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| Top Stories for May 26, 2000 (details below) | |
| C/Net | Judge grants injunction to Intel in Broadcom suit |
| C/Net | Intel CEO says chip shortages likely to last another year |
| Electronic Buyers' News | Intel Fights Chip Shortage With New Capacity |
| C/Net | AMD chips the secret ingredient in new supercomputer |
| The Register Files | |
| The Register | Opinion Intel: Who exactly is running the show? |
| The Register | The three flavours of Intel's Willamette chip |
| The Register | Intel's cunning server plans |
| The Register | Intel's new chipsets revealed |
| The Register | IO, IO, it's off to Zion we go |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of May 21, 2000 |
Older News |
| May 26, 2000 | ||
Judge grants injunction to Intel in Broadcom suitBy Michael Kanellos May 25, 2000 |
A judge granted a preliminary injunction in Intel's suit against Broadcom that will force Broadcom to more closely monitor information it obtains from new employees about competitors.
The action, filed in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County (Calif.) Superior Court, revolves around what could become a legal flashpoint in years to come: How can companies control intellectual property in an economy where employees switch jobs frequently? |
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Intel CEO says chip shortages likely to last another yearBy Reuters May 25, 2000 |
Intel expects a tight supply position in the semiconductor industry for another 12 months as components run short, president and CEO Craig Barrett said today.
"There is nil balance between supply and demand," Barrett told a news conference in response to a question on the state of the semiconductor industry. He added that investments made to address the shortage will take time to result in increased capacity. |
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Intel Fights Chip Shortage With New CapacityBy Jack Robertson and Faith Hung May 25, 2000 |
Intel took two big steps to addressing a shortfall in chips on Wednesday, announcing plans to build a 300-mm wafer plant in New Mexico and increase production of flash memory ICs at plants in Oregon, New Mexico, and Colorado to more than 2 billion over the next two years.
The new fab will be located at Intel's Rio Rancho, N.M., site and will have 135,000 sq. ft. of clean room space adjacent to Intel's Fab 11. It will operate as a 300-mm plant from the time it's launched in 2002, according to Michael Splinter, head of Intel's technology manufacturing group -- unlike a 300-mm wafer plant planned for Chandler, Ariz., which will be converted from a 200-mm operation. |
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AMD chips the secret ingredient in new supercomputerBy Stephen Shankland May 25, 2000 |
In a peculiar twist of fate, a technology AMD developed for spicing up computer games turns out to be useful for building supercomputers.
AMD's 3DNow technology was designed to improve the 3D graphics of games. But the feature can also be used to speed up mathematical calculations, said Hank Dietz, a professor at the University of Kentucky and the architect of a new 64-processor Linux supercomputer built out of 700-MHz AMD Athlon microprocessors. |
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Opinion Intel: Who exactly is running the show?By Andrew Thomas May 25, 2000 |
Headless chickens are all very well if you're talking about one chicken that has unfortunately had its head chopped off and made into a pie. If you're talking about a multinational, multibillion dollar corporation employing more than 70,000 people, having no one in control is a tad more significant.
We were wondering today if there is anyone at a senior level within Intel who is actually exerting any real control over where the company is going. With every roadmap, press release and leak reaching us here at Vulture Central, it would appear that the answer is no. We think the major stockholders should be asking some serious questions of the men who claim to be running things. |
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The three flavours of Intel's Willamette chipBy Mike Magee May 25, 2000 |
The roadmap which has provided us with so much interest this week, is also interesting about Willamette and the way the Pentium III CuMine platform will gradually be displaced by the next rev of IA-32 architecture.
In fact, according to notes we took, there will be a total of three Willamettes available by the first quarter of 2001, one at 1.3GHz, one at 1.4GHz, and one at or over 1.5GHz. |
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Intel's cunning server plansBy Mike Magee May 24, 2000 |
PC customers and companies attempting to plan their server strategy over the next 18 months had better get their thinking caps on, judging from an Intel roadmap we viewed earlier on this week.
IA-32 based Foster is the elder brother of Willamette, and earlier this year we were led to believe that it would arrive not long after the intro of the desktop processor. |
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Intel's new chipsets revealedBy Mike Magee May 25, 2000 |
There's one thing for sure, and that is that Intel is determined to propel its up-and-coming 820E chipset right across the desktop, with the BX chipset slated to have only five per cent market share by the end of the year.
But let's start off with the Colusa and Tehama stuff. You will recall that the first is for Foster and the second is for Willamette. |
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IO, IO, it's off to Zion we goBy Mike Magee May 25, 2000 |
A slide seen on an Intel roadmap earlier this week has spelled out its plans for input-output (IO) processors until the end of next year.
This quarter, and right up until the end of this year, Intel is relying on its 80960 for eight way, four way and dual processor platforms. |
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Intel to build $2 billion plant for copper chipsBy Michael Kanellos May 24, 2000 |
As part of its ongoing quest to expand its factory capacity, Intel today said it will spend $2 billion to build a fabrication plant in New Mexico dedicated to manufacturing chips containing copper wires.
The new plant, which will be located at Intel's Rio Rancho, N.M., manufacturing park, will produce cutting-edge Itanium and Pentium microprocessors when it goes online in early 2002, said Mike Splinter, general manger of the technology and manufacturing group at Intel. |
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Intel's Barrett says future still in chipsBy Reuters May 23, 2000 |
Intel said today its core business of computer chip making will remain its main revenue earner in the coming years, despite rapid growth in networking, communications and service businesses.
"Five years down the road, I think our core business today, which is the micro-processor chips, will still be the biggest part of our business," Intel's president and chief executive officer Craig Barrett told a news conference in Manila. |
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Intel Celeron to die Q1 next yearBy Mike Magee May 23, 2000 |
An Intel roadmap seen by The Register indicates that the Celeron processor will shuffle off its mortal coil towards the end of the first quarter next year, displaced by the system-on-the-chip solution codenamed
Timna.
But there's life in the old Celeron dog yet, according to the roadmap. As revealed here yesterday, the 633MHz and 666MHz Celerons will arrive at the end of the month, to be followed in Q3 by a 700MHz Celeron, and in Q4 by a 733MHz Cu128K. |
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Itanium prices, specs revealedBy Mike Magee May 23, 2000 |
Just to show that Intel treats everyone differently, here we embark on the first story of many over the next day or two about the future plans Chipzilla has in store for us.
Yesterday, we revealed details of the roadmap Intel has just dished out to its distributors and dealers, which only covers boxed desktop chips, including the Celeron and the Timna. This roadmap is entirely different from the latest one we've seen - it's for OEMs - but not the top OEM, the Dell Corporation. |
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Intel's view on double data rate memory...By Mike Magee May 23, 2000 |
The same roadmap we saw two days ago which revealed the price of Merced (Itanium) chips has also revealed Intel's view about double date rate memory
(DDR).
For quite some months, many in the PC industry have been puzzled as to why Intel is choosing DDR for the server market and Rambus is the memory technology of choice for the desktop. [Maybe they should read the contract between Rambus and Intel -- Ed] |
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Intel Sees Asia Market GrowingBy Reuters May 22, 2000 |
Intel Corp, the world's biggest semiconductor maker, expects Asia, excluding Japan, to be its second largest market after the Americas by the end of the year.
``I expect Asia to grow faster than any other geography,'' Intel president and chief executive officer Craig Barrett told a news conference in Malaysia's capital. ``I expect Asia to surpass Europe by the end of this year.'' |
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IMI's clock generators timed to address bus mismatch in Solano chipsetBy Mark Hachman May 22, 2000 |
Clock-circuit manufacturer International Microcircuits Inc.
(IMI) claims to have addressed the system bus/memory bus mismatch in the forthcoming “Solano,” or Intel 815, chipset.
IMI's C98xx family of clock generators walks a fine line, from both a technical and marketing standpoint. The chips allow motherboard designers to compensate for the mismatch between the Solano's 133-MHz system bus and 100-MHz memory bus. Meanwhile, built-in tolerances in the chip are being targeted both at OEMs and the rogue community of microprocessor overclockers. |
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Via-AMD chipsets set to enter mass productionBy Mike Magee May 22, 2000 |
The KZ133 chipset from Via, a Socket A solution which supports AMD's up-and-coming Thunderbird microprocessor are expected to go into mass production at the end of this month, insiders in Taiwan told The Register today.
But boards using the KZ133 chipset, which has been sampling for three and a half weeks, are likely to head the way of large and loyal AMD and Via customers before they enter the retail market, other sources indicated. |
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Intel roadmap times, they are a changin'By Mike Magee May 22, 2000 |
Intel has now bunged its boxed desktop processor customers its latest roadmap, which extends up to the end of this year.
For the first time, Tehama (the Willamette chipset) appears on the boxed roadmap, but only as a tiny little wedge towards the end. Nevertheless, the roadmap shows there will be at least two boxed Willamette flavours - one running at 1.3GHz and one at 1.4GHz. |
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Intel lowers first-quarter earnings to pay for recallBy Bloomberg News May 19, 2000 |
Intel reduced first-quarter earnings per share by a penny after it had to write down inventory and reverse some sales because of a faulty chipset.
Intel, which earlier this month announced a recall of about 1 million motherboards that had problems with the memory, made the disclosure in a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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Intel adds refund option to board recall, lowers Q1 revenue and earningsBy Mark Hachman May 19, 2000 |
The recall of motherboards a flawed memory-translator-hub (MTH) component will cost Intel Corp. a penny off its first-quarter earnings, the chip giant announced here today.
Intel adjusted its revenue down from $8.02 billion to $7.99 billion in the quarter. Net income was lowered as well, from $2.73 billion including gains and charges, to $2.70 billion. |
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Intel Sheds More Light On Motherboard RecallBy Mark Hachman May 19, 2000 |
Intel confirmed Friday several more details of the motherboard recall program associated with its flawed memory-translator-hub
(MTH) component, including a refund program for third-party vendors.
End users who purchased Intel's CC820 or "Cape Cod" motherboard are being asked to return it to the company from which they purchased it, and they will receive a new MTH-less VC820 or "Vancouver" board in return. Purchasers of third-party boards that used the MTH will receive either a refund or a replacement. |
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Intel strikes out with Rambus summitBy Ian Fried May 19, 2000 |
Intel failed this week to win new commitments from memory chipmakers to lower prices or increase production of
Rambus-based memory, according to an executive at one of the memory companies.
As previously reported, Intel met Wednesday in Arizona with memory chipmakers to discuss the status of the controversial high-speed memory technology. Intel confirmed yesterday that a meeting took place but declined to comment on the discussions. |
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AMD expected to release Duron, Thunderbird MPUs in JuneBy Mark Hachman May 19, 2000 |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s ability to manufacture its microprocessorswill again be spotlighted next month when the company unveils itsnext-generation Duron and Thunderbird microprocessors.
Industry sources said that AMD will launch its own counterparts to Intel Corp.'s Pentium III and Celeron microprocessors, adding on-chip caches to its successful Athlon microprocessor. |
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Intel does u-turn on Willamette and synchronous DRAMBy Mike Magee May 21, 2000 |
Sources close to Intel's plans have confirmed that the firm is readying a backup plan which will mean that its Willamette IA-32 processor, expected to debut the end of this year, will support synchronous memory as well as
Rambus.
German magazine PC Welt has now published details of the Armador chipset, which you can find at this URL, and which, it says, is part of a backup plan. A diagram is also included in the article, which is short enough to be Babelfished. |
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Caminogate recall – read the small printBy Mike Magee May 21, 2000 |
The news that Intel is to offer either PC700 or PC800 Rambus to Cape Cod mobo owners would appear to be a generous offer, as cynics have been claiming only feeble PC600 RIMMs would be available. However, reading the small print on Chipzilla's website, you will discover that the supplied Rambus memory will be "128MB of PC700 or PC800 RDRAM based on availability." (Our italics) |
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Intel comes clean over Caminogate recallBy Mike Magee May 20, 2000 |
After two months of dither, Intel has finally come clean on its recall plans for people with the i820 SDRAM chipset and its own boxed CC820 (Cape Cod) motherboard.
A UK spokesman said late yesterday that Intel will now offer either a refund or a swap for an i820 motherboard with 128MB of PC-700 (or apparently) Rambus memory, as revealed here earlier in the week. Going for PC-800 as an option seems to be the best choice. |
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Dramurai™ Warriors say Intel's Rambus plans pooBy Mike Magee May 19, 2000 |
Reports on US wires have told of a meeting organised in the desert by Chipzilla in which large semiconductor companies are being not-so-gently encouraged to manufacture loads of
RIMMs, and to be quick about it.
But the memory companies - the so-called Dramurai - are just saying no to Intel's proposals. |
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AMD's Huff puffs DDR at memory love-inBy Mike Magee May 20, 2000 |
Chip contender AMD is a Rambus licensee but is still showing reluctance to demo products that use this memory technology.
Instead, at a DDR love fest held in California earlier this week, AMD and a heap of other industry players, not including Intel, were putting their weight behind DDR as a solution. This is not to say Intel doesn't love DDR too -- it finds that it has to, like it or not. There is a difference between love and like, after all. |
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