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Abu Dhabi gets full ownership of chip manufacturer (AP)

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:30:32 GMT

AP - The Abu Dhabi government on Monday agreed to acquire full control of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s former microchip manufacturing unit, though AMD will remain a key customer.

Intel details plans for Android chips at Mobile World Congress (Appolicious)

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:04:00 GMT

Appolicious - Computer chip maker Intel has Android on its mind. The company, famous for making processors for PCs, has plans for high-powered chips that will make their way into Android devices through 2014.

Samsung Galaxy Beam Is Both a Smartphone and Projector (Mashable)

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:52:09 GMT

Mashable - BARCELONA: The Mobile World Congress hasn't even officially kicked off yet, and Samsung is already on fire, announcing devices left and right. After the 10.1-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, next in line is a smartphone/mobile projector combo called Samsung Galaxy Beam. The device's dual-core 1 GHz CPU, 4-inch, 800x480 screen, 5-megapixel rear camera (with an additional VGA one on the front) and Android 2.3 don't do much to differentiate it from the other mid-to-high-range Androids.

Samsung Announces 10.1-Inch Galaxy Tab 2 (Mashable)

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:40:46 GMT

Mashable - BARCELONA: Samsung is expanding its Galaxy Tab tablet line with the brand new Galaxy Tab 2 lineup: a 7.0-inch variant and a 10.1-inch variant. While the smaller tablet was announced a week ago, its big brother, the 10.1 is entirely new. It sports an 1280x800 resolution screen (the 7-inch model has a 1024x600 pixel screen), and the rest of the specs between the two tablets are nearly identical: a 1 GHz dual-core CPU, 1 GB of RAM, a 3-megapixel camera on the back and a VGA one on the front.

Supreme Court won't hear Hynix appeal on Rambus (Reuters)

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:31:34 GMT

Reuters - The Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc to take up the question of whether chip designer Rambus Inc illegally sued for patent infringement.

TriQuint launches new module, sees rev from Q3 (Reuters)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:06:03 GMT

Reuters - TriQuint Semiconductor Inc unveiled a dual-band power amplifier duplexer, dubbed the world's smallest, to tap the surge in demand for 3G and 4G smartphones.

Scientists Build a 'Perfect' Single-Atom Transistor (Mashable)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:08:16 GMT

Mashable - [More from Mashable: MRI Scanners: Now Used to Look Inside Batteries [VIDEO]]

NY attorney general ends lawsuit against Intel (AP)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:16:41 GMT

AP - Intel Corp. is paying $6.5 million as part of a deal to terminate an antitrust lawsuit filed against the chip-maker by the New York attorney general's office.

Intel settles NY antitrust case for just $6.5 million (Reuters)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:53:27 GMT

Reuters - Intel Corp agreed to pay just $6.5 million to resolve an antitrust lawsuit in which New York's attorney general accused the world's largest chipmaker of threatening computer makers and paying billions of dollars of kickbacks to maintain its market dominance.

Motorola Droid Pro with 1.3GHz processor coming to Verizon in fall? (Ben Patterson)

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:37:45 GMT

Ben Patterson - So, all excited about your new Droid X and its 1-gigahertz processor? That’s so five minutes ago.

Is Intel's Celeron saying goodbye? (Christopher Null)

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:47:38 GMT

Christopher Null - Since 1998, Intel’s Celeron brand has been the red-headed stepchild of the company, a value chip designed to be installed in the absolute cheapest computers so that Intel could compete with companies like AMD, which were well entrenched in the value computing space.

Leaked Motorola Droid 2 photos, specs surface (Ben Patterson)

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:39:10 GMT

Ben Patterson - It looks like Moto may already have the successor to its best-selling, Android-powered Droid on tap. A series of leaked snapshots and specifications detail a revamped slider with a faster processor, an updated version of Motorola's "Motoblur" service and a (hopefully) improved slide-out QWERTY keypad.

Intel abandons standalone graphics market (Christopher Null)

Thu, 27 May 2010 18:13:33 GMT

Christopher Null - For a decade, the high-end computer graphics business has been a two-horse race, with Nvidia and ATI (now part of AMD) making the only standalone computer graphics chips around. These chips and cards are often called “discrete” graphics because they are separate, or discrete, from the motherboard, and that’s why they’re so special: Discrete graphics cards can be upgraded, and they are a major focus of gamers and high-end computing enthusiasts looking to boost their computers’ visual performance.

New transistor built from just seven atoms (Christopher Null)

Mon, 24 May 2010 21:15:35 GMT

Christopher Null - It is the building block of electronics: the transistor. There are millions of them on the microchip powering your computer, and without them we’d still be digging insects out of vacuum tubes in computers the size of a small villa.

AMD triples its notebook footprint; 109 new models arriving this summer (Christopher Null)

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:16:47 GMT

Christopher Null - Come back-to-school time, those of you looking for a new laptop will have more options than ever when it comes to the CPU inside.

Latest MacBook Pro CPU runs so hot it can boil water (Christopher Null)

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:37:54 GMT

Christopher Null - Buy a Mac and you know you're getting the state of the art when it comes to components (except for a Blu-ray optical drive — Steve Jobs hates Blu-ray). And that's a good thing, since you're probably paying a fortune for the privilege.

Apple's MacBook Pro line gets new Intel processors, price tweaks (Ben Patterson)

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:08:02 GMT

Ben Patterson - At last, the long-rumored revamp of Apple's MacBook Pro notebooks has arrived, with the 15- and 17-inch models getting bleeding-edge Intel Core i5 and i7 processors while the 13-inch version sees graphics and battery-life improvements. Also new: a $100 price hike for one of the MacBook Pro configurations, plus $100 and $200 price cuts for two others.