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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
