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One Year Ago: NatSemi Eyes Intel With $1b Fab
News The chip maker recently said it will purchase fab-less processor designer Cyrix in a move it hopes will make it a force in sub-$500 PCs. Our new fab .enables National to put systems on a chip," said CEO Brian Halla.
[August 7, 1998, 6:00]
Intel's Got Fab Plans To Cut Costs
News They have to fill a 90-nanometre fab with something," said Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of the Microprocessor Report. The high price tag has prompted most other semiconductor makers to partner on fab construction or outsource manufacturing.
[September 16, 2002, 9:32]
Fab Fashion
Downloads Featuring 48 challenging levels in eight exciting cities, hundreds of unique garments to create, and a scrapbook full of your accomplishments, Fab Fashion is sure to bring out the fashionista in everyone.
[November 29, 2007, 4:31]
NatSemi Eyes Intel With $1b Fab
News The chip maker recently said it will purchase fab-less processor designer Cyrix in a move it hopes will make it a force in sub-$500 PCs. Our new fab .enables National to put systems on a chip," said CEO Brian Halla.
[August 7, 1997, 11:38]
Really Fab Dating
Downloads Create a professional online dating site using our scripts and applications. It's so simple to design, anyone can set up a dating site to match that of leading dating sites.
[October 31, 2006, 15:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 9/4/2004It's Good Friday, so obviously I'm not here, Any fab events will have to go unreported. Details of that, and a great deal more concerning this and other fab art projects, can be found here.
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog It's Fab Time. Another hour in the bus and we're at Fab 18 in Kiryat Gat, which is where most of the Pentiums 3 and 4 came from. It's also next door to a large building site, which is going to be Fab 28: Intel announced this earlier in December and...
[January 6, 2006, 17:40]
Instant Snapshots In A Federated Array Of Bricks
White Papers In a federated array of bricks (FAB), a snapshot may involve tens to thousands of independent controllers or processors, and may be taken at a high frequency, e.g.once every 30 seconds for atomic updates in remote mirroring.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
AMD Puts Dresden Plant In Spotlight
News AMD's Fab 30 plant in Dresden has shipped its ten-millionth Athlon processor, and is set to lead the company's drive to a new manufacturing process early next year. While Fab 30 has focussed on high-end processors to date, from September it will...
[August 1, 2001, 17:04]
AMD To Lay Off 200
News The chipmaker notified the employees, all workers at its Fab 25 manufacturing plant in Austin, Texas, this week, a company spokesman confirmed on Friday. AMD says the plan will help extend the life of Fab 25, while the company shifts processor...
[May 11, 2002, 7:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog The rest of the fab tour was glorious fun. But on the wall outside the meeting room, there was a sea of awards that Fab 18 had won over the years from Intel HQ. Maxine Fassberg, Intel VP Tech and Manufacturing and woman in charge of the new fab...
[January 6, 2006, 17:40]
AMD To Open Third Processor Factory In 2004
News The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker is laying the groundwork for a Fab 35, which will be used for PC processors such as the Athlon chip, according to John Greenagle, a company spokesman. A third processor fab will likely play a crucial role...
[January 9, 2001, 8:47]
Intel Finalises Design Of Penryn Chip
News They aren't out of the fab yet, but they are in the fab," said Mark Bohr, director of process technology at Intel, referring to chip factories, known as "fabs". Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometre (nm) chip that will be out...
[November 30, 2006, 8:43]
New AMD Factory Ups The Ante Against Intel
News Roughly 1,000 people will work in Fab 36. Roughly $2.5bn (£1.4bn) will get invested in outfitting Fab 36 through 2007, according to the company. Fab 36, located next door to an existing fab outside the city of Dresden, adds 13,400 square metres of...
[October 14, 2005, 11:45]
Intel To Postpone Chip Factory In Ireland
News The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant is expected to announce Wednesday that it will postpone opening Fab 24 in Leixlip, Ireland, from the second half of 2001 to the second half of 2002. The fab was one of a number of construction projects...
[December 13, 2000, 12:16]
AMD Betting Its Life In Dresden -- Analysis
News AMD has steadied the boat to an extent, and is confident that FAB 30 is a sign of good times to come. In fact, with an overall investment of $1.9bn (£1.2bn) in its FAB 30 plant -- created to mass produce the huge volumes of Athlon processors deemed...
[October 22, 1999, 9:23]
India Ramps Up Semiconductor Production
News According to Gartner, semiconductor manufacturing in India is currently limited, and although there are no operational wafer fab plants in the country right now, five fab plants have been proposed, with approved ones targeted to go live between...
[June 14, 2007, 12:10]
Stacks Of Heat...
Blog IBM's breakthrough, the company says, is that it can make the interconnections using standard chip fab techniques, meaning you can have a lot more inter-chip links running a lot faster than before, but costing effectively nothing.
[April 12, 2007, 18:10]
US Report: IBM To Stop Making Cyrix Chips
News Sources said the company was eager to put its new state-of-the-art fabrication plant (often called a fab) to use and merge its chip design and process teams. A new fab with new process equipment can cost up to $2bn (£1.22bn).
[September 2, 1998, 16:48]
A Year Ago: IBM To Stop Making Cyrix Chips
News Sources said the company was eager to put its new state-of-the-art fabrication plant(often called a fab) to use and merge its chip design and process teams. A new fab with new process equipment can cost up to $2bn (£1.22bn).
[September 3, 1999, 6:55]
