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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Nvidia Tops 100 Fastest-growing Companies List
News Graphics chip maker Nvidia has topped the list of the Fortune 100 fastest growing companies. Nvidia, which has risen to become the No.graphics chip maker in recent years thanks largely to its GeForce products, took the top spot despite an ongoing...
[August 27, 2002, 11:11]
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]
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]
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. AMD used to promise to keep prices 25 percent below Intel's comparable products," said an...
[February 10, 2000, 6:03]
Nvidia Anticipates Graphics Recovery For 2003
News Graphics chip maker Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The graphics chip maker expects that corporate demand will also be up, and said it will soon launch chips for workstations and notebooks based on the NV30, the code name for...
[December 17, 2002, 12:03]
Intel Prepping New Mobile Chip
News Intel sources say the chip maker is working to replace its top-of-the-line notebook processor, the mobile Pentium III, with a new chip, code-named Northwood, in 2001. Changing process technologies allows a chip maker to increase performance while...
[February 7, 2000, 8:05]
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]
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 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'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]
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]
Nvidia Programming Tool Goes Open Source
News Graphics chip maker Nvidia announced on Tuesday that it will make some of its Cg development tools for programming high-level graphics effects available as open-source software. No.graphics chip maker ATI, meanwhile, will offer the RenderMonkey set...
[July 24, 2002, 10:05]
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 Chops Fast Athlon Prices
News Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced price cuts on its top-end processors on Friday, paving the way for cheaper PCs at the top of the line. The dominant chip maker will launch 600MHz and 566MHz Celerons.
[March 24, 2000, 11:07]
Is Intel Worth The Wait?
News While UK-based manufacturers working with chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are rushing to introduce machines based on the new 1,000MHz (1GHz) Athlon microprocessors, those relying on Pentium III equivalents will have to wait weeks, or even...
[March 21, 2000, 9:00]
