The cloud makes high performance computing more widely available - but introduces several problems of its own, says John Hengeveld
Minute graphene-based integrated circuits for wireless devices offer better performance for much lower prices
Speculation Intel may become a foundry partner for Apple’s mobile chips, fuelled by Citigroup report
LG is licensing mobile chip designs from ARM, bringing it into greater competition with other chip makers
Intel's Atom Z670 processors are thin and efficient, but most importantly they can run Windows on tablets
Intel and Qualcomm say their operations' geographical spread will insulate them from Japan's shortages
The UK Card Association tried to block a university Chip & PIN report showing how the system can be fooled
Qualcomm has redesigned the Snapdragon chip to deliver five times the performance at 75 percent less power
Broadcom unveiled the BCM88600 chip for 100GbE switches to meet the growing demands of data and video network traffic
AMD showed off its upcoming “Llano” APU, which integrates compute and graphics capabilities for notebooks and desktop PCs
CSR predicts new applications for the new low-energy Bluetooth standard, working alongside classic Bluetooth
Intel will be a dominant player in the rapidly-growing tablet market, riding on the strength of its Atom chips, Intel…
Deploying end-to-end silicon in data centres can bring energy savings of more than 70 percent, according to Broadcom
Wireless integrated on a power management chip promises to help the drive towards sustainable power and smart buildings
As devices proliferate, Intel wants its technology to form the basis for everything from smartphones to servers
Chip maker ARM announces the Cortex-A15 MPCore which claims five times the speed of current smartphone processors at 2.5GHz
Intel has launched Parallel Studio 2011, a new version of its tool set for building applications for parallel systems
Memristors could replace traditional memory technologies such as Flash and hard drives, as well as CPUs
Chip designer ARM is looking to move into the low-end server space through virtualisation support
AMD is to use the Hot Chips Conference at Stanford University to discuss the technical details of its "Bobcat" and…
Intel is buying software security firm McAfee for $7.9 billion. It’s now time to bake security into the hardware rather…
Worldwide sales and shipments of PC microprocessor units saw uncharacteristic growth during the second quarter of 2010, IDC has found
Many now ubiquitous applications are not looking for the yes/no answers, but rather the best guess answer from among a…
A new report has warned that a high demand for DRAM chips, coupled with supply bottlenecks, could lead to a…
Analyst house IDC has said that the semiconductor market, which was hit hard during 2009, is beginning to stabilise
Google's Android 2.2 mobile OS will run on the x86 architecture and promote its Atom processor in more netbooks and…
Mistakes in silicon chips could help computers continue to get more powerful, according to US researchers
Good news for chip makers after Gartner predicted that semiconductor sales will grow 27.1 percent in 2010, an increase over…
Demand for electronic goods in an improving economy should spell success for semiconductor makers this year, says iSuppli
Shipments grew in the first quarter over the same period last year, indicating that the PC processor market is moving…