Elpida develops 1-Gigabit GDDR5

Elpida today announced that it has developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 that operates at a world-class high speed of 6Gbps. The new graphics memory will provide high speed memory for use in graphics processing units, ultimately providing faster graphics power...

Intel makes multi-million Euro investment to create European Exascale computing research center

Intel today announced that it has made multi-million Euro investment in its European lab, where it'll work to create a computer chip that will be 1000 times faster than today's fastest supercomputers. The effort is part of Intel Labs...

IBM computer based on insights from brain will soon be a reality

No matter how complex and powerful computers become they can never match the processing power of our brains. And as it is human nature to mimic natural phenomenons in order to find solutions to human problems, IBM is working...

Toshiba demos the world's first application in 20nm process technology

Toshiba today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, and proved its viability with the world's first 20nm-scale generation process technology....

Intel to pay $1.25 billion to AMD under new settlement contract

Intel and AMD today announced a "comprehensive" agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes. Under the new agreement Intel will pay $1.25 billion to AMD. In return, AMD...

AMD unveils its roadmap for 2010 and 2011

AMD recently announced new details regarding its upcoming platforms at the 2009 Financial Analyst Day, where senior executives, including President and Chief Executive Officer Dirk Meyer, discussed AMD’s strategy for sustained success and growth in 2010 and beyond....

Bing to integrate Wolfram Alpha into its search engine

Next time you search Bing you'll find a new feature -- Wolfram Alpha! Microsoft today announced that it has partnered with Wolfram Alpha under which the former's Bing search engine will allow users to take advantage of the Wolfram...

VESA issues Mini DisplayPort standard

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today issued its Mini DisplayPort (mDP) Connector Standard, defining the new, small connector that supports the full range of power, signaling and protocol capabilities defined in the DisplayPort Standard Version 1, Revision 1a....

Abu Dhabi planning to built a chip foundry plant

Word on internet has it the State of Abu Dhabi is planning to built a chip foundry plant in four years time. This news doesn't come as a surprise as the state already has a relationship with AMD through...

NVIDIA CEO denies plan of making x86 processors

Remember recently we'd carried a story regarding NVIDIA's rumored plan of making x86 processors? Well, soon after those rumors picked momentum NVIDIA CEO shot them down. He said, "Nvidia's strategy is very, very clear. I'm very straightforward about it....

Ionic Batteries can increase battery runtime by six times

In the last couple of years everything around us has changed. From laptops to mobile phones to multimedia players, everything has changed. But the one thing that has remained the same is the device that powers all of them...

Microsoft developing a transparent, touchless interface

Since last couple of years we're very much into touchscreens. If that wasn't enough then Apple came along with its innovative multi-touch technology. And now when we look back then we wonder who in the hell we managed without...

NVIDIA planning to enter x86 processor business?

Now here's a calculated wild guess by an analyst who claims that NVIDIA is secretly working on an x86 processor to compete with Intel's and AMD's processors. According to the analyst the main reason behind this is the problems...

Is CrunchPad dead?

Well, there is only one person in this world, Michael Arrington, who can answer this question. But if several industry sources are to be believed then the reported CrunchPad is "indefinitely" delayed, if not dead. Wondering what could be...

Microsoft reduces its workforce count by 800

As we'd reported in the past Microsoft have started cutting its workforce. Till now the count has touched 800, and is on its way to touch 5,000 in near future. Though we're against large scale layoffs, Microsoft believes the...

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