
Intel forced to buy Altera
Or Wall Street will kick it to death
While there are some that do not believe that Intel will have to press ahead with its rumoured buy out of rival Altera, there are signs that it might not have a choice.

Guardian of the Galaxy makes killing
Samsung laughing all the way to the bank
While Samsung saw its January-March earnings slip for the sixth straight quarter, investors are expecting a rebound this year on healthy chip sales and high hopes for its Galaxy smartphones.

Gigabyte Server releases ARM motherboard/SOC
Server on a chip
Gigabyte's server arm has come out with a couple of 'Server on a Chip' solutions based around ARM chips..

TSMC faces weak smartphone chip demand
Blame the almighty dollar
The share value of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is falling faster than a team of free fall parachuting elephants who have forgotten to pack the key ingredient of their act.

Intel could challenge Nvidia on GPUs
Set my people Phi
Intel has released details of its next -generation Xeon Phi processor and it is starting to look like Chipzilla is gunning for a chunk of Nvidia's GPU market.

AMD shows off facial recognition search
Organise your video collection
AMD has developed facial recognition technology to enable users to organize and search video clips based on the people featured in them.
Former Intel bloke sentenced to three years
Stole trade secrets, went to work for AMD
TSMC to invest $1.4 billion in ASML
Lithography systems maker to advance chip making by two years
MediaTek expects smartphone chips to be hot
Ignoring the slowing global economy
Demand for chips impossible to predict
Maxim blames manufacturers