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Intel Set To Launch Eight-Core Xeon Processor?

January 29, 2009

Word is that Intel will be unveiling an eight-core Xeon processor at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco next month.
The claim came out of MacWorld today, and if true will be Intel’s first eight-core chip.
MacWorld seems to think the Nehalem-EP Processor from the above roadmap is it.
Intel has declined to comment, so stay [...]

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Solar Sector To Bail Out Declining Chip Industry?

January 26, 2009

Heading into 2009, the global semiconductor industry will take a serious downturn in sales revenues. 2008 saw a decline of 4.4% from 2007, and analysts are predicting a 16% decline in 2009. Although layoffs and budget cuts will most likely occur, chip companies might just see the light again…..enter the aggressively growing solar industry.
iSuppli came [...]

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PowerVR Chips Are Hot. Intel Buys More Imagination

December 23, 2008

A day after Apple snapped up 3.6 percent of Imagination Technologies, the company that developed the technology used in the 3G iPhone’s graphics chips, Intel increased its own stake in the company.
London-based Imagination Technologies develops Meta processor cores and PowerVR graphics engines found on computer/smart phone chips. Companies including Apple, Samsung and Intel have all [...]

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