Vobis Chairman Quits
News Lieven, who founded Vobis in the 1970s, is setting up a chain of stores selling classical music CDs, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Lieven's departure is a blow to the German PC maker which has maintained profitability despite a...
[October 21, 1996, 14:38]
Escom Files For Bankruptcy
News Escom's one-time arch-rival Vobis has said it has no interest in acquiring all or part of the company. Just last year Escom was seen as a juggernaut and one of the leading lights of the European PC market.
[July 16, 1996, 17:48]
Cyrix To Announce M2 Next Week
News AMD currently supplies its K6 to Digital, Elonex and Evesham Micros and is rumoured to be close to completing deals with Acer, Hewlett-Packard and Vobis. Sources said the Texan chip firm will announce details of the chip the day before Computex...
[May 27, 1997, 11:21]
One Year Ago: Cyrix To Announce M2 Next Week
News AMD currently supplies its K6 to Digital, Elonex and Evesham Micros and is rumoured to be close to completing deals with Acer, Hewlett-Packard and Vobis. Cyrix is expected to make the formal announcement of its M2 processor next week.
[May 27, 1998, 6:00]
CEO Quits At Loss-making Cyrix
News Also, it has picked up some sizeable deals from European OEMs such as Tulip and Vobis. No reason was given for the resignation but the Texas-headquartered firm has a spotty fiscal record. For the quarter ending September 30, 1996, Cyrix had...
[December 10, 1996, 9:53]
Intel Ships P-233 MMX
News They include Viglen, Dell, Vobis, Opus, Siemens Nixdorf, Mitsubishi Electric, Packard Bell and Research Machines. In a prepared statement, Intel said that over 30 European PC makers are releasing systems that house the new part.
[June 2, 1997, 10:37]
Q&A: Cyrix's Rogers On The NetPC And The X86
News Vobis is a long-term relationship; we have [PC vendor] Tulip which covers 18 countries. PCDN: How is business going now? It's going great right now, though we've had a couple of difficult quarters. We didn't do the work we needed to in terms of...
[November 11, 1996, 10:20]
Q&A: Cyrix's Rogers On Life In Intel's Shadow
News Vobis is a long-term relationship, we have [PC vendor] Tulip which covers 18 countries. Jerry Rogers, president and CEO of chip manufacturer Cyrix has a tough task battling with Intel, a company which holds 95 per cent of the chip market.
[November 4, 1996, 12:04]
Five Years Ago: Escom Files For Bankruptcy
News Escom's one-time arch-rival Vobis has said it has no interest in acquiring all or part of the company. Just last year Escom was seen as a juggernaut and one of the leading lights of the European PC market.
[July 21, 2001, 7:30]
Escom (2) - No Takers But UK Retail Still Has Rich Pickings
News Vobis declined to comment while Dixons, Amstrad, Viglen and Gateway 2000 and Granville Technology didn't return calls. "When Escom arrived most people agreed they couldn't sustain selling at cost or less than cost," said John Ces, a senior analyst...
[July 24, 1996, 16:55]
