's foundations
News We will free electronics manufacturers from the limitations of proprietary microprocessor architectures. The company's effort to promote Power through more collaboration and to focus on overall system development and performance instead of on clock...
[April 1, 2004, 12:10]
IBM to hit 1GHz with PowerPC chip
News IBM will take the wraps off a gigahertz-capable PowerPC chip on Monday at the Microprocessor Forum, one of the year's top events for the silicon set. Power consumption will be one of the major topics next week in San Jose, California, at the five...
[October 15, 2001, 10:35]
AMD revives Duron for budget push
News The first Athlon64 chips are set to hit the street in September, but won't start coming out in massive volume until the debut of 90-nanometer manufacturing, Marty Seyer, vice president and general manager of AMD's Microprocessor Business Unit...
[August 27, 2003, 10:05]
Sun and Fujitsu nurture closer alliance
News TI and Fujitsu both are working on next-generation microprocessor manufacturing technology. Fujitsu has been strong both in manufacturing and Sparc64 chip design, said Kevin Krewell, senior editor of Microprocessor Report.
[October 24, 2003, 12:45]
Abu Dhabi deal to boost AMD innovation
News Rajnish Arora, IDC's Asia-Pacific research director of enterprise servers and workstations research, said the investment from Mubadala — owned by the government of the world's sixth-largest oil exporter — will "help AMD sustain itself much longer...
[November 28, 2007, 8:44]
Intel's major chip breakthrough
News A breakthrough in microprocessor technology promises a ten fold increase in processor speed over the next decade according to Intel Monday. The development of the transistor seems to fit into Moore's law, which states that microprocessor speed will...
[December 11, 2000, 10:35]
Motorola touts revitalised G4 chip
News Apollo, announced at last fall's Microprocessor Forum, will pair the Power PC 7450's design with a new manufacturing technology called silicon on insulator (SOI). Analysts at Micro Design Resources, which publishes the Microprocessor Report, have...
[January 11, 2001, 8:01]
Transmeta sells microprocessor unit
News Culture.com Technology Limited, a subsidiary of Culturecom Holdings of Hong Kong, will purchase the rights to the Crusoe microprocessor, the first chip produced by Transmeta, and acquire a licence to produce its successor, the Efficeon chip, on...
[June 2, 2005, 9:50]
Ultra Low-Cost Defect Protection for Microprocessor Pipelines
White Papers This paper introduces the BulletProof pipeline, the first ultra low-cost mechanism to protect a microprocessor pipeline and on-chip memory system from silicon defects. Silicon failure mechanisms, such as transistor wearout and manufacturing defects...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Light-emitting silicon boosts chip speeds
News British scientists are claiming a breakthrough that promises to unite microelectronics with fibre optics and bring about an upheaval in microprocessor manufacturing and modern communications. Gwilliam said that the technology could be implemented...
[March 8, 2001, 15:02]
Barrett talks about politics, AMD and life after Intel
News The San Francisco native helped perfect Intel's microprocessor manufacturing and has since navigated the company into new categories, with the launch of chips for digital home devices and the creation of new wireless technology.
[October 29, 2004, 16:39]
AMD and Fujitsu combine flash operations
News While the flash memory technology is being spun out to the new company, AMD is shifting its microprocessor engineers to upstate New York to work with IBM, which is helping AMD develop manufacturing processes for future chips.
[April 1, 2003, 7:54]
Desktops: Kiss Pentium IIIs goodbye
News The Pentium III will be effectively phased out of the desktop market by the end of the year, said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel, yesterday. A new version of the Pentium III, based on the 0.13-micron...
[March 2, 2001, 7:36]
AMD's losses grow, president resigns
News If AMD can escape the manufacturing problems that have plagued its microprocessor launches the past two years, the company hopes to ship hundreds of thousands of Athlon chips in the third quarter and more than a million in the fourth quarter.
[July 15, 1999, 8:23]
Plastic microchips ahead
News Microprocessors based on plastic would be simpler and cheaper to produce and would expand the reach of the microprocessor industry. Current computer semiconductors are based on silicon, which must go through a complicated manufacturing process.
[November 27, 2000, 11:05]
AMD sets high expectations for K7
News It's a watershed event that the fastest PC microprocessor isn't going to be coming from Intel," said Michael Slater, principal analyst at Micro Design Resources in the U.S. In the past, AMD has lagged behind Intel in that key performance measure...
[June 14, 1999, 13:57]
PlayStation 3 chip to arrive in 2005
News The new chip combines the console's microprocessor and graphics processor, and will at first be manufactured in the hundreds of thousands of units before moving into the millions of units by next year, Sony said.
[October 9, 2003, 17:15]
IBM pumps PowerPC up to 2.5GHz
News The company first revealed its plans for the chip at last October's Microprocessor Forum, and at the time said the chip would run up to 1.8GHz, suggesting that a manufacturing process upgrade would be necessary before higher clock speeds could be...
[February 28, 2003, 14:24]
