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Intel Steeley chip means cheaper UMPCs
News The price of ultra-mobile PCs is set to fall dramatically, in part because of an upcoming mobile chip code-named Steeley. In the future, the UMPCs will be built around Steeley, an ultra-low-power chip coming from Intel in late 2007.
27 September 2006, 10:26
Intel's multicore chip sandwich
News As with most of Intel's manufacturing research, the company hasn't settled on this approach as a cure-all to the challenge of extending Moore's Law, but it is eyeing this new research as an option for future chip-packaging techniques.
10 March 2006, 10:51
Intel's next-gen laptops to get Nokia chip
News Intel's next-generation laptop product will have an integrated 3G chip from Nokia and improved graphics support for Microsoft's Windows Vista, the company announced on Wednesday. Nokia's HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology will...
28 September 2006, 10:23
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, 11:04
Intel spills beans on Yonah, the next laptop chip
News Yonah, a laptop chip coming from Intel early next year, is going to be a lot different to its predecessors, company executives say. The chip, which will be made on the 65-nanometer process, will come with a number of enhancements over the current...
3 June 2005, 10:47
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, 11:06
Unfazed, IBM pumps up Power chip programme
News Among them are AboveMicro Technologies, which provides custom chip design services; Celestica, which designs and builds computers often sold under other companies' names; Rapport, which sells chips that can be reconfigured on the fly; TimeLab...
10 June 2005, 11:01
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, 10:16
News.blog: Intel on track with low-cost UMPC chip
News Last October, Anand Chandrasekher, who runs the group that makes the chips, told CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com that the chip is code-named Steeley and would come out in late 2007. The chip will be put into ultra-mobile PCs measuring about 100mm...
22 March 2007, 9:14
AMD's new FX chip kicks up speed -- and price
News AMD's latest 3D chip is designed for PC game enthusiasts who need blistering speed and have huge wallets. The chip runs at a clock speed of 2.8GHz and includes 1MB of level-two computer memory cache, which helps with rendering graphic-intensive...
28 June 2005, 9:09
Nvidia's new graphics chip to debut at game bash
News The new GeForce series is expected to compete with ATI's upcoming Radeon R520 graphics chip when it debuts in late July. The core of about 300 million transistors will help the chip compute 24 pixels every time the processor completes a cycle.
16 June 2005, 10:29
Intel expands its Wi-Fi chip technology
News Intel on Friday unveiled chip technology designed to support all current and projected Wi-Fi standards, moving the chip giant closer to its vision of one chip for all radios. The chip technology prototype will support Wi-Fi standards ranging from...
20 June 2005, 9:38
Single-chip Power Macs bite the dust
News Apple has discontinued its single-processor Power Mac G5 system in favour of an all dual-chip lineup, the company confirmed on Monday. The company noted that for those looking for a single-chip machine, "the new iMac G5 is a very popular solution.
21 June 2005, 9:49
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, 10:16
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
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