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By Reuters
September 17, 1998
San Jose Mercury News
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Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch
said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission needs to
be ''careful'' as it pursues Intel Corp for alleged
violations of antitrust law. Hatch, a Utah Republican,
dwelled mostly on potential violations of antitrust law
by Microsoft Corp. in a speech to a conference sponsored
by Summit Magazine.
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By PC Week Online Staff
September 17, 1998
PC-Week Online
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Intergraph Corp. has asked a federal
court for a summary judgment in its antitrust case with
Intel Corp., saying a trial is not needed. In the same
filing, the company also asked the court to dismiss
Intel's motion for a summary judgment accepting its
patent license defense against Intergraph's patent
infringement claim. According to the Huntsville, Ala.,
workstation manufacturer, "it is so clearly
documented that the Intergraph patents were never
licensed to Intel that a trial on the issue is not
needed."
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By Nancy Weil
September 17, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intergraph wants its patent infringement
lawsuit against Intel to be settled without a trial,
contending in a motion filed Tuesday in Alabama that it
can so clearly document its case that a judge should rule
in the company's favor. Intergraph says in its motion
for summary judgment that it can prove the patents in
question never were licensed to Intel. Such motions,
which seek to have lawsuits dismissed before a trial
begins, are common in court cases, but are seldom
granted.
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September 17, 1998
The Register
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Intel is engaged in an attempt to sign
more developers up to its Merced
pre-silicon development environment programme. Earlier
this week, Craig Barrett, Intel’s CEO, said that a
Merced processor will arrive in the middle of the year
2000. Silicon samples are expected in the second half of
next year.
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By Andy Patrizio
September 17, 1998
TechWeb
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The new Peripheral Component
Interconnect bus architecture, called PCI-X, could be in
Intel-based servers by the end of 1999 if everything goes
well with the PCI Steering Committee, a standards body. PCI-X
was developed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Compaq,
normally competitors in the PC server market, to provide
a faster channel for high-speed input/output devices like
gigabit Ethernet cards and Fibre Channel. The trio turned
the specification over to the PCI Steering Committee for
review, and so far, the committee likes what it sees.
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By Michael Kanellos
September 17, 1998
C/Net
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A funny thing is occurring at the Intel
Developer Conference here. Mention the word
"StrongARM"--the low-cost, low-power processor
that Digital assigned to Intel late last year in a legal
settlement--and no one runs away. Indeed some
companies are flocking to it. At least two computer
makers will incorporate 200-MHz versions of an Intel
StrongARM chip in handheld computers using the
"Jupiter" version of Microsoft's Windows CE
that will be announced later this year, said sources
familiar with the upcoming announcements.
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By Eileen Colkin and Tom Davey
September 17, 1998
InformationWeek
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At its annual developers' forum
Wednesday in Palm Springs, Calif., Intel said it will
join a group of Unix vendors, including Sun Microsystems,
Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, IBM, and SCO, in developing
specifications for a standard driver interface for Unix
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By Mark LaPedus
September 16, 1998
Electronic Buyers' News
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Amid losses in its LAN-equipment
business, Intel is looking to expand that operation by
reportedly holding talks to acquire a surprising and
bitter rival, 3Com, according to analysts and other
sources. Reports have circulated for weeks that Santa
Clara, Calif.-based Intel may be looking to buy all or
pieces of 3Com, which itself ran into trouble after its
massive -- and painful -- acquisition of U.S. Robotics
last year. 3Com (company profile said it hopes to pick up
the pieces from the fallout, while also looking for a
partner to fund its massive debt, analysts said.
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By Mark LaPedus
September 17, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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While the industry is abuzz about talks
between Intel Corp. and 3Com Corp. about a possible
merger, industry analysts said they don't expect such a
deal to take place. “It’s not going to
happen,” said Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Piper
Jaffray Inc., Minneapolis. “What happened is that
3Com and Intel are involved in some product development
areas, but the market may have misconstrued this into
takeover talks.”
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By Rick Boyd-Merritt and David Lammers
September 16, 1998
EE Times
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In an effort to drive PCs forward, Intel
Corp. rolled out new details about multimedia
instruction-set extensions for its upcoming Katmai
processor as the vanguard of a small army of new
technologies, products and specifications it marshaled at
the company's developer's forum here. Despite the
well-orchestrated barrage, debate was still sharp on the
question of whether sluggish PC demand — especially
at the high end — will rebound in the near future.
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By Michael Kanellos
September 16, 1998
C/Net
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If anything, the upcoming Katmai
processors from Intel will be a boon for budding
filmmakers. The Katmai Pentium II processors due in
the first quarter of 1999 will provide a boost to how 3D
graphics and video data get viewed and manipulated on
standard PCs. Katmai technology has also been referred to
as "MMX 2," which is the successor to Intel's
current MMX technology found in Pentium II processors.
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By Andy Santoni
September 17, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel is shipping a "pre-silicon
development environment" to independent hardware and
software vendors to ensure that complementary products
are available when the IA-64 Merced processor ships in
mid-2000. Provided at no charge, the software runs on
an Intel architecture, 32-bit (IA-32) Pentium II-class
system, explained Rumi Zahir, senior computer architect
at Intel. The utilities aim to help developers get to
market more quickly, he said.
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By Andy Santoni
September 16, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel on Wednesday disclosed plans to
join more than a half dozen I/O hardware and Unix OS
vendors in a consortium to develop a standard device
driver interface to drive growth in standard, high-volume
servers. The announcement was made by John Miner,
Intel vice president and general manager of the
Enterprise Server group, in a keynote address here at the
Intel Developer Forum.
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By Brian Fuller
September 17, 1998
EE Times
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A year ago, Brian Halla was king of the
world. He'd just turned National Semiconductor Corp.
around in the wake of Gil Amelio's lackluster reign. He
pumped life into earnings and helped lift the stock price
to more than $40 a share. He sold businesses that didn't
make sense and whittled the company strategy down to
something that employees and customers alike could
understand: system-on-a-chip. This year, it's a
different story. National's stock price has collapsed to
$8 and the company is reporting losses instead of
earnings. A financial report two weeks ago offered a
glimmer of hope, but Halla acknowledges that neither the
company — nor the industry — is out of the
woods yet. For a moment, it seemed, National was back to
the bad old days.
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September 16, 1998
The Register
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Rambus has announced a component
validation programme, designed to smooth the transition
to Direct Rambus memory systems next year. Standard
procedures required for verification in the new system
will make it easier for customers to integrate the new
products, Rambus said. Validation procedures are being
established for all the major components of a Direct
Rambus memory system, which are the Direct RDRAMs
devices, RIMM modules, RIMM connectors and clock
components.
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By Reuters
September 16, 1998
C/Net
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Intergraph yesterday asked a federal
court for a summary judgment in its antitrust lawsuit
against Intel. The Huntsville, Alabama, workstation
maker said in a statement it had asked the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of Alabama to use
existing evidence to decide whether Intel took part in
anticompetitive behavior, patent infringement, and
antitrust violations, as Intergraph alleges. Intergraph
also asked for a dismissal of Intel's earlier motion for
a summary judgment on Intergraph's allegations of
anticompetitive behavior and patent infringement.
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By Michael Kanellos
September 16, 1998
C/Net
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Intel will release Celeron processors
for notebook computers in the $1,299 to $1,399 range
during the first half of 1999, in an effort to hitch onto
the next wave of low-cost computing. Meanwhile, the
chipmaker has already launched a new line of extra
low-power chips for mini-notebooks, handheld computers
that run the Windows 95 and 98 operating systems. A new
low-power 266-MHz Pentium MMX was released today.
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By Ephraim Schwartz
September 16, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel chose the perfect venue here this
week, where temperatures climbed to 106 degrees, to
unveil the next version of its Mobile Power Guidelines
2000 and to discuss "thermally manageable
limits" for notebook PCs. Working with most of
the major system OEMs and component manufacturers, the
goal of the initiative is to continue to increase
notebook performance and battery life while limiting
voltage and power consumption as well as the internal
heat of a closed notebook system.
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By Mark Hachman
September 16, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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Intel’s Barrett Plans For Most
“Intense” Year Yet After a keynote speech at
the Intel Developers’ Forum in Palm Springs, Albert
Yu, senior vice-president and general manager for Intel
corp.'s Microprocessor Products Group, sat down with
EBN’s Mark Hachman.
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By Brooke Crothers
September 16, 1998
C/Net
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Intel will work toward establishing
common standards among different versions of the Unix
operating system, a critical requirement as the company
lays the groundwork for its high-end server and
next-generation 64-bit Merced technologies. In the
creation of a "unified Unix," Intel will work
with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and
SCO, among other companies.
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September 16, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Intel Corp. announced here today at the
Intel Developer Forum a revised set of specifications
aimed at defining power consumption targets for chips
used in mobile PCs. To emphasize its point, the
company also introduced a new version of the Pentium
processor with a redesigned core and lower power usage,
specifically targeted at the mobile market.
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| September 16, 1998 |
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September 15, 1998
The Register
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Intel has provided sneak details of its
processor roadmap up until the year 2001 and has also
given additional details of the Katmai instruction set it
will introduce early next year. Albert Yu, senior vice
president in charge of the microprocessor unit, said that
the development of additional instructions in Katmai was
driven by the need for rich data applications, including
MPEG and voice recognition.
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By James Niccolai
September 15, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel's top brass sketched out the
company's microprocessor road map at its biannual
developer forum here Tuesday, including plans for
high-speed chips that support Intel's new,
multimedia-enhancing Katmai instruction set. "1999
will probably be the most intensive year for product
announcements that we've seen for some time," said
Craig Barrett, Intel's president and CEO, in his keynote
address kicking off the three-day forum.
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By Rick Boyd-Merritt
September 15, 1998
EE Times
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Intel Corp. is positioning itself to put
as much of its manufacturing clout behind low-cost,
highly integrated peripheral chips as it traditionally
has placed on its high-end microprocessors. In a small
group meeting here before delivering a keynote address at
its Intel Developer's Forum, Intel president and chief
executive officer Craig Barrett revealed the company is
currently ramping up in tandem two "mainstream"
0.18-micron logic processes — one that would be
geared for the needs of its high-end processors and
another tailored to the requirements of its core logic,
graphics and embedded semiconductors.
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By Lisa DiCarlo
September 15, 1998
PC Week Online
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The good news is that Intel Corp. (INTC)
predicts worldwide penetration of connected PCs to
explode from about 100 million today to 1 billion by
2005. The bad news is that computing is still dogged by
ease-of-use, bandwidth and e-commerce security problems. At
its Developer Forum here, President and CEO Craig Barrett
said Intel will increase its rate of investment in other
companies and technologies to eradicate those problems
and spark growth.
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Exit: Mendocino
Intels new processors: Celeron 300A,
Celeron 333, Pentium-II-450 and Pentium-II-Overdrive-333
By Georg Schnurer
Issue 18, 1998
c't Magazine
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Intels cheap CPU is growing up: Celeron
is getting an integrated L2 cache with the Mendocino
processor core. This lets the come-on drug for Slot 1 get
extremely close to the established Pentium-II processors.
Intel immediately used the opportunity for shipping a
450-MHz model in the latter category. Apparently Intel
wanted to show them already at CeBIT Home, Celeron 300A,
Celeron 333 and Pentium-II-450. The first two processors
should make us forget about the 'old and weak' Celeron
without L2 cache. At a first glance the new 450 is just a
Pentium-II with a slightly higher clock frequency.
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September 15, 1998
The Register
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Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, has opened
the Intel Developers Forum in Palm Springs by outlining
what he sees as the future of the PC. At the same time he
said that there needed to be industry wide initiatives to
address technological and security problems. Those
include building security into CPUs, chipsets and
motherboards to make e-commerce safer, he said.
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By Andrew Maclellan
September 15, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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Locking in another component of its
high-speed DRAM memory strategy, Rambus Inc. today rolled
out a validation program to help memory chip suppliers
and OEMs in their transition to Direct Rambus DRAM
(RDRAM). Announced at the Intel Developers’
Forum, the validation program will allow all components
developed for the emerging 800-MHz memory interface to be
verified, including the Direct RDRAM chip, Rambus In-line
Memory Module (RIMM), RIMM connector, and clock source.
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September 15, 1998
The Register
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Intel has outlined a vision of the
future where entire families’ lives will be
controlled by a know-it-all PC built into the
superstructure of a house. But, perhaps fortunately,
it could be as long as seven years before this vision
comes to pass.
At a demonstration of future technology held at
Intel’s Developer Forum today, a representative from
Intel showed a video demonstrating the future as the chip
company foresees it.
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By Mark Hachman
September 15, 1998
Electronic Buyers' News
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Speaking Tuesday at the opening morning
of the Intel Developers' Forum, Intel president and CEO
Craig Barrett said 1999 would become the most intense
year of new processor introductions in the company's
history, despite what some analysts are calling an
industry downturn. While some companies may hesitate
and let their competitors get ahead in a down cycle,
Intel (company profile) intends to aggressively pursue
processor and other technology introductions in the
coming year. "I guess the message I'd like to get
out is don't let the cycle, the economic cycle, get you
down," said Albert Yu, senior vice-president of
Intel's Microprocessor Products Group.
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September 15, 1998
The Register
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Intel has given a qualified welcome to
the PCI-X specification proposed by IBM, Compaq and HP,
but said that it was likely to be the last iteration of
PCI. Mitch Schultz, head of IO initiatives at Intel
US, said that the company had only just received the
proposed specification. "In general our view is that
it’s potentially very positive," he said.
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September 15, 1998
The Register
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Albert Yu, senior vice president of
Intel’s microprocessor products group, said today
that the 370-pin socket version of the Celeron is now
likely to arrive towards the end of the year. Speaking
on the eve of Intel’s Developers Forum, Yu said that
the primary reason for moving to the socket was because
of cost considerations. The socket is aimed at the Basic
PC end of the processor market.
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September 14, 1998
The Register
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Intel has admitted that it is impossible
to prevent bugs from escaping its testing process. But
today it moved to reassure end users and customers that
its bug testing process is up to the task of dealing with
the complexity of this and future generations of its
microprocessors. That follows bad publicity given to
Intel earlier this year over an erratum with its Xeon
line of server chips.
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By Brooke Crothers
September 14, 1998
C/Net
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Intel, pushing to blanket the market
with Pentium II technology, announced price cuts today
across its line of chips. "Continued strong
acceptance of Pentium II processors enables Intel to
aggressively ramp these products into higher volume price
points," the company said in a statement.
After Intel introduced its "market
segmentation" strategy--which targets chips for
specific markets--earlier this year, price cuts are
occurring on a monthly basis, an Intel spokesman said.
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By Lisa DiCarlo
September 11, 1998
PC Week Online
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Lower-cost desktops will become
attractive options for corporate buyers, not just
consumers, early next year as Intel Corp. (INTC) marries
fast, low-end processors with networking and management
features. Intel is planning faster processor and bus
speeds for its low-end Celeron chip while championing the
use of 10/100M-bps Ethernet and client management
standards in systems based on the chip, said sources
close to the Santa Clara, Calif., company.
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By Stephanie Miles
September 11, 1998
C/Net
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Later this month at an industry event,
Kodak and Intel will detail a plan to offer consumers
digitized photographs on CDs and elaborate on a digital
camera technology based on a lower-cost design, the first
fruit of their six-month-old digital imaging alliance. On
September 28, the two companies are expected to launch
Kodak Picture CDs, low-priced CD-ROM disks intended to
store digitized versions of photographs taken with a
traditional camera and film.
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By John G. Spooner and Lisa DiCarlo
September 11, 1998
PC Week Online
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With new processors and chip sets in
hand, Intel Corp. (INTC) is looking to close the price/
performance gap between notebook and desktop PCs. The
Santa Clara, Calif., company will outline its 1999
notebook plans at next week's Intel Developer Forum in
Palm Springs, Calif.
On next year's docket: a new Celeron-based class of
notebooks and next-generation Pentium II chips with
Katmai New Instructions, a set of 70 instructions for
three-dimensional graphics, said sources familiar with
Intel's plans.
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