News tagged with computer chip technology

Patent wars plague Internet Age

The Internet Age is becoming as known for patent litigation as it is for online innovation.

Technology / Business

created Apr 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 13

First the smart phone, now the smart home: Digital technology on verge of tending to household tasks

We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: the smart home.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

More energy efficient transistors through quantum tunneling

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Pennsylvania State University have announced breakthroughs in the development of tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs), a semiconductor ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

US hedge fund seeks five seats on AOL board

A US hedge fund with a large stake in AOL laid claim on Friday to five seats on the board of directors of the Internet company and criticized the strategy of the current management.

Technology / Business

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Energy-recycling computer technology from UM goes global through AMD

An energy-recycling computer circuit born at the University of Michigan will enable a new generation of power efficient laptop PCs and servers.

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

First Intel-powered smartphone to debut in China

US chip titan Intel on Tuesday announced it will move into the booming smartphone market with a China debut of a handset made by Chinese computer powerhouse Lenovo.

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Motorola pledges to use Intel chips in smartphones

Motorola Mobility and Lenovo on Tuesday said they will use Intel processors in smartphones and other devices, giving the chipmaker its first entry into a market it has long coveted.

Technology / Business

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Calif. jury rejects Rambus antitrust claims

(AP) -- A California jury denied Rambus Inc. billions of dollars in damages as it determined that chip-makers Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. didn't conspire to fix prices of memory chips in order to ...

Technology / Business

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung 3Q profit slides 23 percent

(AP) -- Samsung Electronics said quarterly profit slid 23 percent as weaker demand for flat panels and computer chips offset booming smartphone sales that were estimated to have surpassed those of industry ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

EU approves Samsung-Seagate hard disc business sale

European anti-trust regulators approved Wednesday the sale of Samsung Electronics' hard-disc-drive business to US firm Seagate Technology for $1.375 billion (995 million euros) in cash and stock.

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thailand flooding could affect PC supplies, prices

(AP) -- The personal computer industry, already reeling from depressed demand, has been dealt another setback: Massive flooding in Thailand has curtailed production of a critical component - computer storage ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Faster, smaller and more economical gallium nitride transistors

For the first time, researchers from CNRS France and ETH Zurich have succeeded in producing high-performance high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) made of gallium nitride (GaN) on a silicon(110) wafer. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Samsung seeks sales ban on iPhone 5

South Korea's Samsung Electronics will file lawsuits to try to block the sale of Apple's iPhone 5 as part of its global legal tussle with the US technology giant, a report said Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Apple surpasses HP as largest buyer of chips

(AP) -- Driven by the success of the iPhone and iPad, Apple Inc. has become the world's largest buyer of chips for computers and phones, a research firm said Wednesday.

Technology / Business

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Which technologies get better faster?

Some forms of technology — think, for example, of computer chips — are on a fast track to constant improvements, while others evolve much more slowly. Now, a new study by researchers at MIT and other ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast