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Japan’s NEC Electronics, the world’s No.12 chipmaker, said on Thursday it would team up with IBM and others on next-generation microchips in a bid to beat mounting development costs. TOKYO–Japan’s NEC Electronics, the world’s No.12 chipmaker, said on Thursday it would team up with IBM and others on next-generation…
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An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England…
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At IDF, the chipmaker announced a power-control feature in its new micro architecture, claiming it is ‘pretty compelling’ for enterprises. Intel unveiled on Tuesday a new aspect of its upcoming microprocessor architecture, which promises better power management and efficiency. Speaking in the afternoon keynote on day…
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Technology Business Research says Opteron and Puma are boosting AMD’s chip business, but the company could be hurt by the economic downturn. While AMD’s processor business is showing strength, the company is still in a worse position than Intel to face a dip in demand for the rest of…
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European Union antitrust regulators say Intel paid retailers to not sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices. BRUSSELS–European Union antitrust regulators made new accusations against chipmaker Intel on Thursday, saying it paid retailers to not sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices. …
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European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel, expanding a probe into the chipmaker’s marketing and sales practices, according to a report. European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel, expanding a probe into the chipmaker’s marketing and sales practices, The Wall Street…
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Atom chips are Core 2 Duo-compatible with a tenth of the power requirements that CEO Paul Otellini says are as important to Intel as the Pentium chips in the mid-1990s. Intel has launched its Atom range of processors at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai today. …
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Montalvo has some cash and a lot of execs with deep backgrounds in the chip industry. But will it have the staying power to survive against Intel? It’s a drama we’ve all seen play out before: a small, secretive start-up lays plans to come out with a chip…
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Reworked architecture of traditional sensor pixels said to yield better images and reduce chip manufacturing costs. Photography company Eastman Kodak on Monday introduced chips that can boost the picture-taking power in mobile phones and help manufacturers cut development costs. Kodak says its KAC-05020 Image Sensor is the…
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Earnings below expectations as company cites flash-memory competition, price drops, and HD DVD woes. Japanese electronics group Toshiba posted a worse-than-expected 25 percent drop in quarterly operating profit after tumbling flash memory chip prices ate into margins. The world’s No. 2 NAND flash memory chipmaker now expects…
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Chipmaker’s Isaiah processor architecture is expected to double performance but consume same amount of energy.Images: Isaiah architecture up close Via Technologies is making processors based on a new architecture this year that may help the tiny company inch up the chipmaking pecking order. The chips, which utilize…
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Japanese electronics maker plans to put struggling chipmaking operations in new unit and transfer some development from Tokyo to Mie. Japanese electronics firm Fujitsu on Monday said it would put its struggling semiconductor operations into a new unit, in a move that could smooth the way for partnerships…
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Purchase of graphics chipmaker ATI leads to a $1.68 billion charge for No. 2 chipmaker AMD. Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second-largest maker of computer microprocessors, on Thursday posted a wider quarterly net loss due to a $1.68 billion charge related to its purchase of graphics chipmaker ATI….
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Panasonic parent Matsushita Electric Industrial and chipmaker Renesas Technology agree to work together to develop next-generation semiconductors. Panasonic parent Matsushita Electric Industrial and chipmaker Renesas Technology have agreed to work together to develop next-generation semiconductors, the Nikkan Kogyo newspaper reported Thursday. Renesas–a joint venture between Hitachi and…
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