11/15/2011, While Intel has talked about its Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture for some time, it has shown its 50 Cores chip for the first time today at the SC11 supercomputing conference. Codenamed Knights Corner, many 50-core chips will work as [...]
04/06/2011, Toshiba has just announced a new addition to its 24 nm NAND flash product family – the SmartNAND. Designed for portable devices such as media players, tablets and phones, the NAND flash chips are meant to make life easier for [...]
02/16/2011, Renasas Mobile has just announced that they’ve been awarded the first DivX Plus HD certificate for their SH73704 System-on-Chip (SoC). The processor is capable of playing full 1080p HD videos in multiple formats including the ever popular ripped video format [...]
01/28/2011, According to some reports, Microsoft is pushing Intel into developing 16-core Atom chips for their server farms. Microsoft’s data servers are currently powered by Intel Xeon server-class chips. While the Xeon processors are fast enough to power their servers, they [...]
09/27/2010, Intel has updated its processor pricing list for its new Core i-series chips, including the popular Core i5 and i7 chips. According to the updated price, the 2.66GHz Core i5-580M will set you back $266; while the i5-560M will set [...]
08/17/2010, Lyric Semiconductor might be rolling out a new generation of chips which is able to determine the best search results for an individual, or even calculate the odds on whether a particular e-mail message is spam or not. A chip [...]
08/11/2010, The smart folks over at the University of Calgary have developed a new technology that monitors brain cell activity at a resolution that has not been achieved before. The new silicon chips are simpler to use, and will help in [...]
08/04/2010, The Chip concept computer looks like what you’d get if you combined a desktop computer, a notebook, and a tablet computer together. This concept design sports a machine that has a removable display that can be turned into a tablet [...]
07/27/2010, Sharp has recently come up with an interesting chip that is capable of controlling liquid-crystals for mobile devices that is capable for displaying two different 1024 x 480 pixel movies on two LCD displays. The LR388G9 chip is also capable [...]
12/23/2009, Are you paranoid of being tracked by RFID tags in your possessions? You probably won’t want to carry something like the RFID Zapper around, but it can certainly help you kill an RFID tag or two. Basically what this threatening-looking [...]
11/20/2009, Intel wants to have chips (theirs, obviously) inside our brains in the future so that there is no need for a mouse or keyboard to take charge of our computers. Dean Pomerleau is the brains behind this vision, where he [...]