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Chip companies entering their metal period

January 27, 2007 Intel, IBM and AMD plan to unveil chips built using new materials, marking a historic shift away from traditional transistor ingredients.Intel shows off Penryn chips TAGS: transistor, silicon, gate, material, chip company, IBM Corp., manufacturing, AMD, Intel

AMD launches its 65-nanometer chips

December 5, 2006 Chips consume 30 percent less energy than same ones produced on 90-nanometer process when running at same speed. TAGS: silicon, transistor, nanometer, manufacturing, AMD, process, Intel, IBM Corp., notebook computer, server

New challenges in the chip sector

December 17, 2007 After a bout of good fortune, AMD finds itself coming to grips with a resurgent Intel. Plus: Can software keep up with multicore technology? TAGS: transistor, multi-core, chip company, AMD, Intel

For AMD, more money means more problems

October 26, 2006 Demand for its current chips has AMD scrambling to get capacity online just as Intel gets ready to win the race to four cores. TAGS: wafer, AMD, transistor, AMD Opteron, manufacturing, quad-core, AMD Athlon 64, dual-core, Intel, AMD Athlon

Intel completes design of Penryn chip

November 30, 2006 The company is in the midst of making the first samples of the 45-nanometer chip, expected to come out toward the end of next year. TAGS: manufacturing, transistor, Intel, AMD, design

Chipmakers gear up for manufacturing hurdles

June 12, 2006 For chip designers, the next decade is going to be one big wrestling match with the laws of physics and chemistry. Images: Chips of the future TAGS: transistor, SRAM, Texas Instruments Inc., manufacturing, chip company, Intel, AMD

The one-chip computer at the heart of AMD-ATI deal

July 24, 2006 news analysis Advanced Micro Devices goes for graphics chipset maker ATI Technologies, because Moore's Law never sleeps and you can't stop integration. TAGS: graphics chip, transistor, chipset company, AMD, chipset, ATI Technologies, Intel

Year in review: Chipmakers trade places

December 18, 2007 Intel enjoyed improved sales, while AMD did its best to limit the damage during a year plagued by a key product delay. TAGS: chip company, Barcelona, transistor, AMD Opteron, AMD, quad-core, Intel, Dell

Intel shows off Penryn chips

January 27, 2007 Upcoming chips will be Intel's first to use a new manufacturing technology and will have new multimedia instructions. TAGS: manufacturing, transistor, Paul Otellini, Intel, AMD, Intel Core 2 Duo, multimedia, family, instruction, server

AMD selling beauty and the brand

January 23, 2007 Chipmaker to tout zippy graphics and industry deals when selling chips for basic PCs this year--a pitch too narrow, some say. TAGS: graphics performance, AMD, chipset, transistor, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel, chip company, ATI Technologies, brand, NVidia, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC, e-mail

Double the cores, double the chip heat?

August 3, 2006 Intel, AMD say they've learned lesson about staying cool, but first quad-core processors may make PCs perspire. TAGS: quad-core, power consumption, Mercury Research, AMD, transistor, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel, chip company, dual-core processor, PC

More memory coming to future IBM chips

February 14, 2007 Big Blue comes up with a way to cram more memory directly onto its processors, boosting performance starting in 2008. TAGS: cache memory, SRAM, DRAM, IBM Corp., transistor, R&D, memory, AMD, CPU, Intel

A peek at faster Power6, Cell chips

December 29, 2006 At a chip show, IBM to tout 5GHz-topping Power6 and next-gen 6GHz Cell. Intel to detail a 4GHz, 80-core prototype. TAGS: transistor, IBM Corp., clock speed, high-performance, Intel, manufacturing, conference, AMD, Toshiba, Sony Corp., server

Intel shows off new 'Tulsa' Xeon

August 16, 2006 Chipmaker demonstrates models of its upcoming high-end server processor at Linux show. Photos: 'Tulsa' Xeon on display TAGS: Intel Xeon, cache memory, x86 processor, Intel, Intel Itanium, transistor, AMD Opteron, chip company, factor, dual-core, server, AMD, Linux, Dell
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