Advances in Microprocessor Technology
Overview
In the last few decades, microprocessors have gone from being expensive and marginally useful to being the foundation of technological civilization. The ...
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Microprocessor
At the core of every computer is a microprocessor, a device that has been called the greatest invention of the century. The dictionary defines the microprocessor as "a semiconductor cen...
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Microprocessor
In 1969, after the integrated circuit had become widely available, a Japanese calculator company, Busicom, approached Robert Noyce 's newly formed Intel Corporation. Busicom wanted Inte...
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Advanced Micro Devices is taking aim at a new market, chip sets, in hopes of lifting its falling sales.The move has been in the works since October, when AMD AMD bought ATI Technologies. ATI makes...
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Via Technologies Inc., the often-overlooked third player in the microprocessor arena, said Friday that Hewlett-Packard Co. has decided to use its low-cost, low-power chips in new energy-efficient b...
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Intel Corp. announced Monday it will build a $2.5 billion chip factory in China, giving the U.S. company a bigger presence in the booming Chinese market and boosting Beijing's efforts to attract hi...
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Intel Corp. has received approval to build a $2.5 billion chip plant in China amid booming Chinese demand for chips used in personal computers and mobile phones, the government said Tuesday.The fac...
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Intel Corp. fired a pair of technical salvos at smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday, announcing a November launch date for its next generation of chips and showing off its momentum...
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s losses were deeper than analysts feared in the third quarter, but the slumping chip maker said stronger sales of microprocessors and improving cost controls are now he...
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Shares of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares fell more than 5 percent Friday after reporting a loss of nearly $400 million for the third quarter.The world's No. 2 maker of microprocessors...
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Intel Corp.'s profit leaped 43 percent in the third quarter as a massive restructuring and swelling microprocessor demand helped the world's largest semiconductor company glide past Wall Street's a...
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's second-largest microprocessor maker behind much-larger rival Intel Corp., said that plunging selling prices for their computer chips hacked into the company...
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