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Intel seeks growth in India through reference designs Intel has designed a point-of-sale system for Indian retailers, part of a new strategy to create reference designs for products aimed at India's fast-growing IT market. Broadcom goes high-definition on cell phone chip Broadcom on Tuesday announced a low-power multimedia processor that it said will give cell-phone users access to high-definition video playback, 3D gaming and 12-megapixel camera capabilities without sacrificing battery life. October 3, 5:54 a.m. PDT Toshiba platform aims to connect Cell devices Toshiba has developed a common platform for consumer electronics products that it hopes will help spur adoption of the Cell processor by electronics makers. October 3, 5:34 a.m. PDT Toshiba shows off Cell-based SpursEngine coprocessor Toshiba is showing off several prototype Qosmio notebooks at the Ceatec exhibition in Japan that include a multimedia coprocessor, called SpursEngine, based on the Cell Broadband Engine processor core. October 3, 5:18 a.m. PDT Qualcomm licenses AMD graphics technology Qualcomm has licensed 3D graphics core technology from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), for integration with Qualcomm’s wireless chip sets for mobile gaming devices. October 2, 4:48 a.m. PDT Global chip sales remain hot in August Global chip sales soared in August, indicating makers of electronic devices such as PCs, iPods, and mobile phones expect the holiday season to be strong this year. October 2, 4:03 a.m. PDT EU begins antitrust investigation into Qualcomm The European Commission has begun an antitrust investigation of Qualcomm for suspected exploitative practices in the market for chip sets for mobile phones, it announced Monday. October 1, 4:12 a.m. PDT Wipro to acquire Oki’s wireless chip design arm Oki Electric Industry Co. is selling its semiconductor design subsidiary to Indian outsourcer Wipro, preferring instead to have semiconductor design services delivered from a dedicated center set up by Wipro. September 28, 4:39 a.m. PDT Two charged with espionage sought funding in China A federal grand jury indicted two men in California of conspiring to steal high tech trade secrets and develop them with venture capital funding they sought to obtain from China. September 27, 4:38 a.m. PDT Intel project aims to boost power efficiency in Linux Intel plans to announce an open-source project called LessWatts.org, which aims to improve the power efficiency of the Linux operating system and applications. September 20, 11:56 a.m. PDT Toshiba develops multimedia chip using Cell technology Toshiba on Thursday revealed a new high-performance chip aimed at multimedia applications such as video processing in consumer devices. September 20, 4:58 a.m. PDT Intel will release updated Centrino in January Intel will update its Centrino laptop package in January with a new processor and better graphics. September 19, 10:18 a.m. PDT Intel chips to shrink to 32-nanometer process Intel said Tuesday it will ramp up performance and energy efficiency in its microprocessors by using a 32-nanometer process technology starting in 2009. September 18, 1:02 p.m. PDT The father of Moore's Law speaks The former engineering major in me got a nice surprise Tuesday afternoon when Intel's Gordon Moore (that's right, the guy behind The Law) spoke at the Intel Developer Forum Tuesday. September 18, 10:24 a.m. PDT LSI: Refocused and ready to roll in the chip sector After a busy two years reorganizing LSI, the new leadership of the company, which includes several former Intel executives, is ready to do battle in the competitive markets for storage and networking chips. September 18, 6:39 a.m. PDT AMD tries to upstage Intel with triple-core Phenom processor Advanced Micro Devices added a triple-core desktop processor to its product road map on Monday, looking to upstage rival Intel ahead of its Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference in San Francisco this week. September 18, 4:13 a.m. PDT Chip advances leave developers in the dust Ever since Gordon Moore's 1965 proclamation in Electronics Magazine, we've come to expect processing power to double every two years. So why don't the latest CPUs seem significantly faster than those made even five years ago? Has the lease on Moore's Law run out? Or has the science of silicon left software developers in the lurch?  September 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT VMware boss takes Intel, AMD to task VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum has poured tepid water on the recent acquisition of open-source virtualization vendor XenSource by remote desktop company Citrix as well as outlining his demands to the chip vendors. He made his remarks during an exclusive interview with Techworld at virtualization industry event VMworld, during which he also outlined what additional support for virtualization he wants the chip vendors to provide. September 14, 3:04 p.m. PDT Court stays import ban while Qualcomm appeals U.S. mobile users waiting for the next crop of phones could breathe a sigh of relief Wednesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted a stay on an import ban against handsets that use some Qualcomm chips. September 13, 3:46 a.m. PDT South Korea nears antitrust decision against Intel South Korean antitrust regulators have issued preliminary allegations against Intel for allegedly undermining competition in its PC microprocessor market, but formal charges won't be made for at least another month. September 12, 4:09 a.m. PDT Chips are up, but U.S. economic woes might spoil the party News coming out the chip sector has been great so far this week, but analysts warn that economic woes such as the housing mess might still spoil the party. September 11, 6:21 a.m. PDT Tigerton, Barcelona to 'reinvigorate' high-end server market Newly released processors from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel will reinvigorate the market for high-end servers, according to one server analyst. September 11, 4:14 a.m. PDT Intel increases revenue outlook on rising chip demand Citing surprisingly high demand for its processors, Intel on Monday upgraded its third-quarter revenue forecast to a range of $9.4 billion to $9.8 billion from the company's previous estimate of $9 billion to $9.6 billion. September 10, 8:39 a.m. PDT Intel breaks ground on $2.5 billion chip plant in China Intel broke ground on a new $2.5 billion chip plant in the northeast China city of Dalian on Saturday, with production expected to begin in 2010. September 10, 5:47 a.m. PDT Via loses chipset executive, team of engineers The Via Technologies executive charged with running the company's chipset business has resigned, taking a team of engineers with him, according to a source familiar with the situation. September 10, 4:08 a.m. PDT AMD finally launches Barcelona server chip After months of delays, Advanced Micro Devices' latest processor, a quad-core server chip called Barcelona, is at last expected to hit the market Monday. September 10, 3:42 a.m. PDT AMD seeks server rebound with Barcelona AMD hopes to seize a larger share of the server chip market from its rival Intel on Monday when it launches the Barcelona quad-core processor. September 7, 12:43 p.m. PDT Talks under way to put Intel inside OLPC's $100 laptop Discussions are under way to put an Intel microprocessor inside a version of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's "$100 laptop" for children in developing countries, according to representatives from both parties. September 7, 3:48 a.m. PDT HP picks Intel chip for quad-core servers Hewlett-Packard launched a server based on Intel's new Tigerton quad-core Xeon processor Thursday, battling IBM for customers who run data-intensive business applications like enterprise resource planning and virtualization software. September 6, 12:24 p.m. PDT Intel readies Penryn chips, may release Silverthorne early Following the launch of Intel's quad-core Xeon 7300 processor on Wednesday, the company's efforts are now focused on preparations for the rollout of its first Penryn chips later this year. And there are signs the company is planning an early 2008 release of its Silverthorne chip for ultramobile PCs and handheld devices. September 6, 4:01 a.m. PDT Broadcom wins latest legal round against Qualcomm A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Broadcom could press forward with an antitrust case against rival chip maker Qualcomm, but on only two of the eight original charges, the companies said. September 5, 6:05 a.m. PDT HTC to use Qualcomm chips in 10 handsets this year Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest developer of smartphones that use Microsoft software, plans to launch more than 10 mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants) armed with Qualcomm chips by the end of this year, the companies said Wednesday. September 5, 6:01 a.m. PDT Intel releases quad-core Tigerton processor Intel plans to unveil a version of its Xeon processor on Wednesday that's designed for high-end servers with multiple processors -- setting the stage for a showdown with rival Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming quad-core Barcelona chip. September 5, 4:31 a.m. PDT India and Taiwan sign semiconductor development pact Industry associations from India and Taiwan have signed an agreement to work more closely in the future on semiconductor technology, including building better business ties and finding further areas for collaboration. September 4, 1:52 a.m. PDT AMD proposes faster x86 instructions Advanced Micro Devices Inc. wants developers to start thinking about how they can speed up their software using new instructions that will appear in the company's processors from 2009. The additions could simplify the way developers code the iterative calculations used to shade graphics, render photos or add spatial effects to audio. August 30, 4:23 a.m. PDT TSMC to invest in chip maker The world's largest contract chip maker plans to invest up to NT$5.55 billion (US$168.3 million) in a smaller partner to strengthen their alliance and continue to farm out orders for certain chips to the company. August 27, 4:08 a.m. PDT Via announces 1-watt Eden ULV processor for mobile devices Via Technologies has developed a processor that consumes a maximum of 1 watt of power and is intended for use in mobile devices and embedded applications. August 24, 5:34 a.m. PDT Tiled is the next hot multicore chip design Knowing that there's a limit to how many cores can be put on a chip, processor designers are looking to a tiled architecture as the next generation of chip design. August 21, 4:38 a.m. PDT UMC to reshuffle management after top executive retires United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), the world's second largest contract chip maker, plans to reshuffle its management after the number two man at the company retires in October. August 20, 5:38 a.m. PDT Startup Tilera celebrates coming out party at Hot Chips The annual Hot Chips forum on semiconductor research, beginning Monday at Stanford University, usually draws industry leaders like IBM, Intel, and AMD, but also new companies with ambitions to take on the big firms. August 20, 4:29 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Nokia asks US to ban import of Qualcomm products Nokia wants the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban the import of Qualcomm chip sets that allegedly infringe on five patents held by the Finnish handset maker. August 17, 4:31 a.m. PDT Update: Nokia discontinues some chip set development Mobile phone maker Nokia will halt some chip set development and instead rely on technology from other chip set manufacturers, the company said Wednesday. August 8, 6:05 a.m. PDT IBM shows what Power6 processor can do IBM is introducing a new feature of its recently released Power6 processor that makes it possible to move a Unix-based computer workload from one server to another while it is running. August 7, 4:28 a.m. PDT Sun Niagara 2: The eight-core sequel Sun hopes its new UltraSparc T2 processor, officially launched Tuesday, will earn it repeat business from existing telecommunications customers and attract new customers looking for a way to make their networks run faster. August 6, 3:00 p.m. PDT SIA: Price cuts hurt chip revenue in first half of year Continuing price cuts in the semiconductor market held revenue growth down to 2.1 percent in the first half of 2007, even though strong sales of PCs and cell phones pushed chip shipments to rise nearly 7 percent from the same period last year, according to a report released Friday. August 3, 10:40 a.m. PDT Sony to show Cell-based computing board Sony has developed a prototype computer board based on the Cell processor, the same high-power chip used in the PlayStation 3, and will show it at a conference in the United States next week. August 1, 6:18 a.m. PDT Weird tech: Tapping game tech to save lives When some 22nd-century civilization exhumes our 2007 use of technologies, it will no doubt hold symposia on why turn-of-the-millennium life-saving applications -- trailing the profitability of entertainment gadgets -- had to borrow technology from teenagers' cootie-blasting video game consoles. July 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: Intel accused of breaching European antitrust rules The European Commission has accused Intel of abusing its dominant position in the microprocessor market to the detriment of rival Advanced Micro Devices. July 27, 5:44 a.m. PDT China's SMIC reports yet another loss Red ink continues to flow from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC). China's largest chip maker reported another loss during the second quarter as its struggle with profitability dragged on. July 27, 4:38 a.m. PDT AMD offers more details on quad-core Opteron processors Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Thursday gave journalists and analysts a peek at its road map of upcoming processors, including more details on the company's quad-core processors and plans for a family of server chips with 16 cores. July 27, 4:20 a.m. PDT Slow 65nm ramp drags down Chartered Semiconductor A slower than expected ramp of 65-nanometer (nm) chip designs at Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing will drag down the company's earnings during the second half of the year, the contract chip maker's top executive warned Thursday. July 26, 10:30 p.m. PDT AMD unveils strategy to 'Bulldoze' the competition Executives at AMD are pursuing a new strategy to combine CPUs and graphics processors into one unit and put them into everything from workstations to HDTVs to wireless phones. July 26, 4:27 p.m. PDT TSMC hints at processor deal with AMD Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, is gearing up to make microprocessors for an undisclosed customer that appears to be Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). July 26, 4:29 a.m. PDT Intel claims breakthrough with 40Gbps optical component Intel researchers are a step closer to creating chips that transmit data at high speeds using light instead of electrons, but products based on the technology appear to remain over the horizon. July 25, 4:12 a.m. PDT Intel slashes Core 2 Quad prices by 50 percent The world's largest chip maker slashed prices on a handful of microprocessors after the company's battle to retake market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) took a turn for the worse. July 24, 4:12 a.m. PDT Intel brings datacenter advances to server networks Later this year, Intel will help server network interfaces take advantage of the major recent advances in datacenters: multiprocessor systems, multicore processors, and virtualization. July 23, 12:40 p.m. PDT Sanyo restarts chip plant after earthquake Sanyo Electric has restarted chip production at a factory that automatically stopped when a powerful earthquake hit on Monday. July 18, 5:36 a.m. PDT Intel sampling Penryn chips ahead of Q4 launch Intel is making samples of its Penryn server chips widely available to computer makers ahead of a planned product launch during the fourth quarter, a company executive said Wednesday. July 18, 4:48 a.m. PDT Intel improves dual-core notebook chip Intel launched a dual-core notebook chip for high-end users on Monday, continuing an effort to defend its share of the fast-growing notebook PC market against Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). July 16, 9:38 a.m. PDT Dell faces overclocking issue on quad-core desktops Dell has stopped taking orders for one model of its high-end desktop PCs, citing issues related to overclocking quad-core processors from Intel. July 13, 10:32 a.m. PDT Update: Former CEO of ATI quits AMD The former chief executive of ATI Technologies has resigned from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) just nine months after the two companies combined in a $5.4 billion merger. July 10, 9:35 a.m. PDT AMD cuts prices again, Intel expected to follow suit Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced its latest round of desktop processor price cuts on Monday, and rival Intel is expected to follow the move later this month. July 10, 4:17 a.m. PDT AMD invests in ailing chip company Transmeta Advanced Micro Devices is investing $7.5 million in energy-efficient chip company Transmeta, which has been battling falling revenue and widening losses. July 6, 6:42 a.m. PDT Powerchip denies rumored Renesas tie-up in China Taiwan's largest DRAM maker, Powerchip Semiconductor, on Monday denied a local media report that it planned to build a chip factory in China with a Japanese partner. July 2, 5:23 a.m. PDT AMD: Barcelona will be on time Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) said Friday it would begin shipping its "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron processor in August, rebutting industry rumors that the chip faced manufacturing problems that could delay it until October. June 29, 9:06 a.m. PDT Intel ships 1 million quad-core CPUs Intel has shipped more than 1 million quad-core Xeon 5300 microprocessors since introducing them in November 2006, meeting a goal announced by company executives earlier this year. June 29, 5:35 a.m. PDT LSI to shed 900 jobs, sell consumer products group Chip vendor LSI has warned investors of a revenue shortfall and said it would eliminate 900 jobs and sell off its consumer products business as part of a plan to cut costs following its April merger with Agere. June 28, 9:16 a.m. PDT Taiwan chip makers win approval for China investments Four Taiwanese chip assembly companies have won final approval to invest in China amid a global shake-up that could see a new king crowned in the industry. June 28, 7:36 a.m. PDT AMD gets ready for Barcelona launch Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is getting ready to launch Barcelona, its first quad-core server chip. June 28, 4:18 a.m. PDT Intel to lay off 800 workers in Colorado Intel plans to lay off 800 workers from a chip-making plant in Colorado by August, after Marvell Semiconductor began ordering those parts from another supplier, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). June 27, 12:51 p.m. PDT Samsung crams digital TV into a single chip Samsung Electronics has developed a pair of chips that can receive and decode four mobile digital TV systems. The chips should make possible smaller portable media players and cellphones that can pick up local broadcasts around the world. June 27, 6:46 a.m. PDT Intel and India's NIIT team on multicore training Intel has teamed with Indian training company NIIT to develop a global multicore processor technology training curriculum. June 26, 11:24 a.m. PDT Taiwanese chip makers gain nod for China plants Four Taiwanese chip assembly companies have won preliminary government approval for investments in China, including a joint venture with Europe's NXP Semiconductors. June 26, 6:01 a.m. PDT WiMax firm picks IBM, but not for its technology Singapore's Nex-G Systems is designing a WiMax base station based on an IBM processor, even though it's not the best chip for the job. But that doesn't worry Ronnie Persad, the company's chief executive officer. June 20, 4:38 a.m. PDT Azul and Sun settle patent lawsuit Azul and Sun have settled a patent infringement suit Sun filed, the companies said Tuesday. June 19, 2:50 p.m. PDT Global chip sales growth sputters The global chip market is suffering from falling prices in microprocessors and memory chips, bad news for companies but great for users. June 13, 7:51 p.m. PDT Intel: No special pricing for China Intel Corp. Wednesday dismissed reports it plans to change its pricing policy and set different prices for processors sold in China. June 13, 4:18 a.m. PDT Tech companies set goals for energy efficiency A group of some of the biggest technology companies said they've committed to a plan to improve the power efficiency of equipment they make and use. June 12, 1:05 p.m. PDT Via has working samples of Mobile ITX board The unveiling of Via Technologies Inc.'s tiny Mobile ITX motherboard turned heads at last week's Computex exhibition in Taipei. But what the company didn't announce was that prototypes of the board are already running Windows XP. June 12, 4:16 a.m. PDT AMD will continue supplying graphics to Intel Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will continue to supply ATI graphics chips for PCs based on Intel Corp. microprocessors despite the fierce competition between the two companies, AMD's chief technology officer said in an interview. June 11, 4:00 a.m. PDT Chip sets to survive integration with CPU Computers are getting smaller and functions that once required multiple chips will increasingly be combined or move to the processor. But Intel said one component is going to survive these changes: the chip set. June 8, 4:54 a.m. PDT Intel's rumored graphics chip a no-show One of the biggest rumors to come out of Computex this week is that Intel is developing a new high-end graphics processor, which it will begin sampling to graphics cards makers in Taiwan in the next year or two. Graphics card makers at the show said they've seen no signs of it, however. June 8, 4:09 a.m. PDT Intel shows more advanced ultraportable Just two months after Intel unveiled a package of chips codenamed McCaslin for ultramobile computers, the company rolled out a prototype device running McCaslin's successor, Menlow, at Computex. June 7, 4:03 a.m. PDT AMD keeps Barcelona specs under wraps Some of the first servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD's) upcoming Barcelona quad-core chip are on display at Computex, but details of the chips are being kept tightly under wraps. June 7, 3:45 a.m. PDT Barcelona delay could hurt AMD earnings AMD will delay its launch of the Barcelona quad-core Opteron server chip from its expected date in July until October, setting the company back in its effort to compete with new processors from Intel, according to analyst reports. June 6, 11:10 a.m. PDT Google acquires server software company PeakStream Google on Tuesday acquired PeakStream, a Redwood City, Calif., developer of software for multicore and parallel processors, the company said. June 6, 7:11 a.m. PDT Via CEO promises even smaller motherboards Via Technologies plans to develop PC motherboards that are even smaller than the business card-sized Mobile ITX product it announced on Tuesday. June 6, 4:39 a.m. PDT Intel's mobile chip for gamers coming soon A mobile version of Intel's Core 2 Extreme chip will hit the market during the third quarter in high-end gaming notebooks equipped with Nvidia's SLI graphics system. June 5, 9:04 a.m. PDT IBM borrows Power6 design for telephony chips IBM is pulling out the heavy artillery in its quest to build custom chips for both telephony backbone and handheld wireless devices, announcing a processor family built with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that is usually reserved for server processors. June 5, 8:01 a.m. PDT Bear Lake chip sets hit the market Motherboards that use Intel's 3-series chip sets, codenamed Bear Lake, seem to be everywhere at the Computex exhibition -- signalling they will soon find their way to store shelves and hardware makers around the world. June 5, 6:23 a.m. PDT Via develops namecard-sized PC board Taiwan's Via Technologies has a knack for making motherboards smaller, and its latest design pushes the boundary of what's possible further than ever before. June 5, 6:13 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Phil Nail As concerns over potential power shortages and global warming rise, some IT leaders are just now dipping their toes into the waters of energy efficiency and environmental responsibility. But Affordable Internet Service Online (AISO) co-founder and CTO Phil Nail has been riding high atop the ecogreen wave since the 1990s. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Intel working on quad-core chip for notebooks What will they put in notebook PCs next? At Intel's recent Developer Forum conference in Beijing, the company revealed it's working on quad-core processing to go. June 1, 3:01 p.m. PDT Hardware makers prepare for Taipei showdown Intel and Advanced Micro Devices will square off next week at the annual Computex exhibition in Taipei, where many of the world's largest hardware makers will be showing off products slated for release later this year. June 1, 5:08 a.m. PDT Gartner slashes semiconductor forecast Falling prices for DRAM chips and microprocessors badly hurt the global semiconductor market, which will likely limp to a sales increase of just 2.5 percent in 2007, according to an analyst report released Thursday. May 31, 8:59 a.m. PDT Gartner revises down contract chip maker forecast Contract chip makers will have a worse time than expected this year, market researcher Gartner said Monday as it revised down its revenue growth target for 2007 to 5.1 percent. May 28, 2:31 p.m. PDT Nvidia graphics chips perform double duty as CPUs Nvidia is promoting the idea that the GPUs it makes can also operate, when needed, as additional CPUs to vastly increase computing power. May 23, 3:57 p.m. PDT > Hardware |
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