A node in the right direction
By Sylvie Barak, 16 April 2009
IBM AND ITS "technology alliance" have announced they'll be moving to 28nm process technology, perfect for small, low-powered, consumer devices and delivering a swift sharp kick to Intel's shins. IBM, along with the additional fab five, Chartered Semiconductor, GlobalFoundries (sic), Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics and ST Microelectronics will apparently be jointly developing the 28nm, high-k metal gate (HKMG) tech, extending an existing development agreement between the six. The new tech is touted as being capable of providing a 40 per cent performance boost and a 20 per cent reduction in power guzzlage on a chip half the size of those made using current 45nm process. IBM and co. are also lauding the tech's power-performance and time-to-market advantages, as well as the ‘hardly-leaky-at-all' HKMG technology, good for bumped-up battery life. The move is especially significant to AMD spinoff, GlobalFoundries, which is busy floundering around for new third-party customers to chip away for.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Google beats estimates, acknowledges uncertainty
By John Letzing, April 16, 2009
Google Inc. on Thursday posted a first-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates thanks to continued spending by search advertisers and a clampdown on costs, helping bolster the impression that the company is weathering the economic downturn relatively well. But while Google's shares rose immediately after the earnings announcement, they turned lower in late trading as investors absorbed news of the company's first-ever sequential decline in net revenue since it went public, and heard Chief Executive Eric Schmidt acknowledge that he sees no end in sight for the recession.
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Google Inc. on Thursday posted a first-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates thanks to continued spending by search advertisers and a clampdown on costs, helping bolster the impression that the company is weathering the economic downturn relatively well. But while Google's shares rose immediately after the earnings announcement, they turned lower in late trading as investors absorbed news of the company's first-ever sequential decline in net revenue since it went public, and heard Chief Executive Eric Schmidt acknowledge that he sees no end in sight for the recession.
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