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By David Lammers
September 24, 1998
EE Times
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Intel Corp. has hired Mark McDermott,
who formerly ran Motorola Inc.'s Somerset design center,
to head up its newly formed Texas Development Center. Albert
Yu, senior vice president in charge of Intel's
microprocessor products group, said Intel will have two
separate activities in Austin, Texas. An existing
StrongARM development team reports to Ron Smith, who runs
Intel's computer enhancement group in Folsom, Calif.
McDermott was hired to manage a distinct activity, which
hasn't yet been fully defined. But McDermott's
responsibilities will come under Yu's bailiwick of
microprocessor product development, rather than research.
McDermott is the only person hired for the activity thus
far, said Yu, who declined to say how many engineers
would be added.
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By Margaret Kane
September 25, 1998
ZD Net News
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As in PCWeek, IBM will stop selling
Cyrix chips by the end of the year. IBM will also take
possession of "certain assets" from National
Semiconductor Corp. National will take a one-time
charge of $50 million to $55 million in connection with
the agreement.
"National will fulfill customer demand for
Cyrix-designed IBM processors and ensure uninterrupted
seamless support via our worldwide sales and support
network and state-of-the-art 8-inch, 0.25-micron wafer
fab in South Portland, Maine," said Michael
Bereziuk, vice president for worldwide marketing and
sales at National, in a press release.
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By Mike Magee
September 25, 1998
The Register
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IBM has said it is developing chipsets
for an eight-way Merced machine using a combination of
copper wiring and silicon on insulator (SOI) technology. The
company said that it is migrating a number of features
from high end servers to support the Intel platform.
Bill Colton, worldwide general manager of the
Netfinity division, said: "We will blend the best
IBM technologies -- the stuff that powered the Nagano
Olympics and Deep Blue -- with the best of the Wintel
architecture to create hardware that stands apart from
the pack."
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By Reuters
September 24, 1998
C/Net
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Computer chipmaker Cirrus Logic today
said it would slash its chipmaking capacity and eliminate
as many as 500 jobs as it seeks to cut costs. The
company said it expects to take restructuring and other
charges of up to $500 million, and will specify the
timing of the charges when it reports its second-quarter
earnings on October 21.
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By Reuters
September 24, 1998
C/Net
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Intel is not siding with either Symbian
or Microsoft's Windows CE in the coming battle for
palmtop operating systems, but the chipmaker's
relationship with the software giant is as strong as
ever, according to chief executive Craig Barrett. Both
Symbian and Windows CE have some momentum, Barrett said
in an interview, and it's hard to predict whether Symbian
and Microsoft will always compete or whether there will
be a winner.
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By Reuters
September 24, 1998
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Craig Barrett, chief executive officer
of Intel, said today that 1998 would be a year of slow
growth in the personal computer arena. "This will
be a slow growth year for the PC market," Barrett
said in an interview, pointing to forecasts by Dataquest
and International Data Corporation for expansion of 10 to
12 percent, which is lower than historical rates of 16 to
18 percent.
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By Peter Clarke
September 25, 1998
EE Times
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Craig Barrett, president and chief
executive officer of Intel Corp., emphasized the
importance of the StrongARM processor architecture to
Intel this week and said it would be used to address two
of the company's three target markets. "We have
processor families targeted at particular markets,"
said Barrett, speaking in a press conference after an
hour-long presentation to U.K. business executives.
"We'll use StrongARM for two out of three --
handheld computing and consumer electronics." The PC
will remain the domain of the Intel's 32-bit and 64-bit
microprocessor architectures, he said.
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By Peter Clarke
September 24, 1998
EE Times
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Craig Barrett criticized the French
government and repeated warnings made by Andrew Grove,
his predecessor as president and CEO of Intel, in an
address to a European audience here in London this week. With
several hundred business executives in attendance,
Barrett said the French government may be damaging
European competitiveness in e-commerce by opposing the
use of strong encryption technology.
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By Mike Magee
September 25, 1998
The Register
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As revealed here much earlier, National
Semiconductor is to pay for the privilege of terminating
its foundry agreement with IBM Microelectronics. IBM
will stop making Cyrix chips before the end of this year
and will take a one time charge in its second quarter of
fiscal 1999, the company formally announcd today.
NatSemi-Cyrix will transfer some of its assets to IBM
Microelectronics. This could include cross licensing
patents for x.86 technology, leaving Big Blue in a
position to still be able to make processors.
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September 25, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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National Semiconductor Corp. here today
announced it has reached agreement with IBM Corp.to end
the existing wafer manufacturing and marketingalliance
between National's Cyrix subsidiary and IBM. Under
terms of the agreement, IBM will end the sale of
Cyrix-designed processors before the end of the year, and
Cyrix will be relieved of its wafer purchase obligation
to IBM. In addition, Cyrix will transfer certain assets
to IBM.
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By John Lettice
September 25, 1998
The Register
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Bouncing onwards from his visit to
London earlier this week Intel CEO Craig Barrett has been
telling journalists that his company's relationship with
Microsoft is still strong today, maybe even stronger than
it's been in the past. But Barrett protests too much
-- in the same breath, he's capable of telling Reuters'
reporter that Intel is taking a neutral view of the
impending competition between Symbian and Microsoft's
Windows CE.
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| September 24 1998 |
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September 24, 1998
The Register
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The CEO of Intel said today that only
Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, believed the NC or the
Windows Terminal was still a viable option. Speaking
to 30 journalists after meeting 500 businessmen in London
today, Craig Barrett said: "The whole concept of NCs
has been pretty well answered by the public. Only Larry
Ellison hasn't heard that message."
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By Dan Goodin
September 23, 1998
C/Net
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Sun Microsystems has lost its two most
valuable partners in its effort to develop a common
framework for adding multimedia to Java applications. After
collaborating with Sun on a specification called Java
Media Framework, or JMF, both Intel and Silicon Graphics
have quietly backed away from the project.
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By Robert Lemos
September 23, 1998
ZD Net News
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Lower prices for laptops on the way?
Yes, and it's about time, said analysts on Wednesday. "Mobile
prices need to move back in line with desktop
prices," said Scott Miller, industry analyst with
market researcher Dataquest, who added that the high
current prices in the laptop market resulted in a flat
second quarter for PC makers' mobile lines.
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| September 23 1998 |
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By Michael Kanellos
September 22, 1998
C/Net
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Intel will let 675 employees go from a
Massachusetts chip fabrication facility in a job cut that
is separate from Intel's earlier stated goal of reducing
its headcount by 3,000. The employees work in a plant
acquired from Digital Equipment earlier this year. The
affected employees all work in manufacturing, according
to Bill Calder, an Intel spokesman. Development and
marketing departments will not be reduced.
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By Tom Quinlan
September 23, 1998
San Jose Mercury News
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Intel Corp.'s recent announcement that
sales and earnings would be appreciably better than
expected this quarter offered a brief glimmer of hope
that the semiconductor industry's year-long downturn
might be coming to a close. But even though Intel's
sales are expected to benefit from PC manufacturers'
increasing demand for chips, the outlook for most
semiconductor companies remains bleak for the near term.
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By Jennifer Hagendorf
September 17, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Intel Corp. has unveiled the next
generation of its system management specification here at
the Intel Developer Forum. The Wired for Management
Baseline specification 2.0 is the latest step in Intel's
Wired for Management (WfM) initiative, a push to improve
the manageability of desktop, mobile and server systems
with input from the computing industry.
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September 23, 1998
The Register
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Craig Barrett, Intel's CEO, said today
that the way to sell PCs in the future was across the
Web. That is likely to antagonise major vendors,
including IBM and Compaq, which still maintain they have
a channel strategy.
Bennett said that in ten years' time e-commerce was
likely to be worth trillions of dollars and that the way
to achieve sales was through using e-commerce.
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September 23, 1998
The Register
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A fresh codename for a future processor has appeared on
an Intel
roadmap and it is named after a beer rather than a city.
A roadmap Intel's CEO Craig Barrett showed at a meeting
with
London business executives had the name Fosters as the
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By Lisa DiCarlo
September 22, 1998
PC Week Online
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today
introduced a 300MHz K6 chip for portables, the next step
in its plan to penetrate a broader band of the computer
market. AMD's plans will likely put pressure on Intel
Corp.'s mobile processor prices, which are already
scheduled for a first-quarter drop.
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September 23, 1998
The Register
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Details have emerged about the
introduction of Intel's Tanner processor, a 500MHz part
with 512K of level two cache. At the same time, it has
emerged that Intel will keep the price of its high end
Xeon server platform right up through until the beginning
of next year.
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September 23, 1998
The Register
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Intel is rationalising a fabrication
plant in the USA where it makes Alpha chips, StrongARM
devices, and other semiconductor components including PCI
bridges. It will lay off 675 people -- nearly half of
the staff employed at Fab 17 in Massachusetts -- a plant
it acquired after it bought Digital's semiconductor unit.
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By Sergio G. Non
September 22, 1998
TechInvestor
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It took just four months for Intel to
decide it had more workers than needed at a Massachusetts
plant bought from Digital Equipment earlier this year. Over
the next 18 months, Intel (company profile) said it plans
to cut 675 jobs at the 1,600-employee plant in Hudson,
Mass. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant completed
its purchase of the facility -- which makes Alpha and
StrongArm chips as well as other equipment -- in mid-May.
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By Eric C. Fleming
September 23, 1998
Inter@ctive Investor
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Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) said on
Wednesday that it was cutting 675 jobs at a semiconductor
fabrication plant in Hudson, Massachusetts, or about 42
percent of the plant's workers, the Wall Street Journal
reported. The job cuts are the latest installment in
the chipmaker's plan to eliminate 3,000 positions, or 4.4
percent, of its total workforce to deal with the slowdown
on demand for PCs and computer chips. Intel said in June
that it extended its deadline to cut 3,000 positions
until the end of the year.
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By Cheri Paquet
September 22, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel next year plans to let go 675
manufacturing employees at its Fab 17 plant in Hudson,
Mass., where it manufactures StrongArm microprocessors,
PCI bridge and networking products, and Alpha
microprocessor and chip sets. The staffing reduction
is part of Intel's continued effort to streamline
manufacturing facilities by reducing overhead costs and
increasing efficiency, Intel said in a bulletin sent to
employees Tuesday.
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| September 22 1998 |
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By Michael Kanellos
September 22, 1998
C/Net
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A new processor vendor will jump into
the notebook PC market later this year, and, once again,
prices will very likely go down. Rise Technology, an
upstart chip company down the street from Intel, will
officially unveil two new low-powered, low-cost Intel
clone chips next month at the Microprocessor Forum hosted
by MicroDesign Resources, as well as detail the company's
strategy for capturing a portion of the overall basic PC
segments.
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September 22, 1998
The Register
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IBM said today that its sales of Celeron
processors have been poor. But the jury is still out on
how successful the chip has been. The original Celeron,
released in April, is expected to be phased out some time
next month. Bill Holtshauser, a marketing director
from IBM US, said that the original Celeron chip
"had bombed" but added that Intel's second
iteration of the part, with a Mendocino core offered
better opportunities.
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By Mark Hachman
September 22, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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Led by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., a
coalition of Intel Corp.’s chip rivals have unveiled
a sweeping campaign to challenge Intel’s dominance
as a supplier of notebook PC microprocessors and
low-cost, integrated chipsets. AMD on Tuesday
announced 266 and 300 MHz low-power versions of its K6
microprocessor, offering Intel its first serious
challenge in the notebook PC market. Likewise, graphics
supplier Trident Microsystems Inc. said that it has
designed an integrated chipset with Via Technologies
Inc., as well as a second chipset supplier, which
combines a discrete graphics chip and core logic into a
single product.
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By Margaret Quan
September 22, 1998
EE Times
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In a push into the notebook computing
market, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has rolled out the
AMD-K6/300 microprocessor and a mobile processor road map
that extends through the first half of 1999. In
addition to a 300-MHz K6 optimized for notebooks, AMD
revealed plans to release two new K6 processors by the
first half of next year. The K6-2 unit will be available
in early 1999. A design named Sharptooth will take aim at
high-end notebooks.
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By Edward F. Moltzen
September 21, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Chrysler Corp. will dump its Unix RISC
environment and change its 4,000 workstations over to a
Microsoft Corp. Intel Corp. solution, the companies said
Monday. The deal, which will involve a rollout early
next year, will include workstations based on Microsoft's
NT operating system and Intel's Xeon 400MHz and 450MHz
processors, said Anand Chandrasekher, Intel's general
manager of workstation products.
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By Michael Kanellos
September 22, 1998
C/Net
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Advanced Micro Devices will release a
300-MHz version of its K6 processor for notebooks today,
a move that should advance the slow but steady march
toward low-priced portables. The 300-MHz K6 chip itself
won't actually find its way into sub-$1,500 notebooks at
this stage, but it will serve a larger trend toward lower
notebook prices, said Dave Somo, director of product
marketing at AMD. Selling for $229 in volume quantities,
the
chip will be found in portables ranging from $1,999 to
$2,500.
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September 22, 1998
The Register
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AMD is set to make further incursions
into the notebook market and has plans to release a
350MHz K6-2 mobile product this autumn, according to
sources close to the company's plans. Today, as
revealed here earlier, AMD introduced a 300MHz K6 chip
aimed at the mobile market. The price tag for the part is
$229 when bought in units of 1,000.
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September 21, 1998
The Register
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AMD will tomorrow release a 300MHz
mobile K6 part aimed at the notebook market. At the same
time, sources said that the K7, which was taped out four
weeks ago, as reported here, will be interchangeable with
Alpha devices. The company refused to give pricing
details of its low power part for the notebook market but
said it already had scored several OEM wins.
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September 21, 1998
The Register
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Intel's major rival Advanced Micro
Devices (AMD) has claimed that the paucity of games
developers at last week's Intel Developer Forum is
because Katmai samples are not available and will be
expensive. At last week's developer forum, Intel
admitted there were very few games developers present.
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By Alexander Wolfe
September 18, 1998
EE Times
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Intel Corp. demonstrated the first
Merced software ever booted up in public when it
showcased a 64-bit version of Windows NT in a
presentation at the Intel Developer Forum. The demo ran
on a sophisticated software emulator that mimics the
complete Merced instruction set, the chip's
firmware-processor interface, and its multiprocessing
interrupts. "We have major operating systems
booting and running on this pre-silicon development
environment, which is a high-speed software emulator for
[Merced] that runs on an IA-32 host," said Rumi
Zahir, a senior architect at Intel. "It simulates an
entire IA-64 platform; that includes multiple processors
and the standard platform devices and it provides
multiprocessor simulation capabilities."
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By Lisa DiCarlo
September 18, 1998
PC Week Online
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While grudgingly accepting the PCI-X
specification put forth by IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and
Compaq Computer Corp., Intel Corp. (INTC) this week
launched its own plans for advanced server I/O. A
likely scenario has PCI-X plugging a performance gap for
Intel-based servers until switched fabric-based I/O,
which Intel is backing, is commercially viable, perhaps
in late 2000.
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By Mark Hachman And Sandy Chen
September 18, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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Component purchasers hoping to infuse
their notebook PC lines with a new look can turn to Intel
Corp.’s latest mobile processor roadmap for help. With
form factor as a new and important consideration in the
notebook space, Intel has increased the number of
processor package options available to its customers. The
expanded menu, which EBN obtained from OEM sources, will
allow designers, in turn, to modify their laptop PC
models to suit an array of end-user tastes.
In short, while price and performance contribute to
the desirability of a notebook PC, looks count too,
according to Jason Ziller, platform marketing manager in
Intel’s Mobile and Handheld Products Group, Santa
Clara, Calif.
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September 17, 1998
The Register
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A US senator has taken the bold step of
asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to lay off
Intel. Senator Orrin Hatch, the republican
representative of the state of Utah, formerly the home of
both WordPerfect and Novell, has instead advised the FTC
to take a further look at Microsoft.
Hatch was responding to an impassioned speech from
another republican, Haley Barbour, who said that
Microsoft should not receive as much investigation as it
currently is.
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By Michael Kanellos
September 18, 1998
C/Net
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A variety of computers based on Intel's
Xeon processor are coming to the market as the high-end
server and workstation chip moves into volume production.
IBM on Monday will release the Netfinity 7000M10
server, which can run two or four Xeon processors
simultaneously, as well as the Netfinity 5500M10, which
can handle one or two series of Xeon-based servers,
according to sources. Pricing for a two-processor
Netfinity 7000 will start at about $20,000.
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