Supercomputers may soon be the same size as a laptop if IBM brings to market research detailed on Thursday, in which pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between processor cores on a chip up to one-hundred times faster.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is warming to the idea of building a chip manufacturing plant in India, which would be a significant breakthrough for the country's high-tech ambitions.

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday is expected to launch the 'Spider' platform, which combines the company's next-generation quad-core processors, graphics cards and chipsets in one platform to deliver better graphics, performance-per-watt and improved high-definition video.

A dél-koreai vállalat bejelentette, hogy megszünteti elektronikai fogyasztási cikkeinek forgalmazását Japánban; ezentúl csak memóriachipeket és monitorokat szállítanak az ottani gyártóknak.

Memóriachipek gyártására alapított vegyesvállalatot a Sony és az Infineon leányvállalata. A cél a veszteségek lefaragása.

The latest version of Oracle Corp.'s flagship database offers better security than earlier versions, but development errors have left vulnerabilities that attackers can use to steal data, an expert warned Monday.

Mozilla Corp.'s CEO Thursday evening answered charges that the company is dropping development of the Thunderbird e-mail client because of its partnership with Google Inc.

Microsoft Thursday moved to counter criticism about the uptake of Windows Vista by announcing it now has shipped 60 million copies of the operating system.

Az új megállapodás mind a nonprofit kezdeményezés, mind a chipgyártó számára komoly stratégiai váltást jelent.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. saw a sharp fall in operating profits during the three months from April to June due to the weak market for computer memory chips.

A multi-standard dekóder és többsávos rádiófrekvenciás tuner chip a mobiltévés technológiákat is támogatja.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a pair of chips that can receive and decode four mobile digital TV systems. The chips should make possible smaller portable media players and cell phones that can pick up local broadcasts around the world.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will continue to supply ATI graphics chips for PCs based on Intel Corp. microprocessors despite the fierce competition between the two companies, AMD's chief technology officer said in an interview.

Motherboards that use Intel Corp.'s 3-series chipsets, codenamed Bearlake, seem to be everywhere at the Computex exhibition - signalling they will soon find their way to store shelves and hardware makers around the world.

IBM Corp. is pulling out the heavy artillery in its quest to build custom chips for both telephony backbone and handheld wireless devices, announcing a processor family built with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that is usually reserved for server processors.

A group of chip makers led by IBM Corp. has agreed to further their collaboration by jointly developing 32-nanometer semiconductor production technology, a sign the alliance will continue to move forward.

Strong sales of digital consumer electronic gadgets helped Sony Corp. achieve record sales and higher net profit in the financial year just-ended but shipments of PlayStation 3 consoles missed their target, the company said Wednesday.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is putting the finishing touches on its DDR3 memory chips ahead of their commercial release later this year.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will make a quad-core chip for desktop PCs, replacing its venerable Athlon processor with the new "Phenom" design in an attempt to compete better with Intel Corp.

Users looking to add more DRAM (dynamic RAM) to their PCs are likely to continue to see bargains throughout May and June, as prices of the memory chips continue to crash.