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The importance of open source in hardware

When people think of Sun and open source, they usually think of Java. Or Solaris.Personally I think its UltraSparc open source processor, dubbed Niagara, may be more important in the long run. (That's the lay-out of the new chip, from Sun.)ZDNet Asia reports this week that Sun is happy with...

Tags: Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Chip, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Photos: Intel's China chip site

As the chipmaker hosts its developer forum in Beijing, it's also ready to begin construction of a nearby wafer fab.

Tags: Semiconductors, fab, Beijing, chip company, photograph, Intel Corp., chip

Image galleries 2007-04-16

Intel 45nm backed by fab four

Intel 45nm backed by fab fourThe big loser was Texas, not Intel"..Intel appears to have lost about $124 million, according to one report, by not pursuing the Austin fab project..."First, what was demolished was not a "fab", it was a parking garage for crying out loud! Did you work at...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, REAL inflation, Intel Corp., fab, job, DOL

Discussion threads 2007-02-26

Intel 45nm backed by fab four

Intel has had an up and down week of sorts when it comes to processor fabrication plants. The company’s ill-fated Austin, Texas, fab was demolished on Sunday morning. But on Monday afternoon it announced plans to refit its Fab11X in Rio Rancho, N.M. Fab 11X will become Intel’s fourth 45-nanometer...

Tags: Desktops, multicore processors, notebooks, semiconductors, Servers, Intel, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Is the chip industry rushing into over-capacity again?

Timothy Arcuri, a top chip analyst at Citigroup Investment Research raises a warning in a research note "Maybe Different This Time But We Doubt It." * The chip industry has added more mfg capacity in each of past 3 yrs than any yr in...

Tags: Chip industry, chip

Blog posts 2007-01-29

US chip leadership is in trouble - but business is good

I meet with top representatives of the US chip industry every year for an update on their markets and the trends that shape their future. This time around, George Scalise, the head of the Semiconductor Industry Association SIA and top communications execs from Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM and others, provided...

Tags: chip

Blog posts 2006-06-28

AMD to invest $2.5 billion in German factories

AMD to invest $2.5 billion in German factoriesWhy Gemrany and not, oh, Taiwan or China?Germany must surely cost much more, it's a country in the West with people who have living wages. Can't have that...Buy American!That $2.5 billion invested in the US would have saved quite a few jobs.Why...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, fab, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., job

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

Telco cowardice and DRM

At a panel on DRM at the recent 3GSM conference in Barcelona, David Birch of Consult Hyperion, a U.K.-based independent IT consultancy, cut loose in rather politically incorrect a fashion against a telecommunication industry that he feels should stand strong against the DRM demands of content companies. From the article:...

Tags: David Birch, telecommunications company, telecommunications, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-02-22

Hollywood hails P2P shutdown

Hollywood hails P2P shutdownOh big whoop !It's just like the war on drugs . You take out a drug dealer on a corner , and he will be replaced by two . Who is winning the war ? "In a world without walls and fences , who needs windows and...

Tags: Sales strategy, Peer to peer (P2P), Storage, fab, tech industry, P2P

Discussion threads 2006-02-22

Photos: Inside AMD's German fab

Tags: fab, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Image galleries 2005-10-14

Photos: Inside AMD's German fab

Tags: fab, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Image galleries 2005-10-14

Photos: Inside AMD's German fab

Tags: fab, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Image galleries 2005-10-14

Organic integrated circuit fab to cost $30 mln by 2008

Organic integrated circuits, albeit not of the same performance or density of silicon or compound semiconductors, could be made in printing works costing $30 mln by 2008, according to ABI Research. ABI compares that with a price tag of about $2 bln for commercial silicon semiconductor wafer fab set up.

Tags: fab, Organic

Blog posts 2004-11-24

Additional Resources

Bloomberg publishes Jobs obit but why?

Bloomberg publishes Jobs obit but why?re: Bloomberg publishes Jobs obit but why?[i]Pre-written obits are nothing new in journalism. There are probably pre-fab obits flying around many newsrooms.[/i]There's another thing I didn't know. And fairly depressing to think people write this stuff up waiting for someone to die.George Burns and...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Bloomberg L.P., job

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Bloomberg publishes Jobs obit but why?

Bloomberg published an obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs after the closing bell on Wednesday and quickly retracted it. Amid all the rumors of Jobs' and his pancreatic cancer Bloomberg's timing couldn't have been worse. However, the Bloomberg incident may reveal that rumors about Jobs' health are intensifying. ...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Bloomberg L.P., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-28

AMD on road to recovery, says research firm

AMD on road to recovery, says research firmWhile this may sound too simple...all AMD needs is a processor that would outperform what Intel is offering. The CPU market is a lot less sophisticated than analysts would have you believe. But then what would they have to write about.When AMD had...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors cool

Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors coolCustomer use patterns...Translated, "We didn't plan for customers to actually turn their notebooks on."What a crock!I think this article......uses "impacted" far too many times. The correct word is "affected".RE: Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Notebooks, Processors, processor, NVidia Corp., chip, notebook, defective notebook chip, Offers driver, notebook chip

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

iPhones, PPC, and DLC

iPhones, PPC, and DLCheh.http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/is offline.Ever considered warning people before you link their site into a blog that sees heavy traffic?Apple designs the chips...... but doesn't make them and the PA Semi acquisition doesn't change that. Apparently from the linked article Samsung provided the manufacturing. That could mean Applehas...

Tags: Leadership, Telecom & Utilities, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, phone, innovation

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?

Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?VIA exposes open source limitsThis move exposes the logical limits of open source. You can't "open source" everything because it costs hundreds of millions to run a fabrication operation. The gesture of releasing the design either becomes:...

Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, CAD Design, open source, laptop computer, PCB, open sources laptop design, laptop design, chip company

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

The Green Enterprise: Intel

On the next installment of The Green Enterprise, CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos looks at how Intel is developing green technologies for its customers and within its own organization. Innovations include ultra-lower power 45nm chips, greening its fab operations in China, Arizona and Israel; and developing non-toxic materials for packaging and...

Tags: Michael Kanellos, Intel Corp., Chip, Data Centers, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Networking, The Green Enterprise, Green

Videos 2008-05-12