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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 As for desktops, the first desktop chips based on the 130-nanometer (0.13-micron) manufacturing process -- which allows smaller features to be printed on chips -- come out in the fourth quarter. Avoiding manufacturing problems will be crucial in...
[September 7, 2001, 8:30]
Meet Lenovo's new CEO
News At the same time, he'll be working to knit together the new Lenovo's global operations in a way that lets the company leverage both the IBM name and the lesser-known Lenovo brands and designs, as well as their manufacturing, marketing and other...
[December 10, 2004, 17:25]
IBM tech pushes storage limits
News Other types of media -- such as optical drives and solid-state memory cards -- also hold promise for storing huge amounts of data, but Ross said the various technologies involve trade-offs in manufacturing costs or access speeds.
[March 17, 2000, 14:46]
Low-spec Niagara on the way
News As part of the manufacturing process, there are some processors with less than eight cores but still with very impressive performance," Yen said in a meeting with reporters in San Francisco at the Oracle OpenWorld conference.
[September 22, 2005, 9:25]
Nvidia chips to make tardy debut
News Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of industry newsletter Microprocessor Report, said waste is always an issue with new manufacturing techniques. Chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. The delays largely stem from Nvidia's decision to...
[October 25, 2002, 9:48]
AMD-Intel balance unchanged by EU fine
News But Intel reclaimed that share once it modernised its designs at the same time AMD stumbled with its own manufacturing problems. But when it comes to taking on Intel, a far bigger factor has been technology — not just processor designs, but also...
[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]
Transport Giant demo
Downloads New manufacturing plants are springing up everywhere. It's a time to build empires with just a little capital and a clever business idea. Industry transportation in particular is getting out of hand and conventional methods just can't...
[June 10, 2004, 5:49]
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 Copper is replacing aluminum in Athlon processors produced at the company's Fab 30 manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany. Generally speaking, the chip king has been more conservative in terms of manufacturing technology.
[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. According to Intel, extreme ultraviolet lithography is "more likely for 22nm" manufacturing, which starts in...
[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. According to market research firm PC Data, two Compaq Presarios and an IBM Aptiva based on the K6 took top...
[March 13, 1998, 9:14]
Peregrine optical chips ready to fly
News Plant upgrades, beginning early next year, will move the chips from a 0.5-micron manufacturing process to 0.25-micron next year and 0.13-micron in early 2003. Peregrine employs a silicon-on-sapphire manufacturing process, developed in part by...
[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]
