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Microtune acquires Bluetooth chip maker
News Texas-based Microtune, a maker of radio-frequency (RF) chips and systems, is to make a quick entry into the Bluetooth market with its acquisition of Transilica, the companies announced on Monday. Transilica, a San Diego, California-based Bluetooth...
[October 30, 2001, 11:55]
Intel throws 1.3GHz chip into mix
News The chip maker is coming out with a 1.3GHz version of the Pentium 4 in the first quarter that will allow PC manufacturers to introduce PCs with the chip for less than $1,600 (£1,126) sources said. The chip maker is expected to launch an 800MHz...
[December 15, 2000, 9:44]
One last chance for beleaguered AMD?
News PC chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.is expected to announce grim news today -- manufacturing problems have driven down the company's yields of its most lucrative processors, leaving AMD selling far too few, and far too unprofitable, processors.
[April 14, 1999, 6:36]
US Report: Opposition to "Big Brother Inside" grows
News Online privacy advocates emerged from a meeting with Intel officials angrier than ever about the chip maker's plans to put ID numbers on its Pentium III processors and may eventually demand a recall of the next-generation chips.
[February 1, 1999, 14:01]
AMD prepares chip onslaught on Intel
News The chip maker Monday revealed plans to launch a number of chips including ClawHammer, a new processor that will yield clock speeds of 2GHz and higher. ClawHammer will mark an important milestone for AMD, as it will be the first of the chip maker's...
[November 14, 2000, 9:03]
New technology in the spotlight at Intel Developer Forum
News At the Intel Developer Forum this week, the chip maker is highlighting ever-faster chips, even demonstrating a surprise 1.5GHz processor. At its Intel Developer Forum, the chip maker shows off three near-production PCs with 1GHz Pentium IIIs; such...
[February 16, 2000, 15:44]
Intel speeds up Celeron strategy
News The chip maker also said it will unveil a faster version -- widely expected to run at 466MHz -- next quarter. That share fell to 20 percent when AMD's game-oriented K6-2 chip grabbed a hefty bite of the market and chip maker National Semiconductor...
[March 23, 1999, 8:51]
AMD's losses grow, president resigns
News The California-based chip maker continues to be battered in an ongoing price war with rival Intel Corp. Struggling microprocessor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.revealed a staggering $1.10 loss per share for its second quarter on Wednesday and...
[July 15, 1999, 8:23]
A Year Ago: Intel under investigation
News A federal court in Alabama has ruled that the world's largest chip maker may have violated US anti-trust laws by withholding information from workstation maker, Intergraph. Other chip makers say that Intel has used its muscle to attack them, by...
[April 15, 1999, 6:00]
Gateway to double AMD orders
News Consumer PC maker Gateway is to give chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) a boost with plans to double its quarterly orders. The OEM is the largest consumer PC maker in the US. Intel chip supplies have been tight since last autumn, due to...
[May 26, 2000, 11:36]
AMD finds Sanders successor at Motorola
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) turned to another chip maker to restock its executive suite -- finding a likely successor to Chairman and chief executive W.J. AMD, to its credit, has made inroads here already, with the addition of PC maker Pionex Elite.
[January 26, 2000, 10:45]
Intel puts $450m into Micron
News Memory-chip maker Micron Technology has received a $450m (£272m) investment from chip giant Intel, Micron said on Wednesday. The Micron investment is Intel's latest in a memory-chip maker. The deal is designed to bring Micron's development plans...
[September 25, 2003, 11:35]
ATI suffers wrath of Jobs
News A leak from chip maker ATI Technologies that revealed details of Apple's unannounced Mac models has enraged Apple management and interrupted the promotion of ATI products by the Mac maker, sources told MacCentral.
[July 24, 2000, 8:22]
N+I: Broadcom in ARM tie-up
News ARM, the UK embedded chip designer, has struck a deal to include its processor core designs in future chips from Broadcom, the high-profile communications chip maker. Broadcom is a leading maker of chips for communications applications like...
[May 7, 2002, 12:05]
AMD jumps on upgrade, Gateway prospects
News The chip maker got an upgrade from an AMD critic Thursday just as Gateway said it can't get enough Intel chips, and could go back to AMD. The chip maker trimmed its losses in the third quarter and overcame the production problems that have ruined...
[January 7, 2000, 9:05]
AMD betting on 650MHz Athlon chip
News The California chip maker will finally outdistance its arch rival from Santa Clara, Intel Corp. What I really don't like about K7 [the code name for Athlon] is that it's not a proven technology to corporate users," said Al Peng, a top executive...
[August 9, 1999, 8:23]
Intel makes $1.57 billion Q3 profit
News Analysts had expected the chip maker to report earnings within a few cents either way of the First Call estimate of 91 cent per share. The world's biggest computer chip maker also said it expects its fourth quarter revenue to rise only "slightly...
[October 15, 1997, 10:04]
AMD plans to beat Intel's best in '98
News The Californian chip maker has an ambitious roadmap that it believes will make it a clear performance leader and differentiate its products from Intel. AMD's first sixth-generation CPUs aimed at mobile PCs are sampling now and the firm plans a...
[October 27, 1997, 11:48]
AMD fires new salvo in memory wars
News Chip maker AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) turned up the heat in the growing PC memory battle, with the first demonstration of an Athlon system with support for double data rate (DDR) memory. DDR competes with the more expensive Rambus memory (RDRAM...
[April 25, 2000, 16:26]
3dfx goes after the Mac
News In fact, if you believe Bryan Speece, director of Macintosh business development for graphics chip and board maker 3dfx Interactive Inc.the company was all ears after hearing Jobs' promise to deliver more entertainment to the Macintosh platform.
[August 6, 1999, 8:13]
