Korean makers LGand Samsung--making CDMA phones with Qualcomm's chips--began bombing the U.S. with far cheaper models, undercutting Qualcomm's handset business.
More than half of corporate PCs have only one-fifth the processing power of today's high-end chips.
More than half of corporate PCs have only a fifth the processing power of today's high-end chips.
But this Manhattan hipster favorite goes a step beyond others to assure the crunchiness of its spuds: introducing The Breslin's thrice-cooked chips.
Transmeta's low-power chips are billed as a natural fit for wireless Internet appliances-- Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people), for instance, is reportedly working with Transmeta to develop a new electronic tablet computer.
Reinhart, a former Motorola executive, was on the losing side of the processor wars in the 1980s and 1990s as he watched Intel's industry-standard chips beat out companies selling incompatible chips, like Sun Microsystems, ibm and Digital Equipment.
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The four-year-old company's chips will appear first in the security-camera market this fall, finding their way to consumer cameras in a couple of years.
It's called the LiveBox, and it runs one of AMD's X86-based Fusion chips.
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In brief, it's a 13-inch slate with a 1, 366 x 768 display and your choice of Core i3 or i5 processor (these are Intel's Y-series Ivy Bridge chips we're talking about).
The patent-pending technology uses a laser beam's energy to precisely transfer the ultra-thin chips.
It will just get more so, following the breathless acceleration of today's socio-economic twin drivers: chips and bandwidth.
AMD, which has been eating away at Intel's market share with low-priced chips, is now going after the higher-end market as well, which could be good news for consumers.
The drive to feed more consumer devices like iPods and phones has caused manufacturers to boost their production capacity--a turn that's brought about lower prices of both high-quality enterprise memory chips and those aimed at consumers.
Compared to its last-gen Bulldozer chips, "in every way, today's FX-8350 is better, " according to Tom's Hardware: cheaper, up to 15 percent faster and more energy efficient.
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In October the Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced an effort to build the world's fastest supercomputer, which will use AMD Opteron chips and 18, 000 of Nvidia's graphics-processing units.
AMD's official rationale: By adding Markham, Ontario-based ATI's (nasdaq: ATYT - news - people ) graphics chips and chipsets--the circuits at the core of a computer system--to its arsenal, the company is better positioned to compete with Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
U.S. blue chips yesterday snapped a three-day losing streak, and notched a more than 200-point rise today .
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There are the all-purpose chips like Intel's Pentium series, which can perform almost any computing task, from running a videogame to calculating a spreadsheet.
In the past year, Ruiz said, AMD's share of flash memory chips in high-performance cell phones has doubled to 20%, a trend he expected would continue.
Elmarc uses cheap chips from U.S.-based chipmaker Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) in the components to give washing machines brains.
Additionally, the new line-up of Opteron chips based on the Bulldozer micro-architecture further strengthens AMD?s ability to offer greater choices to a data-starved base of enterprises and growing cloud customers.
During the chip recession of 1997-98, profits in Motorola's chips segment fell fast and far.
During the chip recession of 1997-98, profits in Motorola's chips segment fell faster and further than in any of its five business segments.
Today's blazing fast chips make it possible for messages--whether e-mail, voice or video--to zigzag through wide swaths of spectrum without bumping into anyone else's message.
The first Centrino-branded chips are expected to show up sometime before the summer and debut at clock speeds of about 1.6 gigahertz--considerably slower than Intel's flagship Pentium chips, which now top out at about 3 GHz.
Intel 's new Core chips are a hit for the company--and a radical change.
Whether MediaTek can compete with Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson, Europe's new champion for wireless chips, remains to be seen.
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