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The next wave of PCs

June 5, 2008 11:50 AM PDT

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.

Court leaves intact ban on Qualcomm selling some chips

March 19, 2008 7:15 PM PDT

Court lets stand an order barring wireless chipmaker Qualcomm from selling chips that infringe on three of Broadcom's patents.
(From Reuters)

Samsung to spend $1.4 billion to upgrade chip lines

March 15, 2008 2:07 PM PDT

Chipmaker's board has decided to invest more than $1 billion in improving its lineup of semiconductors.

Putting terabytes of memory into servers, the cheap way

February 24, 2008 9:00 PM PST

MetaRam has a chip that lets you put more memory into your server. And it's got a cavalcade of server celebrities behind it.

Trying to put new zip into Moore's Law

February 24, 2008 2:00 PM PST

If innovation has a heart, it's probably a semiconductor, beating to the pace of Moore's Law.
The New York Times

IBM calculates the force it takes to move atoms

February 21, 2008 1:50 PM PST

IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms. Next, it will try to build things with those atoms.

IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips

February 20, 2008 4:00 AM PST

The research uses DNA molecules to arrange carbon nanotubes into a grid that might function as a data storage device or to perform calculations.

Secret recipe inside Intel's latest competitor

February 15, 2008 5:54 AM PST

Montalvo 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.

Silent start-up readies to take on Intel in notebooks

February 6, 2008 4:00 AM PST

Montalvo 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?

Via makes way for 64-bit chips

January 23, 2008 9:10 PM PST

Chipmaker's Isaiah processor architecture is expected to double performance but consume same amount of energy.
Images: Isaiah architecture up close

Controversy comes calling for Intel

January 10, 2008 11:43 AM PST

New York launches antitrust probe into Intel, trash talk rages on between One Laptop group and the PC crowd, and more.

At CES, chipmakers play their cards

January 8, 2008 10:34 AM PST

Intel CEO sees Net boosting consumer electronics, and PC makers put the company's Penryn into products. Plus: Nvidia's boost for AMD.

Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMD

January 3, 2008 6:43 AM PST

Company's president is being groomed to succeed CEO Hector Ruiz. But first he must prove that last year's engineering snafus were an aberration.

New challenges in the chip sector

December 17, 2007 10:13 AM PST

After a bout of good fortune, AMD finds itself coming to grips with a resurgent Intel. Plus: Can software keep up with multicore technology?

Memory maker looks to new tech for turnaround

November 28, 2007 4:00 AM PST

Spansion's CEO says its "charge-trapping" idea will save the flash industry. Now he's reaching out to partners.

Intel's Montvale Itanium chip arrives

October 31, 2007 9:22 AM PDT

Chipmaker launches line of Itanium processors for high-end computing servers, touts three new features.

Wireless speakers: Sound at last?

January 3, 2008 1:59 PM PST

Early attempts have been marred by high cost and low performance. Now, Avnera thinks it has the answer.
Photos: Cutting the speaker cord

AMD urges investors to reject mini-tender offer

October 19, 2007 10:38 AM PDT

TRC Capital looks to buy less than 1 percent of the chipmaker's outstanding shares at below its current market value.

Intel to boost single-core performance

October 3, 2007 12:50 PM PDT

Company plans to increase the performance of individual cores in the Itanium processor, says a principal engineer at Intel.

Intel has ARM in its crosshairs

September 26, 2007 9:33 AM PDT

Chip giant isn't content dominating the PC and server markets. It wants to make gains in mobile phones, where competition is stiffer.