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AMD Introduces New Triple-Core A6-3500 APU

Rue Liu, Aug 17th 2011 Discuss [2]

AMD today announced the availability of a new APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) called the A6-3500 that extends the company's lineup of A-Series processors, delivering brilliant HD graphics and high-speed performance. Unlike the A8-3800 and A6-3600 processors in the series, this new A6-3500 will not be quad-core. Instead, it is the first triple-core Llano APU and has a sub-$100 price tag that make it ideal for starter or budget gaming systems. Read The Full Story

Intel Shipping New, Faster MacBook Air Sandy Bridge Chips

Rue Liu, Jun 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

We all know by now that the next-gen MacBook Airs are on the runway with the latest Intel Sandy Bridge chips and Thunderbolt connector ports. If rumors are false about the MacBook Air release to coincide with OS X Lion, then the ultra slim notebooks could arrive before end of this month. And according to CNET, the Sandy Bridge chips that will be used in the new MacBook Air has just been made available on Intel's price list this past weekend. Read The Full Story

Intel To Fabricate Chips For Future Apple iPads And iPhones?

Rue Liu, May 3rd 2011 Discuss [10]

There are reports today that Intel may be in line to fabricate chips for future Apple iPads. This news comes just after Intel revealed that it would be making its "most significant technology announcement of the year" at a press event tomorrow---Wednesday. Many industry folks believe the announcement may involve its new 22-nanometer fabrication process as well as plans to make chips for Apple. Read The Full Story

Adapteva supercomputer for Mobile phones could power future game consoles

Shane McGlaun, May 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

The processors and APUs inside our smartphones and other mobile devices are getting faster with each generation. The computing power in these small devices is far beyond what you could have in many computers when I was a kid. A company called Adapteva has pitched a new chip for smartphones and other devices that has many more cores inside than the two that processors in some smartphones in use today. Read The Full Story

Intel Acquires Silicon Hive In Push For Mobile Processing Chips

Rue Liu, Mar 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel acquired Silicon Hive today in an effort to push itself further into the mobile device market. Silicon Hive is a company specializing in making chipsets for smartphones, media hubs and other small devices. Intel has been lagging behind in mobile processing, and although its Intel Atom is gearing up for tablet devices, their processor is still too big, demands too much power, and is more expensive than those of competing chip makers such as ARM and NVIDIA. Read The Full Story

Broadcom’s new BCM21654 baseband processor for Android debuts

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2011 Discuss [1]

When it comes to smartphones running Android or any other OS as the components inside the phone get cheaper the price of the handset overall gets lower as well. Broadcom has announced a new baseband chip for Android devices that promises nice features and low cost. Read The Full Story

IBM Presents Centennial Short Film, 100 Years of Achievements That’ve Changed the World

Chris Burns, Jan 28th 2011 Discuss [2]

IBM has released a short film that almost went directly under our radar. It was released relatively quietly a few days ago, and tells an engaging story about their history and how through the 100 years they've been active, they've achieved many things that have changed the world. This film tells the history of IBM with one hundred ladies and gentlemen who were born along IBM's timeline, each of them 1 year younger than the last. Behold 13 minutes of tale telling. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm First Quarter Results Report $1.17 Billion in Net Income, Up 39% Compared to Last Year

Chris Burns, Jan 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

Miraculous. Qualcomm, the folks that bring you Snapdragon chips, the ones going in basically every big-name superphone coming out in the near future. In addition to their First Quarter Results showing a 39% increase in Net Income when compared to exactly one year ago, their Non-GAAP Revenues have gone up 25% as well over the past year, from $2.67 billion to $3.35 billion. Massive amounts of cash flying around here. Why have profits increased so much at this time when smartphones are taking over the mobile market? Why, that's both the question and the answer, of course! Read The Full Story

Sony Buying Back Chip Plant from Toshiba

Chris Burns, Dec 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

So waaay back before 2008, Sony had control of a chip plant in Nagasaki, a semiconductor plant to be more precise, a plant which that year they sold to Toshiba Corp. Sony now plans to buy BACK that plant from Toshiba so that it might strengthen it's complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor business. All of this has been reported by the Nikkei business daily newspaper. Read The Full Story

Electronic Chip to Block Pain Signals Being Developed in Australia

Chris Burns, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [6]

Researchers in Australia are working on helping those in the world who suffer from chronic back pain with a chip that'll block that pain from reaching the brain. They've yet to try the device on humans, but they're confident that it'll work. I should hope so! Also this sort of thing frightens me. What happens if you get a giant stick jabbed into your back and you can't feel it? What then, science? You'll have stick-back syndrome. But this device will be more precise than all that - blocking only the pains that are useless to the human brain, the kind that never go away. Read The Full Story

Intel Reveals their First Reconfigurable Atom Chip

Chris Burns, Nov 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Those people who make all kinds of chips, Intel, revealed today a configurable Atom processor series by the name of E600C. It was introduced back in September with the name Stellarton and can accommodate a range of memory interfaces, high-speed connections, and standard or user-defined I/O interfaces. The E600C will include an Altera Field Programmable Gare Array (FPGA) and will (hooray) allow for a bigger range of specific chips to be sold on the market without the need for giant hardware changes. Each chip includes an extended 7-year lifecycle manufacturers support. Let Douglas L. Davis tell you all about it! Read The Full Story

Intel Dual-Core Atom N550 Processor Ready to Ship

Evan Selleck, Aug 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

First revealed back at Computex, Intel's dual-core Atom N550 processor for netbooks was a tease that many of us here couldn't wait to get our hands on. Unfortunately, while the processor has "ready-to-ship" tagged to it, it doesn't look like the processor is being included in any netbooks actually shipping at this very moment. Read The Full Story