Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new “inexact” chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency… Tweet This Post

Intel had already promised that it would avoid using conflict minerals, and now it’s giving itself a more concrete timetable for that to happen. It wants to have at least one processor that’s proven completely conflict-free across four key minerals — gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten — by the end of 2013… Tweet This Post

AMD just unveiled its latest processor, called Trinity. Meant for Ultrabooks, regular laptops and all-in-one designs, the new chip boasts better multimedia capabilities, at less power than the previous generation, Llano… Tweet This Post

Ivy Bridge, Intel’s first generation of chips to use the 22nm fabrication process, is hardly out of the gate, and yet talk has already turned to the company’s next manufacturing technologies. According to Xbit Labs, which got its hands on some telltale slides, Paul Otellini et al… Tweet This Post

Sure, you may need to shop around to find a replacement for that 11-inch number Dell pulled off the shelves, but that doesn’t mean you need to miss out on a free Ivy Bridge upgrade. Origin PC tells us that it’s offering the very same silicon swap as Dell to folks who pulled the trigger [...]

If you read our interview with ARM co-founder John Biggs, you know the company behind the processor in mosts smartphones had quite modest beginnings, what with an office in a barn and all. But Biggs is only part of the story, and Reghardware fleshes the rest out with a two-part series on the “unsung heroes [...]

We know TSMC’s energy-miser 28-nanometer manufacturing process has a lot of headroom, but the company just ratcheted expectations up by a few notches. Lab workers at Taiwan’s semiconductor giant have successfully run a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor at 3… Tweet This Post

Why Ivy Bridge? Intel’s 22-nanometer processor tech promises better performance, with more features (like security) built right into the chip. It consumes less power than previous designs and is up to twice as fast in visual applications… Tweet This Post

The long-awaited next generation of Intel processors have arrived. Intel announced its 22 nanometer processors, coded-named Ivy Bridge, at a press conference Monday. We all knew Ivy Bridge would be fast, but these new processors are about 37 percent faster than Intel’s previous offerings… Tweet This Post

Intel is officially launching on Monday its next-generation chip technology, codenamed Ivy Bridge. The new chips will be available for regular laptops and desktops immediately, although versions for the thinner Ultrabook designs will take a few more weeks… Tweet This Post

Intel will likely debut its much-anticipated Ivy Bridge processors — which promote energy efficiency while still being powerful — on April 23, according to a Digitimes report. The report contradicts news we heard in February that Intel would push back the debut of Ivy Bridge until June… Tweet This Post

Ask any gardener, once you let ivy grow, it gets everywhere. Even though Intel just planted a fresh family of Sandy Bridge-based server CPUs, reports of a new line of Xeon E3 chips sporting the firm’s next generation architecture are sprouting up… Tweet This Post