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Article | 15/10/2010 AMD to target tablet market with its chips
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it wants to put its chips in tablets, relenting after months of denying any interest in that market.
Article | 15/10/2010 AMD server CTO: Core wars will subside
While today AMD and Intel compete over which company's processors will have the most cores, this battle will not last indefinitely, according to Donal...
Article | 14/10/2010 Broadcom to buy 4G chipmaker Beceem for $316M
Broadcom has agreed to acquire Beceem Communications, a maker of chips for 4G LTE and WiMax devices, for $US316 million in cash.
Article | 9/10/2010 IBM to turbo-charge more servers with accelerators
IBM is putting more energy in building computers that mix CPUs with specialized accelerators to diversify its servers and target specific workloads, a...
Article | 9/10/2010 Cell processor development hasn't stalled, IBM CTO says
Development around the original Cell processor hasn't stalled and IBM will continue to develop chips and supply hardware for future gaming consoles, a...
Article | 6/10/2010 nVidia starts selling its own graphics cards
It looks like nVidia is getting into the retail game, and is planning to manufacture and sell graphics cards under its own name, according to <a href=...
Article | 1/10/2010 Semiconductor revenue forecast gets a trim
Despite what had been growing excitement about the semiconductor market this year, one research company is lowering its chip revenue forecast for 2010...
Article | 30/09/2010 TSMC allowed to upgrade chip technology in China
The Taiwanese government granted chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) permission to start using a more advanced chip technolog...
Article | 30/09/2010 Intel will not position the Atom for server markets
Intel will not position its Atom processor for the server market, even as some vendors are building servers around collections of hundreds of low-powe...
Article | 30/09/2010 Arm plans to add multithreading to chip design
Arm plans to add multithreading capabilities to future architectures as it tries to boost the performance of its processors, a company representative ...
Article | 28/09/2010 Tilera: Server with 800 cores may ship next year
A server with 800 processor cores could ship next year with Tilera's next-generation 100-core chips inside, a company executive said Monday.
Article | 28/09/2010 Tablet, phone software developers face multicore challenge
Writing applications for devices like tablets and smartphones could become more challenging as CPUs and hardware accelerators are added to mobile chip...
Article | 28/09/2010 OCZ unveils next-gen SSD, promising lower price, higher performance
OCZ Technology today unveiled the next generation of its consumer-class solid state drive (SSD), the 2.5-in Onyx 2 series, which it said is faster, mo...
Article | 25/09/2010 Weak server chip shipments on the horizon, analysts say
The server market is showing signs of weakening, which could lead to a downturn in server chip shipments, further affecting the revenue of chip makers...
Article | 24/09/2010 Tri-Core 1.5 GHz processors for smartphones: A Marvell
A new three-core processor from Marvell, the Armada 628, is a 1.5GHz processor with three CPUs on one chip. Designed for powering smartphones and tab...