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MediaTek has unveiled a new Dimensity 1080 chip. it has an identical setup to the Dimensity 920 with one main difference - the two new and bigger cores run 100 MHz faster than their predecessors.

A leaked slide has revealed details about AMD's upcoming chipsets for motherboards with the new AM5 socket. The company is preparing two regular and two "extreme" platforms with extra features.

Intel announced its partnership with Taiwanese chipmaker, MediaTek. It will, thus, produce chipsets using Intel Foundry Services for MediaTek's smart edge devices and provide production capacity.

Apple's ongoing rift with Qualcomm may have finally come to a breaking point, as the Cupertino-based company is developing its next line of smartphones and tablets without help from the chip maker.

Intel has received an license to support CrossFireX on its upcoming P45 chipsets, according to sources at motherboard makers. Although ATI originally said it would be open to licensing CrossFire to those who wanted to,...

Intel is planning to add one more member to its 4 series (Eaglelake) chipsets which will be launched in the second quarter of 2008, according to sources at motherboard makers. In addition to its original...

Nvidia is planning to launch the AMD platform-based MCP72 IGP (integrated graphics processor) chipset at the end of November or the beginning of December this year, with mass production to start ahead in November, according...

Intel will officially start delivering its X38 chipsets in mid-September, enabling motherboard makers to begin volume production of X38-based motherboards by the end of this month, according to sources at the makers. The official launch...

Intel and its partners will kick of CeBIT 2007 with the launch of Intel's Bearlake family of chipsets for desktop PCs. The new series introduces support for DDR3 memory, front side bus speeds up to...

AMD has formally begun renaming ATI's CrossFire 1600 and 3200 chipsets as AMD products, a month after news of the scheme first broke. As expected, the two parts will now be called, respectively, the 480X...

ASRock, an Asustek Computer subsidiary focusing on entry-level motherboards, will significantly increase the adoption of integrated graphics processor (IGP) chipsets from VIA Technologies for Intel-based motherboards while lowering the proportion of motherboards with ATI chipsets,...

Nvidia today launched the nForce Pro 3000 chipset family for servers and workstations based on AMD's recently announced DDR 2 SDRAM-supporting dual-core Opteron processors. The chipsets are aimed at machines containing one to eight or...

VIA Technologies has begun shipments of its PCIe-enabled integrated chipsets supporting Pentium 4 and K8 platforms this quarter, albeit in small volumes, according to company sources. The sources noted that though demand for VIA's integrated...

nForce chipsets slated to feature integrated GeForce DirectX 9 and Shader Model 3.0 graphics technology for AMD Athlon 64 platforms. Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer Nvidia today announced new integrated graphics chipset offerings...

Intel's next-generation Pentium 4 desktop chipsets, 'Glenwood' and 'Lakeport', will support Serial ATA 2, 667MHz DDR 2 and a 1066MHz frontside bus clock frequency, it has been claimed. Glenwood and Lakeport are the successors to...

Intel's next generation of desktop-use chipsets, to be introduced in the second half of 2005, will support wireless technologies such as 802.11a/b/g, said Sunil Kumar, director of chipset and software marketing at Intel, yesterday in...

Although ATI Technologies has not yet announced its PCIe desktop chipsets, the company has already begun shipping the products, according to statements made by David Orton, ATI's chief executive officer (CEO), during ATI's fiscal-fourth-quarter conference...

Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of silicon chips for computers, has decided to abandon the plan to incorporate wireless LAN functionality into its i915- and i925X-series desktop chipsets. The move was said to be...

CHIP GIANT Intel has released some details of its dual core Glenwood and Lakeport chipset to its customers, the original equipment manufacturers (OEM). And it has also projected a series of its own Intel motherboards...

Intel has resumed deliveries of its 915 chipsets, starting early this week, according to sources at local IT makers and channels. Sales of the new-generation Pentium 4 chipsets were suspended in late June after a...

Thanks crusher. Intel announced specification change for the yet unannounced chipsets E7320, E7520, E7525. The spec modification is pretty strange, as the core-logic sets code-named Tumwater and Lindenhurst are not officially unveiled yet. ...

Intel's forthcoming 915 (the Grantsdale) and 925 (the Alderwood) series of chipsets, expected to hit the market in June, will not bundle drivers for either Microsoft Windows 98 or Windows ME operating systems (OS), according...

SIS told us about its 659 Rambus chipset at last year's CeBIT and the game is far from over on this front, it appeared from a conversation we had with the firm today. The 659...

VIA today launched a pair of integrated chipsets for the Pentium 4, touting the parts' graphics performance delivered courtesy of an S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro core. The chipsets, the PM800 and PM880, offer single- and...

Intel's next generation of chipsets will mark a milestone in performance and digital convergence, combining several critical technologies to boost audio, video and image performance, a top executive of the chipmaker claimed. Speaking...

ATI's Chipsets for AMD64 with DirectX 9 Graphics Uncovered Following the Wednesday's claims from ATI Technologies President and COO, Mr. Dave Orton, Advanced Micro Devices uncovered some of ATI's plans concerning chipsets for AMD's...

SIS released a new driver for their 315/315E cards but a lot more chipsets are supported : VGA cards : SIS315/315E/all Xabre cards Integrated VGA : 740/741/760/65x series/661FX Integrated VGA (Mobile) : M741/M760/M65x...

Further extending its reach beyond graphics processors, Nvidia will produce chipsets for Transmeta's Efficeon processor, the companies said Tuesday. The Nvidia C8000 will essentially connect the processor to other components inside a computer and likely...

CHIPSET FIRM Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) said it has introduced a range of notebook chipset that include wireless LAN capabilities and support Intel's Pentium M microprocessor. The firm's integrated chipset, the SIS 648MX, supports a...

Taiwan-based chipset suppliers Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies will both start volume production of new chipsets supporting dual-channel memory and Pentium 4 processors in September, according to the companies. While SiS will start...