The microchip celebrates 50th birthday

September the 12th 2008 - the 50th birthday of the microchip. If Jack Kilby had been allowed holiday leave we might never have got the microchip or at least not as soon. In 50 years the chip has changed the world....

Nokia buys out Symbian to create Google rival

With the change in the licensing of the Symbian operating system, something great is going to happen. Nokia has a huge userbase of the operating system, but it is not alone, by using this technology. Maybe some...

ARM's new Cortex core ready for low-power multicore chips

"Two weeks after Intel signaled its future low-power intentions, ARM has unveiled its latest mobile chip design for smart phones and consumer devices that will arrive around 2010.The Cortex A9 is an extension of the Cortex family of processor cores that ARM unveiled two years...

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