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RSS chipChip and PIN goes undercover
News A chip and PIN device is being introduced nationwide to prevent criminals stealing shoppers' PIN numbers. The device is a magnifying glass that obscures the chip and PIN keypad so it can only be read head-on by the shopper and not at any other angle. [29 Jan 2007]
Chip and PIN: A more secure waste of time?
News silicon.com readers are largely unimpressed with the introduction of chip and PIN, the new-to-the-UK way of paying by credit and debit cards at points of sale. Chip and PIN is clearly a poor solution and open to more methods of fraud.silicon.com... [29 Mar 2005]
Chip Multi-Processor Scalability for Single-Threaded Applications
White Paper Industry has responded by moving toward Chip Multi-Processor architectures (CMP). The exponential increase in uniprocessor performance has begun to slow. Designers have been unable to scale performance while managing thermal, power, and electrical... [11 Jul 2008]
Chip Scale Package Implementation Challenges
White Paper The JPL-led MicrotypeBGA Consortium of enterprises representing government agencies and private companies have jointed together to pool in-kind resources for developing the quality and reliability of chip scale packages (CSPs) for a variety of... [25 Feb 2004]
Chip-Interleaved Block-Spread CDMA Versus DS-CDMA for Cellular Downlink: A Comparative Study
White Paper A so-termed chip-interleaved block-spread (CIBS) code division multiple access (CDMA) system has been introduced for cellular applications in the presence of frequency selective multipath channels. This paper focuses on the cellular downlink... [26 Jul 2005]
Chip growth goes from strength to strength
News In a sign of continued growth in the chip industry, global sales of semiconductors rose to $12.9bn in July, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The increase in chip sales comes amid other hopeful news for the information technology... [03 Sep 2003]
Cheat Sheet: Chip and PIN
Cheat Sheet In 2006 the UK migrated retail and banking transactions to chip and PIN from the standard magnetic strip technology. Chip and PIN cards look the same as standard magnetic-strip cards, but inside the chip and PIN cards have a computer chip. [13 Jun 2007]
Chip division sell-off hits Rockwell results
News The company has reported $265m in charges and operating losses as a result of its decision to spin off its chip making division. The company will also take a $10m charge for miscellaneous asset write-offs and devaluations, $55m reduction in the... [15 Sep 1998]
Chip and PIN rollout '95 per cent complete'
News Chip and PIN has become a familiar fixture when paying for goods at most UK high-street retail outlets but one in 20 point-of-sale tills has yet to be upgraded There are around 900,000 face-to-face point-of-sale terminals across the UK and 860,000... [27 Nov 2006]
Chip firm's 'illegal' $7bn subsidy under scrutiny
News In June, Infineon Technologies complained to the EU that South Korean chip makers including Hynix and its larger rival Samsung had received government subsidies. The direct and indirect financial support received by the chip makers means the market... [24 Jul 2002]
Chip security undermined by Cambridge boffin
News Boffins at Cambridge University have discovered a vulnerability in chip design which they say will lead to a total rethink of chip security. Sergei Skorobogatov, a PhD student at Cambridge's computer labs, has perfected an attack using a focused... [15 May 2002]
Chip sales plummet
News Global chip sales tailed off dramatically in May. Double-digit declines in sales were seen in all the major chip-buying territories - the Americas, Europe, Japan and Asia. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, demand for processors... [03 Jul 2001]
Chip giants consider merger
News US chip giant Micron and South Korean rival Hynix Semiconductor have resumed talks about a possible alliance. The world's second and third-largest memory chip companies have been mulling a merger since December but Hynix's $6bn debts are a sticking... [22 Jan 2002]
Chip market on long road to recovery
News Chip sales are set to grow six per cent next year, followed by a complete revival in 2003, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The trade group, which represents most of the world's chip manufacturers, said today chip revenue for... [08 Nov 2001]
Chip and PIN on 98 per cent of UK tills
News Chip and PIN has taken hold in UK shops with 98 per cent of all tills hosting the new tech one year on from the official change-over date. More than 185 chip and PIN transactions take place every second, compared with 125 per second a year ago... [15 Feb 2007]
