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New chips like Intel's Atom and Nvidia's Tegra are shaping the development of PCs from the Eee Box desktop to the emerging category of mobile Internet devices.
June 5, 2008 11:50 AM PDTCourt lets stand an order barring wireless chipmaker Qualcomm from selling chips that infringe on three of Broadcom's patents.
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Chipmaker's board has decided to invest more than $1 billion in improving its lineup of semiconductors.
March 15, 2008 2:07 PM PDTMetaRam has a chip that lets you put more memory into your server. And it's got a cavalcade of server celebrities behind it.
February 24, 2008 9:00 PM PSTIf innovation has a heart, it's probably a semiconductor, beating to the pace of Moore's Law.
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IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms. Next, it will try to build things with those atoms.
February 21, 2008 1:50 PM PSTThe research uses DNA molecules to arrange carbon nanotubes into a grid that might function as a data storage device or to perform calculations.
February 20, 2008 4:00 AM PSTMontalvo Systems has a multiple-core chip, but not all of the cores are the same. That in part explains why investors have put money into it.
February 15, 2008 5:54 AM PSTMontalvo has some cash and a lot of execs with deep backgrounds in the chip industry. But will it have the staying power to survive against Intel?
February 6, 2008 4:00 AM PSTChipmaker's Isaiah processor architecture is expected to double performance but consume same amount of energy.![]()
New York launches antitrust probe into Intel, trash talk rages on between One Laptop group and the PC crowd, and more.
January 10, 2008 11:43 AM PSTIntel CEO sees Net boosting consumer electronics, and PC makers put the company's Penryn into products. Plus: Nvidia's boost for AMD.
January 8, 2008 10:34 AM PSTCompany's president is being groomed to succeed CEO Hector Ruiz. But first he must prove that last year's engineering snafus were an aberration.
January 3, 2008 6:43 AM PSTAfter a bout of good fortune, AMD finds itself coming to grips with a resurgent Intel. Plus: Can software keep up with multicore technology?
December 17, 2007 10:13 AM PSTSpansion's CEO says its "charge-trapping" idea will save the flash industry. Now he's reaching out to partners.
November 28, 2007 4:00 AM PSTChipmaker launches line of Itanium processors for high-end computing servers, touts three new features.
October 31, 2007 9:22 AM PDTEarly attempts have been marred by high cost and low performance. Now, Avnera thinks it has the answer.![]()
TRC Capital looks to buy less than 1 percent of the chipmaker's outstanding shares at below its current market value.
October 19, 2007 10:38 AM PDTCompany plans to increase the performance of individual cores in the Itanium processor, says a principal engineer at Intel.
October 3, 2007 12:50 PM PDTChip giant isn't content dominating the PC and server markets. It wants to make gains in mobile phones, where competition is stiffer.
September 26, 2007 9:33 AM PDT