In its efforts to explore methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could …
Intel scales back Itanium plans
Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium, raising questions about the future of the 64-bit server …
Smartphone buyers will benefit from changing chipset market
The mobile chipset market is in a state of flux with a number of key vendors struggling, but analysts say …
Nvidia, AMD release graphics processors for supercomputing
Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices yesterday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers. Nvidia announced GPUs (graphics processing units) called K20 …
Intel ships 60-core Xeon Phi processor
Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first …
Apple’s ‘ambitious processor plans’ to involve ditching Intel in future Macs?
Apple is investigating ways to ditch Intel chips in future Macs and replace them with its own ARM chips like …
AMD announces fastest 16-core server chips as ARM future looms
With a future in ARM servers looming, Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced its fastest 16-core Opteron 6300 server chips …
Fujitsu, Rambus sign six-year patent licensing agreement
Rambus on Thursday announced it signed a six-year patent licensing agreement with Fujitsu Semiconductors, which will use Rambus technology in …
Weak market plagues chip sales in Q2
Weak economies in the U.S. and Europe together with a slowdown in manufacturing in China hurt semiconductor sales during the …
Intel downgrades full-year business outlook
Intel warned Tuesday that it expects to see lower-than-anticipated growth for 2012 because consumer spending in Western Europe and North …