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Article | 4/11/2009 Intel expands processor market share over AMD in Q3
Intel expanded its chip shipment lead over Advanced Micro Devices during the third quarter as the rivals battle for larger market share, according to ...
Article | 21/10/2009 Arm unveils chip to make smartphones faster, cooler
Arm Holdings has introduced a processor for smartphones and other devices that it says will be cheaper, and more powerful and energy-efficient than th...
Article | 21/10/2009 AMD announces first triple-core Athlon processors
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday announced a new range of desktop microprocessors, including its first Athlon triple-core processors.
Article | 15/10/2009 Intel, CMU add muscle to wimpy processors
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash ...
Article | 1/10/2009 Nvidia says its new Fermi GPU will run supercomputers
Nvidia showed off a new GPU architecture on Wednesday that it hopes will allow it to move beyond gaming to play a greater role in the supercomputing m...
Article | 30/09/2009 Arm chips make their way into commercial laptops
After comfortably residing for years in mobile devices like cell phones, chips based on the Arm design are finding their way into commercial laptops.
Article | 25/09/2009 Intel splits the Atom for digital TV and 3D
Intel Corporation has unveiled a 45 nanometre (nm) system-on-chip (SoC) processor, ushering in a new era of communication technologies.
Article | 25/09/2009 Intel targets homes with new processor for TVs
Intel's chips already go into many laptops, but it is now making a play for television sets and cable boxes through a new processor it released on Thu...
Article | 17/09/2009 NEC will absorb Renesas to become third-biggest chip maker
Japanese chip makers NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology plan to merge by the end of April 2010 to create the world's third-largest chip maker by r...
Article | 17/09/2009 Arm flaunts performance by boosting processor speed
Arm Holdings on Wednesday raised the clock speed of its Cortex A9 processor to 2GHz, with the aim of boosting application performance while drawing le...
Article | 15/09/2009 Intel shrinks Nehalem packages with Jasper Forest
Intel on Monday said it had starting sampling Nehalem-based chips code-named Jasper Forest, reaching a milestone in its effort to create smaller and p...
Article | 9/09/2009 Intel shows off PCs, servers built on Lynnfield processors
Intel showed off a number of new computer systems and at least 40 new motherboards built by partners for new Intel microprocessors that officially lau...
Article | 8/09/2009 ATIC to buy Chartered, fold into GlobalFoundries
Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) of Abu Dhabi has signed a definitive agreement to acquire chip maker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturi...
Article | 3/09/2009 Android, WiMax mobile device and chip kit unveiled in Taiwan
A Taiwanese research group unveiled a personal Internet device (PID) on Thursday made from its WiMax chips and a reference board that runs a version o...
Article | 4/09/2009 Intel to put Westmere desktop chips in servers
Intel has tweaked its chip road map, with plans to extend its upcoming Westmere mainstream desktop dual-core chips with integrated graphics processors...