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| IBM to hire more people |
10/16/2003 |
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"Next year, in fact, we see the need for approximately 10,000 new positions in key skill areas, including high-value services, middleware technologies, Linux and open standards-based hardware and software.
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| Will x86 architecture expand into Network standard? |
10/16/2003 |
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"We are already seeing the x86 get significant use in storage area networking. In the future will it extend to the network itself and to ubiquitous handheld devices? I think so," Weber said.Weber predicted that if cellphones become general-purpose computers, designers will leverage the installed base of PC software and hardware to drive them.
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| HP inch ahead of Dell in PC sales |
10/16/2003 |
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"The race between HP and Dell just got a lot closer," crowed Jim McDonnell, vice president of marketing at HP's Personal Systems Group. "HP considerably narrowed the gap with only 0.3% points separating HP from the top spot."
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| Rumors Intel's Prescott runs into power issue |
10/15/2003 |
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As reported, there are rumors flying that Intel is struggling with the 90-nm process, which is due out later this year. Intel's next-generation desktop processor was reportedly running at a whopping 103 Watts.
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| Semi shipment up 10% |
10/15/2003 |
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According to the San Jose-based consortium's Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) consensus forecast, silicon suppliers anticipate shipments will again increase by 15 percent in 2004.
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| Intel to shrink capital investment |
10/15/2003 |
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Amid a plan to narrow its capital spending, Intel Corp. on Tuesday (Oct. 14) announced third-quarter revenue of $7.8 billion, up 15 percent sequentially and up 20 percent year-over-year.
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| New packaging allow double capacity memory |
10/15/2003 |
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The package can include up to four chips using a combination of NOR flash, SRAM, pseudo SRAM or SDRAM for a memory density of up to 1 Gbit. It is the first time Intel has used SDRAM in its MCP. Intel acquires the SDRAM and SRAM from outside suppliers.
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| Transmeta disclose details on LongRun2 |
10/15/2003 |
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Ditzel positioned LongRun2 as a potentially broad solution to leakage problems that are emerging in chips made at the 90- and 65-nm nodes. "As far as we can tell, we think we have a unique solution to the leakage problem," he said.
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| Sun to double power with new processor |
10/14/2003 |
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UltraSPARC IV uses chip multithreading (CMT) to achieve the throughput increase. The technology allows the processor to execute tens of threads simultaneously. Initial servers will see double the throughput, Sun said in a statement. The company expects to continue to improve throughput with server blades in 2006.
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| DRAM demand looks dim |
10/14/2003 |
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"Although iSuppli believes a pre-Christmas demand still could materials, present market conditions and pricing trends appear more pessimistic than iSuppli expected,"
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| Rambus to push XDR Memory |
10/14/2003 |
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The XDIMM memory module will provide 12.8Gbytes/sec. to 25.6Gbytes/sec. of bandwidth, four times more memory module bandwidth in the same pin count and form factor as DDR2 DIMMs, Rambus boasted. XDR offers a roadmap to 6.4GHz and can scale to interface widths of up to 128-bits, enabling memory system bandwidths up to 100Gbytes/sec
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| HP to develope printer for handsets |
10/14/2003 |
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HP's mobile phone printing software was designed for Nokia's Series 60 platform. It remains unclear whether the same HP software can seamlessly run on handsets developed by other Series 60 licensees such as Siemens or Infineon.
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| Vision: A Proactive Computer |
10/14/2003 |
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The logical arc would be a shift from an interactive to a proactive paradigm in which the computer and network can anticipate a user's needs, rather than just respond to commands. The first step is to get computers to direct data transfers over the network. "This is a huge business-8.5 billion to 10 billion embedded processors are added per year,"
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| Sharp to provide better LCD screen |
10/14/2003 |
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The displays support viewing angles of up to 160° both vertically and horizontally, compared with the typical 110° vertical and 140° horizontal of other mobile LCDs, according to Sharp.
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| More desktops to be replaced by notebook, Intel says |
10/13/2003 |
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Intel Taiwan's manager, Kelly Wu said: "Centrino laptops accounted for 50 percent of all notebook PC shipments in Q3, and Intel expects the number to increase to 70 percent by the end of the year."
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| MoSys reduces Q3 revenue outlook |
10/13/2003 |
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"We are disappointed about reducing our revenue estimate but significant decisions by some of our customers were delayed or made too late in the quarter for us to recognize associated revenue,"
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| iSupply looks at the state of Chinese fabs |
10/13/2003 |
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But Jelinek made a point that this was very different from a huge, uncontrolled fab-building program. Chinese foundries build enormous shells, he said, but facilitize them as necessary for the demand they actually see, rather than outfitting an entire 100K wafer/month fab at once.
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| Court decision trows a Monkey Wrench into JEDEC policy |
10/13/2003 |
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Kelly said the appellate court ruled that companies have no duty to disclose patents or pending patent applications to a standards body until there is a ballot on a proposed specification. "This has thrown JEDEC patent disclosure rules into a quagmire," he said.
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| Samsung to boost sale using Flash memory |
10/10/2003 |
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Samsung Electronics says it aims to increase memory chip by focusing on higher output of flash chips used in products such as mobile phones and digital cameras
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| UMC September sale up 25% |
10/10/2003 |
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UMC announced its September 2003 net sales at US$220 million, up 7.3 percent from August 2003 sales and up by 25 percent over September 2002.
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