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RSS chipsChips to be made hackerproof by AMD and Intel
News Execution Protection by AMD, technology contained in AMD's Athlon 64 chips, prevents a buffer overflow, a common method used to attack computers. The circuitry is already inside existing Athlon 64 chips, but it can't be activated yet. [09 Jan 2004]
Chips with everything at Wal-Mart
News Sources familiar with the company's plans said executives will make a presentation encouraging its top 100 suppliers to start using wireless inventory tracking equipment - chips affixed to products, and scanners in warehouses - by 2005. [06 Jun 2003]
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]
Apple linked with Transmeta chips
News The company claims the low-power consumption of its chips will allow for the creation of miniature devices which have equivalent power to a conventional PC. Mac publications and Web sites are rife with speculation that Apple is considering building... [09 Mar 2000]
Toshiba clips chips by a quarter
News Chipmaker Toshiba is reducing production of its memory chips because of fall in demand and market oversupply. The company said it will reduce its production of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips by a quarter from 27 million units a month to... [08 Aug 2001]
Benetton to track clothing with ID chips
News Philips Semiconductor on Tuesday announced that it has provided partners with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that they'll use in efforts to improve Benetton's supply chain management system. [12 Mar 2003]
RFID chips in humans get green light
News The computer chips, which are about the size of a grain of rice, are designed to be injected into the fatty tissue of the arm. Using a special scanner, doctors and other hospital staff can fetch information from the chips, such as the patient's... [14 Oct 2004]
IBM dumps AMD chips
News IBM has quietly decided to ditch AMD's Athlon and Duron chips from its desktop machines. The move will only affect PCs sold in the US and Canada and the company will continue using AMD chips in PCs manufactured in Asia, according to a report on US... [14 Aug 2001]
The chips are down - so look to the future
Comment The chips market is now about much more than PCs fuelled by Intel and x86 clone processors, just as it was before the last 15 years. Rubert Deighton, communications manager for IBM Microelectronics, believes this focus will pay off in the next 12... [18 Oct 2001]
EU report threatens future of Pentium III chips
News A report prepared for the committee which advises the European Parliament on technology has called for a detailed investigation into the unique identity number within Intel's Pentium III chips. The report calls on the Parliament to "commission a... [25 Nov 1999]
Intel recalls flagship Pentium chips
News Intel is recalling its top of the range 1.13GHz Pentium III chips just one month after their launch, because of a risk of failure under 'specific conditions'. According to a report on ft.com, the flagship high-end processor has the potential to... [29 Aug 2000]
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]
IBM in a sticky situation with chips and glue
News To prove it works, IBM created flash-memory-like chips containing silicon nanocrystals, which give a thin layer inside a transistor that can help memory chips retain an electric charge and prevent data corruption. [08 Dec 2003]
Qualcomm strikes Siemens 3G chips deal
News Its existing 3G handsets are based on chips from Motorola, a Siemens spokesman said. Siemens has chosen Qualcomm as its second major supplier of chipsets for 3G phones based on the W-CDMA standard. The San Diego-based provider of mobile phone... [19 Oct 2004]
Corel pushes desktop Linux with chips alliance
News Corel has teamed-up with the PC Chips Group in an OEM alliance, which it believes will encourage a huge boost in Linux desktop users. The move will see Corel Linux bundled with every motherboard package shipped by PC Chips worldwide. [03 Nov 1999]
