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By Carmen Nobel
July 22, 1998
PC Week Online
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Vendors who are champing at the bit to
ship their Xeon-based servers will have to champ a little
more. Intel Corp.'s Xeon chip set, which enables
four-way processing for servers, was supposed to be ready
on July 17 after the company fixed a bug in the
processor, which was first reported late last month. But
in fixing that bug, Intel (INTC) found another one, and
Xeon for servers is now delayed until the end of July,
according to a memo that the company sent to server
vendors.
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By Michael Kanellos
July 22, 1998
C/Net
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A major manufacturing advance in the
second half of 1999 will enable Intel to introduce
smaller, faster, and less expensive chips running as fast
as 700 MHz. Late next year, the company will release
two chips made on the 0.18 micron production process,
according to a company spokesman. Generally, the smaller
the production process, the more transistors can be
packed into a chip and the faster it runs. Intel is
currently using a "fatter" .25-micron process
to produce mobile Pentium chips and Pentium II
processors.
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By Andrew MacLellan
July 22, 1998
Electronic Buyers' News
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With its competitors in the
microprocessor market scrambling to introduce copper
interconnect technology, Intel is taking a wait-and-see
approach to the latest craze striking the semiconductor
manufacturing sector. While companies like IBM and
Motorola are well along in their plans to move to
copper-based production lines, and others like Advanced
Micro Devices and Samsung Electronics announced
copper-interconnect plans of their own this week, Intel
is maintaining a conservative stance.
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By Ephraim Schwartz
July 22, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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No news may be very good news for system
manufacturers waiting to see what changes Microsoft and
Intel -- two highly influential companies in system
design -- made in the final PC 99 design guideline
specifications over the .9 specification published last
March. As it turns out, Version 1.0 is nearly identical
to Version .9. System OEMs seeking the cache of the
Designed for Windows logo will need a system with a
minimum of a 300-MHz processor with 128KB of cache; 32MB
of RAM on home systems and 64MB RAM minimum on business
systems; support for DVD rather than CD-ROM; digital
broadcast TV capability; and the elimination of ISA bus
slots. The PC 98 guidelines originally called for
elimination of ISA devices only.
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By Will Wade
July 22, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Integrated Device Technology Inc. here
today reported a $50 million lost for its fiscal first
quarter, ended June 28, and it announced a restructuring
drive that includes closing its Silicon Valley wafer fab.
IDT said it hopes to generate annual savings of up to
$45 million, but will take a charge this quarter of up to
$60 million associated with these changes.
The company's revenues for the quarter were $134.5
million, down 9.7% from the same period last year, and
down 10.5% from the preceding quarter. The net loss
translated to $0.23 per share, while the company earned
$0.02 per share in both the previous quarter and last
year's first fiscal quarter.
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July 23, 1998
The Register
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Next year's PCs will be less radically
different than they might have been, according to
Microsoft and Intel's joint production, the PC 99 design
guidelines. For some years now the two companies have
used the annual PC 9x guides to define the shape of PCs
to come, but while the latest bites some bullets, it
backs away from others the pair have at least considered
tackling. The major feature of the guidelines, which
are produced after consultation with all major PC
manufacturers, is the bottom line specification for
different classes of machine. With PC 99 ISA slots are
definitely out for all types of PC, and processor speeds
are up. Base spec is for a 300 MHz CPU with 128k cache,
32 megabyte RAM on home systems and 64 megabyte on
office, DVD support and digital TV capability. For a
workstation it's 400 MHz, 256k cache and 128 megabytes,
and mobile 233 MHz, 128k cache and 32 megabytes.
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By Andy Santoni
July 22, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Just a day after rewriting its road map
for Basic PC Celeron processors, Intel on Wednesday did
the same for its desktop/mobile and workstation/server
Pentium II processors, detailing plans for faster,
cheaper, cooler chips to debut next year. Next year's
shrink from a 0.25-micron process to 0.18-micron
geometries will increase speeds because the chip is
smaller, reduce production costs because each wafer holds
more chips, and cut power consumption because the chips
operate at lower voltages, explained Tony Massimini,
chief of technology at Semico Research, in Phoenix.
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By Michael Kanellos
July 22, 1998
C/Net
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Intel bought 8.2 percent of graphics
chipmaker Evans & Sutherland for $24 million today,
another step in the processor giant's push to expand its
presence in graphics chip technology. Under the deal,
Evans & Sutherland will collaborate with Intel to
deliver graphics chips, graphics circuit boards, and
"multiboard" graphics technology for
workstations based around Intel's Pentium II Xeon and
next-generation 64-bit Merced processors, said Jim Oyler,
chief executive of E&S.
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By Michael Kanellos
July 22, 1998
C/Net
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Intel says that that its investment in
graphics chip vendor Evans & Sutherland is about
enhancing the performance of workstations, but Intergraph
claims the move confirms all of its fears. Intergraph,
which makes both Intel-based workstations and also
high-end graphics
subsystems for workstation vendors such as Dell, today
said that Intel's $24 million
investment in Salt Lake City-based Evans & Sutherland
(E&S) bolsters the argument that Intel is using its
weight in microprocessors to muscle into the graphics
arena. The issue is central both to a lawsuit brought by
Intergraph and an antitrust suit filed by Federal Trade
Commission.
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By Rick Boyd-Merritt
July 22, 1998
EE Times
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A group of 14 mobile systems, peripheral
and silicon makers formally joined forces this week to
form a so-called Mobile Advisory Council (MAC) to speak
out on design issues for notebook computers. The group
has set its first target: to influence the PC '9X road
map written by Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Word of
the MAC was tipped earlier this year when invitation
letters initially went out to some 18 prospective members
in the group who found existing PC design guidelines too
focused on desktop issues. The current members of the
group are 3Com, Acer, Adaptec, Compaq, Fujitsu PC Corp.,
Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Phoenix Technologies,
SystemSoft, TDK, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Xircom.
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By Michael Kanellos
July 22, 1998
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Despite problems with its Pentium II
Xeon chip for server computers, Intel stated that servers
using its new high-end processor will be available in one
to two weeks. Intel initially had to delay the release
of Xeon Pentium II chips for servers earlier because of a
bug. But today's statement essentially means that the
first stage of its push into the upper echelons of
corporate computing should be back on track.
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By Lisa DiCarlo
July 22, 1998
PC Week Online
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Intel Corp. said today it will introduce
two .18-micron Pentium II processors in the second half
of 1999. The news comes two days after Advanced Micro
Devices Inc. announced it will introduce a copper-based
chip in the first half of 2000. IBM Microelectronics,
meanwhile, is expected to release a copper-based PowerPC
as early as this year.
One Intel processor, code-named Cascades, will be
geared toward workstations and servers, while the other,
code-named Coppermine, will be for notebook and desktop
PCs. Both will include Katmai New Instructions, a set of
integrated 3D instructions that should improve
performance of high-end, graphics-intensive applications.
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July 23, 1998
The Register
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Chip giant Intel yesterday took a $24
million stake in a high end graphics company. Evans &
Sutherland specialises in producing 3D graphics and
virtual reality systems. Intel now holds 8.2 per cent
stake of the firm, with an option to extend this to over
11 per cent.
Intel said that both firms will now co-develop
graphics and video subsystems for the lucrative
workstation market, particularly in the CAD/CAM and
special effects arena. But the move could antagonise
Intergraph and other Intel customers which already occupy
part of that space.
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| July 22, 1998 |
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By James Niccolai
July 21, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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As expected, Motorola's Semiconductor
Products Sector and Advanced Micro Devices on Monday
agreed to a technology cross-licensing deal that will
give AMD access to Motorola's state-of-the-art
copper-based chip manufacturing technology. Under
terms of the seven-year agreement, Motorola in return
will have access to AMD's high-density flash memory
designs, which it will use to make embedded devices for a
range of products including cellular telephones and other
portable gadgets, the companies said at a press
conference announcing the alliance at AMD's Sunnyvale,
Calif., headquarters.
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By Lisa DiCarlo
July 21, 1998
PC Week Online
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Motorola
Semiconductor Products Sector announced here Monday a
technology swap that may boost AMD's presence in
higher-end markets while doing the same for Motorola in
the embedded space. As part of a patent cross-licensing
agreement, first reported late last week, AMD will
license Motorola's copper interconnect technology for its
next-generation K7 chip, due in 2000. In turn, Motorola
will integrate AMD's flash memory into PowerPC processors
geared toward embedded applications.
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By Lisa Picarille
July 21, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Intergraph Monday filed a brief in
response to Intel's appeal of a preliminary injunction. Intergraph,
which is suing Intel for anticompetitive behavior, patent
infringement, and antitrust violations, filed its brief
with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
arguing the court ruled properly when issuing the
preliminary injunction.
The injunction, issued on April 10, 1998, by the U.S.
District Court, Northern District of Alabama, forced
Intel to provide Intergraph with future plans and early
versions of products, in spite of an ongoing patent
infringement lawsuit between the two companies.
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By Lisa DiCarlo
July 21, 1998
PC Week Online
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Intel Corp. is trying to spark PC demand
for the second half of this year by speeding up the
release of its 300MHz and 333MHz integrated Celeron
processors. The chips, part of Intel's low-cost line of
processors, were originally expected in the fourth
quarter. As recently as early June, Intel moved the
release to September,
sources said. Now, however, the release is scheduled for
next month.
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By Michael Kanellos and Brooke Crothers
July 21, 1998
C/Net
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As part of its strategy for moving
deeper into digital content and the high end of the
workstation computer market, Intel announced new 3D
graphics and two new standard workstation designs, one
month after introducing Xeon, its most powerful processor
yet. As previously reported by CNET NEWS.COM, the new
technologies were introduced at Siggraph, a major
computer graphics forum in Orlando, Florida.
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By Sami Menefee
July 21, 1998
Newsbytes
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Four of Acer America's entry-level
Aspire PCs now come with a choice of motherboard
architectures, processors, and processor speeds. The firm
offers both K6-2 chips from Advanced Micro Devices
[NYSE:AMD] and Pentium II processors from Intel Corp.
[NASDAQ:INTC], but it takes a significant feature
trade-off to get the higher-priced P-II chip. Both
basic 300 megahertz (MHz) systems sell for $999, but Acer
has dropped a 5.1 gigabyte (GB) hard drive, 64 megabyte
(MB) RAM and a 24x CD-ROM drive into its AMD-based model
1860 MT. The PII 300MHz model 6058 MMT has only a 4.3GB
hard drive and 48MB RAM - although it has a faster 32x
CD-ROM drive.
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By Michael Kanellos
July 21, 1998
C/Net
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Intel has once again accelerated its
road map for low-end Celeron processors, moving up the
release of faster versions with integrated high-speed
memory from next quarter to this one and adding a 366-MHz
version of the chip in the first half of 1999. The new
300-MHz and 333-MHz chips will follow
better-than-expected progress in implementing the
company's most advanced 0.25-micron manufacturing
process, according to an Intel spokesman. Generally,
improved production yields permit Intel to come out with
faster chips earlier than expected.
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July 22, 1998
The Register
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Intel has unveiled its future plans for
notebooks, desktops, servers and chipsets, confirming
news reported here earlier. The company will introduce
300MHz and 366MHz Celeron with 128K of integrated level
two cache in the third quarter of 1998, and in the first
half of 1999 will introduce a Celeron for the basic
mobile PC market.
Intel is on the verge of releasing a PII 450MHz, and
will also introduce a 300MHz
mobile PII, with plans to introduce 333MHz mobile chip in
the first half of next year. It has not completely
abandoned plans for the Pentium MMX processor - the
company said it will introduce a 300MHz mobile processor
in this family in the first half of 1999.
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By Mark Hachman
July 21, 1998
Electronic Buyers' News
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Citing improved manufacturing processes,
Intel has updated its Celeron road map with a faster
introduction of the "Mendocino" Celeron
processor. A 300-MHz and 333-MHz version of the
Mendocino Celeron processor -- the code name for a
Celeron part with 128 kilobytes of cache integrated onto
the die -- will be introduced this quarter, rather than
the fourth quarter as originally planned. The reason, an
Intel spokeswoman said, was that "[Intel's]
0.25-micron process is going like gangbusters."
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By Andy Santoni
July 21, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel has yet again rewritten its
processor road map, this time promising
higher-performance versions of its Celeron processor as
early as next month. Earlier, Intel promised 300-MHz
and 333-MHz versions of the Celeron CPU with 128KB of
on-chip Level 2 cache, the so-called Mendocino processor,
before the end of the year. Originally, Intel did not
expect the 333-MHz version until next year.
Now, Intel will introduce the Mendocino CPUs in time
for the back-to-school season, according to an Intel
representative. Officially, Intel is quoting shipment in
the third quarter, but the company "will be more
aggressive than September," he said.
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By Will Wade
July 20, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Advanced Micro Devices is canceling its
five-month-old silicon-foundry agreement with IBM,
following Monday's announcement of a long-term technology
partnership with Motorola, said AMD chairman and CEO W.J.
Sanders in an interview with Semiconductor Business News. Sanders
said Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD (company profile) is now
able to meet its immediate capacity needs internally, and
the alliance with Motorola will enable the company to
gain access to copper-interconnect technology needed for
high-performance microprocessors in the future. To
address a shortfall in its own ability to produce K6
microprocessors, AMD announced a two-year foundry pact
with IBM Microelectronics' contract manufacturing
operation. "We notified IBM last week that we will
not be going forward with our foundry arrangement,
starting immediately," Sanders said.
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By Jim Davis and Michael Kanellos
July 20, 1998
C/Net
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Motorola's chip division and Advanced
Micro Devices detailed a technology-sharing alliance
today that will give AMD the ability to make copper-based
microprocessors and give Motorola needed components to
build "system-on-a-chip" parts for intelligent
devices. AMD also indicated that it is planning to push
its next-generation K7 processor up to a speed of 1 GHz
(1,000 MHz) in the year 2000. Copper will first appear on
AMD's K7 at that time.
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By Andrew Maclellan
July 20, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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Predicting 1-GHz microprocessors by
2000, Motorola Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today
signed a cross-licensing deal that the companies said
will yield high-performance copper-based chips running at
more than twice the speed of today’s fastest
mainstream CPUs and may position AMD as a more viable
competitor for Intel which has no announced copper
interconnect technology. Motorola’s Semiconductor
Products Sector, Austin, Texas, will contribute its
manufacturing expertise to the effort, moving both
parties to a 0.18-micron, and then to a 0.15-micron
design rule with its HiPerMOS copper interconnect process
technology. In return, Motorola will receive the rights
to AMD’s flash-memory patents, allowing it to begin
offering high-density, low-power embedded flash
microcontrollers sometime next year.
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July 21, 1998
The Register
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Centaur-IDT has scored its first major
win in the UK as sources said Evesham Micros was set to
introduce a £350 PC. A successful sales drive by Centaur
will likely force the likes of AMD and Intel into cutting
chip prices again, and create more problems for resellers
beset by the rise of the low-cost market, and the
associated downward pricing spiral. Reports said that
the Evesham machine will use the IDT/Centaur P200
Winchip, will come with 16Mb of relatively inexpensive
EDO DRAM, have a 1Gb hard drive and also come equipped
with a monitor. The Winchip is an x86 compatible
processor which IDT has started to fab in volume. It is
intended to run Windows applications and is priced at
around $100 a part.
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July 21, 1998
The Register
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The US Federal Trading Commission (FTC)
has issued its final consent order for Digital's sale of
Alpha manufacturing to Intel, subject to the
incorporation of 'handcuffs' that will stop Intel
extending its monopoly to Alpha. Digital's deal with
Intel last year preceded its sale to Compaq, and
transferred manufacture of Alpha to Intel while retaining
development and ownership for Digital. The deal as it
stood was however vulnerable to the possibility of Intel
becoming a de facto single source for Alpha, and this
worried the FTC to the extent that it insisted Digital
also license Alpha to several other companies, despite
several of them lacking any obvious desire for such
licences.
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By Catalina Ortiz
Associated Press
July 19, 1998
San Jose Mercury News
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Thirty years ago, personal computers did
not exist, except in the dreams of a few people. And few
noticed when two scientists started another electronics
company in what became Silicon Valley. Today, PCs are
ubiquitous. And hardly anyone hasn't heard of Intel Corp.
Intel, now the world's biggest maker of computer
chips, helped change the world with devices the size of a
thumbnail -- the microprocessors that are the brains of
most PCs.
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July 21, 1998
The Register
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US reports said that Advanced Micro
Devices (AMD) has pulled the plug on a deal it had with
IBM Microelectronics to manufacture its K6 processors. Although
AMD will retain the option of using IBM Micro fabs in the
future, the reason why it has decided not to begin using
them is because it has ramped up its own manufacturing
capacity, according to the reports.
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By Michael Kanellos
July 20, 1998
C/Net
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Just months after recruiting IBM to
manufacture its processors, Advanced Micro Devices is
putting the brakes on the deal. IBM was scheduled to
begin manufacturing Intel-compatible AMD K6 processors
this quarter under an agreement announced earlier this
year, said sources at that company. However, AMD has now
chosen not to exercise their rights, according to sources
at IBM and AMD.
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By Craig Matsumoto
July 21, 1998
EE Times
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Pushing to keep pace with advances in
silicon technology, Motorola Inc. and Advanced Micro
Devices Inc. have signed a cross-licensing agreement
aimed at accelerating the development of the companies'
embedded flash and microprocessor efforts. The
seven-year deal, announced at AMD headquarters today, has
Motorola licensing its copper-interconnect technology and
HiPerMOS, its high-performance logic manufacturing
process, to AMD. In return, AMD is licensing its flash
technology to Motorola, along with some networking
technology.
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By Lisa DiCarlo
July 17, 1998
PC Week Online
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and
Motorola Inc. (MOT) are hooking up to get ahead in the
chip market. The two will announce a patent
cross-licensing deal on Monday that, among other things,
gives AMD access to Motorola's copper manufacturing
technology and gives Motorola rights to AMD's embedded
flash memory and networking products, according to
sources.
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By Will Wade
July 20, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Motorola
Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector today announced a
broad-ranging strategic alliance covering a patent
cross-licensing agreement and a joint effort to develop
wafer processing technologies for microprocessors and
embedded flash memory. The deal is expected to last
seven years, and will give AMD access to Motorola's
copper interconnect technology and its high-performance
logic process known as HiPerMOS. In exchange, Motorola
will implement AMD's low-voltage flash technology in its
embedded applications, a move that underscores the
company's drive to develop all the building blocks
required for system-on-a-chip applications (see July 17
story).
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By Mark Hachman
July 17, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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A group of Advanced Micro Devices
Inc.’s creditors has warned the company that if it
fails to meet certain financial requirements, it will
default under terms of a credit agreement valued at $800
million. In an 8K report filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission dated July 8, one clause of the
amended agreement states: “AMD shall not suffer or
permit (a) a net loss of greater than $20 million for the
third fiscal quarter of 1998, and (b) net income to be
less than $1.00 for the fourth fiscal quarter of 1998,
and for each fiscal quarter thereafter.” Still,
analysts doubted that the creditors, led by Bank of
America National Trust and Savings Association, would
actually foreclose.
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July 16, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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There could be a chip
shortage—maybe a big one—starting Jan. 1, 2000.
That’s when semiconductor fab lines across the world
could start doing funny things because of the millennium
bug. As pointed out in an earlier column, OEMs and
chip makers face a potential Year 2000 glitch in the
embedded code of millions of microcontrollers. And at the
Semicon West show last week, industry executives revealed
another major concern: that Y2K errors can cause
equipment to shut down, run erratically and otherwise
foul up production lines.
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July 20, 1998
U-Geek
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Intel Corp. is going to be moving
aggressively to .18 micron manufacturing process. They
are planning to have it online by the middle of 1999. The
move to the smaller manufacturing process will enable
smaller, faster chips. Intel is planning to take
advantage of the .18 micron move to release faster
processors in 1999. Expect to see Xeon processors at
up to 700 MHz, Katmai (Pentium II with MMX-2) at up to
600 MHz, Celeron chips running at up to 400 MHz, and
mobile chips at 366 MHz or better. Also, expect Intel to
start moving towards building all L2 cache on all of
their chips. The .18 micron process will allow the chips
to shrink enough that this is viable.
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July 20, 1998
U-Geek
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IFIC (First International Computer)
released three Slot 1 motherboards using theVIA Apollo
Pro chipset. This chipset is one of the few non-Intel
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By Mark Carroll and By Rick Boyd-Merritt
July 19, 1998
EE Times
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Intel Corp. this week will ship PC
makers technical details of a long-awaited chip set that
marks a shift in direction for both PC graphics and
sub-$1,000-system design. The so-called Whitney chip set
could also mark a renewed move by the microprocessor
giant toward integrated processors, as well as raise new
concerns about Intel's extending an alleged monopoly in
PC processors into the realm of graphics. At least two
core-logic makers here are following Intel in its march
into integrated silicon, though they might face
difficulties gaining a license to Intel's Pentium II
processor bus. But some Taiwanese systems manufacturers
are balking at a move to integrated parts that could lock
them into designs with potentially substandard graphics
performance.
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July 20, 1998
The Register
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Reports said that Intel will supply its
OEMs with details of its Whitney chipset this week. The
chipset, which is intended for the Celeron platform,
combines the i740 graphics core with the Intel 440LX
chipset, with a claimed performance boost for low end
PCs. The Whitney chipset is a way of optimising
graphics performance for Celeron and other
microprocessors in the build-up to Intelıs release of
its Portola chip, which is the next generation of the
i740 chip using Katmai. When it is released, it will
support both TV output and video capture.
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By Michael Kanellos
July 20, 1998
C/Net
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Hewlett-Packard said it will port the
operating system for its large-scale 3000 series
computers to Intel's 64-bit Merced processor, the latest
evidence of mushrooming early support for Intel's
next-generation chip architecture. Because HP's 3000
line runs the company's proprietary MPE/iX operating
system, today's announcement effectively means that HP
will use Merced across its entire high-end computing
product line. Earlier, HP said it would adopt Merced for
its 9000 Unix servers as well as its Windows NT-based
NetServers when the chip comes out in 2000.
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By Michael Kanellos
July 17, 1998
C/Net
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In 1999, Intel will boost the speed of
its Xeon chips to 700 MHz, desktop Pentium IIs to 600
MHz, and mobile chips to 366 MHz, according to sources,
while the company will also release its first Pentium II
with high-speed "cache" memory integrated
directly onto the processor. Intel will introduce a
333-MHz Pentium II that integrates a super-fast 256
kilobyte cache memory chip. Code-named Dixon, the chip is
slated to appear in the first half of the year, according
to sources. Cache memory is critical for boosting a
chip's performance.
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July 20, 1998
The Register
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As revealed here earlier this year,
Intel is set to introduce Xeon processors next year which
will run at over 700MHz. At CeBIT Hanover in March, Dr
Albert Yu, senior VP of microprocessor products, showed a
demonstration of a processor running at 700MHz and said
it would be part of the Xeon platform. Intel will
manufacture the part using its up-and-coming 0.18 micron
process technology, which will also allow it to increase
speeds of PIIs to over 600MHz and mobile PIIs to over
350MHz with subsequently higher clock rates following
during the year.
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By Carmen Nobel
July 17, 1998
PC Week Online
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Despite Intel Corp.'s (INTC) delay of
its Merced chip and general concern over the future of
Digital Equipment Corp.'s Alpha processor, 64-bit
computing is still prominent on the road maps of two
major computer companies. Hewlett-Packard Co. (HWP)
next week will announce plans to bring the IA-64 chip,
which the company co-designed with Intel, to its HP 3000
line of midrange PC servers. Compaq Computer Corp.,
meanwhile, which will continue with its own plans to
offer Merced-based servers, next week will roll out plans
for future Alpha processors and related servers.
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