Carrizo shipped to China
Not for the west yet
AMD has begun shipping its first "Carrizo" chips, the Carrizo-L – at least if you live in China.
Top chipmakers in open source MIPS push
Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom sign up
Qualcomm Atheros, Lantiq (part of Intel) and Broadcom have joined the Prpl Foundation.
Russia banking on home grown chips
Putin on the Bits
A Russian firm announced its intention to build its own homegrown CPUs as part of a cunning plan to keep the Americans from spying on the glorious Empire of Tsar Putin and oil oligarchs.
AMD talks about new A-series desktop pricing
It is only a suggestion
Buried in the announcements of AMD's Financial Analyst Day were the new processor pricing that was announced for the AMD A-series desktop processors.
Boffins want memristor brain chips
Memristors are better than silicon
Memristor could be the best chance to build chips which mimic the human brain. Not everyone's brain of course. There is no point mimicking the brain of someone who thinks that a Smartwatch is a pretty need idea, but rather the brain of someone who is a little more clever.