
AMD lays on the open sauce
Goes well with chips
AMD and is now RTG (Radeon Technologies Group) are involved in a major push to open source GPU resources.

More Chinese chipmakers go for ARM
All thanks to government cash
ZTE has received a pile of cash from the Chinese government to speed up the development of its own application processors based around ARM designs.

UMC expects chip shipping fall
Falling capacity
Foundry UMC is expecting its shipments to fall by five percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, as a result of ongoing inventory adjustments within the industry supply chain.

TSMC says no to chip growth
Life gets more disappointing
Chipmaker TSMC says that chip growth this year will be nothing.

More poor results from AMD
Has to flog plant
AMD's woes are deepening as its profits continue to fall and it lacks any high tech product to pull its nadgers out of the fire.

Chinese government might buy SanDisk and Toshiba
All your NAND flash are belong to us
SanDisk and Toshiba, which jointly develop NAND flash technology, are being targeted for acquisition by China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup.

Samsung copies Apple's poor results
Smartphone slide continues
Samsung had a downbeat outlook for the second half of the year as smartphone market growth slows.

Intel divides to rule
Sets PC targets in six areas
Chipzilla is trying to boost promotion of its desktop CPU platforms by dividing the market into six pieces.

TSMC sees profit slowing
Looks like Apple sales are not that good
Chipmaker TSMC's second quarter profit growth slowed to 33 percent year-on-year as sales fell for the second consecutive period on weaker smartphone demand in China and other emerging markets.

Pot could be the secret for supercapacitors
Your chips could create cravings for Pringles
With the US growing hemp again after banning as part of the war on drugs, US boffins are using medical marijuana to provide a rival for graphene as the next model material of supercapacitors.