Integrated Circuit

New transistor tech could beat silicon and save Moore's Law

IEDM Indium gallium arsenide tapped for smaller, faster chips

Personal Tech11 Dec 2012 | 50

Big Blue etches silicon nanophotonics with regular chip tech

Exterminate! Copper wires, Exterminate!

Personal Tech10 Dec 2012 | 13

LG ramps up fabless chip plans - report

CES debut predicted for smart TV with tweaked ARM designs

On-Prem04 Dec 2012 | 2

China to strut eight-core Godson-3B MIPS chip in early 2013

Server chip makers take Moore's Law breather – at their peril

Systems26 Nov 2012 | 4

Slideshow: A History of Intel x86 in 20 CPUs

From 1971 to 2012, the chips that built the PC revolution

Personal Tech12 Nov 2012 | 74

Chip strip reveals 'handmade' Apple A6

Dual-core CPU, three GPUs exposed

Personal Tech25 Sep 2012 | 35

Applied Micro's X-Gene server chip ARMed to the teeth

Hot Chips Ready to take a bite out of x86 servers and Cisco

Systems30 Aug 2012 | 4

Samsung spends $4bn tarting up Texas factory

Austin plant to spit out extra-large orders of chips

Personal Tech21 Aug 2012 | 26

Sugar daddies dangle fat wad to woo chip biz Elpida from Micron

Ditch the Yanks, treat yourself with this $380m cheque

On-Prem14 Aug 2012 |

TSMC doles out $1.4bn to buy Moore's Law breathing space

Intel already in bed with chip etchers ASML, Samsung next?

On-Prem06 Aug 2012 | 9

Toshiba slices chip production by a third

Japanese NAND warrior shrinks with falling prices

On-Prem24 Jul 2012 |

Global players wolfing down chips again after crap Q1

Analysts chipper about future sales

On-Prem05 Jul 2012 | 1

AMD tiptoes past sparring rivals in embedded CPU foray

There's more to life than PCs and servers

Personal Tech11 Jun 2012 | 6

Intel rivals crash Hot Chips party with full-fat server silicon

Hey baby, wanna come upstairs and see my pipeline?

Personal Tech11 Jun 2012 | 5

Samsung slams down $1.9bn for mobile chip fab

Names top chip-head CEO

Personal Tech07 Jun 2012 |

SK Hynix drops bid to buy bankrupt Elpida

Joins Toshiba in abandoning DRAMurai warrior's corpse

On-Prem04 May 2012 | 1

ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber

Unsung Heroes of Tech Part Two: the accidental chip

Personal Tech03 May 2012 | 68

ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber

Unsung Heroes of Tech Your phone, your tablet - their chip tech

Personal Tech02 May 2012 | 40

Samsung heralds quad-core chip 'first'

Galaxy S III processor outed?

Personal Tech26 Apr 2012 | 11

Toshiba decides not to pick over Elpida's corpse

Firm fails to get a partner to bid for bankrupt firm

On-Prem24 Apr 2012 |

Intel beats Q1 expectations, jacks up revenue forecast

Says Thai flood effect now all washed up

On-Prem17 Apr 2012 | 4

Intel goes back to school with StudyBook tablet

Chipzilla getting down with the kids

Personal Tech05 Apr 2012 | 10

Samsung to spank $7bn on China chip fab

Splashes cash to build flash stash

Personal Tech03 Apr 2012 | 2

Samsung forging ARM server chips?

Maybe so, maybe not

Channel03 Apr 2012 | 8

Qualcomm's S4 chip set to shrink laptops further

Ultrabooks aren't light enough, apparently

Personal Tech02 Apr 2012 | 8

Intel comfortably conquers chip market in 2011

All your transistors are belong to us

On-Prem26 Mar 2012 | 5

Silicon nanowires: The Next Big Thing™ in chip design

CPTF 2012 The 'pigs in a blanket' of process technology

Science16 Mar 2012 | 7

Moore's Law savior EUV faces uncertain future

CPTF 2012 'The End of Optical Lithography' has arrived - now what?

Science15 Mar 2012 | 15

x86 chips squeeze out a growth in Q4

Rising ASPs pump up revenues

Channel15 Mar 2012 |

Chip forecast upped by Gartner

On the rebound after inventory glut

Personal Tech14 Mar 2012 | 2

IBM shines light on terabit-per-second optical chip

The hole truth

Networks08 Mar 2012 | 6

AMD cuts loose GlobalFoundries stake

It's fabulous to be fabless

Channel06 Mar 2012 | 4

3D processor-memory mashups take center stage

ISSCC 'I have seen the future, and it is stacked'

HPC24 Feb 2012 | 16

Intel shows off near threshold voltage chip wizardry

ISSCC Full digital radio integration with Atom, too

Personal Tech19 Feb 2012 | 14

Chip boffins demo 22-nanometer maskless wafer-baking

A possible savior when Moore's Law hits the light wall

Personal Tech14 Feb 2012 | 13

Chip sales definitely not down – but almost – in 2011

Semis take a December dive

Channel06 Feb 2012 | 1

Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash

Expert pilot, experimental aircraft

On-Prem03 Feb 2012 | 6

Boffins crack superconducting graphene's melting mystery

Next-gen high-speed transistors go 3D to slash leaks

Science03 Feb 2012 | 33

Intel stirs up management team

Shaken – just a bit – to beef up ARM, RISC defense

On-Prem20 Jan 2012 | 3

Ex-Intel engineer now AMD strategy chief

Girding loins for battle with Chipzilla

Personal Tech09 Jan 2012 | 4

Chip sales sag says semiconductor seller survey

2011 semi flat, 2012 semi hopeful

Channel03 Jan 2012 |

New chippery on parade at ISSCC

CPU and memory makers strut their stuff

HPC22 Dec 2011 | 4

Chip sales flat in 2011, will grow (a wee bit) in 2012

Weighed down by disk shortages, economic jitters

On-Prem20 Dec 2011 | 1

Apple mulls new chip boffinry HQ in Israel

R&D centre threat to Samsung

On-Prem15 Dec 2011 | 21

Disk fab floods rinse $1bn off Intel's Q4 revenue

Drive shortage chips away at CPU demand

Channel12 Dec 2011 | 4

Samsung seeks new chip factory in China

Applies for NAND production facilities for mobes and tabs

Channel06 Dec 2011 |

Toshiba shuts down three chip factories

Cuts production as economic slowdown bites

Channel30 Nov 2011 |

New human-brain chip can be adjusted for cannabis effect

Hey, chip for brains!

Science17 Nov 2011 | 28

Chip sales shrink a bit in September

Japan recovering, Thailand an unknown

Channel01 Nov 2011 |

ARM elbows through chip market with bumper profits

Hand over the dosh

Channel25 Oct 2011 | 1

Intel mocks PC slowdown, laughs at skittish economy

Q3 a record for sales and profits

Channel18 Oct 2011 | 3

New York drops $400m to lure next-gen wafer bakers

'We don't have earthquakes here very often'

Channel27 Sep 2011 | 8

New flash RAM tech promises 99% energy drop

Faster, lower power – what's not to like?

Personal Tech27 Sep 2011 | 14

AMD creates server division, loses chip head

Bergman leaves for 'a new opportunity'

Channel26 Sep 2011 | 1

Qualcomm showing signs of turning soft with age

Analysis New hardware hard to see at annual show'n'tell

Personal Tech19 Sep 2011 |

Gartner karate chops 2011 chip forecast

$299bn sales at best, say crystal ball

Channel15 Sep 2011 | 1