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  • Australia's $10 'GiFi' chip promises wireless 5Gbps

    Australian researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) have developed a lower power, short range chip for wireless communications that can achieve up to 5Gbps -- allowing them to transfer a complete DVD in a matter of seconds.

  • Asia hungry for multicore processors

    Virtualisation and flexibility are two of the key factors driving demand for multicore chips in the Asia Pacific region.

  • Nanotechnology makes small the new big

    The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, but nanoscale computing may soon make that achievement look elephantine, say some of the stars of information technology.

  • Design delays Barcelona for 6 months: AMD CEO

    AMD is set to officially launch Barcelona in September, six months behind schedule due to the quad-core server processor's "complicated" design, according to CEO Hector Ruiz.

  • Sun plans broader reach for UltraSparc chip

    With the expected launch of its new UltraSparc T2 chip Sun will once again sell microprocessors, but this time round it has plans to expand beyond the server market.

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  • Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007

    Welcome to the CIO Vision Series and congratulations to Cesare Tizi, who was awarded the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year award for 2007. Tizi was recognised for the work he did while successfully leading Australia's largest energy supplier, AGL Energy, through a period of intense change.

  • Can CEO-in-waiting give AMD a jumpstart?

    Company president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer is being groomed to succeed Hector Ruiz, but first he must prove that last year's engineering mistakes were an aberration.

  • Itanium: A cautionary tale

    The wonderchip that wasn't serves as a lesson about how complex development plans can go awry in a fast-moving industry.

  • Intel: Friend or foe?

    Although AMD has painted Intel as a bully, execs who've dealt with company draw a more ambiguous picture.

  • Intel's Mr. Chips takes final bow

    Before leaving his post as CEO, Intel's Craig Barrett wants to make a few things perfectly clear.

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  • IBM to help AMD on future chips

    Big Blue will team with Advanced Micro Devices to develop future chip technologies, an alliance that will better insulate AMD from the growing risks of making processors.

  • First beta of Banias chip ready

    Intel has produced its first prototypes of the upcoming "Banias" processor, the company's first chip purely designed for use in mobile PCs.

  • Sun likely to use AMD's Opteron chip

    Sun Microsystems will likely adopt the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices as it extends into new branches of the server market.

  • AMD expands Opteron chip line

    Advanced Micro Devices launches 64-bit chips for servers with both single and multiple processors. It's also looking to fend off Itanium advances from rival Intel.

  • New standard to speed chip connections

    A key industry group is aiming to come out with a new specification for a high-speed chip connection technology that could more than triple the bandwidth for data.

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