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Chip Equipment Makers Feel Intel Aftershocks
News In August, chip-assembly equipment maker Kulicke & Soffa Industries said it was seeing a delay of orders. The outlook for next year is relatively bleak," said Eric Chen, a chip equipment analyst at Chase Hambrecht & Quist.
[December 8, 2000, 11:21]
Tech Companies Try Cutting Costs - Without Layoffs
News Chip-equipment maker, Applied Materials has asked its North American employees to take off most Fridays until at least the end of April, without pay, the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday. Risto Puhakka, an analyst VLSI Research, said the...
[February 9, 2001, 10:31]
Merger Approval Paves Way For Faster Chips
News Both Intel, which relies on equipment from SVG, and its arch-enemy AMD, which uses ASML tools, are currently reducing chip geometry from 0.18 microns to 0.13 microns. ASML said last year it would buy SVG to create the world's biggest maker of...
[May 3, 2001, 13:06]
AMD Adds Alchemy To Its Chip Arsenal
News Shortly after his appointment in early 2000, AMD president Hector Ruiz told reporters that PDAs and other devices would be akin to a third leg of a stool for AMD, complementing the chip maker's efforts in PC processors and flash memory.
[February 6, 2002, 15:55]
Is Xeon Heading To The Low End?
News In the first half of 2000, the chip maker plans to introduce two 700+MHz Xeon processors, one with 2MB and the other with 1MB of integrated Level 2 cache. Christensen also announced that Intel has finalised its acquisition of Level One...
[September 2, 1999, 9:15]
Orders Fall Short For Applied Materials
News Applied Materials, the chip-equipment maker, said on Friday that orders placed during its first fiscal quarter will fall short of previous expectations. Intel cut capital expenditures by $1bn for 2003, meaning it will spend less on chip equipment...
[January 31, 2003, 15:28]
Intel Aims At Telco Market With Server Kits
News The chip maker is shipping "building block" servers designed for handling voice-over-IP traffic, multimedia messaging, virtual private network traffic and other telecommunications services. It sells the chassis with the hard drive and other...
[December 12, 2001, 9:31]
3Com LAN/WAN Solution Speeds Engineering Processes For Wolfson Microelectronics
White Papers The chip maker chose WAN routers from the 3Com Router 5000 Family over equivalent class routers from other vendors at less than 50 percent cost. After considering systems from other vendors, Wolfson Microelectronics revamped its network with 3Com...
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
Chips Look Chipper
News Chip equipment maker Kulicke & Soffa said Tuesday that it expects to "substantially exceed" First Call consensus estimates for its first quarter. Chip equipment makers (index) are rebounding because chip makers are seeing strong demand and...
[January 4, 2000, 14:07]
Applied Materials Polishes Black Diamond
News The semiconductor equipment maker is kicking off an effort to promote its Black Diamond low-k technology among chip manufacturers that need to better control the electricity that flows through their products.
[February 5, 2004, 8:00]
The Day Ahead: Chatting With Applied Materials
News But Applied Materials' long-term picture looks just fine, especially when you consider the chip equipment maker is trading at the low end of its 52-week range (chart). Chip equipment giant Applied Materials closed out a whopper of a year and...
[November 16, 2000, 11:57]
IDT Takes On MIPS Licences
News MIPS Technologies, the US embedded chip designer, said it has licensed two of its new cores to communications chip maker IDT. IDT is best known for its x86 PC processors -- a market it was forced out of by price wars between Intel and AMD -- and...
[October 12, 2001, 16:36]
The Day Ahead: Applied Materials' Outlook Creates Tug-of-war
News Applied Materials is far and away the leading chip equipment maker. It's the Intel of chip equipment, but may even have a better market position in its sector. White said even if the tech sector doesn't rebound until 2002, chip makers will have to...
[February 14, 2001, 13:30]
Chipmakers' Capital Spend Signposts Recovery
News Applied Materials, the world's biggest maker of chip manufacturing equipment, has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs in an effort to return to profitability. The largest part of these budgets goes toward purchasing chip manufacturing equipment.
[July 11, 2003, 7:35]
IBM To Hit 1GHz With PowerPC Chip
News Motorola, the other PowerPC maker, has also promised a 1GHz chip. Although the largest market for IBM's new chip will be networking equipment, it could potentially end up in Macs, from Apple Computer, which already use PowerPC chips.
[October 15, 2001, 10:35]
Laptop Makers Push Pre-standard Wireless
News The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, is due to launch its draft 802.11n chipset in the first six months of 2007. This means that people who buy draft 802.11n kit today can't be sure that it will work with certified equipment in the future.
[November 10, 2006, 13:56]
WiMax? Why Not?
News That includes gear from equipment maker Aperto, a company that on Tuesday revealed that its own WiMax lineup will be at the heart of WiMax equipment trials by telephone operators in Spain, the Netherlands and the US.
[June 8, 2005, 10:45]
Intel XScale: 1GHz In Your Palm
News At its developer conference Wednesday, Intel demonstrated the first silicon from its XScale Microarchitecture -- a beefed up version of the chip maker's StrongARM architecture -- for use in a wide range of non-PC applications, running at speeds up...
[August 24, 2000, 9:57]
Alpha Proved Costly For Compaq
News While Compaq still plans to introduce a newer, faster Alpha chip - the EV7 - late next year, the computer maker has halted development of its successor, the EV8, after deciding that future sales would not be enough to offset the hefty investment...
[June 28, 2001, 9:48]
Shaking Up The Art Of Chip Design
News You don't want to become the guy who has a hammer and (then) every problem becomes a nail," said Al Fazio, principal engineer for the process technology group at chip maker Intel. A designer first selects a specific engine, which is tied to a...
[April 21, 2002, 7:31]
