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Micron believes DRAM prices have bottomed out

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:43:57 GMT

MEMORY MAKER Micron believes DRAM prices have finally bottomed out after a prolonged recession in memory prices.

Intel settles an antitrust case

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:47:28 GMT

CHIPMAKER Intel has settled a three year antitrust case in the US, walking away with a slap on the wrist of $6.5m.

Researchers use CPUs to feed GPUs

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:20:50 GMT

RESEARCH in part funded by AMD has found that by using the CPU to pre-fetch data for a GPU performance can be increased by 20 per cent.

Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic to merge chip operations

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:04:42 GMT

JAPANESE CHIPMAKERS Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic will merge their fab plant operations to become more competitive.

Micron chief Steve Appleton dies in plane crash

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:28:00 GMT

STEVE APPLETON, chief executive of semiconductor firm Micron, has died in a small plane crash.

AMD outlines an all 28nm 2013

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:14:02 GMT

CHIP DESIGNER AMD has filled in its 2013 roadmap by revealing the Sea Islands, Kaveri, Kabini and Tesmash chips at the firm's analyst day.

Qualcomm celebrated Christmas with a 40 per cent sales boost

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:55:00 GMT

CHIP DESIGNER Qualcomm has announced profits of $1.4bn showing rival system-on-chip (SoC) designers that there are big bucks in smartphones.

ARM posts bumper profits as the firm looks to new markets

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:27:00 GMT

CHIP DESIGNER ARM has bucked the trend of lacklustre financials at semiconductor firms by posting a 42 per cent increase in profits for the fourth quarter of 2011.

Seamicro unveils servers with low power Intel Xeon processors

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:49:00 GMT

SERVER VENDOR Seamicro has unveiled a server range featuring Intel low power quad-core Xeon processors.

Intel quietly releases a pair of GPU-less Core i5 chips

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:36:21 GMT

CHIPMAKER Intel has quietly released seven Sandy Bridge processors, with two of the chips not having built-in graphics cores.

Mstar chooses ARM's Mali-400 GPU for its smart telly

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:30:00 GMT

CHIP VENDOR MStar has picked ARM's Mali-400 MP GPU to power the graphics in its smart television system-on-chip (SoC) designs.

Tilera releases a 36-core chip as co-founder returns

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:44:21 GMT

CHIP DESIGNER Tilera has started shipping its low-power 16-core and 36-core TILE-Gx processors.

Nvidia brings LLVM to CUDA promising a 10 per cent speed bump

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:20:06 GMT

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has updated its CUDA GPGPU programming framework to include a low level virtual machine (LLVM) to boost performance.

Floods and slumping Tegra 2 sales hit Nvidia revenue forecast

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:04:43 GMT

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has revised its fiscal fourth quarter revenue forecast less than a week before its accounting period closes.

AMD posts a $177m loss to end 2011

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:31:02 GMT

CHIP DESIGNER AMD posted a $177m loss for its fourth quarter of 2011, despite a marginal increase in revenue.

Texas Instruments sees profits plunge as it closes two fabs

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:21:41 GMT

CHIPMAKER Texas Instruments (TI) posted a 68 per cent drop in quarterly profits as the semiconductor industry continues to suffer in the economic downturn.

Iphone 4S and Ipad 2 can be jailbroken

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:10:00 GMT

FRUIT THEMED TOY SELLER Apple's A5 chipped Iphone 4S and Ipad 2 can now be jailbroken, according to hackers.

Intel re-arranges its executives after bumper financials

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:23:00 GMT

CHIPMAKER Intel announced a new COO and CPO as a result of some executive musical chairs.

Intel posts 21 per cent increase in fourth quarter revenues

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:44:19 GMT

CHIPMAKER Intel has posted bumper financials, taking in $13.9bn in the fourth quarter.

Intel offers overclockers chip 'protection', for a price

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:30:00 GMT

CHIPMAKER Intel is offering Sandy Bridge chip overclockers some insurance by replacing burnt-up processors as part of its Performance Tuning Protection Plan (PTPP).

Samsung starts producing low-power DDR2 memory

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:19:32 GMT

CHIP MAKER Samsung started production of its embedded multi-chip packaging (EMCP) bringing low-power DDR2 modules to entry level smartphones.

Elpida looks to Micron deal to save it from $1bn loan repayment

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:26:27 GMT

MEMORY MAKER Elpida will seek to join forces with Micron as it continues to struggle in the DRAM market.

TSMC posts gloomy financials before Apple's A6 chip debut

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:49:33 GMT

CHIP SHOP Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported a decline in year-on-year sales for the fourth quarter of 2011, yet still managed to beat analyst expectations.

AMD ropes in University of Illinois to push GPGPU development to students

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:26:00 GMT

CHIP DESIGNER AMD has enlisted the help of the University of Illinois to encourage students to develop code that makes use of the GPGPU found in its Fusion processors.

Samsung eyes $1bn bond issue for Austin fab expansion

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:31:04 GMT

KOREAN ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung is considering issuing its first overseas bonds in almost 15 years as it plans building a second fab in the US.