Credit crisis forces iSuppli to cut global chip forecast
The credit crisis and economic woes in the U.S. are forcing an industry analyst firm to downgrade its predictions for the worldwide semiconductor industry's growth in 2008.
Stories by Sharon Gaudin
Intel's lawyers launch probe into AMD's spinoff plans
Intel's lawyers are evaluating whether a new manufacturing business spun out of Advanced Micro Devices could end a long-standing cross-licensing agreement between the firms.
Analysts: Spin-off puts AMD back in the fight with Intel
By splitting off its manufacturing operations into a separate company, Advanced Micro Devices could be on track to become the nimble, innovative company that once had Intel on the run.
Analysts: AMD Shanghai chip gets thumbs-up from OEMs
Hardware vendors, which are just getting a first look at AMD's next-generation server chip, are giving the Shanghai processor an initial thumbs-up, analysts say.
Court dismisses lawsuit to halt particle collider tests
A US federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to halt experiments in the world's largest particle collider.
Sys admin discovers 13-million-digit prime number
A system administrator - not a mathematician - used a grid of computers supplied by volunteers at the University of California, Los Angeles, to find the world's largest known prime number. The immense number is made up of nearly 13 million digits.
NASA robot sends back evidence it's snowing on Mars
Forget trying to find evidence that there used to be water on Mars. Scientists from NASA said Monday that its instruments on the Red Planet have detected falling snow.
Panasonic unveils line of Toughbook laptops
Panasonic last week unveiled a slew of new portable computers, focusing on small but rugged models.
Intel, AMD multicore chip sales may be slowed by software
Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a quad-core processor-based server. After all, he figured, more cores means a more powerful machine that can do far more work than single-core systems.
Sharp's mobile phone aims to get your engine running
Sharp is looking to get your engines running. Literally.
Melted wires knock out Hadron collider for two months
Just days after a faulty transformer was repaired, an apparent melted electrical connection between two magnets has brought the Large Hadron Collider down for two months.
Physicist: Large Hadron Collider glitch was not unexpected
An MIT physics professor said it was completely normal that one of the hundreds of transformers failed a day after the Large Hadron Collider's first test last week.
Cray takes supercomputers to the desktop
Think of supercomputers and you tend to think of multi-million dollar machines that easily take up a football field. With miles and miles of cabling and cooling systems running beneath the floors.
Worldwide grid evaluating collider test results
The successful test run of a massive particle collider brought scientists a step closer to finding answers to a question that has haunted people for centuries: How was the universe created?
Blowing past quads, Intel launches 6-core chips
The processor world has officially moved beyond quad-core.