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Article | 9/11/2010 Arm faces uphill battle in server market
Arm has entered the server market with Marvell Semiconductor announcing a chip based on its processor architecture, but customer acceptance and design...
Article | 9/11/2010 Marvell nudges Arm into server market
Marvell on Monday announced a quad-core chip designed for use in servers that could help Arm break into a server market currently dominated by Intel a...
Article | 4/11/2010 Intel to release Core VPro processors in Q1
Intel on Wednesday said it would release in the first quarter next year Core VPro processors for business desktops and laptops that incorporate a host...
Article | 3/11/2010 Broadcom readies 100G Ethernet chip
Broadcom is shipping samples of a processor for 100-Gigabit Ethernet, part of an architecture that can scale up to a clustered system with a total cap...
Article | 3/11/2010 Intel opens door to contract chip manufacturing
Intel on Tuesday said the company would begin contract manufacturing of chips, a change from the company's policy of serving only itself through its f...
Article | 30/10/2010 MIPS targets Arm, Intel in smartphone, tablet markets
MIPS Technologies this week said it will put its processor architecture in tablets and smartphones as it prepares to duel rivals Arm and Intel in thos...
Article | 28/10/2010 Chip giants investigate more power efficient chip design
A number of chip manufacturers and European research institutions have banded together to figure out how redesign microprocessors so that they consume...
Article | 20/10/2010 Intel to invest up to $8B in U.S. chip plants
Intel Tuesday announced plans to invest between $6 billion and $8 billion to upgrade multiple computer chip manufacturing plants in the U.S., and to b...
Article | 20/10/2010 Intel attacking new markets with investments
Intel on Tuesday said it would kick off manufacturing a new generation of chips late next year, opening up new markets and opportunities.
Article | 19/10/2010 AMD announcing next-generation graphics cards this week
Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce its second-generation of DirectX 11 graphics cards this week, and also to show off its latest hybrid Fusion c...
Article | 18/10/2010 Researchers one step closer to 'bootless' computer
Physicists at the University of California at Riverside have made a breakthrough in developing a "spin computer," which would combine logic with nonvo...
Article | 16/10/2010 AMD waits for tablet dust to settle
In the wake of the success of the Apple iPad, there seems to be a virtually endless line of competing tablets on the horizon. Most of the attention is...
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.