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Advanced Micro Devices officially launched its bid to get into the living room this week, touting technical capabilities and a team of supporting computer manufacturers as it rolled out its "Live" media PC platform. Describing Live PC as a "full-featured, easy-to-use media center PC," AMD said the c...
Advanced Micro Devices unveiled new desktop processors this week that feature a new chip socket platform aimed at easing the update to newer DDR2 memory technology and processor virtualization. AMD said its new socket AM2 platform makes use of AMD chips -- such as the new Athlon 64 X2 5000 dual-core...
Dell announced along with its lackluster first quarter financial results this week plans to sell enterprise servers powered by Advanced Micro Devices processors. The new high-end, multi-processor servers from the world's largest PC manufacturer will feature AMD Opteron chips and will be available be...
Chip maker Micron touted its new image sensor silicon this week, calling it the world's first 8-megapixel image sensor packaged in a standard-sized 1 by 2.5-inch optical format, widely used in today's mainstream digital cameras. A camera using the sensor, unveiled by Micron in prototype form, would ...
The semiconductor market is thriving again -- and the future looks bright. Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $235 billion in 2005, a 6.9 percent increase from 2004, according to Gartner Group data. It was the first time the semiconductor industry surpassed its record-setting year in 2000 when ...
Server computers used by businesses have certainly gotten slimmer, lighter and more energy efficient in recent years. So have notebook PCs. Now it's the desktop's turn, as AMD, Intel and other chipmakers roll out silicon for sleeker desktop designs. AMD this week unveiled its roadmap for more energy...
IBM has reportedly come up with a hardware-secured processor design that incorporates encryption onto semiconductor chips. The technology could be used to lock down PCs and mobile devices. Big Blue made no official announcement, but company executives indicated the technology, dubbed "SecureBlue," w...
IBM has reportedly come up with a hardware-secured processor design that incorporates encryption onto semiconductor chips. The technology could be used to lock down PCs and mobile devices. Big Blue made no official announcement, but company executives indicated the technology, dubbed "SecureBlue," w...
IBM and Power.org member Rapport unveiled a new energy-efficient processor dubbed Kilocore that features more than 1,000 processing elements around a Power chip architecture. Kilocore -- with parallel processing similar to that of the new Cell processor, Sun's Niagara, and Azul's multi-core chip -- ...
Germany-based chipmaker Infineon has announced that its memory chip spinoff, dubbed Qimonda, will officially launch May 1, ahead of the original schedule for the strategic move. Qimonda -- conceived in response to the challenges of running two very different kinds of semiconductor businesses -- will...
Intel used its Developer Forum event in San Francisco this week to debut new computer chip technology that the company said boasts energy efficiency alongside performance gains. Intel also unveiled a quad-core processor configuration that some have referred to as a processor with two dual-cores. The...
Emulation and translation software company Transitive announced on Tuesday it's collaborating with Intel to drive the migration of older, RISC environments and applications that previously ran on non-Intel hardware to Intel's Itanium 2 and Xeon processors. Although the companies do not yet have prod...
Big Blue is heading off the tiniest transistor boundaries with a new way of extending today's chip-manufacturing technology to generate smaller chip circuits, the company said this week. Indicating its technology may postpone a "high-risk" conversion to difficult and expensive alternatives for the s...
Few people hold the status of "visionary" in the computer processor field, but Sun Microsystems' Marc Tremblay fits the bill. Sun fellow, vice president, and chief architect for the firm's Scalable Systems Group, Tremblay foresaw the advent of "throughput computing" and the jump in performance affor...
IBM is trying to prove that its powerful, multi-tasking Cell computer chip is not just about fun and games. The company, whose Cell chips will be incorporated into the next-generation PlayStation 3 from Cell collaborator Sony, announced this week a new family of blade computing systems -- thin, ligh...
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