Intel has revealed that its Broadwell chip has been delayed a solid quarter, moving its launch to Q1 of next year. The information was given during the company’s financial call today, with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich saying the delay is due to a “defect density issue.” The problem has resulted in lower numbers of usable […]
Manufacturers and consumers alike better brace themselves: memory chip prices have hit a two-year high because of a major fire in a massive Chinese production plant.
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Thanks to improvements in fiber optics, most of the information that you consume on any given day is transported by light. Quite inefficiently, however, most computer chips need electricity to operate, and scientists haven’t quite figured out how to make the leap to more futuristic materials. At least not until graphene came along.
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The brain’s an incredibly rich and complex computational core that we don’t really fully understand—but that isn’t stopping IBM building a new form of computing architecture around what’s happening inside our heads.
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Motorola unveiled its X8 computing system earlier this month alongside the announcement of its new line of DROID handsets. Although the new system wasn’t discussed in too much detail, we learned that it harbored 8 cores consisting of a dual-core offering from Qualcomm, a quad-core processor, a single core nature language processor, and a single […]
Apple’s had a turbulent time with Samsung, both in the courtroom and the marketplace—which in part helped inspire Cook and co’s recent move away from Sammy as a chip supplier
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has finally signed a deal with something called Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to make its guts for future iPhones and iPads. Specifically, TSMC will start mass-producing 20 nanometer chips for Apple in 2014, paving way for longer battery life in Samsung-less iPhones and iPads.
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Be prepared to see mobile devices and laptops running Android and Chrome OS using AMD chips under the hood. It’s reported that the chip maker is open to designing and developing chips that are catered to support Android and Chrome OS. AMD will still be committed to Windows machines, but they hope to expand more
In an effort to compete more in the mobile market, Intel has overhauled its Atom processor line in order to take on Qualcomm in the smartphone chip market. Intel’s new Atom architecture, which is codenamed “Silvermont,” comes with a boost in performance, yet Intel claims it cuts down on power consumption.
Intel’s Chief Product Officer, Dadi Perlmutter, says that the new Atom architecture offers up to three times more computing power than current chips, and gobbles up five times less power than traditional mobile chips. Intel is up against strong competition, though, as many chip makers are partnered up with ARM, a direct rival with Intel in the mobile business.
Intel’s Atom processors have never been widely adopted in smartphones, and while a handful of them are out there in the wild (including the Lenovo IdeaPhone K900), Qualcomm still reigns supreme as one of the largest smartphone chip makers around. Ever since introducing the Atom line of chips in 2008, Intel has failed to bring the mobile chips to products other than netbooks.
Silvermont will be the model for Intel’s 22-nanometer Bay Trail tablet chips that are expected to arrive later this year, which are claimed to be twice as fast as their current generation of tablet offerings. Silvermont will also be used in the company’s Merrifield chips and Avoton chips that will be released later this year for microservers. This news comes after Intel’s detail on its “Haswell” chips, as well as the appointment of a new CEO for the company.
[via Reuters]
Intel overhauls Atom lineup to take on Qualcomm is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In what is now the second acidic gas leak in just three short months, reports are saying that three workers were injured when poisonous hydrofluoric acid leaked into one of Samsung‘s semiconductor plant in Hwaseong, Korea. It’s not known how badly the three workers are injured, but the gas leak back in January killed one worker and injured others.
Only three months have passed since the last time a similar accident occurred at the plant, which merely got Samsung a slap on the wrist and a measly $1,000 fine. However, that didn’t lead to any major safety improvements in the plant, causing such a leak to strike again, injuring three more workers.
It’s not said how much gas leaked from the pipes, but January’s leak was said to have unleashed up to 10 liters of diluted hydrofluoric acid, which is a colorless poisonous gas that can damage the lungs and bones, as well as affect the nervous system if inhaled — pretty bad stuff that you definitely want to be careful around.
The leak is currently undergoing investigation, so it’s not yet known what Samsung’s punishment will be this time around, but we’re guessing it’ll be a bit more strict than just a $1,000 fine and a slap on the wrist. Officials could fine Samsung big time, knowing that this is the second leak in just three months.
[via Yonhap News]
Acid leak at Samsung chip plant injures 3 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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