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Court leaves intact ban on Qualcomm selling some chips

Court lets stand an order barring wireless chipmaker Qualcomm from selling chips that infringe on three of Broadcom's patents.
(From Reuters)

March 20, 2008 2:15 AM PDT

Samsung to spend $1.4 billion to upgrade chip lines

Chipmaker's board has decided to invest more than $1 billion in improving its lineup of semiconductors.

March 15, 2008 9:07 PM PDT

Putting terabytes of memory into servers, the cheap way

MetaRam has a chip that lets you put more memory into your server. And it's got a cavalcade of server celebrities behind it.

February 25, 2008 5:00 AM PST

Trying to put new zip into Moore's Law

If innovation has a heart, it's probably a semiconductor, beating to the pace of Moore's Law.
The New York Times

February 24, 2008 10:00 PM PST

IBM calculates the force it takes to move atoms

IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms. Next, it will try to build things with those atoms.

February 21, 2008 9:50 PM PST

IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips

The research uses DNA molecules to arrange carbon nanotubes into a grid that might function as a data storage device or to perform calculations.

February 20, 2008 12:00 PM PST

Secret recipe inside Intel's latest competitor

Montalvo Systems has a multiple-core chip, but not all of the cores are the same. That in part explains why investors have put money into it.

February 15, 2008 1:54 PM PST

Silent start-up readies to take on Intel in notebooks

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?

February 6, 2008 12:00 PM PST

Via makes way for 64-bit chips

Chipmaker's Isaiah processor architecture is expected to double performance but consume same amount of energy.
Images: Isaiah architecture up close

January 24, 2008 5:10 AM PST

Controversy comes calling for Intel

New York launches antitrust probe into Intel, trash talk rages on between One Laptop group and the PC crowd, and more.

January 10, 2008 7:43 PM PST

At CES, chipmakers play their cards

Intel CEO sees Net boosting consumer electronics, and PC makers put the company's Penryn into products. Plus: Nvidia's boost for AMD.

January 8, 2008 6:34 PM PST

Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMD

Company's president is being groomed to succeed CEO Hector Ruiz. But first he must prove that last year's engineering snafus were an aberration.

January 3, 2008 2:43 PM PST

New challenges in the chip sector

After a bout of good fortune, AMD finds itself coming to grips with a resurgent Intel. Plus: Can software keep up with multicore technology?

December 17, 2007 6:13 PM PST

Memory maker looks to new tech for turnaround

Spansion's CEO says its "charge-trapping" idea will save the flash industry. Now he's reaching out to partners.

November 28, 2007 12:00 PM PST

Intel's Montvale Itanium chip arrives

Chipmaker launches line of Itanium processors for high-end computing servers, touts three new features.

October 31, 2007 4:22 PM PDT

Wireless speakers: Sound at last?

Early attempts have been marred by high cost and low performance. Now, Avnera thinks it has the answer.
Photos: Cutting the speaker cord

January 3, 2008 9:59 PM PST

AMD urges investors to reject mini-tender offer

TRC Capital looks to buy less than 1 percent of the chipmaker's outstanding shares at below its current market value.

October 19, 2007 5:38 PM PDT

Intel to boost single-core performance

Company plans to increase the performance of individual cores in the Itanium processor, says a principal engineer at Intel.

October 3, 2007 7:50 PM PDT

Intel has ARM in its crosshairs

Chip giant isn't content dominating the PC and server markets. It wants to make gains in mobile phones, where competition is stiffer.

September 26, 2007 4:33 PM PDT

Week in review: Microsoft in the crosshairs

Microsoft feels heat from the European community and software companies, and Intel makes a power play. Also: Space fight takes flight.

September 21, 2007 4:20 PM PDT