Olofsson gained that chip design expertise while spending 15 years at Analog Devices (ADI) and Texas Instruments (TXN).
It acquired a research lab in India from Swedish telecom titan Ericsson and a telecom-chip design firm in Austria.
Sega's new accelerator will be the PowerVR, designed by VideoLogic, a small British chip design studio, and produced by Japan's NEC Corp.
Intel's main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, launched a new chip design of its own earlier this year in a processor called Athlon.
Each group had its own submicron laboratories, fabs and systems-on-a-chip design libraries.
Ultimately, however, the self-tuning nature of the Transmeta chip design could offer advantages in desktop machines and high-performance servers as well portables.
In particular, reducing the power demands of a chip design philosophy traditionally attached to large batteries or power supplies has been a challenge.
Spintronics is an emerging field of chip design in which circuits open and close according to the spin of electrons rather than their location.
The demonstration appeared to be designed to show just how much clock speed Intel may be able to squeeze out of its new chip design.
To add more questions, Compaq will at some point start outsourcing chip design to Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
Two things: the open architecture of the PC, and the foundry business, which allows companies focused on chip design to outsource the production of their chips.
These once-novel methods of chip design have done respectably in specialist applications, but have not dethroned Intel as it was suggested they might when they were launched.
Also like some others in our industry, our business benefits from the growth of the market for system-level design, which is outpacing the market for chip design software.
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Duron is AMD's first processor for budget PCs that takes advantage of an advanced chip design, or "microarchitecture, " that was unveiled last year for its higher-performance Athlon processor.
It acquired a research lab in India from Swedish telecom titan Ericsson (nasdaq: ERICY - news - people ) and a telecom-chip design firm in Austria.
"There's no easy way to go about overclocking our systems anymore, " says AMD spokesperson Drew Prairie, whose company has changed its chip design to make the chips difficult to overclock.
Thanks to advances in chip design and computational throughput, a typical SoC today contains multiple cores to deliver extremely high levels of packet processing, security functions, signal processing, programmability and more.
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The manufacturing group may outshine the chip design company.
If you wanted to do only one task and do it the same way every time, you would do better with a custom chip design -- what the engineers call an application specific integrated circuit.
Intel's new processor, called Intel Media Processor 3100, will be built around the same chip design used in most of the world's PCs and servers, and it will support high-definition video, high-end audio and 3-D graphics.
Using a new 3-D chip design that stacks more capacity in the same amount of space, Matrix claims that it can deliver packaged content faster and less expensively than masked ROM and avoid the moving parts that plague discs.
Mr Torvalds himself now works for Transmeta, a chip-design firm in Silicon Valley.
Chip-design software company Synopsys this afternoon posted better-than-expected financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended January 31.
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The company's engineers are confident that their modified chip-design software will allow previously flat circuits to be wrapped around the surface of a sphere.
Instead of being fixed, a string of bits specifies the chip's design by telling it what linkages to forge between its various components (in this case, groups of transistors known as logic cells).
Lewis brought in two programmers from his old chip company and imposed a design process akin to one for building a chip, focusing on small components to deliver their complex product.
So Microsoft actually got the chip that Sony helped design before Sony did.
Growth rates of "fabless" chip companies (that design in the U.S. and farm out manufacturing) have outdone giants such as Intel over the past ten years.
The IBM chip uses the structure of the human brain as map for the design of the circuits in their chip.
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The main features of the iPhone 5 were faster network speeds, larger screen, faster A6 chip, thinner and lighter design.
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