Global chip sales will reach US$276 billion this year after falling 9.6 percent last year
The global chip industry will rebound sharply from the global recession and post 20 percent year-on-year growth in 2010, market researcher Gartner said Thursday.
Laptops and desktops based on new Westmere 32-nm chips will appear early next year
Intel on Thursday introduced its next-generation of PC chips that could make laptops and desktops faster and more power efficient.
Chips and hardware are scrutinized as vendors turn in mixed results
In a tumultuous week on the market, the attention of IT investors was captured by a mixed bag of acquisition activity and earnings news from the hardware and chip arena -- a sector that is supposed to help lead tech out of the recession.
Chip maker says foundry ramping up and AMD graphics chips are now moving to PC vendors
Executives at Advanced Micro Devices this week said they are hoping that the company's new 40-nanometer graphics processing units will be in full by the end of the month.
The AMD CEO says product demand during its third quarter was strong
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday narrowed its net loss during the third quarter of 2009 as the company inches closer to profitability.
NEC Electronics will be the name of the combined company
Japanese chip makers NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology plan to merge by the end of April 2010 to create the world's third-largest chip maker by revenue, with leading market share in microcontrollers and system-on-chip (SoC) products for cars and mobile devices.
Two highly integrated chips are designed for 11n access points
Broadcom this week announced new chips designed to create a low-cost 802.11n wireless LAN edge for the enterprise, without the need for separate WLAN controllers.
Intel is preparing to ship the chip in volume starting in the fourth quarter
Intel's new Westmere microprocessors are being sampled by PC makers and will ship in volume later this year, the company's CEO said Tuesday.
The chips will come in 8GB and 16GB capacities
Flash memory maker Micron Technology said that it will ship a new high-density flash memory chip for portable media players that relieves mobile processors of NAND management functions.
Chip giant TSMC posted its worst monthly sales in years and UMC reported its worst quarterly loss ever this week.
The world's largest contract chip maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) reported its worst monthly sales in years this week, while rival United Microelectronics (UMC) posted its biggest quarterly loss ever as the economic downturn continued to take its toll.
Fifty years of technology helped to create Silicon Valley and improve health care.
Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.
