chip

News.blog: IBM shrinks PS3's Cell chip

News Cell is the chip inside the PlayStation 3, and it was jointly developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. IBM didn't provide any details about the new 65-nanometer chip, other than to note it was now in production.

13 March 2007, 9:30

Nvidia phone chip plays 'Quake III'

News The company touted the GoForce 5500 chip at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. The company sells standalone graphics chips for mobile phones and also licenses its graphics technology for other chip makers to incorporate into their products, said...

14 February 2006, 10:16

AMD releases chip for gadgets

News First, Advanced Micro Devices went upmarket with the Opteron chip for servers. Seventeen companies are currently tinkering with prototypes running the chip, and a few of these products will likely hit shelves later this year.

23 May 2005, 8:35

Intel ramps up portable chip effort

News This is one of many projects we have in trying to get better performance per watt," a spokesman for the chip giant said. Coming up with an x86 chip would let Intel dodge paying royalties. The chipmaker has formed the Low Power Intel Architecture...

19 August 2005, 10:04

IBM, Sony and Toshiba push Cell chip beyond PS3

News The three companies involved in making the Cell microprocessor have released new details about the chip in an attempt to break its reputation as only being able to power the next Sony PlayStation console.

26 August 2005, 10:06

Samsung speeds up data with new chip

News Samsung Electronics claims to have developed a prototype fusion memory chip that can speed data transfers by up to five times. OneDRAM channels data between the processors through a single chip, which speeds up the process.

15 December 2006, 9:06

Cryogenic chip breaks speed record

News IBM and Georgia Tech have coaxed a chip to run at 500GHz, a record for a silicon-based device, by dropping the temperature to -268°C. At room temperature, the IBM-Georgia Tech chip operates at 350GHz, or 350 billion cycles per second.

20 June 2006, 9:16

News.blog: Nvidia snaps up PhysX chip

News Nvidia snapped up Ageia on Monday, with plans to add Ageia's PhysX technology to its GeForce graphics chips.Ageia makes a chip called PhysX that makes killing and blowing stuff up all that more lifelike, essential for satisfying a generation of...

Tags: chip, processor, processing, standalone

5 February 2008, 8:47

AMD 4000+ chip to provide thrust to jumbo laptops

News Already, Fujitsu Siemens and VoodooPC have jumped on the bandwagon and said they would include the new Athlon chip as part of their latest laptop offerings. The mobile Athlon also includes virus protection hardwired to the chip that works in tandem...

17 August 2005, 9:53

Australian court okays PS2 mod chip

News But installing a modification chip circumvented the security measure, allowing gamers to play games from overseas or copied titles. In a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for Sony, the High Court of Australia ruled it is legal to...

7 October 2005, 9:49

News.blog: Lenovo, Fujitsu to use MacBook Air chip

News The PC industry is wasting little time getting in line behind Apple to use Intel's spiffy new laptop chip.CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com has learned that Lenovo and Fujitsu are in the process of putting together systems based on the special...

Tags: laptops, designs, air, chip

1 February 2008, 8:53

Photos: Intel boasts six-core chip

News Intel says its Nehalem chip is scalable from two- to eight-cores and offers two-way simultaneous multithreading. Intel says its new quad-core Tukwila chip will have 2 billion processors and a 30MB cache.

Tags: intel, core, map, cache

19 March 2008, 9:28

Intel's Yonah chip is hungry for power

News Yonah, a new laptop chip coming from Intel early next year, will run slightly faster than expected, but may also consume more power than its contemporaries. The road map also identifies a 2.33GHz Yonah, but the chip is not given a model number or...

12 October 2005, 10:04

IBM kicks off Xbox 360 chip production

News The specialised chip was designed and developed by IBM and Microsoft. The companies announced the initial agreement to build the new chip two years ago. IBM said the chip features a customised version of IBM's 64-bit PowerPC core.

26 October 2005, 9:16

Intel flaunts its quad-core chip

News Just as the bragging rights for dual-core chip supremacy are dying down, Intel gave the first glimpse of a quad-core chip coming next year. With TSVs, processors and memory chips are stacked up and connected through tiny wires -- the top of one...

13 February 2006, 12:32