Chips and components

Memory chip makers invest £7.3bn in new factories

Predicted global demand for memory and storage chips will outstrip current supply
11 Mar 2008

Intel anti-competition case begins

Chip-maker accused of paying clients not to use AMD products
11 Mar 2008

Tech giants collaborate on tiny chips

Hitachi and IBM team up to focus on semiconductor research
10 Mar 2008

Intel unveils Atom for UMPCs

The microchip formerly known as Silverthorne are officially christened
03 Mar 2008

Sony sells microchip facilities to Toshiba

The division will produce high-performance chips for consumer electronics
20 Feb 2008

Sun chooses new silicon partner

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp to take over 45nm chip manufacturing process
20 Feb 2008

Fujitsu spins off chip business

Standalone microelectronics business to be formed on 21 March
12 Feb 2008

Hitachi profit up tenfold

But the hardware manufacturer is still down £2.5m for the first three quarters of the year
05 Feb 2008

Intel plots new wave of ultra-mobile PCs

Silverthorne processors to be showcased at the at the International Solid State Circuits Conference
04 Feb 2008

CPU giants locked in stalemate

Neither Intel or AMD are making significant market gains, say analysts
23 Jan 2008

AMD makes loss of $1.77bn

Last year's purchase of ATI has affected the chip maker's earnings
18 Jan 2008

PC shipments strongest for five quarters

But growth is likely to slow over the next two years, warn analysts
17 Jan 2008

New UTMs via VIA

Faster and greener unified threat management (UTM) systems are on the cards, courtesy of VIA
17 Jan 2008

Intel shows mobile platforms at CES

Intel's latest laptop platform, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show, promises easier remote management
07 Jan 2008

Negroponte hits out at Intel

Chipmaker violated its written agreement with One Laptop Per Child programme, claims founder
07 Jan 2008

AMD aims for 2008 profits

The microsoprocessor company will aim to overturn its losses by the second half of next year
14 Dec 2007

Vendors flunk the 64bit question

Software vendors have known about Vista 64bit for some time, so why have they not updated their products?
12 Dec 2007

Rambus shows off 1TB/s memory architecture

Rambus unveils new features to give a memory architecture they say can deliver 1 Terabyte per second
29 Nov 2007

Memory prices will rise, says Samsung

Chipmakers will move to producing flash chips for mobile phones
28 Nov 2007

IT Week leader: Quad-core distractions

IT Week comment on one of the week's big issues
28 Nov 2007

Climate Savers energy-efficiency group lists green kit

Online catalogue promotes worthy energy saving products
27 Nov 2007

Interview: Intel sees continuing need for speed

Pat Gelsinger, who started working for Intel at the dawn of the PC era, insists faster CPUs are still needed
20 Nov 2007

AMD ships first quad-core Phenom chips

Spider platform can support up to four ATI Radeon graphics cards
19 Nov 2007

Blue Gene is still world's fastest supercomputer

India has gained its first entry into the world's top 10 supercomputer chart
13 Nov 2007