Intel to unveil next-gen Haswell in approx 3,337,200,000,000,000 nanoseconds
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Chips are everywhere. Processors are in your PCs, laptops, servers, cars and every gadget you can think of. In addition, the processor market is shifting---especially in the mobile market. Key trend: Graphical processing units. Key players include Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments among others.
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ARM and Sonics ink patent license agreement
Mobile chip maker ARM strengthens its position by licensing 138 properties from Sonics Inc., a leader of system IP for cloud-scale systems-on-chip (SoC). This will allow the company to develop chips that are more power efficient and battery friendly.
Nvidia shakes up Tegra leadership team
The current leader of Nvidia's Tegra processor unit is jumping to a "partner company" to lead as CEO.
The vanishing PC: Race to the bottom accelerates
The demand for more performance and features has traditionally kept the PC from falling too far, too fast. Those days may now be ending, hastened by cheap tablets. The industry is responding with new platforms for low-cost laptops and tablets running Windows 8 and Android.
AMD aims to simplify GPGPU programming with HSA and hUMA
Combining the power of the CPU and GPU offers GPGPU solutions, but these are cumbersome for developers, since the CPU and GPU use different memory pools. AMD plans to eliminate this burden by using another acronym: hUMA.
Intel to unveil next-gen Haswell in approx 3,337,200,000,000,000 nanoseconds
Intel has announced the date that it will unveil its fourth-generation Core processors codenamed Haswell: Monday, June 3, a day before the Computex Taipei trade show is set to kick off.
Qualcomm beats Street with $6.12B in revenue; EPS spot on at $1.17
Shares tumbled slightly, but Qualcomm beat estimates and upped its fiscal year guidance once again.
Roadmap: processors
What's coming up in desktop, server and mobile processors? Bookmark our regularly updated Dipity-hosted timeline to stay in the loop.
Juniper, Polycom, Broadcom paint mixed tech picture
Juniper's second quarter outlook looks light, but Broadcom blows away its first quarter targets. Polycom also better-than-expected.
Texas Instruments beats expectations with $2.89B in revenue
Moving away from consumer mobile products, TI's CEO asserts that the semiconductor company is now "firmly rooted in Analog and Embedded Processing."
Intel predicts rebounds for PC, datacenter units later this year
While the PC market looks like it's on a downward spiral, Intel executives are still predicting a comeback.
Outgoing Intel CEO Otellini: Materials, manufacturing our foundation
"Never in the history of our company has our ability to participate across the spectrum of computing been greater," says Intel CEO Paul Otellini.
Lenovo's chip expansion a bid at differentiation
Plans to grow its mobile chip design team exponentially will help the Chinese PC maker gain better insight into optimizing its future devices, but it will not transform into a "chip giant" any time soon.
TSMC leads R&D spend among Taiwanese companies
Contract chipmaker spends US$1.4 billion in research and development, contributing about a tenth of the total US$10.99 billion spent on R&D among Taiwanese businesses, in 2012. HTC's spend declines though.
AMD prepping Centurion FX processor to take on Intel Core i7 Extreme CPUs?
The new eight-core chip will reportedly run at 5GHz and cost $795.
Apple rumored to be dumping Samsung in favor of TSMC for A7 processors
Not only does the rumor claim that Apple is shifting to TSMC, but that there will also be a die shrink down from the 32-nanometers that Samsung is currently capable of producing to a much finer 20 nanometers.