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September 11, 1998
The Register
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Intel has predicted a bright third
quarter, particularly in the US and Europe, because of
what it described as stronger than anticipated demand. It
has managed to cut its costs by laying off staff and
improving its manufacturing process. That will mean
its revenue for the third quarter will exceed its
expectations. When it released its second quarter results
in July, it had warned of flat expectations.
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September 11, 1998
The Register
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As expected, National Semiconductor
reported a big loss for its first quarter of its 1999
financial year. Turnover dropped by eight per cent
compared to Q4 of 1998 and it showed a net loss of $104.8
million on turnover of $469.6 million.
That compares unfavourably with a profit in the
equivalent quarter last year of $62 million on turnover
of $656.7 million.
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September 10, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Integrated Device Technology Inc. here
is planning to take nonrecurring charges of $205 million
to $240 million in the company's current fiscal quarter
because its Oregon wafer fab is producing too many
products for the marketplace. Ironically, the wafer
fab in Hillsboro, Ore., has done such a good job of
converting to 0.25-micron technology that the company is
still significantly overproducing products despite a
recent decision to close its chip-processing plant in San
Jose. IDT said it was taking nonrecurring charges of $50
million to $60 million for the shutdown of the San Jose
plant.
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By Reuters
September 11, 1998
C/Net
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Shares in European chipmaker
STMicroelectronics surged more than 5 percent today and
led the gainers in Paris with analysts saying there were
no clear indication for the rise. Intel yesterday gave
a bullish outlook on its third quarter which could have
helped ST, but the two companies are not strictly in the
same business. National Semiconductors had a smaller than
expected quarterly loss yesterday. Another bit of good
news was that Toshiba decided to cut its capital spending
on chip activities.
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September 10, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. here has
tapped Fran Barton to be the company's new chief
financial officer and senior vice president. Barton will
replace Marvin Burkett, who left the company in March,
and will report directly to William J. (Jerry) Sanders
III, chairman and CEO. Barton has an extensive
background in the industry and in corporate finance. He
spent 22 years with Digital Equipment Corp., including a
stint as CFO of that company's PC business unit. He comes
to AMD from Amdahl Corp., where he served as vice
president and CFO. Barton has a master's degree in
finance from Northeastern University, and a bachelor's
degree in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute.
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By Adam Lashinsky
September 11, 1998
San Jose Mercury News
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The market's tanking, Asia's imploding
and the president's apologizing, but mighty Intel Corp.
(Nasdaq, INTC) is reviving. Or is it? Intel ended days
of high-level chatter late Thursday by ``pre-announcing''
what Wall Street lovingly calls an ``upside surprise.''
In other words, the semiconductor giant now believes it
will exceed analysts' carefully crafted
revenue estimates for the third quarter by about half a
billion dollars. Intel had projected that revenue would
be about the same as or slightly better
than the second quarter's $5.9 billion. Thursday, after
the stock dipped along with the rest of the
Clinton-concerned market, Intel said it now looks like
sales will be about $6.4 billion to $6.5 billion, an 8
percent to 10 percent sequential increase for those
without calculators.
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By Will Wade
September 10, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Reversing a trend seen throughout much
of the year, Intel Corp. announced here today that it has
seen demand for its chips pick up significantly, and that
it expects its revenues to be higher than previously
expected. This is a change from the chip giant's
position in July, when Intel reported second-quarter
sales of $5.9 billion and predicted that revenues this
quarter would be flat (see July 14 story).
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By Reuters
September 10, 1998
TechWeb
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Chip maker Intel said Thursday that it
expects third quarter revenue will be 8 percent to 10
percent above the second quarter's $5.9 billion due to
strong demand in North America and Europe. The world's
largest chip maker said in July it had expected third
quarter sales to be flat to slightly higher than second
quarter levels.
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By Andy Santoni
September 10, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Stronger than anticipated demand,
especially in North America and Europe, will cause
revenues to exceed Intel's expectations for the third
quarter of 1998, Intel projected Thursday. When Intel
announced second-quarter earnings in July, the company's
expectations were that revenues in the third quarter of
1998 would be flat to slightly up from second-quarter
revenues of $5.9 billion.
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By Gabrielle Jonas
September 10, 1998
TechInvestor
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National Semiconductor reported Thursday a whopping
63 cents per share loss for its first quarter, but
managed
to beat revised Wall Street estimates by 2 cents.
For the three months ended Aug. 30, National
Semiconductor's loss was $105 million, or 63 cents per
share, on sales of $470 million. In the same quarter last
year, the company earned net income of $63 million, or
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September 10, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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National Semiconductor Corp. announced
here today a loss of $104.8 million for its first fiscal
quarter of 1999, ending Aug. 30. However, the company
also saw an upturn in bookings, which may signal that the
company is on the rise again after a disastrous year. "Sales
continued soft during the summer quarter," said
Brian Halla, National's chairman, president and CEO.
"We think, however, we may have touched bottom as
bookings in the first quarter improved for the first time
in a year."
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By Alexander Wolfe
August 31, 1998
EE Times
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The latest news to leak out of the
tightly wound Merced community makes it abundantly clear
that software will be the linchpin of Intel Corp.'s
upcoming 64-bit architecture. Sure, the silicon itself
will be significant. But without smart compiler
technology, which can turn complex applications programs
into uninterrupted parallel streams of machine
instructions, Merced won't outperform today's superscalar
architectures. Now, a first glimpse of that technology
is available thanks to Hewlett-Packard, which has
authorized the release of a research compiler called
Trimaran and a related set of performance-monitoring
tools.
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By Michael Kanellos
September 9, 1998
C/Net
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IBM, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard have
announced a joint development initiative on a computer
specification that, if implemented, would wrest some
control over the internal structure of PCs and servers
from Intel. The PCI-X specification, as the initiative
is called, reflects a growing frustration among server
vendors with the slow pace of innovation around how data
moves inside a computer, according to sources. Intel
boosts the speed of microprocessors on roughly a
quarterly basis. However, when it comes to boosting the
speed at which data can be shuttled around from the
microprocessor to other components in a computer, change
has been glacial.
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By Alexander Wolfe
September 9, 1998
EE Times
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Hewlett-Packard Co. and NEC Corp. have
entered a development pact that aims to optimize the
HP-UX operating system to run on systems using Intel's
upcoming 64-bit Merced processor. Merced will be the
first implementation of Intel's new IA-64 architecture.
HP-UX is HP's brand of Unix. The HP-NEC pact extends a
deal the two companies inked this past April, when NEC
licensed HP-UX.
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By Andy Patrizio
September 9, 1998
TechWeb
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Intel introduced Wednesday the 300-MHz
version of its mobile Pentium II processor for
high-performance computing and software-only DVD
playback. The mobile Pentium II 300 comes in two
forms, a CPU mounted on the motherboard and a mobile
module.
Laptop vendors that use the mobile module design can
easily remove older 233-MHz and 266-MHz Pentium IIs, and
even Tillamook Pentium 233-MHz and 266-MHz chips, without
having to redesign the computer.
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By Jennifer Hagendorf
September 9, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Intel Corp. Wednesday announced its
300MHz mobile Pentium II processor, its fastest mobile
processor that also consumes the least amount of power,
said Jeff McCrea, product marketing manager for the Santa
Clara, Calif.-based company's mobile/handheld product
group. The new processor consumes 1.6 volts, compared
with its predecessor 233MHz and 266MHz mobile processors,
which consume 1.7 volts, McCrea said.
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| September 9, 1998 |
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September 8, 1998
The Register
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National Semiconductor is to pay a large
amount of money to IBM Microelectonics to sever the
contract to fab its 6x68 chips, according to reliable
sources close to the company. NatSemi-Cyrix will hand
over a figure in the region of $40 million, according to
the source. That will mean that IBM Micro will,
effectively, stop producing x.86 clone processors.
Although it has an existing contract with AMD, that is
understood to be close to termination also.
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September 9, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Integrated Device Technology Inc. here
is planning to take non-recurring charges of $205 million
to $240 million in the company's current fiscal quarter
because its Oregon wafer fab is producing too many
products for the marketplace. Ironically, the wafer
fab in Hillsboro, Ore., has done such a good job
converting over to 0.25-micron technology that IDT said
it is still significantly over producing products despite
a recent decision to close the company's chip-processing
plant in San Jose (see July 22 story). IDT said it was
taking non-recurring charges of $50 million to $60
million for the shutdown of the San Jose plant.
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By Andy Patrizio
September 8, 1998
TechWeb
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Intel plans to gradually move its family
of Celeron chips to the old pin-based design, beginning
next year. In the first half of 1999, Intel will ship
300-MHz and 333-MHz Celerons that use a 390-pin chip
form, called plastic pin grid array (PPGA). That form
will make the chip about the same size as the Pentium Pro
chip, but it will have a different pin configuration,
according to Carl Larson, marketing manager in Intel's
microprocessor group.
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Intel
feeling the heat
National Semi, IBM forging alternative
chip paths for users
By Lisa DiCarlo
September 7, 1998
PC Week Online
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Competitors both large and small, in
desktops and servers, are putting increasing pressure on
Intel Corp. with alternative processor plans. In
addition to Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel's longtime
rival in mainstream desktop processors, National
Semiconductor Corp. and IBM Microelectronics are renewing
efforts to give corporate users new chips to consider.
National Semi, for example, is developing a range of
integrated processors for entry-level PCs, thin clients,
single-function devices and portables.
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By John G. Spooner
September 8, 1998
PC Week Online
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Intel Corp. on Wednesday plans to
introduce its fastest, lowest-power mobile processor to
date. The Santa Clara, Calif., company's new mobile
Pentium II processor running at 300MHz is expected to
usher in a parade of new notebooks.
The processor's low power consumption is made possible
by advances in manufacturing. The chip consumes 1.6
volts, as opposed to the 1.7 volts consumed by the 266MHz
mobile Pentium II, sources said.
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By John G. Spooner
September 4, 1998
PC Week Online
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Intel Corp. and its latest mobile
Pentium II chip will usher in a new wave of
high-performance notebook PCs. But are IT managers
clamoring for such powerful portables? The Santa Clara,
Calif., semiconductor maker's 300MHz mobile Pentium II,
to be announced next Wednesday, will include 512KB of
Level 2 cache and be available on either a mobile module
or a cartridge for thin-form-factor notebooks. The mobile
module will include a built-in bridge to a notebook's
accelerated graphics port, a separate 66MHz bus for
processing graphics, sources said.
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By David Pendery and Andy Santoni
September 8, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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System makers are planning improvements
to the PCI bus, with or without the support of Intel,
PCI’s original champion. IBM, Hewlett-Packard,
and Compaq Computer are developing an improvement on the
PCI bus called PCIx. Other OEMs are pressing for Mini
PCI, a proposed communications standard that could bring
smaller size, greater design flexibility, and lower cost
to mobile products. And, after lukewarm interest in
doubling the bus width and speed of the PCI bus to 64
bits and 66 MHz, Intel is just beginning to support this
change.
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September 9, 1998
The Register
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IDT is still producing too many chips.
Today it announced details of its plans to restructure
its business following poor financial results for its
second quarter. The company, which makes the
x.86-compatible range of WinChips, as well as a number of
other semiconductor products, said it was still suffering
from overcapacity, despite the closure of its San Jose
fab.
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By Rick Boyd-Merritt
September 8, 1998
EE Times
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Intel Corp. and a group of top PC makers
are pushing the future of the PCI bus in different
directions. A debate over PCI is now brewing in the arena
of high-end PC servers, but promises to spill over into
communications and embedded systems designs. Intel is
planning a PCI upgrade that will differ from PCI-X, an
incremental upgrade that specifies an increase in PCI
speeds from 66 to 133 MHz. Unlike PCI-X, which was
drafted by Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and
other computer makers, Intel's unannounced upgrade to PCI
does not involved a move to 133-MHz speeds. Intel
received a copy of the PCI-X specification, also called
PCI-133, on Aug. 31, an Intel spokesman said.
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