Apparently, they are not penny dreadful

Engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and British flexible-electronics manufacturer PragmatIC Semiconductor have made a plastic processor which costs less than a penny.

New benchmarks released

AMD is continuing to build up expectations for its new Zen-based Naples proccessor.

£24 billion, I really think so

British chip designer ARM   has just agreed to be bought  by the Japanese giant SoftBank for £24 billion.

Low powered Skylake-U

Chipzilla has quietly added a new mobile chip to its pricelist.

One more SKU than Haswell-E

A Chinese website has leaked details about Broadwell-E which sounds pretty plausible.

Packed full of open source goodness

The BBC has shown the final design of its Micro Bit educationally-targeted microcontroller.

Stanford University finding

Boffins at Stanford University have found that the wires in a chip perform 30 percent better when they are wrapped in graphene.

No liquidity problem

A team of Standford researches have been up on the roof during a lightning storm too many times and have emerged with a computer which powers the processor with water .

Better graphics and video apparently

Chipzilla opened Computex in Taipei today talking up its new augmented Broadwell H range.

Wood chip on the wall

U.S. and Chinese boffins have come up with wooden semiconductor chips which have the advantage of being biodegradable and a lot cheaper than conventional semiconductors.