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Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo Its 32-nanometer chipsets, set for production in 2009, enable more chips per wafer, faster transistors, and less energy per transistor than their 45-nanometer predecessors, which have been shipped inside... [18 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News The chip's components are built in a 3D stack instead of side by side on a silicon wafer. Chips built in a three-dimensional stack formation offer more pathways for info to be processed and can shorten... [06 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment The Apple CEO slipped the wafer-thin computer out of a manila envelope to the inevitable cheering and whooping. All three featured the G4 chips, which lagged badly behind Intel and AMD... [06 Feb 2008]
Intel to make chips in China
News Intel has announced it will open a wafer fabrication facility in China, a significant milestone in the chip giant's manufacturing history. Chips will start coming out of the factory in the first half of... [26 Mar 2007]
AMD takes knife to desktop chip prices
News Making smaller chips means you can get more processors from the same wafer, lowering the cost of building a single chip. AMD's new 65-nanometer manufacturing technology is now cranking out... [12 Feb 2007]
AMD picks IBM man as chip-making chief
News It has also come up with a method it calls Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM), which lets the company tweak the manufacturing recipe of a single wafer as it winds through the entire production process - a process... [05 Feb 2007]
Malaysia tests ID chips for embedding in bodies
News The microchip would be manufactured in Japan early next year but production would eventually move to a factory in Malaysia's northern Kedah state belonging to state-owned wafer fabrication firm Silterra, the country's... [09 Sep 2003]
Intel unwraps budget Itaniums
News In the case of chips, not every one on a wafer will come out with a fully functional 6MB cache or perform at 1.5GHz.Those chips that don't meet the optimal requirements can be... [08 Sep 2003]
AMD plays with Athlon cache
News Thorton also potentially boosts yield - or the number of good chips produced from a wafer - because Barton chips that come out of the factory with imperfections in one segment of the... [30 Jun 2003]
AMD cuts another 350 jobs
News AMD originally said it would share with UMC a new 300MM wafer chip manufacturing plant to open in mid-2005 in Singapore, but the company has since backed off from that position and said it is evaluating other options. [21 Feb 2003]
Infineon does Chinese deal with SMIC
News To be made at SMIC's existing eight-inch wafer plant in Shanghai, production will first involve 256 megabit DDR (Double Data Rate) memory chips. As part of that mammoth $2.2bn partnership, Infineon and... [10 Dec 2002]
'Strained silicon': How it works
News About 120 billion transistors will fit on a standard 300-millimeter wafer. For decades, chip makers have steadily shrunk the size of transistors and chips by following Moore's Law, which dictates that... [13 Aug 2002]
Princeton Prof ensures Moore's law
News The process works by etching the chip design on a quartz die which imprints itself onto a silicon wafer momentarily melted by a laser. A US academic has invented a new system for building chips which he... [20 Jun 2002]
AMD: New chips still haven't caught up with Intel
News AMD's 0.13 micron process effectively means that a processor with the same number of components can be squeezed onto a much smaller piece of silicon - increasing the number of chips that can be made on a single... [10 Jun 2002]
Time for the wireless, networked laptop
Comment Ultimately, Intel wants to build chips with everything built onto to the same wafer as the processor, from GPRS - or, eventually, 3G - mobile telecoms chips for access in remote... [01 May 2002]
