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Port closures mean tech companies miss the boat
News In an age where companies pride themselves with the efficient use of a just-in-time manufacturing and delivery process, the slightest hitch can have a ripple effect. With just-in-time manufacturing and the size of the things we ship, we find its...
[October 1, 2002, 11:23]
Intel takes running start at chip hurdles
News They still are having some problems, but they sound more like design problems rather than process [manufacturing] issues," said Kevin Krewell, an analyst with MDR/Instat. Avoiding manufacturing problems will be crucial in both curbing competition...
[September 7, 2001, 8:30]
Meet Lenovo's new CEO
News If you just look at employees.sales, marketing, management, development, research, back-office, finance -- everything other than manufacturing employees -- we have 200 employees in China and Lenovo has basically no employees outside of China.
[December 10, 2004, 17:25]
IBM tech pushes storage limits
News The current technology for manufacturing hard drives involves sputtering material onto a surface, then setting up a pattern of individual magnetised areas. Other types of media -- such as optical drives and solid-state memory cards -- also hold...
[March 17, 2000, 14:46]
Low-spec Niagara on the way
News The lower-end versions are chips that have some manufacturing defects but that still are useful, said David Yen, executive vice-president of Sun's Scalable Systems Group, which designs and sells servers using Sparc processors and the Solaris...
[September 22, 2005, 9:25]
Nvidia chips to make tardy debut
News The delays largely stem from Nvidia's decision to design the chip based on advanced, new chipmaking techniques, most notably the 130-nanometer manufacturing process. TSMC), which manufactures Nvidia's chips, has experienced difficulty with the...
[October 25, 2002, 9:48]
AMD-Intel balance unchanged by EU fine
News But when it comes to taking on Intel, a far bigger factor has been technology — not just processor designs, but also manufacturing skill and capacity that means chips can be priced competitively while still being profitable.
[May 14, 2009, 9:56]
DOJ investigation of Microsoft to expand
News They fully understand their case becomes more complicated once Windows 98 goes to manufacturing. According to internal company plans, the company is shooting for a release-to-manufacturing date of May 1 for the product.
[April 6, 1998, 10:25]
Straight Talking - On-Demand Supply Chain Management
White Papers Supply chains can be the single most important competitive advantage in certain industries such as retail and manufacturing. Supply chain management is as old as trade itself - it has just got slicker over the centuries.
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Embracing Next-Generation Mobile Platforms to Solve Business Problems
White Papers In the next two years, organizations will begin to increase their adoption of mobile applications such as ERM, content-oriented, and manufacturing and operations applications, whereas two years ago, collaborative applications such as email were...
[September 4, 2009, 1:21]
To Dell and back
Leader Dell is an expert box-shifter, the past master of just-in-time manufacturing and online purchasing. Laptop sales are outstripping desktop sales, letting Oriental factories undercut Dell's famously efficient manufacturing.
[February 1, 2007, 15:04]
SAP improves software for service industries
News This is largely aimed at business sectors such as small scale manufacturing and distribution, which put a premium on getting the right components in the right place on a "just-in-time" basis. A lack of flexibility has been a particular criticism of...
[March 13, 2006, 12:10]
Smaller is better, says AMD chief
News Generally speaking, the chip king has been more conservative in terms of manufacturing technology. For its part, Intel says copper is not needed until chips reach the next generation manufacturing process technology, known as 0.13 micron.
[June 27, 2000, 8:11]
Microsoft RTMs Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Blog Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Once again with the web in mind, at the time of its release in November 2007 we were reminded just how web...
[August 11, 2008, 19:18]
Dell on the road to change
News The company has invested a lot of time and money in its direct model and manufacturing strategy, and can't abandon either just yet. It still builds just about all of its PCs internally in manufacturing plants around the world, when most other PC...
[March 1, 2007, 11:50]
Moore's Law on course for another two years
News Although these are just test chips, the milestone is an important indication that Intel's overall manufacturing strategy remains on track. One of the big questions for 2006 is whether Intel's latest chips and the manufacturing advantage will blunt...
[January 26, 2006, 9:15]
Time running out for tardy AMD
News Considering the real business need for AMD to flood the market with K6 processors, this sort of just-in-time manufacturing may be too late. They are just partnering with the right people, and hanging on for the ride.
[March 13, 1998, 9:14]
Peregrine optical chips ready to fly
News Peregrine employs a silicon-on-sapphire manufacturing process, developed in part by research conducted for the US Navy in a project aimed at developing new chip technologies outside of silicon. Plant upgrades, beginning early next year, will move...
[March 13, 2001, 8:07]
PeopleSoft hits merger target
News As PeopleSoft marks this milestone in its effort to expand its reach in midmarket business applications and the manufacturing sector, the maker of high-end business software will find that its work has just begun.
[July 18, 2003, 13:38]
Quotes of the Week, August 12-16
News Elonex's Michael Spiro on the end of system manufacturing in Scotland. "We'd been using that since before Microsoft was in the Internet business and they just didn't want to know. All the time, the attitude has been 'We're the big guys, you're the...
[August 16, 1996, 12:09]
