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The Day Ahead: Micron Technology's Outlook May Ease Fall
News Welcome to the wonderful world of Micron Technology, where great quarters are never as great as they seem and hideous quarters aren't as bad. You'd think the sky would fall on memory giant Micron today, since the company missed First Call consensus...
[March 22, 2000, 12:11]
Micron Shows Off DDR PIII Chipset
News At the Intel Developer Forum this week, Micron Technology is demonstrating its prototype chipset for Pentium III servers using DDR SDRAM memory, a high-speed memory standard going head-to-head with the more expensive Rambus RDRAM championed by Intel.
[February 27, 2001, 13:10]
Micron Pumps Up DDR2 Memory Production
News Micron Technology revealed on Monday that it has begun producing large numbers of DDR2 chips, a new generation of memory for computers. Micron's move, which follows Samsung's announcement that it began making DDR2 in March, is part of a PC industry...
[December 8, 2003, 14:45]
Micron Leads Chip-stock Revival
News Micron Technology shares charged up 13 3/16, or 11 percent, to 128 Wednesday after a pair of brokerage firms upgraded the chipmaker. All this enthusiasm comes less than three weeks after Micron missed Street estimates by 16 cents a share in its...
[April 6, 2000, 12:45]
Apple Sews Up Flash Market
News Intel and Micron Technology are launching a joint venture to produce NAND flash memory, with Apple prepaying $500m (£290m) to secure its place in line for the popular technology, the companies said on Monday.
[November 22, 2005, 8:55]
Hot Chips Boost Micron
News Shares of Micron Technology rose on Wednesday after the company announced a surprise first-quarter profit on strong demand for memory chips. Micron's numbers also marked the first quarterly profit in three years for the DRAM manufacturer.
[December 29, 2003, 10:35]
Intel Buys Into The Memory Chip Market
News Intel has injected $500m (£294m) into US memory chip maker Micron Technology to support next generation DRAM technology and fuel demand for faster, Intel-powered PCs. The sum represents a 6 percent stake in Micron which will in return, develop...
[October 21, 1998, 10:42]
Future Of Memory Market Hangs On Rambus Trials
News Rambus, which designs high-speed memory chips, will square off this week against chipmakers Micron Technology and Hyundai in a German court case that will, along with the outcome of other pending cases, send shockwaves through the entire memory...
[February 12, 2001, 12:51]
Rambus Launches More Antitrust Action
News Chip designer Rambus has filed antitrust lawsuits against Siemens and Micron Technology, furthering its legal assault on rivals. US and European regulators are investigating semiconductor manufacturers, including Infineon and Micron Technology...
[May 6, 2004, 10:00]
Pre-emptive Strike: Micron Sues Rambus
News Mindful that the best defence is often a good offence, Micron Technology has filed suit against Rambus, slapping the litigious firm with an antitrust suit of its own. Micron argues that Rambus violated antitrust laws by applying for patents on...
[August 30, 2000, 9:18]
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 deal is designed to bring Micron's development plans into closer alignment with Intel technology, said Chuck Mulloy, an...
[September 25, 2003, 11:35]
Nintendo Dolphin Gets 400MHz IBM Chip
News The Gekko chip, an extension of the PowerPC architecture, will be unique to Nintendo and feature IBM's 0.18 micron copper technology. Sony's Playstation 2, based on a 128-bit CPU developed by LSI using 0.18 micron technology, is due out in 2001.
[May 25, 1999, 16:58]
Micron To Trim Work Force 10 Percent
News Memory chipmaker Micron Technology announced plans on Tuesday to cut approximately 10 percent of its staff amid a sluggish technology market. In a statement Micron said it is looking to lower its costs while continuing to invest in next-generation...
[February 19, 2003, 16:59]
Micron Ponders Next Move In Delayed Rambus Trial
News The postponement of Micron Technology's patent trial against memory design startup Rambus could allow Micron to avoid a trial altogether. Rambus claims that technology used in common memory standards such as SDRAM violates its patents, and is...
[May 23, 2001, 17:26]
FTC Quizzes Chip Makers In Rambus Case
News Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technology have been interviewed by the US Federal Trade Commission in an investigation into chip designer Rambus, according to reports. A Micron spokesman and a Hynix executive told trade publication Electronic Buyer...
[September 3, 2001, 17:04]
Cyrix 6x86MX .25 Micron First For Nat Semi Plant
News Cyrix is upping the stakes in the increasingly competitive semiconductor market after announcing that it will start volume production of its 6x86MX processor on .25 micron processing technology this summer at the National Semiconductor plant in...
[January 13, 1998, 15:47]
The AMD Athlon MP Processor
White Papers Professional technology) at the processor instruction level, DDR memory at the platform level, and now 0.13 micron process with copper interconnect at the process technology level. With the introduction of the new AMD Athlon MP processor based on...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Analyst Sees End Of Chip Stock Woes
News Joseph, whose upgrades lifted the likes of Micron Technology, Intel, Xilinx and Applied Micro Circuits to double-digit gains in early afternoon trading, predicted the bottom for battered chip stocks is "only months away", though he offered very...
[April 12, 2001, 11:48]
Intel's Coppermine Onslaught
News The decrease in die size when moving from 0.25-micron technology to 0.18-micron technology allows the integration of 256K Level 2 cache in the new Pentium III chips. At an announcement today in San Jose, California, Intel executives Paul Otellini...
[October 27, 1999, 14:07]
Via Enters 0.13-micron Race
News AMD officials said recently that the company is installing 0.13-micron technology at its plant in Dresden, Germany. VIA Technologies jumped on the 0.13-micron processor bandwagon Tuesday. The Taiwan-based chip and chip set maker announced plans to...
[December 13, 2000, 8:13]
