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Applied Materials cuts more jobs
News Applied Materials, the world's largest maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, said it is cutting approximately 11 percent of its staff because of the downturn in the chip market. Despite experiencing a rise in business near the beginning...
[November 5, 2002, 10:46]
Windows ME: Available for you in September
News On Monday, Microsoft released to manufacturing its Windows ME product. Build 3000.2 of Windows Millennium Edition was released to manufacturing (RTM) on 19 June, 2000, and we are pleased to announce the release of yet another fantastic operating...
[June 20, 2000, 8:46]
Seagate to make flash-based hard drives
News Seagate Technology, the number-one maker of magnetic hard drives, will start manufacturing hard drives based around flash memory, according to its chief executive officer Bill Watkins. Rather than trying to fight the trend, Seagate is going to...
[August 23, 2007, 16:33]
Intel draws chips with extreme UV
News Intel has reached another milestone on the path to developing a new chip manufacturing technology that will keep its factories humming well into the future. Intel will use the EUV lithography tool -- which "draws" lines on silicon wafers that...
[August 2, 2004, 8:30]
Wanted: Successor to flash memory
News So-called flash memory will remain viable for several more years, but researchers anticipate that later this decade manufacturing limitations will force the industry to adopt a new technology. Because Quantum Well would be able to take advantage of...
[December 11, 2002, 11:37]
Chancellor promises emerging-tech investment
News The government will provide £750m in funding for emerging technologies in the manufacturing, digital and biotechnology sectors, chancellor Alastair Darling said in his 2009 budget report on Wednesday.
[April 22, 2009, 17:22]
Motorola to suspend mobile phone production
News Mobile phone maker Motorola is planning to suspend handset manufacturing for two weeks at its mobile phone factory in Scotland. Bathgate is a key mobile phone manufacturing plant and led the worldwide introduction of what at the time was the world...
[March 5, 2001, 9:15]
IBM chip consortium pushes 28nm plans
News An IBM consortium that includes chip-manufacturing players Chartered, GlobalFoundries, Infineon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics said on Thursday it is developing 28nm low-power semiconductors. The manufacturing processes for 28nm chips are in place...
[April 16, 2009, 14:30]
IBM thinks big about nanotechnology
News IBM has created a small group within its semiconductor division to work with a select few nanotechnology start-ups on manufacturing issues and in exploring trends, another incremental step toward molecular computing.
[May 16, 2002, 10:07]
AMD and IBM deepen chip commitment
News AMD and IBM will work together to devise chip-manufacturing technology for three additional years, a deal that will bring about a quarter of a billion to IBM over four years and give AMD access to cutting-edge chip inventions.
[September 22, 2004, 8:30]
The Day Ahead: Intel provides excuse to buy; eUniverse moves up
News Investors perked up after Intel said it will spend $2bn (£1.35bn) to expand its manufacturing capacity. The company said it will invest $2bn to expand manufacturing operations in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
[May 25, 2000, 11:49]
Office XP released to manufacture
News Microsoft Office XP, the latest version of the office suite, was today released to manufacturing. With our software manufacturing plant in Ireland we could launch here two or three weeks before the US," said Bennie, "But we want one simultaneous...
[March 5, 2001, 15:40]
Gartner: HP and IBM could abandon PC market
News IBM and HP are in danger of being forced out of the PC manufacturing industry by 2007, according to analyst firm Gartner. Gartner predicted that PC vendors are facing a gloomy future, and that three of the top ten companies in the computer...
[November 29, 2004, 12:05]
Mandrake delays latest Linux
News Linux seller MandrakeSoft has had to delay shipment of its newest version of Linux because of problems in moving manufacturing to the United States. MandrakeSoft moved North American production to the United States because tariff laws for imported...
[October 12, 2001, 11:36]
Intel to open chip plant in China
News Intel has announced that it will open a wafer fabrication facility in China, a significant milestone in the chip giant's manufacturing history. To date, Intel has concentrated its chip manufacturing facilities in the US, Israel and Ireland while...
[March 26, 2007, 9:00]
Group aims for quicker chipmaking fixes
News A group of companies including chipmaker AMD is mounting a new effort to create smarter semiconductor-manufacturing equipment. The group, which also includes domainLogix, ILS Technology and Oceana Sensor Technologies, said this week that it will...
[December 24, 2001, 11:13]
First Tegra-based netbooks and MIDs unveiled
News Nvidia and its manufacturing partners have shown off the first products to use the chipmaker's Tegra chipset. Other companies with products featuring the chipset are Asus's manufacturing spin-off, Pegatron, and Acer's manufacturing spin-off, Wistron.
[June 2, 2009, 15:56]
A Year Ago: The future looks bleak for AMD
News It's almost an annual ritual: PC chip maker Advanced Micro Devices suffering from manufacturing problems, gets whacked by price pressure from its rival Intel. Last quarter, a manufacturing glitch meant fewer of its top-end 400MHz processors coming...
[February 10, 2000, 6:03]
Benchmarks: AMD's Phenom II review
Reviews Intel has been manufacturing desktop processors using the 45-nanometre (nm) feature size since November 2007, but it wasn't until over a year later that rival AMD began to distribute chips manufactured using this process — currently the most...
[January 30, 2009, 15:34]
Improving Inventory Accuracy - Colbert Packaging Improves Inventory, Reduces Costs and Meets Compliance Regulations With Radius Solutions' PECAS Vision
White Papers As Colbert Packaging's business strategy changed to capitalize on new opportunities, it was clear it needed to update its manufacturing and financial systems to support the new growth and streamline production across its three plants.
[May 15, 2008, 1:01]
