IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. accelerated their horse race in semiconductors when each unveiled at midnight Saturday Eastern Time similar chip-manufacturing advances.

Beset by sinking prices for microprocessors and the cost of acquiring graphics chip company ATI, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter loss of US$574 million, down from a profit of $96 million for the same quarter last year.

A Fujitsu Siemens ultrakönnyű, könnyen átalakítható noteszgépe, a Lifebook P1610-es 3G-s chippel ellátott változatban is megjelenik.

SanDisk Corp. has launched a 32G-byte solid-state drive using flash memory chips, intended as a replacement for conventional hard disk drives.

Intel Corp. should have to share documents that could show it used monopolistic practices to force overseas PC vendors and retailers to shun Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) chips, the special master to a U.S. federal court recommended Friday.

After watching its market share for the North American desktop PC market slip in a soft third quarter, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will seek greater profits in 2007 through a new family of quad-core server chips and its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI.

Flash memory and hard-disk drives could face a challenge from a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, being developed by a group of companies led by IBM Corp.

Intel Corp. says it has rushed introduction of a new quad-core chip originally scheduled for next year to Monday to meet demand from server manufacturers for the processor.

Via Technologies Inc. announced that two of its PC chipsets have passed Microsoft Corp. Windows Vista Basic certification tests, ensuring trouble-free installation and driver upgrades.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) began selling its top chip for desktop PCs made with a 65-nanometer design on Tuesday, continuing its efforts to keep up with Intel Corp. as the industry migrates from 90-nm design to a faster, more efficient generation of processors.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) launched a motherboard with four cores on Thursday, targeting gaming enthusiasts in an effort to keep pace with the release of quad-core chips by rival Intel Corp.

The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) is not concerned about reports from the U.K. that say RFID (radio frequency ID) chips in passports can be cracked in as little as 48 hours.

Intel Corp. has started to produce samples of a quad-core processor called Penryn that offers faster clock speeds and larger cache sizes, an executive said Thursday.

Az Eneco bejelentette, hogy a cég által szabadalmaztatott új chiptechnológia forradalmasítja majd az áramtermelést. Mások szerint erre nem kerül sor.

A Sun Microsystems felállított egy független OpenSPARC közösségi tanácsadó testületet, amely az UltraSPARC T1 processzoron alapuló chiptervezési és kiegészítő szoftverfejlesztési munkákat hivatott elősegíteni.

Még ki sem jöttek a Santa Rosa Centrino-platformmal, máris bejelentették annak Montevina munkanéven futó, 2008-ra várható utódját, mely már a 45 nanométeres technológiával készülő Penryn chipekkel érkezik.

Az IBM 5 gigahertzre kurblizza fel a Power6 szerverchipek órajelét. Ez jóval magasabb, mint a rivális Intel és Sun Microsystems egységeinek frekvenciája, és némiképpen ellentmond az alacsony fogyasztást hajszoló trendnek.

IBM Corp. plans to crank up the speed on its Power6 server chip to 5.0GHz, far higher than competing processors from Intel Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc.

Az AMD és az ATI júliusi házassága óta érik az újabb szenzáció. Szerdán az NVIDIA részvényeinek árfolyama 8 százalékkal emelkedett, miután elterjedt a hír: az Intel valóban meg akarja szerezni a grafikuschip-gyártót.

Toshiba Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. have settled a number of outstanding lawsuits regarding alleged patent infringement and theft of trade secrets related to computer memory chips.