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Quoted: on the death of Stan Ovshinsky, inventor of hybrid battery and more

"Science was a key and so was civil rights and so was peace and so was equality." — Harvey Ovshinsky, son of Stanford Ovshinsky, who invented so-called amorphous semiconductors and the hybrid vehicle battery, among other things. Ovshinsky's work Read More →

Graphic chip shipments down, but should surge soon

This year's global fall-off in shipments of graphics-oriented microchips is likely to be the worst ever tracked by Jon Peddie Research. The Tiburon-based consulting firm estimates that graphic-chip shipments will drop 12 percent this year compared with 2008. That's a nasty Read More →

Spansion to be dropped from Nasdaq exchange

More bad news for Spansion, the Sunnyvale flash memory chip maker that filed for bankruptcy protection on March 1. The company disclosed in a federal regulatory filing today that it will be delisted from the Read More →

Top supercomputers mostly use Intel chips

Intel just gained ground on its longtime-microprocessor rival, Advanced Micro Devices, in the world of high-performance computers. The latest edition of the TOP500 list, a widely watched compilation of the 500 most powerful computer systems, found Intel's chips were in 399, Read More →

Europeans rumored to be set to punish Intel

The blog world is abuzz with rumors that Intel is about to get spanked - and hard - by European authorities, who have been investigating claims the Santa Clara chipmaker engaged in anti-competitive practices. Some are speculating that the European Union Read More →

Advanced Micro Devices restructures its operations

Money losing Advanced Micro Devices of Sunnyvale said today it is revamping its organization, by creating four operational teams. A products team, led by Rick Bergman, will merge the company's effort to make graphics chips and microprocessors "into a "single unified Read More →
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