Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & ServersSemiconductor Industry & ServersChips Fall Where They May (Investor's Business Daily)- June 20, 2008 Investor's Business Daily - The widely tracked Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 17% in the first quarter. But the index -- a basket of 18 leading chip stocks tracked by the Philadelphia Stock Exchange -- has risen 14% since March 17 to 384.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20080620/b... Arm to Duel With Intel in the Server Space (PC World)- June 19, 2008 PC World - Arm is getting ready to challenge Intel by moving its mobile chip architecture into servers.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/200806... Working Group Formed For Royalty-Free Parallel Computing Programming (TechWeb)- June 18, 2008 TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple has proposed the Open Computing Language, or OpenCL, specification to enable applications to access GPU and CPU resources through a C-based language.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080619/t... AMD Counters Nvidia with Cinema 2.0 Graphics Chip (NewsFactor)- June 17, 2008 NewsFactor - On the same day competitor Nvidia released its GPU 200 series of high-end graphics chips, Advanced Micro Devices announced what it called "the Cinema 2.0 experience" that will be possible because of its forthcoming teraFLOPS graphics chip.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080617/bs... Hynix to buy 9.5 pct of ProMOS in $168 mln deal (Reuters)- June 17, 2008 Reuters - Hynix Semiconductor Inc (000660.KS), the world's No.2 memory chip maker, said on Tuesday it would buy about 9.5 percent of ProMOS Technologies (5387.TWO) for $168 million, expanding a strategic partnership with its Taiwan rival.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080617/tc... Birth of a Standard: The Intel 8086 Microprocessor (PC World)- June 17, 2008 PC World - Thirty years ago, Intel released the 8086 processor, introducing the x86 architecture that underlies every PC--Windows, Mac, or Linux--produced today.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/200806... Stephen Morse: Father of the 8086 Processor (PC World)- June 17, 2008 PC World - The engineer whose 30-year-old architecture still influences PCs today talks about how Intel took the SEX out of the pioneering CPU, and other tales from the beginning of the x86 era.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/200806... AMD Goes Hollywood With New Graphics Chips (PC World)- June 17, 2008 PC World - AMD is targeting Hollywood with the new Radeon 4800 series graphics chips, which can render lifelike images in real time.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/200806... Rival Low-Cost Laptop PC Efforts Report Some Advances (Investor's Business Daily)- June 16, 2008 Investor's Business Daily - The one-laptop-per-child effort has had its problems, notably a fight between chipmaker Intel and the nonprofit group leading the effort, but there has been progress.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20080616/b... HP Offers 'Fail-Safe' Blade Server (TechWeb)- June 16, 2008 TechWeb - InformationWeek - The HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem is an economical alternative to mainframes for the financial, telecommunications, and medical industries, company executives said.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080617/t... |