IBM's Meyerson: Chip industry needs a 'Plan B'
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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - The days of relying on shrinking transistors to achieve performance gains are over, and the chip industry needs to enter a new era of innovation where system-level features are just as important as thinner transistor gates, said IBM Corp.'s Bernie Meyerson in a keynote address at the Fall Processor Forum Tuesday.
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In dueling announcements, Intel Corp. and IBM separately say they have solved a puzzle perplexing the semiconductor industry about how to reduce energy loss in microchip transistors
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Upcoming chips will lead to relatively inexpensive hardware, company says.
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Chip maker likely is making way for new products.
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Chipmaker turns to a more-is-better approach, downplaying chip speeds in favor of new features and designs.
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The chipmaker appears to have met its most recent deadline for production of the smaller-featured chips.
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A smaller and more efficient design could help the chipmaker better compete.
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When Boise-based Micron Technology Inc. picked its Manassas plant to produce a new generation of memory chips, the decision was based on factors as distant as global technology prices and predictions about the market for iPods and cellphones.
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By Rodney Tanaka, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif.  Dec. 13--PASADENA -- A local tech company is partnering with IBM to build  chips used in digital cameras and X-ray machines.
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Some chief executives boost their companies in speeches. Addressing an IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) customer event, CEO Samuel Palmisano attempted to buck up an entire industry.
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Chip injunctions force the company to alter its plans.
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Chip maker says it will use methods other than clock speed to improve processor performance.
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When Morris Chang, the founder of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, speaks of the future of the chip business, he sounds somber.
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Chip maker offers few details about its plans for dual-core server processors.
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Chip power has increased dramatically in the last few years, thanks to new multicore processors from Intel, AMD and other chip makers. The problem is, software developers who understand how to utilize the new hardware are in short supply.
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IBM lost the 1980s. But the big payoff may be still to come.
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The chipmaker appears to have put its major problems in the rearview mirror. Plus: Intel's mobile Linux project.