Tuesday - January 6, 2009
Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs generally has the latest and greatest cell phones. But he's never owned the uber-trendy Apple iPhone. "Not until they put a Qualcomm chip in it," Jacobs said in a September interview. It could soon be time for Jacobs' first Apple phone. The company is widely rumored to be planning an iPhone nano, a smaller touchscreen version of its popular phone. One industry analyst says it will run on Qualcomm chips. The weeks leading up to the annual Macworld conference are typically filled with rumors of expected product announcements.
[More...]
Monday - January 5, 2009
Freescale Semiconductor has launched a new low-cost processor, the i.MX515, that's designed to power what Freescale hopes will be new lines of Linux-based netbooks retailing for less than $200. There are lots of interesting angles to Freescale's efforts -- the lower price point, the technology behind the i.MX515, and a new path for Linux into the minds of everyday consumers.
[More...]
Tuesday - December 30, 2008
Advanced Micro Devices said Monday that it cut 600 jobs in the third quarter -- 100 more than it indicated in the guidance provided to Wall Street early last fall, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 100 extra job cuts resulted in $70 million in restructuring costs, rather than the $50 million the struggling chip company said it would take when the cuts were first announced.
[More...]
Tuesday - December 30, 2008
Acer unveiled its latest notebook PC Tuesday -- the Aspire 8930G-7665, featuring Intel's new powerhouse mobile chip. The chip, the Core 2 Quad Mobile Processor Q9000, makes Acer's new laptop one of the first notebooks to offer users four processing cores. The Core 2 Quad processor offers 6 MB of shard L2 cache, 4 GB DDR3 1066 MHz Dual Channel Memory and clock speed rates up to 2.0 GHz.
[More...]
Friday - December 19, 2008
The Justice Department has sued Microsemi to force the chipmaker to unravel its $25 million acquisition of Semicoa, a deal the government believes is driving prices up and quality down for semiconductors used by the Defense Department and NASA. The antitrust lawsuit claims that Microsemi created a monopoly on parts called "small signal transistors."
[More...]
Wednesday - December 17, 2008
The technology industry was rocked by more dismal news Tuesday with a Gartner report predicting sales of semiconductors will drop by 16.3 percent to $219.2 billion in 2009 due to the recession and lower consumer spending. The decline in chip sales in 2009 will mark the first time the sector has seen back-to-back years of declines.
[More...]
Tuesday - December 16, 2008
Sure, it's a survey commissioned by a major tech company, which should trigger "Star Trek"-style alarms in most newsrooms. The headline, though, might draw some journalistic interest considering recent Dow Jones gyrations: "Most Adults Find Internet Access Essential to Daily Life in Today's Economy: Intel Survey."
[More...]
Wednesday - December 10, 2008
For computer chips, as with golf scores, smaller is better. So Intel's Oregon engineers will be smiling Wednesday as they unveil the fruits of their research for a new class of chip that employs smaller circuitry. It will likely be the tiniest ever to reach the market when it goes on sale late next year.
[More...]
Wednesday - December 3, 2008
German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies said Wednesday that a write-down on its stake in Qimonda and lower chip prices on the global market combined to widen its fourth-quarter loss, the seventh in a row. Infineon said it lost $968.8 million in the fourth quarter that ended Sept. 30 compared with a $354.5 million loss a year earlier.
[More...]
Tuesday - December 2, 2008
One of the most exciting aspects of the PlayStation 3 is that it allows users to install an alternative operating system. You can't overwrite Sony's GameOS or access privileged resources, but you can run your own applications on the new Cell Broadband Engine processor -- called the "CBE processor" or the "Cell" for short.
[More...]
Tuesday - November 18, 2008
Samsung Electronics was hit with two separate sets of lawsuits as Eastman Kodak and Spansion both accused it of infringing on their patented technology. Spansion accused Samsung of infringing its technology for flash memory, which allows a device to retain data even when its power is turned off.
[More...]
See More Articles in Chips Section >>
Headline Feeds
Get Business and Technology News Alerts
