Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it would fully refund customers who had purchased its personal computers with flawed chipset from Intel Corp.
Intel Corp found a defect in one of its chips, hurting its credibility during a major product launch and at a time when demand for microprocessors in PCs is being threatened.
Intel Corp on Monday cut its first quarter revenue forecast by $300 million due to the costs associated with correcting a design flaw it discovered in one of its chips.
Intel Corp cut its first-quarter revenue forecast by $300 million on Monday because of costs associated with correcting a design flaw it discovered in one of its chips.
Intel says the problem, which will cost the company one billion overall, would have impacted a limited number of systems but still didn't meet its quality standards.
Qualcomm Inc raised its forecasts for second-quarter and 2011 revenue as sales of its chips for wireless devices accelerate in China and India, and its shares rose 6 percent.
Stocks fell on Tuesday weighed by disappointing blue-chip earnings, including 3M and Johnson & Johnson, ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech.
Graphics chip maker Nvidia launched a new chip in its GeForce GTX family - GeForce GTX 560 Ti.
Toshiba Corp is hammering out a deal to outsource fabrication of advanced system chips to U.S. firm GlobalFoundries, the Nikkei business daily reported, citing company sources.
Near field communications (NFC) chips will be implemented in Visa credit and debit cards and used for touch and go technology at McDonald's in the U.K.
FBR Capital Markets lowered its 2011 profit view of Advanced Micro Devices, after the company ousted its Chief Executive Dirk Meyer.
PC chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc reported solid earnings and said there was no strategic shift toward the mobile market following the former CEO's recent departure.
Rusnano will invest $700 million in British Plastic technology firm Plastic Logic to produce basic plastic computer components in Russia.
U.S. chipmaker Intel will invest $2.7 billion over the next two years upgrading its chip plant in southern Israel to produce 22 nanometer technology.
Shares in semiconductor companies jumped on Friday in Europe and Japan after strong earnings report from sector bellwether Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, defied a slowdown in PC sales.
Nvidia shares surged 15 percent on Wednesday, extending a rally ignited by optimism about its ARM-based mobile chip business and a $1.5 billion legal settlement with Intel Corp.
Intel Corp will pay graphics chip designer Nvidia $1.5 billion to license its technology, settling a legal dispute and smoothing the way for better competition in PC processors.
In a major technological breakthrough, a team of scientists led by the University of Glasgow has unveiled an ultra-fast chip which they claim could make desktop computers 20 times faster than the current ones.
Toshiba Corp will overhaul its chip operations, outsourcing output of some system chips to Samsung Electronics and selling a production line to Sony Corp, as it reduces its non-memory chip exposure.
Toshiba Corp will overhaul its chip operations, outsourcing output of some system chips to Samsung Electronics and selling a production line to Sony Corp, as it reduces its non-memory chip exposure.
Toshiba Corp will overhaul its chip operations, outsourcing output of some system chips to Samsung Electronics and selling a production line to Sony Corp, as it reduces its non-memory chip exposure.
South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and several companies that use its chips do not infringe two Spansion Inc flash memory chip patents, the International Trade Commission said on Thursday.
