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'Intel Inside' shackles PC makers - Part 2
News When Compaq chose Cyrix chips for a line of Presario PCs in January 1997, it validated the low-cost PC segment and gave the unofficial thumbs up to using non-Intel chips. Intel Inside is obviously a force in the marketplace because it's perceived...
[April 6, 1999, 9:38]
New AMD mobile chips dust Intel
News While Gateway has reportedly stung AMD by phasing out the use of AMD chips in its PCs, in favour of Intel processors (See: Gateway deals a blow to AMD), Compaq Computer will continue to support AMD notebook chips.
[September 21, 1999, 9:35]
NetPC final spec looks a lot like a PC
News The consortium led by Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Microsoft and Intel completed the final spec this week, dropping one small bombshell by adding support for Digital Alpha processors but elsewhere observing the Wintel hegemony.
[April 24, 1997, 11:20]
EMC snatches storage crown from HP
News EMC had sales of $246.9m (£129.1m), overtaking HP’s $243.5m and seizing the first place in external storage -- a prize HP took when it merged with Compaq in 2001. HP has faced growing competition on several fronts -- last year, it also lost the...
[March 7, 2005, 13:30]
CES: Fiorina puts industry in the picture about merger
News The proposed merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer will also help you take better vacation snapshots. Her explanation was a rather oblique assurance that Compaq will help HP make better cameras and other digital-imaging products and...
[January 9, 2002, 9:47]
Five years ago: NetPC final spec looks a lot like a PC
News The consortium led by Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Microsoft and Intel completed the final spec this week, dropping one small bombshell by adding support for Digital Alpha processors but elsewhere observing the Wintel hegemony.
[April 24, 2002, 7:31]
AMD leader of CPU pack again with 700MHz Athlon
News Compaq is already advertising Presario 5900Z desktop consumer PCs on its website with "AMD Athlon processors up to 700MHz" onboard. There is certainly sufficient production to ship in bulk immediately -- there has to be if we are to supply the...
[October 4, 1999, 10:41]
Wave Of Earnings Warnings Predicted
News Compaq Computer Corp.and IBM Corp.flooding the consumer market with lower priced PCs, retailers have cut prices to unload their excess inventory. Coming off a red-hot summer that included 60-percent and 100-percent growth, respectively, for Dell...
[March 5, 1998, 14:40]
HP increases PC competition with itself
News Hewlett-Packard, which merged last year with Compaq, plans to tweak its two-brand consumer PC strategy with the introduction of a wide range of new Compaq Presario and HP Pavilion PC models during the next few weeks.
[June 6, 2003, 11:08]
Leader: Progress in NT alliances?
News It's a cut-and-paste press release combining the very best of the news that Sun will make its software and hardware more interoperable with Windows NT, and the news that Compaq will make Digital Unix more interoperable with Windows NT.
[September 21, 1998, 6:06]
Vendors poised to push NetPCs
News Compaq will lift the lid on its desktop strategy next week and unveil its NetPC product. Other companies are set to join Compaq next week in announcing NetPC products. Mitubishi's showing in the US is a novelty; the company currently sells PCs in...
[June 13, 1997, 16:40]
A Year Ago: Compaq's Pfeiffer to hype SME services
News Compaq is planning to put its PC sales blues behind it when chief Eckhard Pfeiffer announces a stream of products and services at the CeBIT show in Hanover this week. A week past Friday, the company surprised the industry by issuing a profits...
[March 17, 1999, 6:56]
Insider Dealings: All The Gossip That's Fit To Read
News Unlike Compaq and Dell UK subsidiaries who once played a friendly football match the same week their parent companies were in court, the strange thing is the anti-virus folk really, really don't like each other - something in the air, perhaps.
[September 6, 1997, 8:00]
Worldwide PC market is growing -- IDC
News Compaq maintained its lead -- just -- in its long-lasting duel with Dell for the top spot in both worldwide and US markets, but Dell is still keeping the pressure on. This is true particularly in the US market where Compaq accounted for 16.6...
[July 27, 1999, 11:03]
K6 could fit notebook picture
News IBM and Compaq have closer links with AMD. Compaq was unavailable for comment As with desktop PCs, for AMD to succeed with a top name in notebooks it may have to battle against inertia and fear of Intel's power.
[April 4, 1997, 15:09]
Five years ago: K6 could fit notebook picture
News IBM and Compaq have closer links with AMD. Compaq was unavailable for comment. As with desktop PCs, for AMD to succeed with a top name in notebooks it may have to battle against inertia and fear of Intel's power.
[March 31, 2002, 7:01]
Dell notebook aims high
News It costs £3,499, way below the £5,000-plus prices demanded by IBM, Toshiba and Compaq for top-end units. Compaq, in particular, looks vulnerable to the Dell mobile charge. While the firm has made big strides in the notebook arena over the last two...
[September 12, 1996, 15:41]
AOL, Compaq, Sony invest in Transmeta
News The new backers, bringing in a total of $72m (about £43m) of capital, are America Online, Compal Electronics, Compaq Computer, First International Computer, Gateway, Phoenix Technologies, Samsung, Sony and Quanta Computer.
[April 25, 2000, 15:40]
Is the Mac mini good value?
Talkback I went over to HP's page to check this mythical Compaq Presario you were talking about. Because if you added in Quicken and your $70 graphics card, it would have thrown off your whole argument that PCs are still cheaper.
[January 14, 2005, 1:31]
NetWorld+Interop: Intel outlines 'intelligent network'
News At a press conference following the keynote, Christensen was joined by several partners -- Compaq Computer, IBM, Entrust Technologies and Microsoft -- to outline a new security initiative in which each participant will deliver an element for end...
[September 15, 1999, 16:24]
