Intel Is at a Crossroads
…When the NAND industry switched to 3D NAND, manufacturers like Samsung fell back to older process nodes and built vertically stacked DRAM on a 40nm process. We're not suggesting Intel has…
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How Snapdragon S4 and Tegra 3 manage ARM cores differently
…Qualcomm is also making use of a new 28nm manufacturing process that should theoretically leak much less power across a wide spectrum of clock speeds. The vSMP system in use in Kal…
Intel Tosses CEO Bob Swan, Appoints Pat Gelsinger to Top Job
…It may also imply unhappiness with whatever new manufacturing strategy Swan will announce for Intel on its upcoming conference call. This last, to be clear, is pure speculation on my part, but…
Magnetic switches could use 10,000 times less power than silicon transistors
…And since tantalum is a fairly well-known material, its incorporation into the manufacturing process shouldn't prove too difficult. Raw tantalum. One interesting thing about this ability to maintain an assigned…
Intel, AMD Reportedly Fighting for Capacity at TSMC
…TSMC announced their 6nm process last year, it typically takes about 12 months to ramp up for volume manufacturing, and that means the node could be ready for production soon. In a…
IBM Creates World's Smallest Computer for Blockchain Technology
…The micro-computer is a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) with a processor, memory, storage, and a communication module. The CPU contains several hundred thousand transistors, and IBM says it's…
TSMC: 3nm Will be a 'Smooth' Ramp Throughout 2023
…and the company had begun production on its cutting-edge 3nm process. It had promised to get to High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) of N3 in 2022, and it barely made the cutoff…
ET deals: $739 for Dell XPS 14 premium ultrabook
Now that manufacturers are gearing for Intel's Haswell chips in the second half of 2013, we are starting to see prices slowly decrease on the premium models whose prices were previously…
Nvidia unveils details on new vSMP technology, Kal-El processor's 5th core
Nvidia released whitepapers that shed new light on its upcoming Tegra processor (Opens in a new window) , codenamed Kal-El this week, including information on the SoC's unusual CPU configuration. The…
Intel will finally finish Fab 42 in Arizona, bring new 7nm capacity online
Several years ago, Intel announced that it wouldn't finish its 14nm manufacturing plant, Fab 42 . When Intel announced the move, 22nm was still Intel's leading-edge process node, though 14nm…