Saturday, January 27, 2007

Intel shrinks, speeds up its chips / Using material other than silicon marks production breakthrough (15g poker chips uk)

Intel Corp. has found a way to make smaller, faster microprocessors, a development the company's legendary co-founder Gordon Moore called "the biggest change in transistor technology since ... the late 1960s." Intel will begin using new materials...
Dr Kool, PhD writes "According to Bloomberg, a jury ruled against Qualcomm in their patent lawsuit against Broadcom. Qualcomm had sought $8.3 million in damages for patent infringement stemming from Broadcom's H.264 encoder/decoder chips. From the article: 'The patents, covering a way to compress high-definition video, are unenforceable in part because Qualcomm withheld information from the U.S. ...
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.----IBM today announced it has developed a long-sought improvement to the transistor - the tiny on/off switch that serves as the basic building block of virtually all microchips made today.