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| Dell's profits jump 31 percent |
5/16/2003 |
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Dell Computer Corp. reported a 29 percent surge in worldwide shipments and a 31 percent jump in first-quarter profits to $598 million, or 23 cents per share. That compares to $457 million, or 17 cents per share, a year earlier.
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| Intel CEO remain cautious about near term tech rebound |
5/16/2003 |
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Intel CEO Craig Barrett told reporters in a meeting in New York that he remains cautious in the near-term about a recovery in the technology industry, as well as the impact of SARS on the company's business, but that he is optimistic about the future.
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| Sun reduce prices on Midrange server |
5/16/2003 |
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Sun Microsystems has cut price on its 12-processor Unix server, the midrange V1280 which was first introduced three months ago, in a move to fight off the competition.
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| Chip equipment orders slide |
5/16/2003 |
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The book-to-bill ratio for chip equipment orders slipped to 0.86 last month in North America, SEMI said. This means that just $86 worth of new orders arrived for every $100 that was billed.
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| PC sales rise gradually |
5/15/2003 |
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The PC sales is showing signs of rebounding, but the speed at which revenue will improve is still uncertain, reported market-research firm Gartner.
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| SuperMicro releases high end system with ISA slots |
5/15/2003 |
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SuperMicro has introduced a motherboard using Intel Corp.'s newest 875P chipset running with Pentium 4 3.06GHz processor, 800MHz front side bus and DDR400 memory, as well as three legacy ISA slots.
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| AMD releases faster chip |
5/15/2003 |
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AMD introduced its fastest desktop processor, the Athlon XP 3200+ that runs with a 400-MHz front-side bus. The new processor is based on AMD's Barton core, which features a total of 640KB of on-die cache. Its operating frequency is 2.2 GHz, and AMD priced the chip at $464 in quantities of 1,000 units.
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| Wafer shipments down in 1st quarter |
5/15/2003 |
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Wafer shipments dropped 5% in the first quarter but is expected to gradually increase from now through 2004 as companies raised their forecast growth in wafer demand for the remainder of 2003 and all of 2004, said Fabless Semiconductor Association.
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| IBM releases new mainframe systems |
5/14/2003 |
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IBM unveiled its most powerful mainframe computer and offered customers to use the computing resources as needed without buying a dedicated machine.
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| Hynix produces DDR and DDR2 at 0.10 micron |
5/14/2003 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc. said it had started volume production of 512Mbit DDR and DDR2 at 0.10-micron process technology. A 1Gbit DDR2 chip will be made on the 0.10-micron process starting in the second half of 2003, the company said.
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| Applied Materials reported loss |
5/14/2003 |
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Applied Materials reported a net loss in its fiscal second quarter Tuesday as chip makers continue to delay investing in capital equipment.
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| PC shipments will improve |
5/14/2003 |
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PC shipments will improve during the second quarter of 2003, but economic uncertainty will continue to weigh on the sector, according to new projections by Gartner Dataquest.
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| Microsoft cuts Xbox price to $179.99 |
5/14/2003 |
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Microsoft Corp. cut the price of the Xbox console to $179.99 in the United States, one day after chief rival Sony Corp. did the same with its PlayStation 2.
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| AMD unveils enhanced version of Athlon XP |
5/13/2003 |
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AMD said that an enhanced version of its Athlon XP processor, 3200+, is available for $464 in 1,000 unit quantities. The suffix of the Athlon XP 3200+ part number is said to indicate a level of performance without being strictly related to clock frequency.
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| Xbox division still in red |
5/13/2003 |
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Xbox division, part of Microsoft, has double the loss on its games and consumer hardware sales in the most recent quarter than it had a year earlier, according to a new regulatory filing.
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| Xbox console prices stay the same |
5/13/2003 |
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Industry analysts and retailers had wondered whether the company would lower prices before the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) starts later this week. Microsoft has opted against any current price cuts for the Xbox.
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| Infineon, Micron support RLDRAM II |
5/12/2003 |
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Both Infineon Technologies and Micron Technology released specifications for RLDRAM II, a reduced latency memory optimized for networking applications.
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| Elpida DDR2 SDRAM Powers Intel PCs |
5/12/2003 |
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Elpida Memory, Inc. has announced that its 512 Mbit DDR2 SDRAM module for high-end server applications has performed at a data rate of 533 Mbits/s for the first time in an Intel server. The part will be ready for volume production by this summer.
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| i2 will be delisted from Nasdaq |
5/12/2003 |
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I2 Technologies Inc. said the Nasdaq Stock Market will remove its stock from trading because the company hasn't filed its annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Game industry awaiting price cut on consoles |
5/12/2003 |
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More than 60,000 of the video-game industry's faithful will attend the the game show at Los Angelas this week. With NPD Funworld estimating that game sales grew only 3 percent for the first two months of this year, game publishers need more consoles in the hands of customers to boost their business. And the only way that's going to happen is with major price cuts.
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| nVidia releases new chips |
5/12/2003 |
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nVidia fired the latest shot in the increasingly hostile PC graphics war Monday, rolling out its next generation chip well ahead of its usual schedule.
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