Intel has just made one very, very big claim: it reckons that its new Haswell chip will boost the battery life of laptops by a staggering 50 per cent. Read More >>

Intel's new 4th-gen chips may be on the horizon, but AMD is taking the opportunity to strike first and get out their with its new family of third-generation A-series processors ahead of time. Enter the "Temash," "Kabini," and "Richland," processors that will make themselves at home in upcoming tablets, midrange notebooks, and powerhouse ultrathins soon. Read More >>

Ironically, coming from the land of the tiny, Japan has beaten the rest of the world with the biggest McDonald's fries you've ever seen. It's not just super-sized anymore, it's simply humongous. Meet the epically-named "Mega Potato". Now you're making me hungry. Read More >>

Imagine if silicon chips were smaller than a grain of sand and could be made using a laser printer: everything under the Sun could be made unobtrusively smart. But that's not science fiction, and you don't have to imagine too hard — because researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre have already done it. Read More >>

Nvidia has announced new updates to the Tegra line of mobile processors that power a huge chunk of today's mobiles and tablets, with a roadmap that covers developments up to 2015 shown off by the hardware maker. Read More >>

Last week we heard rumours that Apple's courting Intel to produce its custom silicon for it, in an effort to ditch its dependence on Samsung's chip manufacturing. Now a new smaller chip in the updated Apple TV could indicate that Apple and Samsung have already split ways. Does this mean the gloves are off? Read More >>

Reuters is reporting that Intel has been in rather unlikely discussions that could end up having the processor giant produce chips to Apple's specifications, allowing Apple to ditch Samsung. Read More >>

Manufactured by Freescale, this chunk of silicon claims to be the world's smallest ARM-powered chip. Measuring just 2 x 2 x 0.5 millimetres, it's so small that it will likely end up inside... you. Read More >>

When Nvida announced the Tegra 4 back at CES, they laid down the claim it was the world's fastest mobile processor. Now, at Mobile World Congress, the benchmarks are coming in and there's no questioning it. The Tegra 4 is a total speed demon. Read More >>

Most of the post-processing done by a camera is handled by software that MIT researchers believe could be a lot smarter, faster, and user-friendly. So they're developing a single chip that can handle these operations with remarkable efficiency. Read More >>

The fastest microchips we have can only pass their data from side to side and front to back, no matter how close their components are squeezed together. A new chip developed by researchers at University of Cambridge, on the other hand, can pass data up and down too, making for the world's first truly 3D microchip. Read More >>

Now that Intel has its efficient and expensive Ivy Bridge microarchitecture in tablets and computers everywhere, it's decided to launch a budget-friendly line of processors which use the same 22nm manufacturing process. Read More >>

A leaked slide, published by Chip Hell, purports to show the specs of NVIDIA's next high-power mobile processors — and if the leak's accurate, it looks like NVIDIA is more than catching up with the competition. Read More >>

These are Samsung's latest memory chips. They might not look much, but they're 20 per cent smaller and 30 per cent faster than the current standard — and they're already destined to appear in your next phone. Read More >>

According to a report form Bloomberg News, Apple is considering switching away from the Intel chips that have been powering Mac computers for years, in favour of chips designed in-house, like the A6 and A6X powering the new iPhone 5 and iPad 4. Read More >>