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• Rise of the tablet may be a blow to Intel, says Goldman Sachs

  Tablets are making such a mark in the computer market that they just might start giving the world's largest chip maker a good bashing.

• Tablets changing the way chip makers think

  The emergence of tablets as an alternative to PCs has caught the attention of chip makers, which are preparing next-generation processors to boost application and graphics performance on the devices.

• Semiconductor market to slow down next year

  Market research firms Gartner and IDC on Thursday said that worldwide semiconductor revenue will slow down next year, putting the brakes on the market's recovery this year from the recession.

• Gartner: Samsung gains on Intel in semiconductor market

  Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to go up this year, with Samsung gaining ground on top semiconductor company Intel in market share, Gartner said in a study released Wednesday.

• TI raises speed bar with new smartphone processor

  A new Texas Instruments chip that incorporates Arm technology could raise the level of graphics and application performance in smartphones and tablets.

• Oracle to halve core count in next Sparc processor

  Oracle will halve the number of cores in its next Sparc processor and instead improve its single-thread performance, a weak area for the chip but one that's important for running large databases and back-end applications.

• Ellison: Oracle Enterprise Linux coming to Sparc

  Oracle will port its Enterprise Linux distribution to Sun's Sparc processor, a move that could help it compete better against IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the high-end server business.

• Nvidia wants to pack more cores in tablets, smartphones

  Nvidia is looking to pack more CPU cores into mobile devices like smartphones and tablets as a way to improve performance while preserving battery life.

• Oracle challenges IBM with 'Sparc Supercluster'

  Oracle on Thursday stepped up its efforts to rebuild Sun's hardware business, announcing a high-performance clustered database system that could turn up the competitive pressure on rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

• IBM chip breakthrough may lead to exascale supercomputers

  IBM researchers have made a breakthrough in using pulses of light to accelerate data transfer between chips, something they say could boost the performance of supercomputers by more than a thousand times.

• Tablets expected to clobber PC sales in 2011

  Move over PC. The Apple iPad and other tablet devices are turning quite a few heads and chipping away at your business.

• Intel switches on 'first virtual retail salesperson in Asia'

  Silicon solutions firm Intel Malaysia has launched the Intel Virtual Retail Salesperson (RSP) to enhance consumers' IT shopping experience in a mall.

• Woman helped sell fake chips to US military

  A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to charges that she helped her employer sell counterfeit computer chips for use by the U.S. military

• Intel, Altera make a programmable Atom

  Intel will integrate configurable processors from Altera in a new family of Atom chips, the E600C series, for embedded uses such as industrial, military and transportation applications.

• Intel: 1,000-core processor possible

  An experimental Intel chip shows the feasibility of building processors with 1,000 cores, an Intel researcher has asserted.