News tagged with chip design


Departure of chip-design legend Bob Pease prompts outpouring in Silicon Valley

Technology / Business

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Bob Pease is a genuine Silicon Valley rock star who I never would have heard of had he not lost his job, or left his job. It's not entirely clear which.





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New 167-processor chip is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 4

A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, ...


ARM Announces 45nm SOI Test Chip Results That Demonstrate 40 Percent Power Savings Over Bulk Process

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing ...


Samsung's group headquarters in Seoul

SKorean firms to jointly develop new chips

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics will lead a group of South Korean firms in jointly developing advanced semiconductors used for smartphones and digital televisions, officials said Monday.


Soft hardware for a flexible chip

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology is struggling to meet demands for high-performance, specialised computing systems. A European consortium is responding with a new kind of reconfigurable chip that is both efficient and flexible.


First 3-D processor runs at 1.4 Ghz on new architecture

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (78) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running ...


Dell slide shown Tuesday at SC08 (Credit: Dell Computer)

Dell Talking About 80-Core Chip Processor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (43) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- This week Michael Dell (CEO of Dell) gave a slide presentation that included Intel´s recently developed 80-core processor. This isn't the first time that the 80-core chip was mentioned in ...


Multi-core ARM Chip Architecture

Multi-core ARM Chips Slated For Smartphones Next Year

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

ARM is the chip design company that makes processors for smartphones like the Palm Pre and Apple iPhone 3G. By next year we can expect to see dual-core processors in smartphones, with quad-core to follow sometime ...


Team develops energy-efficient microchip

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have unveiled a new chip design for portable electronics that can be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than present technology. The design could lead to cell phones, implantable ...


NEC Develops a Three-Dimensional Chip-Stacked Flexible Memory

NEC Develops a Three-Dimensional Chip-Stacked Flexible Memory

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NEC Corporation announced today the development of chip-stacked flexible memory, which can be used to achieve a new system-on-chip (SoC) architecture. The new SoC's architecture consists of separate logic ...


The Wall Street Journal said Apple has been hiring new employees from the semiconductor industry

Apple 'to design own computer chips'

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Apple is building the capability to design its own computer chips in a strategic shift aimed at cutting its reliance on outside suppliers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.



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