Microprocessors news from FierceCIO

Two teams of U.S. researchers are making significant inroads in the field of nanotechnology, which could have a big impact in the development of future microprocessors and storage devices. By using... Read more...

Craig Barrett, the chairman of the Intel Corp, said he plans to retire in May. Barrett, 69, steered the chip maker through the dot-com collapse and has become a high-profile advocate for expanding... Read more...

Apple Inc. has gone outside its normal orbit with plans to hire an IBM technology executive to run its iPod and iPhone hardware engineering groups. The move is not sitting well with IBM, which last... Read more...

Intel has unveiled a new family of microprocessors which it says will be initially targeted at the graphics card for the personal computer. Code-named Larrabee, it will feature between 16 and 48... Read more...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs have confirmed that the next version of Mac OS X - 10.6, will be code named Snow Leopard. The focus of this new version will be more towards Read more...

The quad-core race might only be heating up now but that isn't stopping AMD from stepping its game up in the war for more core. ... Read more...

No, quad-core chips aren't heating up literally--though they do get quite hot if your case isn't properly ventalated. Rather, the quad-core CPU market is heating up, thanks to price cuts

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We all knew it was bound to happen sooner or later: as the DailyTech headline proudly announces, "The Megahertz Race is Now Officially the Multi-core Race". If you're an AMD fan who felt

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Call it a sign of the times: Intel's budget-minded Celeron line has just entered the dual-core age. The new high-end Celeron, the 1.6Ghz E1200, sports 512K bytes of cache and an 800Mhz front-side... Read more...

See folks, AMD isn't the only chipmaker that has trouble fabricating CPUs. Looks like Intel has run into some issues Read more...