Japan earthquake will not stop Chipmakers

Intel and Qualcomm will be fine
Sandy Bridge ULV leader is i7 2657M

Q2 2011 at 1.6GHz + turbo
Oracle halves cores on Sparc

Wants to improve thread performance
Nvidia chips power fastest supercomputer

Someone has to buy them
China reveals its latest chip creations


World holds its breath
3DS likely using two ARM11 CPUs

Should offer good performance
AMD has Buldozer CPU prototypes in house

Sampling partners in Q4 2010
AMD's Zacate APU is faster than Intel's Core i5 CPU

AMD tries to prove it
AMD talks up Brazos

In two flavours
Analyst's server report pants, says Intel

They'll pull the report soon