At CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Samsung has unveiled a brand new mobile chipset called the Exynos 5 Octa, which combines four Cortex-A15 cores with four Cortex-A7s for supreme battery life and performance More...
A few hours before Qualcomm are set to take the stage at CES 2013, we've found details of what they're going to announce, including a super-powered Qualcomm 800 2.3 Ghz quad-core chipset More...
NVIDIA has just announced the Tegra 4, bringing 72 GPU cores to smartphones, tablets and netbooks; plus four ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores, and 4G LTE - making it NVIDIA's fastest chipset ever More...
The Tegra 4 chipset codenamed "Wayne" has had it's specs leaked by a Weibo user. Judging from what we can see, we know that it's a substantial improvement to current existing chipsets. More...
Expected to land on the market in 2014-2015, Chipzilla's Broadwell microarchitecture will seemingly put an end to the chipset configuration used today in PC motherboards. More...
Intel has released a new round of chipsets to go along its Ivy Bridge CPUs. Codenamed "Panther Point," the new 7-series chipsets include half a dozen parts, with the Z77 being Intel's new flagship. More...
Qualcomm has released a press statement announcing the quad-core Snapdragon. Their new chipset, named "AP8064", which is based on Qualcomm's Krait 28nm code, can pump out an unprecedented 2.5GHz for each core, and is specially... More...
Intel has announced that it has identified a flaw in the design of Serial ATA ports on its newest 6 Series "Cougar Point" chipset, according to a press release. In some cases, this flaw causes... More...
VIA has tacitly confirmed that it's quitting the PC chipset business, claiming that there's no longer a third-party chipset market worth the name. Richard Brown, VIA's marketing chief, told Custom PC: "We believed that ultimately... More...
Nvidia is planning to launch the next generation nForce 790i chipset in the second quarter this year. The chipset adopts Nvidia's C73 northbridge and MCP55 southbridge, and will support Intel processors with FSB up to... More...
VIA Technologies merged its PC chipset division under that of CPUs in the fourth quarter of last year. Going forward the division will mainly focus on supporting the company's own-brand CPU platforms and will slowly... More...
AMD will launch the performance/mainstream RS780 next-generation IGP chipset and value segment RS740 in January next year, while in the second quarter, the company will launch the high-end RS780D and mainstream RS780C, according to sources... More...
AMD, however, has not given up... not by a longshot. While we all have waited to see the results of their ATi acquisition, today I had the chance to check it out firsthand. ... More...
Biostar has announced the launch of its TA770 A2+ motherboard based on the AMD 770 chipset. The TA770 A2+ supports the upcoming AMD Phenom series multi-core processors, which support dual-channel DDR2-1066, bigger L3 cache and... More...
Managed service providers, system administrators and system builders have discovered a common interest -- getting Intel's deep-drilling vPro and cPro platforms into the desktops and laptops they manage and sell. The vPro platform, rolled out... More...
Intel is currently developing two new technologies which will be introduced along with the upcoming high-end X38 chipset, according to sources at motherboard makers. Both technologies target the enthusiast market. The two new technologies are... More...
Nvidia is scheduled to launch its new IGP (integrated graphics processor) chipset MCP 78 in October 2007 to make up for its recent MCP 68, noted sources at motherboard makers. MCP 68 recently launched in... More...
This third quarter, Intel Corporation plans to boost its orders to Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation, which will decrease Intel's chipset market share but will also maximize Intel's profit margins, as the company will not have... More...
Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a lineup of AMD M690 core-logic sets which derive from the company's recently announced AMD 690-series chipsets. The world's second largest manufacturer of x86 central processing units (CPUs) promises that... More...
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) on March 28 announced that it has signed a long-term licensing contract with Intel for the manufacture and sale of chipsets for the Intel Core 2 Quad processor with 1333MHz front... More...
IBM has announced the manufacture of a tiny optical chipset capable of moving data at speeds of 160GB per second. A prototype of the hardware, called an optical transceiver, is scheduled to be introduced Thursday... More...
Intel on Wednesday said it would boost the clock speed of its quad-core Xeon processor, and introduce an upgraded chipset for workstation and high-performance computing. Executives with the Santa Clara, Calif., company said the clock... More...
Nvidia Corp., a leading developer of core-logic sets and graphics processors, said that the problem with Serial ATA controller on its latest high-end core-logic sets is solved, however, some users are still reporting problems with... More...
Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processor and core-logic sets, is about to face criticism from enthusiasts for the problems that occur with the company's latest premium-class chipset. Apparently, the core-logic's I/O controller has... More...
Intel Corp. has announced the availability of the Intel Wireless UWB Link 1480 MAC (media access controller) silicon and reference designs for ultra-wideband host solutions. These solutions, based on the certified Wireless Universal Serial Bus... More...
ATI Technologies, a leading developer of graphics technologies and core-logic solutions that is to be acquired by Advanced Micro Devices, said it would miss its revenue estimates by up to $140 million as a result... More...
Intel's next-generation chipset for WiMax devices will support either fixed or mobile versions of the wireless broadband technology, and all the equipment vendors that have adopted the company's current product plan to use the new... More...
ATI IS WORKING on one cool, Conroe-supporting chipset. It is codenamed RD600 and this one will have no less than three PCIe 16X ports. As you might know, ATI wants to do a lot... More...
Thanks to NI3NOR for posting this in BPN ATi is expected to announce their most powerful Crossfire chipset, the RD600, in coming days. Temporarily dubbed the ATi Xpress 3200 Intel Edition, the chipset will... More...
Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president of Intel, admitted that terminating the supply of entry-level chipsets led to Intel missing profit and market share goals. With capacity support from ATI Technologies, Chandrasekher said that the shortage... More...
Intel has been known for producing its own motherboards for its processors for quite some time. However, these have always featured the processor giant's own chipsets. For the first time in recent memory,... More...
Intel's next high-end chipset, the 975X, will support both NVIDIA's SLI and ATI's Crossfire multi-GPU technologies, according to sources. The chipset comes with a built in PCI Express x16 interface, which gives motherboard makers... More...
Taiwan-based chipset makers including VIA Technologies and ULi expect to obtain patent rights for dual-graphics platforms from ATI Technologies and Nvidia, according to sources at the makers. ATI and Nvidia stated that they are still... More...
VIA Technologies today announced support for the latest dual-core AMD Opteron processors with its K8 series of core-logic chipsets. The VIA K8 series chipsets, including the new VIA K8T890, leverage VIA Hyper8 technology for high... More...
Intel will move up the launch date of its dual-core series Pentium Extreme Edition 840 CPU and 955X chipset to the middle of this month, according to Taiwan motherboard makers. The dual-core products, which are... More...
VIA Technologies, a developer of silicon-chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the VIA K8N800A, a low-power core-logic chipset with an integrated graphics processor (IGP) incorporated with the northbridge. The chipset is optimized for... More...
The nForce4 packs a number of innovative new features, including the aforementioned PCI Express capability, a firewall-fortified Gigabit Ethernet controller with hardware acceleration, and a robust implementation of the latest Serial ATA spec, including Native... More...
Fourth-quarter motherboard shipments from Taiwan motherboard makers might be affected by a shortage of Intel 865- and 845-series core-logic chipsets, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. Efforts by Intel to force the PC industry... More...
R500 parts headed for development kits, just in time for public unveiling on January 5th? The development hardware for Microsoft's Xbox 2 is moving closer to the final specification of the console... More...
Intel may be struggling a little bit with its processors right now, but the company smacked one out of the park with the introduction of its 900-series chipsets with PCI Express. These new core logic... More...
Intel plans to cut prices for its complete lineup of 915 core-logic chipsets on December 26, with the goal of boosting sales of the PCIe-enabled chipsets in the channel, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard... More...
ATI will ship its first PCI Express chipsets next month, initially targeting AMD processors, followed by Intel-oriented versions in November. And the new chipsets will ship under a new brand, Radeon Xpress. So claims Anandtech,... More...
VIA Technologies, a developer of silicon-chip technologies and PC-platform solutions, today announced the VIA K8T890 chipset, enabling advanced PCI Express (PCIe) connectivity on motherboards for the latest AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, and AMD Sempron... More...
At the end of this month, ATI Technologies plans to unveil its RX480 north bridge, which will be the company's first discrete chipset to support Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) K8 platform, said Reuven Soraya, director... More...
Amid the hubbub over the introduction of the GeForce 6600 line and the GeForce 6600GT's ability to work in an SLI configuration, folks from NVIDIA were dropping hints like mad at Quakecon about the company's... More...
Just days after an internal memo from Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett was published calling the company's recent manufacturing problems "not acceptable," a bug has emerged with the chipset developed for Intel's latest Xeon servers,... More...
The Register is reporting that Intel has pushed the release of Centrino 2 back to 2005. The Centrino 2 'Sonoma' was previously reported to ship in autumn. Why Intel is pushing back "Sonoma"... More...
Inventories of Pentium 4 chipsets at some leading Taiwanese motherboard makers have recently swelled in excess of one-month levels, instead of normal two-week levels, according to sources at the makers. The rise in inventories is... More...
Intel plans to launch its Grantsdale and Alderwood chipsets for Pentium 4 processors on June 21, according to several motherboard makers at the Computex 2004 exhibition in Taipei. But while the chipsets will soon be... More...
The Computex show in Taiwan next week will showcase Intel's "Grantsdale" and "Alderwood" chipsets, just a few weeks before their official launch. ATI Technologies and rival Nvidia Corp. are also expected to discuss and show... More...