News about chips
  • NetComm picks Sequans for TD-LTE chips

    Broadband product developer NetComm (ASX:NTC) has chosen Sequans Communications S.A. to provide the chipsets it will use in its NBN TD-LTE devices.

  • IBM pursues chips that behave like brains

    Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it's only a narrow mimicry of what the human brain is capable.

  • Optimism for DRAM rises despite tablet threat

    The price of DRAM, the main memory chips inside personal computers, may tick up in coming months as stronger demand for laptop and desktop computers with new microprocessors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) drives stronger PC buying, analysts and market researchers say.

  • Nvidia eyes CUDA in mobile devices

    Nvidia is looking to expand its CUDA parallel-processing architecture to mobile devices in the next few years, the company's CEO said Wednesday.

  • Intel results better than expected

    Intel has posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter results and has forecast sequential sales growth of about 2.7 per cent and a higher gross margin in the fourth quarter.

Features about chips
  • NASA research finds way into IT, consumer products

    Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.

  • Multicore: New chips mean new challenges for developers

    With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle -- getting software to be processed across multiple cores -- in order to ensure the maximum performance from their software. But this is much easier said than done, with developers having to tackle issues with concurrency and potential performance bottlenecks. Already, 71 percent of organizations are developing multithreaded applications for multicore hardware, according to a recent IDC survey sponsored by tool vendor Coverity.

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