News tagged with chip design

Japan electronic giants eye chip merger: reports

Three of Japan's biggest electronics companies are to join forces in a chip-making venture, according to reports, days after a swathe of dire results from a sector struggling to compete globally.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Streamlining chip design

In the same way that computing power moved from mainframes to the desktop in the 1980s, it’s now moving from the desktop to handheld devices. But that’s putting new demands on chip designers. Because ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Taiwanese group introduces new MorPACK, stacked chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taiwan's National Chip Implementation Center (CIC) has announced a new chip bundling design that they claim can cut development costs in half while also reducing the time it takes to bring a new chipset to ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

New computer chips help PCs compete with tablets

Semiconductor companies are whipping up a new generation of chips to bring richer video and better battery life to personal computers and help them hold off threats from tablets and increasingly powerful smart ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Leading design software AutoCAD returns to Macintosh computers

Autodesk announced Monday that its AutoCAD software used by professionals to design everything from skyscrapers to pocket knives is reuniting with the Macintosh computer platform.

Technology / Software

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Intel Shares Vision for the Future

At its developer conference today, Intel Corporation demonstrated how the company is providing a foundation on which to build common hardware, software and ecosystem solutions to make computing experiences and devices work ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Intel Launches Xeon 7500 processor series

Intel Corporation today culminated the transition to the company's award-winning "Nehalem" chip design with the launch of the Intel Xeon 7500 processor series.

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

3-D Chip Design Challenges

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the increase functionality of electronic gadgets, the need to pack more transistors into a single package is becoming a needed necessity. There’s a big demand, in the consumer market, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 21, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog

Marvell Announces World's First Quadruple Core Processor for ARM Instruction

Marvell today announced another breakthrough in advanced chip design: the world's first "quadruple" core processor for applications utilizing the ARM instruction set.

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Consumers to benefit from advances in chip design

Consumers will be able to fix their automobiles while the car gives step-by-step advice, attack their ailments by making computer models of various treatments to find the best one, and duck into virtual fitting rooms to try ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 30, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Hankering for molecular electronics? Grab the new NIST sandwich

The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may prove tasty for computer chip designers, who have long had an appetite for molecule-sized ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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

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.

Technology / Business

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Broadcom launches hostile $764M bid for Emulex

(AP) -- Chip designer Broadcom Corp. is launching a $764 million hostile takeover offer for network gear maker Emulex Corp. Broadcom said Tuesday the deal would help it develop new technologies for corporate data centers.

Technology / Business

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chips with everything

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the technology to make computer chips smaller and cheaper progresses each year, the fundamental structure of the chip - the computer architecture - has remained the same for decades. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 4