Tag archive: Chip

Apple will release its new line of highly-revamped MacBook Pro laptops as early as March 1, according to a variety of rumors currently circulating online. The new laptop models are said to be powered by Intel's second-generation Core i-series processors. A “person familiar with the matter” tells Apple Insider that Apple will introduce the new MacBook Pros within two weeks time. The release is later than expected, however,… Read More

The Blackberry is king, or rather, the company behind it – Research in Motion, or RIM – is. It’s been named the world’s fastest-growing company by Fortune magazine. The Canadian-based company heads the list of 100 companies compiled by Fortune. It’s the first year companies outside the US have been featured, and they feature well in the list. Five are from China, led by Sohu.com, which took the third spot.… Read More

Communications chip maker Qualcomm is looking to leave all other 802.11n high-bandwidth Wi-Fi solutions in the dust, announcing it has created a new Wi-Fi chip—the N-Stream Wireless LAN WCN1320—capable of pushing 600 Mbps. Qualcomm is positioning the chip as idea for whole-house media streaming solutions, noting the system's bandwidth makes it capable of handling multiple streams of high-definition video, data, and voice… Read More

At a press event today, Belgian health product company Omega Pharma unveiled something it's calling the E-Waves Phone Chip, a product the company claims neutralizes potentially harmful radiation emitted by mobile phones. Using interference technology, the chip aims to block electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile devices, particularly in the range between 3 MHz and 10 GHz. According to Omega Pharma CEO Marc Coucke, research is… Read More

Chip maker AMD has confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice has closed the antitrust investigation into ATI's graphics business, and that no action will be taken against AMD or its ATI business unit. The Justice Department launched the investigation in late 2006, issuing subpoenas for both ATI and Nvidia in an investigation into antitrust violations in the graphics market. No charges were levied against either Nvidia or ATI,… Read More

Ailing graphics giant ATI may not be giving Nvidia much competition in the GPU market these days, but another big chip maker is stepping up to the plate in a bid for gamer dollars. Intel, which already produces modest integrated graphics chips for many budget machines, announced Monday that a multi-core graphics chip is on the way, and it’s quite different from anything the industry has ever seen. The Larrabee processor will borrow… Read More

The Federal Communications Commission has handed out more than $6 million in fines (PDF) to retailers and two television suppliers for violating rules about labeling and importing televisions that won't work after the United States' digital television transition on February 17, 2009. The retailers were cited for failing to properly label analog-only TVs, while the suppliers were cited for importing analog-only TV after an FCC… Read More

Vnunet reports that Apacs has published its annual survey of problems affecting the British banking industry, and the biggest surprise is that over online bankingfraud has fallen by a third between 2006 and 2007, even as phishing attacks have risen by over 70% to 25,796. However, it’s not all good news, since the total of card fraud losses took a 25%jump to just over one billion dollars, much of it from stolen UK cards used in overseas… Read More

Although a certain segment of the LCD television market is about offering the latest and greatest technologies and videophile features, display maker Envision has realized there's also a market for LCD televisions that just get the job done without requiring a second mortgage. To that end, the company today announced three new Omni Series LCD televisions due to hit retailers just in time for the end-of-year holiday buying season.… Read More

Several weeks ago I argued it was time to take a look at an all-in-one computer, this week let’s revisit this topic and talk about the latest, the Gateway One. The first all-in-one PC I ever had was by Panasonic and it was portable. Weighing in at a whopping 32 pounds, it had a build in printer, and it cost around $2,500 – and this was in the mid 80s which would have made it over $5,000 by today’s inflation. It… Read More

Chip maker Intel has officially launched its Centrino Pro notebook platform, widely known by its codename Santa Rosa, offering improved performance and lower power consumption. Along with Centrino Pro. Intel is announcing several new mobile processors, and many systems makers are already announcing products which will leverage the new technology. Rather than being based around a particular class of CPU, the Centrino Pro platform includes… Read More

If Intel's Core Duo technology quickened your pulse and the company's quad-core offerings positively got your blood rolling…then the company's Tera-scale Computing Research Program has developed a chip which is going to send you to the doctor for some industrial-strength blood pressure medication. Intel has announced its first silicon tera-scale research prototype, which the company claims is the first programable… Read More

Chip maker Intel has taken the wraps off a new advancement in microprocessor design, using two new materials to built the insulating barriers and switching gates on its 45 nanometer transistors. The new designs will be incorporated into Intel's next generation of Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and Xeon processor families, where they're expected to keep the famous Moore's Law on track: that the number of transistors on an… Read More

You know how it is with chips and processors: smaller and cooler is always better, particularly for use in portable devices. Following that line of thought, tech manufacturer Samsung has announced it was developed the industry's first 1 GB mobile DRAM chip using 80nm process technology. Samsung says the new chip is 20 percent thinner and uses 30 percent less power than current 1 GB solutions for mobile devices (which are two stacked… Read More

Microsoft has announced launch details for its forthcoming line of Zune personal media devices: the device will go on sale to consumer November 14, 2006, at an estimated retail price of $249.99. “On Nov. 14 we're delivering not only a device, but a shared, social experience that will be shaped by the collective imagination of consumers,” said Chris Stephenson, Zune's general manager of global marketing.… Read More