Intel Corp. on Monday unveiled a new line of computer chips as part of the tech giant's efforts to gain traction in the fast-growing mobile sector.

Electronics - Hardware

May 06, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

MediaTek Inc., Asia's largest chipset designer, said Monday its first quarter profit grew 51 percent from a year earlier, boosted by China's flourishing smartphone market.

Technology - Business

May 06, 2013 not rated yet 0

Prosecutors are probing alleged insider trading connected to a $3.8 billion takeover of a Taiwan chip design company.

Technology - Business

May 03, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 1

For all the technological breakthroughs it has produced, Silicon Valley is an architectural wasteland.

Technology - Business

Mar 06, 2013 not rated yet 1

Samsung Electronics today announced that it reached another milestone in the development of 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology with the successful tape-out of multiple development vehicles in collaboration with its ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Dec 21, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1

(Phys.org)—China's new 8-core Godson processor will be a key point of interest at the San Francisco IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from Feb. 17 to 21. The Godson processor to be discussed at ...

Electronics - Hardware

Nov 28, 2012 4.7 / 5 (16) 42 |

To build the computer chips of the future, designers will need to understand how an electrical charge behaves when it is confined to metal wires only a few atom-widths in diameter.

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Nov 06, 2012 4 / 5 (5) 1 |

(Phys.org)—Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Monday announced its launch of 16-core Opteron 6300 server chips. This is its newest series in server processors based on the chip designer's Piledriver core architecture. ...

Electronics - Hardware

Nov 05, 2012 4.4 / 5 (9) 1 |

IBM scientists have demonstrated a new approach to carbon nanotechnology that opens up the path for commercial fabrication of dramatically smaller, faster and more powerful computer chips. For the first time, more than ten ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Oct 29, 2012 4.9 / 5 (7) 1 |

(Phys.org)—Globalfoundries has made an announcement that amounts to a direct challenge to Intel, in the latter's race to get further ahead in the mobile device ecosystem. Both Globalfoundries and Intel ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Sep 24, 2012 4.8 / 5 (13) 5 |

(Phys.org)—Some might think of AMD as the chip design market underdog, but that underdog raised interest this week when the company's CTO, Mark Papermaster, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, ...

Electronics - Hardware

Aug 29, 2012 4.4 / 5 (5) 2 |

"Location, location, location": That age-old key to successful real estate investing has also been the driving mantra in microchip architecture. But with space on the tiny silicon chips at a premium, as demand for faster, ...

Technology - Engineering

Aug 08, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Semiconductor chip makers first began the production of three-dimensional (3D) transistors in 2011. Engineers can pack more 3D transistors onto a single chip because they are much more compact than traditional ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Jun 20, 2012 4 / 5 (4) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the heart of digital photography is a chip called an image sensor that captures a map of the intensity of the light as it comes through the lens and converts it to an electronic signal.

Technology - Engineering

Apr 03, 2012 3.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

Three of Japan's biggest electronics companies are to join forces in a chip-making venture, according to reports, days after a swathe of dire results from a sector struggling to compete globally.

Technology - Business

Feb 08, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0