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A Year Ago: IBM aims for bigger slice of chip pie
News The IBM Microelectronics Division, to give the department its full name, has recently been making a quiet success of its remit to make Big Blue a success selling to third-parties. We've displaced Cyrix in Granville and we're seeing a lot more of...
[November 5, 1998, 6:30]
IBM to produce Nvidia chips
News Nvidia has signed a pact with IBM Microelectronics to help it avoid putting all of its graphics chips in one basket. The Microelectronics division, working with IBM Research, has introduced a number of new chip-manufacturing technology...
[March 26, 2003, 7:39]
A Year Ago: IBM to stop making Cyrix chips
News National Semiconductor's Cyrix subsidiary and IBM Microelectronics are dissolving their long-standing manufacturing and licensing partnership. For example, it may look to "system on a chip" designs based on X86 cores from STS Microelectronics, they...
[September 3, 1999, 6:55]
IBM aims for bigger slice of chip pie
News The IBM Microelectronics Division, to give the department its full name, has recently been making a quiet success of its remit to make Big Blue a success selling to third-parties. We've displaced Cyrix in Granville and we're seeing a lot more of...
[November 6, 1997, 7:00]
Via chips from IBM
News Taiwan's Via Technologies has selected IBM Microelectronics to manufacture its next processor, marking another step in Big Blue's plan to become the helping hand to chipmakers in need. Historically, Asian foundries -- chipmakers such as Taiwan...
[January 7, 2004, 13:05]
IBM plans more Linux-powered PDAs
News IBM's Microelectronics division announced on Tuesday it will offer a PDA blueprint aimed at fostering the development of new versions of handhelds based on its PowerPC 405LP chip and MontaVista Software's Linux.
[January 22, 2003, 7:38]
ST Micro sees silicon light
News ST Microelectronics announced on Monday that it has discovered a way to efficiently insert optical components onto silicon chips, a breakthrough that opens the door to cheaper, more power-efficient semiconductors.
[October 29, 2002, 8:01]
IBM teams up with Singapore's Chartered
News Under the deal, IBM Microelectronics and Singapore's Chartered, a foundry that makes chips on behalf of companies that don't have their own factories, will jointly develop manufacturing processes for 90-nanometre chips and 65-nanometre chips on...
[November 27, 2002, 9:15]
Samsung to share IBM's chips
News Samsung said on Friday that it has simultaneously licensed Big Blue's chipmaking technology, signed on to use IBM Microelectronics' chip foundry service, and joined an IBM-backed partnership focused on future chip-manufacturing processes.
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
IBM thinks big about nanotechnology
News The group will offer "deep experience in silicon microelectronics and microelectronic packaging," Thies said -- adding quickly that the programme is extremely selective. The group, part of the emerging-products organisation inside IBM...
[May 16, 2002, 10:07]
IBM scraps 600 jobs from chip unit
News About 500 of the jobs being eliminated are at a plant in Vermont.with the rest scattered among the company's other IBM Microelectronics facilities in the United States, the company said on Monday. Last year, the company cut 1,000 jobs in Vermont as...
[August 19, 2003, 13:35]
Merrill upbeat on chip stocks
News Along with the note, Merrill Lynch announced a slew of ratings upgrades: RF Micro Devices, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Texas Instruments and United Microelectronics were upgraded to "buy" from "accumulate".
[August 1, 2001, 16:19]
IBM to unleash new PowerPC chip
News At the level of "2x gigahertz, we will compete very reasonably against the (Intel) Pentium", said Chekib Akrout, vice president of microprocessor development at IBM Microelectronics. Engineers from IBM's Microelectronics division will disclose the...
[October 14, 2002, 7:57]
Sun breathes new life into Sparc efforts
News In the 1990s, the company's Sun Microelectronics unit sold its chips internally to Sun itself and externally to others that built servers around them, but the company eventually retrenched so it was the sole customer of its Sparc chips.
[March 28, 2007, 9:43]
IBM 3Q earnings: Good, but not that good
News Gertsner said demand for the company's microelectronics products outstripped its ability to manufacture components. Strong sales of its popular microelectronics components helped offset a decline in disk-drive sales.
[October 18, 2000, 11:21]
IBM stung twice for consultants
News IBM said it cut 1,400 workers from its Microelectronics division and 14,213 workers from its services wing. About 500 of the jobs being eliminated are at a plant in Vermont, with the rest scattered among the company's other IBM Microelectronics...
[August 20, 2003, 11:35]
IBM and AMD form chip alliance
News What the industry is faced with is very significant capital costs, very high revenue requirements, and very basic changes in process technology," said Sumit Sadana, director of strategy for IBM Microelectronics, in an interview in December.
[January 9, 2003, 9:32]
'Strained silicon' to pump up chips
News There is a fundamental change in the methodology of progress," said Bernard Meyerson, chief technology officer of IBM's Technology group, which includes IBM Microelectronics. IBM Microelectronics also plans to unveil a paper on its new 350GHz...
[December 6, 2002, 7:11]
Embedded chips chase gadget market
News Other chipmakers, including Philips Semiconductor and ST Microelectronics, renewed licensing agreements with ARM. Sharp Microelectronics announced a 200MHz system-on-a-chip processor based on the ARM922T core.
[April 11, 2001, 10:44]
IBM plans huge internal merger
News The companies that IBM's "microelectronics folks want as customers in order to 'fill the fab' want to see independence. It's clear that IBM Microelectronics is proving to be one of the best fabs in the world.
[January 29, 2004, 7:30]
