chips

Intel completes work on 32nm chip technology

ITworld staff — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:12:57 -0500

Intel on Wednesday said it finished development work on manufacturing technology that will allow it to produce chips with circuitry just 32-nanometers in size, a billionth of a meter, by the fourth quarter of next year.

Intel calls EU antitrust probe 'discriminatory and partial'

ITworld staff — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:47:36 -0500

The European Union's antitrust investigation of Intel is "discriminatory and partial," the chip maker complained in an action that's detailed in a recent edition of the EU's official journal, saying it's not being permitted to properly defend itself against the charges.

AMD looks to purge past chip problems with Shanghai

ITworld staff — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:16:47 -0500

AMD hopes to move beyond past chip blunders with the Thursday launch of its latest quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Shanghai.

Windows Server 2008 R2 to support up to 256 CPU cores

ITworld staff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:52:46 -0500

Microsoft Thursday said the next upgrade of its Windows Server operating system will scale up to 256 logical processors.

Intel set to launch Nehalem Nov. 17

ITworld staff — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:50:30 -0500

Intel will launch its first chip based on the next-generation Nehalem microarchitecture on Nov. 17.

Chip shipments could face slow growth

ITworld staff — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:03:31 -0500

Processor shipments could slow down till 2010 due to reduced demand for chips and the global economic downturn, IDC said on Monday.

Gartner to slash 2009 chip forecast by $25 billion

ITworld staff — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:02:32 -0500

The global financial crisis prompted market researcher Gartner on Monday to lower its preliminary chip industry revenue projections for the next few years, including a $25.5 billion reduction for next year.

Mobile Nehalem chips may come in late 2009

ITworld staff — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:41:01 -0400

Intel is gearing up to release the first versions of its Nehalem chip family next month, with the scheduled launch of its Core i7 desktop processors. But users will have to wait much longer to get their hands on the mobile version of the new chip.

Transmeta executives put company up for sale

ITworld staff — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:43:22 -0400

Microprocessor designer Transmeta is looking for a buyer. Executives announced plans to sell the company on Wednesday, saying investment bank Piper Jaffray & Co. will act as its financial advisor during the sale process.

More cores, bigger cache give boost to Dunnington

ITworld staff — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:15:20 -0400

Intel plans to launch its six-core Xeon server processor next month, with the extra cores and a larger cache giving the chip a performance advantage over the company's existing quad-core chips.

Code-named Dunnington, the six-core Xeon processor is designed for servers that have four or more processors. Manufactured using a 45-nanometer production process, the chip should be the last new model based on Intel's Penryn processor design before the release of the company's first Nehalem chips in a few months' time.