Intel today launches its range of mobile Pentium III chips designed - the processor maker claims - to make notebooks run cooler, faster and for longer. The new chips - code-named Tualatin - are based on 0.13 micron manufacturing technology, a...
Philips Semiconductor on Tuesday announced that it has provided partners with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that they'll use in efforts to improve Benetton's supply chain management system.
Sources familiar with the company's plans said executives will make a presentation encouraging its top 100 suppliers to start using wireless inventory tracking equipment - chips affixed to products, and scanners in warehouses - by 2005.
IT buyers are being warned about low-quality flash silicon chips being used in portable storage devices, which can lead to irretrievable data failure. Memory and storage firm Vtec claims sub-standard chips with only 70 to 80 per cent data integrity...
Execution Protection by AMD, technology contained in AMD's Athlon 64 chips, prevents a buffer overflow, a common method used to attack computers. The circuitry is already inside existing Athlon 64 chips, but it can't be activated yet.
The Italian Ministry of Health kicked off a six-month trial of the chips for hospitals in April. VeriChip can already sell implantable RFID chips in the United States for standard security applications and the financial market.