As chip engineers gather at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, Intel shows off its teraflop chops, and Advanced Micro Devices talks pricing pressure and power consumption.
Big Blue comes up with a way to cram more memory directly onto its processors, boosting performance starting in 2008.
February 13, 2007
IBM's new chip works in 64-processor servers and contains features to let users cap system power consumption.
February 12, 2007 Sun's Niagara 2 to run at 1.4GHz
blog Sun Microsystems' forthcoming Niagara 2 processor will run at a core clock frequency of 1.4GHz, one of the processor's engineers said Monday.
February 12, 2007 It's gloom and doom for the chip industry, says TSMC founder
blog Morris Chang outlined the high costs and dicey returns that now face chipmakers.
February 12, 2007
The chip unveiled at IDF works, but there are a lot of hurdles to overcome before an 80-core chip shows up in a living room.
February 11, 2007 Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board
The 80-core processor is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second.
February 11, 2007
Technology in Barcelona will let all four cores operate at different speeds, depending on their work loads, to curb power.
February 11, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices has been facing profit pressure--but new chipmaking techniques are giving it more room to reduce prices.
February 11, 2007 Chip inventories sky high--Good news for consumers
blog Surpluses could mean lower prices on TVs and other products, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos.
February 9, 2007