chips
RSS chipsFaster wireless LAN chips due within weeks
News Atheros has already shipped a thousand or so samples to companies that will eventually sell devices containing the chips. Atheros Communications expects to ship equipment supporting a new faster version of the popular 802.11 wireless connection... [22 Aug 2001]
AMD flash chips just got flashier
News AMD is set to release a range of improved flash memory chips that can double the memory of mobile phones and other handheld devices without increasing costs, according to the company. The company and its partner Fujitsu have come up with a new way... [13 May 2002]
Intel chips a tastier option for Compaq servers
News Compaq is pulling out of the processor business, with Intel stepping in to provide chips for its future server offerings. The company will continue building NonStop Himalaya systems based on chips from MIPS until 2004, at which point it will shift... [26 Jun 2001]
ID chips to receive a shot in the arm
News US scientists are testing implanted ID chips which contain medical and personal information. The problem with most commercially available 'implantable' chips have limited functionality today because they are only capable of storing very small... [14 Feb 2002]
Intel readies all flavours of Wi-Fi chips
News Volume shipments of Intel's next Wi-Fi chips, a combination 802.11b/g part, won't be ready until the end of the year and should be in notebooks in the first half, according to Intel spokesman Dan Francisco. [29 Oct 2003]
AMD chips into business market
News AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability and performance required for machines aimed at business users. The new line-up of business chips will include AMD Athlon and AMD Phenom processors for desktop machines. [29 Apr 2008]
IBM cooking chips to a new recipe
News These chips, though, won't be completely customised, but will rely on processing cores, or blocks, that can be used in a wide variety of products. IBM already works with big-name chipmakers, such as Sony and AMD, and manufactures chips for Nvidia... [16 Jun 2003]
Motorola chips give smartcard flexibility
News Motorola has launched four chips specifically for multi-application smartcards. Two of the chips include crypto co-processors, which support the ISA encryption standard. The MSC1000 chips boast up to 32k electronically erasable memory, which gives... [03 Jul 1998]
Rise to make cheap Intel-clone chips
News Rise Technology is to release two low-powered processors cloned on low-cost Intel chips, allowing notebooks to be priced as low as $800. The company, which expects to find most of its partners in Asia, has been reported as claiming its chips will... [22 Sep 1998]
Intel powers up battery friendly mobile chips
News Intel is set to release two chips that could increase the battery life of mobile phones and handheld devices. The two chips - PXA210 and PXA250 - are modifications of the StrongARM chip that Intel acquired from Digital Equipment over three years... [11 Feb 2002]
Intel to launch low energy chips
News Intel is planning to release a line of low-power chips for super-thin rack mounted servers at Comdex in the US later this month. The new model is based on the chip maker's Pentium III design for laptop computers unveiled in July, which minimise... [02 Nov 2001]
Intel to make chips in China
News Chips will start coming out of the factory in the first half of 2010. Initially, Intel will make chipsets - which shuttle data back and forth across the processor to the microprocessor of the computer - and possibly communications chips. [26 Mar 2007]
MacBook Air to get Intel Penryn chips?
News Rumors of new Apple notebooks have been all over the place this summer, given the length of time since the last redesign of the MacBook and Intel's new Montevina chips. Still, adding one of the new Penryn chips to the MacBook Air could help improve... [15 Aug 2008]
Ballmer: Mod chips threaten Xbox
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that his company may pull its Xbox game console from the Australian market because of a court decision that legitimises "mod chips" for hackers, according to an Australian newspaper. [22 Oct 2002]
Tracking chips to be put in your food
News The chips, when eaten, are so small as to pose no health hazard to shoppers but should enable supermarkets to track food through the supply chain. The RFID chips will enable regional water boards to track sewage through the system with the ability... [01 Apr 2005]
