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Advanced Micro Devices has announced a decision to change its roadmap for server processing units, though it did not give a specific reason for this.
The update plans do away with certain chips and, one might say, slows down the rate at which new Opterons get to the selling stage.
One change is that the existing s... |
3 February 2012
02:31 GMT |
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According to PhoneArena, Samsung is preparing more than the still unannounced Exynos 5250 System-on-Chip.
In fact, the company is building something called the Exynos 5450, a quad-core platform operating at 2GHz (the cores themselves are Cortex-A15).
The report also mentions the Mali-658 as the graphics processing ... |
1 February 2012
11:29 GMT |
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Being one of the main two chip manufacturers in the world, Globalfoundries has to constantly step up its game and, sure enough, it is looking quite a bit ahead in terms of manufacturing process technologies.
Whether through a coincidence or not, companies have begun talking about their semiconductor manufacturing t... |
30 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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There hasn't been a completely new major instruction set architecture since 1991, but this has finally changed now that ICube has released the UPU. Put simply, the UPU is a chip that has both the computing and graphics instruction handled by a single processor core. Said core bears the name of MVP (Multi-thre... |
13 January 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Intel may still have no problem with Moore's Law, but Advanced Micro Devices found that the advantages enabled by more advanced manufacturing process technologies aren't as obvious as a few years ago.
Normally, a new manufacturing node (40nm, 32nm, 28nm, etc.) is introduced once every 18 to 24 months.
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17 December 2011
03:49 GMT |
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The power efficiency currently exhibited by small manufacturing processes is not enough for some companies, so SuVolta decided to create a technology that can cut processor requirements in half.
SuVolta is an upstart company based in Silicon Valley and which invented the PowerShrink technology.
What PowerShrink do... |
8 December 2011
08:03 GMT |
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One would think that, with all the troubles on the RAM market and everything else, there wouldn't be much to see when looking at the worldwide semiconductor industry, but that is not the case.In fact, from what the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) can tell, 2011 could mark an industry first.The global... |
1 December 2011
21:21 GMT |
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Yesterday's report about how AMD had decided to stop competing with Intel predictably stirred a lot of question and speculations, but at least some fears may be assuaged.
To offer context, AMD said it wasn't going to try and compete with Intel anymore and, instead, turn to the low-power chip market.
This... |
30 November 2011
05:54 GMT |
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It will happen more slowly that originally expected, but power management chips are going to see increasing sales and, thus, will lead to higher revenue.
The automotive, solar and wind turbine markets, as well as motor controls, are considered the most promising markets for power management semiconductors.
Also, ... |
23 November 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Wireless technologies work fairly fast these days, but there is always room for improvement, especially with the common sizes of files always growing, so Rohm took it upon itself to enable faster transmissions.
Like with any great milestone, there are good news and bad news.
The bad news is that the new chip that ... |
22 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Car airbags deploy when the vehicle crashes or is crashed into by something else, but the circuitry is, in the end, the factor that determines how reliable and fast the airbags are. Freescale wants to make sure car drivers and passengers are as safe as possible, so it made the Xtrinsic MMA65xxKW family of accelerom... |
2 November 2011
16:41 GMT |
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As technology goes forward, chip developers have to make new processor designs, and Imperas decided this was a good time for its new ARM chip models to see the light of day.
ARM Connected Community member Imperas announced that Open Virtual Platform (OVP) is offering new Cortex-A5 UP and Cortex-A9 MPcore processor ... |
27 October 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Bacteria-based computing is not exactly a new concept, but people probably didn't spend much time envisioning the possibilities that researchers from the Imperial College London thought of.E.Coli is a common occurrence in the lower intestines of warm-blooded organisms, including humans.As such, it probably woul... |
24 October 2011
03:27 GMT |
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For those who do not know, Samsung kicked off the Mobile Solutions Forum event in Westin, Taipei, where it revealed several things that both consumers and product developers may find interesting.
By now, many people will no doubt be aware of the fact that the IT industry is placing a significant emphasis on green... |
29 September 2011
19:51 GMT |
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Photos leaked on the Chinese version of Twitter appear to offer the first real glimpse at the processor used by Apple’s next-generation iPhone 5, or at least the rumored iPhone 4S.It is unclear what version of the A5 processor this is exactly (or whether it’s Apple’s A5 at all), but it certainly is ... |
19 September 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Mentor Graphics deals in electronic design automation, and its recent projects have come to involve a closer partnership with ARM, so that processor-based designs may be more easily created.
Computer-aided design automation is a very important part of the global IT industry, since it is used in more or less every... |
19 September 2011
10:45 GMT |
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Intel, as always, is looking farther ahead than the near future, preparing its roadmap well in advance, as proven, again, by reports about what the year 2014 will bring.
The 2011 edition of IDF (Intel Developer Forum) saw Intel talking about various things, like the Haswell chip (set for 2013).
The Santa Clar... |
15 September 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Renesas has long been a maker of controller chips for all sorts of electronic devices, and it looks like its most recent such chip, the RL78 microcontroller (MCU), is ready to land inside everything from household applications to mobile devices.Semiconductors come in a whole sort of shapes, sizes and capabilities, b... |
24 June 2011
08:55 GMT |
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It looks like all those rumors about ARM and Advanced Micro Devices possibly joining forces in some form or another may be more than baseless speculation, or so a recent report seems to suggest.Advanced Micro Devices may have managed to get its Fusion mobile APUs inside a number of laptops and tablets, but ARM platf... |
24 June 2011
05:29 GMT |
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One wouldn't immediately think that an upstart company would be too quick to successfully challenge the established representatives of the processor market, but Tilera might have actually managed it.Intel and Advanced Micro Devices both are working on multi-core processors for the cloud, but they might have to ... |
21 June 2011
09:41 GMT |
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ARM chips have been aiming to reach higher performance levels and it looks like Texas Instruments made that wish come true somewhat by designing the OMAP4470 application processor.Since smartphones and tablets are so quickly evolving, application processors also seem to be cropping up.So far, the Qualcomm Snapdragon... |
2 June 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Applications that use multiple CPU cores are growing in number, but the processors themselves could always do with some better capabilities, much like every other piece of hardware out there, and it looks like a team of researchers found a way to make this happen.Prefetching is one of the operations that a CPU core ... |
31 May 2011
10:19 GMT |
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All the rumors flying around about who might or might not start to make ARM chips have drawn Intel's attention, as the company stepped up and bluntly said it will not start making chips based on that architecture.By now, end-users will be well aware of the veritable showdown that has started, or is about to get... |
18 May 2011
10:41 GMT |
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End-users may have heard of a certain technology that Intel trumpeted not long ago, but it looks like not all large-scale entities on the IT market are as enthusiastic about it as the chip maker is.Back near the very start of the ongoing month (May, 2011), Intel stepped up and introduced a new chip making technology... |
16 May 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Seeking to put an end to this age where all electronics rely on highly-specialized chips that get outaded fast, Tabula came up with chips that, like FPGAs, are customizable but much cheaper, faster and smaller, and it looks like it scored an investment to help it promote its invention.Consumers will have probably no... |
19 April 2011
05:44 GMT |
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The bane of any gadget or even larger electronics and PC products is that they are quite quickly surpassed by newer and better generations, but it looks like this may soon change.Electronics of all sorts, in these times, are composed of the hardware and software, two halves that cannot operate without the other.The ... |
16 April 2011
03:51 GMT |
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Now that new games are being made and BDXL disks allow for larger PS3 titles, among other things, companies are considering processing platforms for the next generation of game consoles, and it looks like AMD wants in on the cake.Nowadays, there is a serious performance difference between game consoles (Xbox and PS3... |
28 March 2011
09:22 GMT |
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It looks like the recent string of rumors and reports surrounding a certain server platform developed by Intel prompted said company to step up and quell any suspicions that it might drop support for it.
While Intel may draw a large part of its fame from the consumer market, it has many hardware products serving ... |
24 March 2011
03:54 GMT |
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With all the hype surrounding the USB 3.0 interface, it was only a matter of time before the 'standard' speed SuperSpeed storage units increased, and it appears that Renesas Electronics is ready to push the interface forward.The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard is one that many flash drives, solid state drives,... |
9 March 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Whenever a company manages to create a product that is the first in the world to accomplish a certain feat, one can be sure that a suitably praise-filled press release will be made, and this is exactly what Ralink Technology Corporation did, not long ago.Ralink announced that it created the RT65168 VDSL2/ADSL2+ proc... |
7 March 2011
10:07 GMT |
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Freescale may have revealed its intentions as far as the tablet market goes, but it also has the i.MX537 and i.MX538 processors, intended for industrial applications and consumer-oriented devices, respectively.Since the first two months of the first quarter of 2011 have come and passed, Freescale figured it was time... |
28 February 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Normally, a new sort of processor wouldn't be that big a research milestone if it didn't have superior processing capabilities to those of today, but the first even organic microprocessor bypassed this requirement by virtue of its flexibility.
Usually, when speaking of an IT product and saying it is flexi... |
26 February 2011
04:25 GMT |
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While processing units for personal computers are well enough known, media servers and video conferencing or broadcasting equipment also needs to stay up to date, and Texas Instruments claims to have created a solution meant for infrastructure applications.Texas Instruments has a certain little digital signal proces... |
11 February 2011
11:00 GMT |
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When it comes to any sort of device, the marketing efforts play a pivotal role, and Samsung decided to do something about its own tactics when it comes to application processors, hence the latest press release on its part.Smasung is a well known maker of many sorts of semiconductors, application processors being jus... |
11 February 2011
06:08 GMT |
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While NVIDIA is supposedly adopting a special IC meant to enhance Tegra 2 energy efficiency, Fujitsu has detailed a certain power management IC of its own, one that is aimed at more or less the same sort of mobile products.Not long ago, it was revealed that Wolfson had created a certain processor that could boost th... |
3 February 2011
09:59 GMT |
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Even though the official release of its Fusion platform only happened a relatively short while ago, Advanced Micro Devices seems to have already shipped quite a solid number of accelerated processing units.A large amount of sales in a short time after official launch automatically places a certain product in the suc... |
22 January 2011
06:46 GMT |
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Since processors, one might say, have reached the point where their might is more than enough for whatever users may need, more emphasis is being placed on efficiency, and it seems Samsung and IBM want to optimize this particular aspect.Ever since mobile computers really took off, there have been laptops with capabi... |
13 January 2011
03:14 GMT |
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Those that believed Qualcomm, NVIDIA and Texas Instruments had only each other to compete against on the market of processors for consumer electronics seem to have been proven wrong, as Freescale has decided to join the fun.Unlike PCs, consumer electronics rely on processors that can pack as many features as possibl... |
3 January 2011
09:26 GMT |
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Apple is believed to be planning the expansion of its CPU design team(s) formed after the acquisition of two fabless chip design companies and the introduction of its A4 application processor, according to a recent job opening posted by the Cupertino giant.
The listing for CPU MicroArchitect reveals that Apple nee... |
3 January 2011
06:52 GMT |
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One might think that there is no market left for older chips and platforms, but VIA and Simmtronics beg to differ, as they have teamed up in order to sell products on emerging markets. Back in March, 2010, Simmtronics established a collaboration with IBM, through which it began to deliver Intel Atom-powered netbooks... |
29 December 2010
10:23 GMT |
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It would seem that, despite the ongoing rivalry between ARM and x86 CPU architectures, the architectures may lose importance as emphasis becomes stronger on the mobile applications and OS.Based on the trends that can be seen on the IT market right now, it is assumed that, by 2014, about 75% of all mobile processors ... |
29 December 2010
04:29 GMT |
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Although multi-core processors have made long strides in the last few years it appears that there is quite a long way to go until the technology reaches its full potential as one researcher form the University of Glasgow demonstrated when it built an 1,000 core chip that is 20 times faster than current desktop comput... |
28 December 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Since Intel is quite bent on making its own chips, it plans to build a new manufacturing facility and a recent report states that the Santa Clara, California-based company plans to be one of, if not the first to deliver 450mm wafers.Currently, there are only three known companies in the entire IT industry that want ... |
10 December 2010
04:56 GMT |
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Personal computers may be one of the major segments where processors sell in droves, but it appears this situation is not expected to last too long, or at least this is what market analysts from in-Stat believe.It seems that the growing variation of mobile and small form factor devices has led to a higher importance... |
9 December 2010
03:00 GMT |
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IBM recently announced its milestone that will supposedly make Exaflop Supercomputers more feasible, namely chips that use optical interconnections, but Intel now says that said processors may not be efficient to manufacture.
As users are likely used to by now, whenever a company announces a new milestone, its ri... |
4 December 2010
03:30 GMT |
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Chip developers are always looking for ways that might help them create a processor that is faster and more power-efficient, and it appears that IBM just reached a milestone in its efforts to combine electrical and optical signals.What IBM did was build a piece of silicon that can hold both optical and electrical co... |
1 December 2010
03:06 GMT |
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Intel will soon release the Sandy Bridge series of central processing units and the company seems to be quite optimistic about its expected sales, but it appears that not all market watchers share this view.Those keeping track of developments on the CPU market will know of the recent thoughts that J.P Morgan analyst... |
20 November 2010
06:12 GMT |
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It seems that Advanced Micro Devices is not content with detailing just its desktop and mobile central processing units, so it went ahead and also released some information on its server roadmap.As one may or may not have expected, Advanced Micro Devices was not content with just keeping silent while NVIDIA launched... |
10 November 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Even though Intel usually keeps its technologies to itself, it seems like it will start to manufacture a certain other company's processors starting next year, those of Acronix Semiconductor to be exact.Sometime next year, Intel will start to put its 22nm manufacturing process to good use at making new chips.Sa... |
1 November 2010
10:02 GMT |
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Though market watchers predicted that TSMC's sales would fall by over 10% on-quarter during the upcoming October-December period, it seems that this forecast has been changed to a drop of 4-5% sequentially, because demand on the part of major chip designers has increased.Demand for chips of all kinds has been c... |
22 September 2010
09:06 GMT |
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