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Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough
News The company is unveiling an entirely new design for the silicon and metal vehicles that connect the microprocessor to the rest of the computer.
HP wins new molecular circuit patent
News Hewlett-Packard scientists have figured out how to wire molecular electronics to conventional chips. The tiny technology could replace silicon in 10 years.
HP patents way to wire molecular circuits
News The company's scientists have received a patent on connecting a new type of super-small computer circuit to the outside world, dealing with a key obstacle in making such circuits useful.
NEC to cut spending on chips 20% next fiscal year
News NEC Corp, the world's third-largest chipmaker, said it will cut spending at its semiconductor business by as much as 20 percent next fiscal year, citing a slump in chip prices it expects to continue.
Intel getting into micro-machines
News Micro-refrigerators, mini-tweezers for microbiologists, wireless antenna controllers--these are the types of products Intel could start producing with its move into microelectrical mechanics.
Intel: MEMS the word
News Micro-refrigerators, mini-tweezers for microbiologists, wireless antenna controllers--these are the types of products Intel could start producing with its move into microelectrical mechanics.
Crusoe-based Web tablet is set to hit the market
News Score one more for Transmeta. A long-awaited Crusoe-based Web tablet is set to hit the market this week.
Intel sees dual-core Itanium by 2005
News The company plans to cross an important technology threshold midway through the decade, squeezing two Itanium chips onto a single slice of silicon.
HP to double up Itanium chips
News Beginning in 2004, Hewlett-Packard will pair up future Itanium chips so twice the number can be shoehorned into any given computer.
Studies: Few to use tablet PCs in 2003
News "Only the bravest" will have adopted new portable computers based on Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition by the end of next year, a Gartner exec says.
Sun's UltraSparc doubles down for power
News Sun's UltraSparc IV chip will debut in the second half of 2003 with two processors etched into the same slice of silicon, a technique that packs more computing punch, a company exec says.
Schedule slips for second Sun blade
News The computing systems giant plans to release its second blade server design, based on an Athlon processor, by the end of the year.
Inkjet printers start cranking out microchips
News Spray-on electronics can be mass manufactured, and a new factory in Austria is doing just that.
Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology
HP touts new mold for the chip industry
News Think of it as a Play-Doh Fun Factory, but on a molecular scale. HP teams up with Nanolithosolutions on an imprint lithography system.
Tags: Processors
IBM promotes making chips in the bath
News An experimental version of immersion lithography could help cut the cost of making chips in the future.
Tags: Processors
