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The official link to the 2007 Microprocessor Forum, presented by In-Stat.

Intel and AMD, which for years have played a game a leapfrog when it comes to x86 processor technology, are now headed in radically different directions.

Mark Bohr, Intel senior fellow, says his company looked at air-gap technology like IBM recently introduced, and dismissed it as costly and inefficient. Click here to listen to this interview conducted by Ed Sperling, Editor In Chief of Electronic News and Electronic Business.

In continuing its steady pursuit of Moore's Law, market-leading MPU maker Intel is standing firm behind the use of high-k dielectric layers and metal oxide gates as the most efficient way to move toward ever-smaller process technologies.

During a keynote presentation today at the In-Stat Microprocessor Forum, NTT DoCoMo Communications Laboratories USA Senior VP Eisuke Miki said mobile communications operator success is determined by its ability to provide the features that customers want in a cost-effective manner.

Max Baron, In-Stat principal analyst, talks about the hottest issues -- some literally -- with the next generation of processors.

According to Japan-based auto components maker Denso, the automotive world is set for a major makeover, fueled by more computer chips that will greatly increase the safety, eco-friendliness and comfort of the driving experience.

The company's highest-performance, single-threaded, fully synthesizable core, the 74K is capable of achieving an operating frequency of greater than 1 GHz in a 65-nm general-purpose process.

Touting code-efficiency, processing performance and power consumption, Renesas Technology is detailing its upcoming CPU architecture, set for a 2009 release.

Does system architecture affect power dissipation? You bet it does.

The jaw-dropping aspect to the teraflops research processor is the fine grain power management features that allow power to be scaled to match workload demands and features 21 sleep regions per tile.

The next step in processor design is based on simplicity, but it’s going to make engineers cringe and programmers wince.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. has announced details of its next-generation "Titan" processor family that will be available in single, dual or quad-core models.