Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Chips.
Intel and AMD may be the biggest x86 processors makers, but they are not the only ones, given that a Chinese organization named Zhaoxin has been designing its own x86 chips for a few years now. Until recently, the Zhaoxin chips have only been available in computers sold in the Chinese market. Th... Read more
3 years ago
Intel is very interested in chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries. This is what the Wall Street Journal reports. Intel considers an acquisition so that it can increase its production of processors. According to sources of the business newspaper, an acquisition of GlobalFoundries would cost Intel app... Read more
3 years ago
Intel has just released information on the new chip they have created, called the infrastructure processing unit (IPU). It aims to boost the efficiency of cloud providers' data centres as it offloads computing tasks from their main server CPU's. Intel has announced that their IPU chips are now o... Read more
3 years ago
This week it became clear that Intel's CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has put a proposal on the table with the European Commission to build a chip factory in Europe. Gelsinger wants an 8 billion euro subsidy in exchange for the construction of one European chip factory. That's a nice offer to start with, but ... Read more
3 years ago
Chip developer Qualcomm is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the demand for its smartphone chips. With this, the prevailing chip shortages have claimed a new victim. Suppliers of Samsung tell Reuters that the smartphone manufacturer is struggling with a shortage of processors from Qualco... Read more
3 years ago
Munich already has Apple’s largest engineering hub in Europe and now, the iPhone maker wants to expand its presents with a European Silicon Design Center. Apple wants to invest a billion euro's, bring in new employees and build a cutting-edge facility focused on wireless technology and connectivi... Read more
3 years ago
Asian chipmakers are in a hurry to expand their production capacity, in light of the global shortage that has affected carmakers the most. However, the firms warn that the supply gap will not be filled immediately and could take months to catch up with demand. Automakers like General Motors and ... Read more
3 years ago
Companies dealing in cars, electronics, smartphones, TVs and any other technology that need chips, are dealing with a global shortage. The companies have expressed concern, as manufacturing delays start to appear, in the wake of rising consumer demand. The shortage is attributed to several cause... Read more
3 years ago
AMD, the chipmaker, plans to acquire one of their rivals Xilinx in a deal that might hit the $30 billion mark. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that AMD is in the advanced talks stage and that the deal could be done by next week. However, there is no guarantee that the deal will go th... Read more
4 years ago
If Nvidia is allowed to acquire Arm from SoftBank, Arm will have ‘firewalls’ in place to ensure the data center chip company will not have access to information from Arm's customers or get early access to Arm products. The news about this was confirmed by a top exec at Arm on Tuesday. The de... Read more
4 years ago
