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Leading foundries of silicon wafers and manufacturers of CPUs, chipsets, and SoCs, have come together to form UCIe, an alliance to standardize die-to-die interconnects for chipset designs.

John Warner Backus, born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1924, has just passed away. At 82, Backus died Saturday in Ashland, Oregon, according to IBM Corporation, where he spent his career. In 1954 he got his...

Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, died on Monday at age 81 after a brief battle with Cancer. His invention, the integrated circuit, was first demonstrated on Sept. 12, 1958. The invention made...

The man who conceived the first Apple Macintosh has died at the age of 61. Jef Raskin joined Apple in 1978 to start its publications department, but the following year came up with the idea...

Thanks nev for this ... A man has been killed and another 10 people have been injured after a roller coaster car derailed at Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, local officials say....

Thanks Josh for this one. A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours, police said yesterday. The jobless man, identified by police only by his...

A leading Russian scientist who helped invent the laser has died, aged 85. The death of Alexander Prokhorov is being described as the end of an era by colleagues and politicians, including President...