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New chip may protect against Denial of Service attack
News Senior vice president for Metromedia Fiber Network a US technology specialist says the new chip is a handy addition to any network's arsenal of anti-hacking equipment. A chip that could offer a much-needed line of defence against hackers was...
[April 20, 2000, 9:15]
Intel plan: New chip sets, faster PCs
News Intel is readying a summer blockbuster of its own: a new chip set that will crank up the performance of value and mid-range desktop PCs. Due June 19, according to sources, Intel's new 815 chip set will yield higher overall system performance for...
[June 2, 2000, 9:26]
Motorola: New chip will bring GPS to all
News The first products to use the new chip should appear during the third quarter of next year. Although Motorola has its own large semiconductor division, the Motorola Automotive Group chose to contract with IBM to manufacture the new chip using Big...
[September 24, 2002, 8:11]
New chip powers tiny Linux set-top box
News The chips both incorporate a PowerPC 405TM RISC core and include all major DVB-T functions except for the radio tuner, which is on a separate chip. Because the PowerPC chip includes memory management systems, it is able to run the Linux operating...
[November 27, 2002, 15:14]
New chip may signal ATI comeback
News ATI, once the leader in graphics chips, will launch its comeback bid this week with a new chip that experts say could put the company back in front in terms of performance. The Markham, Ontario-based company on Thursday will unveil the details of...
[July 17, 2002, 11:32]
New Xeon chip makes early appearance
News Intel's 3.06GHz Xeon chip has quietly made its way into new workstations. On Wednesday, Dell and HP were each advertising a pair of workstations fitted with the new chip. The less-expensive varieties of these machines use processors such as the new...
[February 5, 2003, 16:11]
New Sony chip to power Clie
News The Clie PEG-UX50, which will use a chip called the "Handheld Engine," is expected to be announced on Friday at a press conference in San Francisco. The device is also noteworthy because it is the first handheld to use a chip developed by Sony in...
[July 18, 2003, 11:11]
New graphics chip enters crowded market
News Taiwan's Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) on Tuesday updated its graphics processor line, the Xabre, with a new chip that boasts a more advanced manufacturing process and a higher clock speed than its predecessor.
[November 26, 2002, 12:52]
New Nvidia chip neck-and-neck with Radeon
News Not necessarily, since the new chip includes many next-generation features aimed at upcoming games that use advanced lighting techniques based on many textures and vertex shaders. A preview of an add-in card based on Nvidia's upcoming high-end...
[January 29, 2003, 9:51]
New Transmeta chip aims for speed
News Transmeta's TM8000 chip will feature an entirely new architecture, executives say, but it will also share some design ideas with the upcoming Athlon64 from Advanced Micro Devices. The TM8000 is likely to compete against the Pentium-M, a new...
[March 10, 2003, 11:58]
New AMD chip set to boost Athlon PCs
News Company officials say the upshot will be improvements in the performance of PCs based on the new Athlon chip set over current models based on the Athlon chip. They include a 1GHz, a 1.2GHz and a new 1.13GHz chip.
[October 31, 2000, 8:58]
New Celerons begin Intel chip flood
News The chipsets also feature Serial ATA, a faster and relatively new way to connect the hard drive to the rest of the computer, and a faster bus, called AGP 8X, for connecting the graphics chip to the processor.
[April 2, 2003, 8:24]
New standard to speed chip connections
News A key industry group is aiming to come out with a new specification for a high-speed chip connection technology that could more than triple the bandwidth for data. The HyperTransport Consortium, which controls the specifications for the chip-to...
[January 30, 2003, 13:55]
New IBM technology to boost chip speed
News Under Moore's Law, the number of transistors on a chip doubles roughly every 18 to 24 months through, among other factors, shrinking the transistors. IBM is also using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) in this architecture, which introduces a thin layer...
[December 3, 2001, 8:53]
New chip powers high-end Intel servers
News IBM will use the new chip in the four-processor x255 server, which can be equipped with its own storage unit, the x360 for racks, and the x440. The Gallatin servers to some degree will also compete against servers running Intel's more expensive...
[November 4, 2002, 8:16]
Pentium 4: New chip, old problems
News The chip also caches the instructions in this internal format, and does so along the path it thinks the program's going to do -- when it gets it right, most of the work's been done well before the instructions have to be executed.
[November 20, 2000, 6:12]
Motorola debuts new PowerPC chip
News Motorola announced a new, lower-power version of its top-rated PowerPC chip on Monday. The new chip, dubbed PowerPC 7440, was announced along with a flurry of other new networking-oriented chips at the Motorola semiconductor product sector's Smart...
[May 22, 2001, 12:12]
AMD claws for top with new chip
News AMD is again challenging Intel for the PC processor speed crown with a new chip for desktops. Hewlett-Packard expects to adopt the new chip later. When purchased in 1,000-unit quantities, the new 2100+ chip will list for $420, the 2000+ chip will...
[March 13, 2002, 9:16]
Intel to launch new Pentium chip to fill void
News The chipmaker released to its PC maker partners, last week, the launch date for the new desktop chip. The new chip, like Intel's 1GHz Pentium III, announced in March, will be available in limited quantities at first.
[July 3, 2000, 9:29]
Intel prepping new mobile chip
News Intel sources say the chip maker is working to replace its top-of-the-line notebook processor, the mobile Pentium III, with a new chip, code-named Northwood, in 2001. Northwood, based on the same next-generation 32-bit architecture as Intel's...
[February 7, 2000, 8:05]
