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By Mike Magee
January 21, 1999
The Register
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A document with a foreword written by
Andrew Grove, president of Intel, has specifically
targeted UK journalists for criticism. Today, Register
journalists were shown a document called Working with the
European Press which outlined Intel's ideas about the
whole of Europe, including Israel and South Africa.
But the document journalists saw was particularly
damning about UK journalist
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By Mike Magee
January 22, 1999
The Register
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A document seen by The Register which
details Intel's approach to European journalists makes a
clear distinction between the French and the German
press. The French aren't interested in technology
while the Germans are, claims Intel.
Yesterday we reported that Intel makes a clear
distinction between UK journalists and the rest of the
EMEA press.
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By Michael Kanellos
January 21, 1999
C/Net
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Intel will release at least five new
notebook chips on Monday, including one of most advanced
Pentium IIs the company has ever manufactured and the
first mobile Celerons. The new Pentium II PE,
code-named Dixon, will run at clock speeds of 300 MHz,
333 MHz, and 366 MHz. Additionally, it will come with
256K (kilobytes) of secondary cache memory
"integrated" directly onto the processor,
making it the first Pentium II of its kind, according to
sources. Integrated cache improves performance.
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By Mike Magee
January 22, 1999
The Register
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A hardware site is reporting that Cyrix
will move to a PGA 370 pin socket design for its MX
processors. According to JC's PC News'n'Links, the MX
chip, which is an M2 with Cayenne's FPU enhancements,
will knock the spots off Pentium II performance because
it has an x87 unit at the level of the Pentium III.
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By Mike Magee
January 22, 1999
The Register
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AMD is now expected to introduce its
SharpTooth K6-3D processor earlier than the 24th
February. Although a representative refused to say
exactly when the processor will be introduced, he did say
that the date had been brought forward.
AMD is attempting to knock the wind out of Intel's
sails when it introduces its Pentium III (Katmai) part at
the end of February.
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By Michael Kanellos
January 21, 1999
C/Net
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Intel will graduate to a more advanced
processor technology by the middle of the year, a shift
that will boost performance, cut costs, integrate more
functions onto the processor, and let the company get rid
of the "Slot 1" package. The chipmaker today
will provide more details on its shift to the 0.18-micron
manufacturing process. The micron measurement refers to
the dimension of the circuits on a microprocessor.
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By Will Wade
January 18, 1999
Semiconductor Business News
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Intel Corp. will roll out its
0.18-micron process technology this year in
microprocessors exceeding 600 MHz, but the technology
could lead to powerful processors in the 1-gigahertz
range by the end of next year. The company disclosed the
roadmap for its latest, smallest manufacturing process at
a technology briefing here Thursday, and said the first
0.18-micron chips will be launched this summer. "The
Pentium III architecture will be able to go up the
800-MHz range with the current process, and with further
process enhancements it will reach the 1-GHz range,"
predicted Sunlin Chou, vice president and general manager
of the company's technology and manufacturing group.
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By Craig Matsumoto
January 21, 1999
EE Times
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Convinced that encryption and network
security will be required to realize the dream of
connecting PCs worldwide, Intel Corp. will begin
incorporating security features into its hardware. The
company's first steps, outlined at the RSA'99 conference
of RSA Data Security Inc., will be a unique ID number for
every Pentium III microprocessor that Intel ships, and
the ability to generate purely random numbers in
hardware. Much as the company encouraged the
development of sophisticated graphics applications on the
PC, it plans to prod the industry to develop ubiquitous
security across a PC-based network. That's a relatively
recent push within Intel, driven by the realization that
its vision of connecting PCs worldwide could never work
without ways to secure those networks, said Patrick
Gelsinger, vice president of Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.).
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By Robert Lemos
January 22, 1999
ZD Net News
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Addressing privacy concerns, Intel Corp.
stated Thursday it was being extremely careful in
implementing its new processor ID number scheme. The
plan was announced Wednesday at the RSA Data Security
conference in San Jose, and more details were given in a
technology briefing here on Thursday. As part of its new
initiative to create a connected world of trusted PCs,
Intel has incorporated a number of security initiatives,
including a random number generator and marking
electronically every processor with a unique serial
number.
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By Mike Magee
January 22, 1999
The Register
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Chip manufacturer Cyrix, which is owned
by National Semiconductor, said today it had signed a
far-reaching agreement with Phoenix Technologies. According
to a statement from the company, the agreement means
there will be a dedicated engineering team working on
future technology.
Dick Sanquini, VP of the Cyrix group at NatSemi said
that the agreement would give his company access to
enabling software technologies, not just in the PC
market.
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By Sandy Chen
January 21, 1999
Semiconductor Business News
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Amid a report that it will post a profit
this year, Taiwan's Acer Semiconductor Manufacturing Inc.
is nearing a
much-anticipated deal under which it would build
64-megabit DRAMs on a foundry basis for Japan's Fujitsu
Ltd. (see Jan. 20 story).
Under the plan--which has been expected for weeks--Acer
will license Fujitsu's 64-Mbit DRAM technology, including
its 0.22- to
0.20-micron process, sources said here today. By year's
end, Acer's DRAM capacity for Fujitsu will be 10,000
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By Robert Lemos
January 20, 1999
ZD Net News
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Intel Corp. will unveil plans to embed
identification numbers in its PC processors on Thursday,
according to industry insiders and cryptographers
familiar with the company's efforts. In doing so, the
Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker could be sounding the
death knell for anonymity on the Internet.
"The application is a double-edged sword. On the
one hand it offers more security -- for e-commerce and
information security," said Barry Steinhardt,
associate director and privacy expert at the American
Civil Liberties Union. "As a pure privacy issue, it
allows for a means of tracking individuals on the
Net."
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By Robert Lemos
January 21, 1999
ZD Net News
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PC chip giant Intel Corp. has confirmed
reports that it would start shipping processors with
embedded serial numbers, starting with the Pentium III
later this quarter. "There are two elements here:
Security and privacy," said Howard High, spokesman
for the chipmaker. "Security is inherently good, but
at the cost of some privacy." The chip ID plan is
expected to make e-commerce more secure, but has privacy
advocates worried that anonymity on the Internet might be
at risk.
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By Charlotte Dunlap
January 20, 1999
Computer Reseller News
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Pat Gelsinger, vice president of Intel's
desktop products group, slammed the U.S. government's
role in maintaining a cap on exportable levels of
encryption, while preaching the benefits of lodging
additional security into hardware over software. In a
keynote address Wednesday at the RSA Data Security show
here, Gelsinger laid out a three-year road map for
Intel's development plans with RSA, Redwood City, Calif.
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By Terho Uimonen
January 20, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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Software vendors in February will take
the wraps off the first applications optimized for the
Katmai New Instructions featured in Intel's forthcoming
Pentium III processors, a senior Intel executive said
here Wednesday. The software introduction will take
place at a Feb. 17 conference held in Santa Clara,
Calif., prior to the official launch of Pentium III, said
John Davies, Intel's vice president and general manager
of the chip giant's Asia-Pacific operations. The
Katmai-optimized applications are designed to take
advantage of the 70 new instructions featured in the
Pentium III processors for speeding up 3-D graphics,
audio, video, and other functions.
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By Anthony Cataldo
January 20, 1999
EE Times
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Though Intel Corp. has turned thumbs
down on adding hooks to its chip sets for SDRAMs running
faster than PC/100, several chip makers don't see things
the same way. A small chip-set company, Reliance Computer
Corp., and IBM Corp. believe there's plenty of life left
in synchronous DRAMs. Carving a path that parallels
Intel's straight road to Rambus, the companies foresee
using PC133-standard 133-MHz SDRAMs first, and then
double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAMs. Advocates argue that the
performance gain from 133-MHz SDRAMs is significant.
Where Direct Rambus DRAMs may be dogged by a supply
shortage, the next generation of SDRAMs will be
plentiful, as DRAM vendors will find it relatively easy
to tweak their process to bump up the speeds. And while
certain modifications will need to be made to the dual
in-line memory module (DIMM), they are fairly
straightforward, supporters said.
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By Michael Kanellos
January 20, 1999
C/Net
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The legal battle between the Federal
Trade Commission and Intel has been pushed back to March
9, a two-week delay that will allow both sides to better
prepare their cases, but also may force the FTC to amend
its internal rules. The administrative action filed by
the FTC alleges that Intel used its dominant position in
the microprocessor market to unfairly force three
computer vendors--Intergraph, Digital, and Compaq--to
license their intellectual property in a way that
benefits Intel. Additionally, sources close to the FTC
have said that the agency is investigating a broader suit
that examines whether the Santa Clara, California,
company's other business practices violate U.S. antitrust
law.
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January 21, 1999
EE Times
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Intel Corp. will invest $100 million in
Samsung Electronics Co. to help accelerate the South
Korean chip maker's production of Direct Rambus DRAMs. Following
an investment in Micron Technology, the investment in
Samsung marks the second time in less than a year that
Intel has taken an equity stake in a DRAM company to
ensure a reliable supply of the high-speed Direct Rambus
memory devices, which suppliers are having difficulty
producing in large quantities this year.
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By Jack Robertson
January 20, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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EBN has learned that Intel will announce
on Thursday a new Pentium III security feature -- an
embedded individual serial number in each chip -- that
can identify the user. The digital serial number is
meant to augment additional transaction security
techniques, such as passwords and encryption.
An Intel spokesman said the individual serial number
will initially be available only on the new upcoming
Pentium III processors. Ultimately, he said he expected
the security feature to be added across the line to
Celeron chips, as well.
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By Tony Smith
January 21, 1999
The Register
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Intel is today due to announce that it
will embed individual serial numbers first on every
Pentium III it produces and later other chips, including
future Celeron products. The move is geared to
identify stolen PCs, either physically or via the
Internet. It may also help Intel identify companies
overclocking processors then selling then claiming their
PCs contain faster chips than they do.
It's likely each number will be exposed to software,
potentially allowing, say, Web browsers to explicitly
identify individual machines across the Net.
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By James Niccolai
January 21, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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The judge overseeing the Federal Trade
Commission's antitrust case against Intel has pushed the
start of trial back two weeks, to March 9, an Intel
spokesman confirmed. In his order Wednesday, Judge
James Timony said Intel was late submitting documents to
the court, said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. Mulloy
wouldn't provide further details, and the FTC could not
be reached for comment.
The FTC lodged its antitrust complaint in June of last
year, charging Intel with illegally using its monopoly
power to cement its lead in the microprocessor market.
Intel denies the charges.
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By George Leopold
January 20, 1999
EE Times
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A hearing on the government's antitrust
case against Intel Corp. has been delayed again by two
weeks, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday (Jan.
20). The antitrust hearing that had been scheduled to
open on Feb. 23 is now scheduled to begin on March 9.
An FTC spokeswoman attributed the delay to Intel and
agency officials' failure to produce documents on
schedule. The two sides also asked James Timony, the
FTC's chief administrative law judge, for more time to
prepare their cases.
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By Mary Mosquera
January 20, 1999
TechWeb
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The trial of Federal Trade Commission's
antitrust suit against chip maker Intel has been pushed
back to March 9, the agency said Wednesday. The
administrative court hearing at the FTC was to start Feb.
23 with the FTC's Chief Administrative Law Judge James
Timony presiding, but the suit has been delayed several
times now. A final prehearing conference will take place
March 5.
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By John Lettice
January 21, 1999
The Register
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Intel’s date with antitrust destiny
has shifted back two weeks, to March 9, either because
Intel didn’t turn over requested documentation to
the FTC on time, or because both sides asked for the
delay. According to Intel, the delay was by mutual
agreement, but James Timony, an administrative judge for
the Federal Trade Commission, said that Intel’s
failure to hand over data had caused delays in the
questioning of witnesses.
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By Reuters
January 21, 1999
C/Net
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U.S. chipmaker Intel has agreed to
invest $100 million in South Korea's Samsung Electronics
to expand cooperation in the next-generation memory chip
industry, Samsung said today. Under the deal, expected
to be formally signed by early February, Intel plans to
buy $100 million worth of convertible bonds exchangeable
into common shares equivalent to about 1 percent of
Samsung's common shares, Samsung said in a statement.
"The proposed investment in Samsung Electronics
is part of Intel's strategy to support the supply of
next-generation memory products," the Samsung
statement said.
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By Tony Smith
January 21, 1999
The Register
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Intel is to invest $100 million in
Korean chip manufacturer Samsung, it emerged yesterday. The
deal hasn't yet been formally signed, but it will see the
Great Satan of Chips buying $100 million worth of Samsung
stock. The catch: Samsung has to use to the money to ramp
up production of Rambus Direct DRAM.
That's a pattern set down last October when Intel
invested $500 million in Micron Technology through the
purchase of six per cent of Micron's shares.
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January 19, 1999
The Register
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Chip company AMD today declined to
either confirm or deny that it will take over manufacture
of Compaq's DEC Alpha chips. As reported here earlier,
a common motherboard will allow K7 users to upgrade to
faster Alphas, as and when they become available.
Rana Mainee, European market research director at AMD
Europe, said: "We have no plans for producing Alpha
chips that I know of. We have enough demand for our K7
chips on their own."
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By Tony Smith
January 19, 1999
The Register
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Following yesterday's reports that a
number of chip-set vendors, including VIA, Acer and SIS,
are backing the PC133 SDRAM specification as a short-term
alternative to Rambus' Direct DRAM (see Chip-set vendors
prepare for Rambus shortage), it has emerged that IBM
will be producing 133MHz SDRAM memory products. According
to US magazine Maximum PC, Big Blue has already produced
PC133 samples and intends to begin volume production in
time for the second quarter.
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By Michael Kanellos
January 19, 1999
C/Net
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Functions for electronic commerce and
improved network security will be hardwired into PC
technology by the middle of the year, a technological
change that will likely jumpstart the electronic commerce
industry. By mid-year, Pentium III-based PCs will
contain circuitry dedicated to conducting electronic
commerce and other security functions, sources said. The
ready availability of this circuitry in turn is expected
to lead to the further spread of e-commerce applications
and e-commerce users. These features will also likely
increase in number toward the end of the year when Intel
moves to the 0.18-micron manufacturing process, which
will allow the company to cram more transistors onto each
processor.
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By Andrew MacLellan
January 19, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Losing $4.6 million in its third fiscal
quarter, Integrated Device Technology Inc. beat Wall
Street expectations but continued to struggle through its
market transformation into a communications technology
provider. The company's 6-cent-per-share loss was an
improvement from the immediate prior quarter, when it
lost $20.5 million, and beat analysts' consensus
estimates of a 14.5-cent EPS shortfall. It also
represented a marked decline from the year-ago quarter's
$2.4 million in profits.
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January 20, 1999
Semiconductor Business News
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Integrated Device Technology Inc.
reported here today a loss of $4.6 million for its third
fiscal quarter, as overall revenues shrank 5.9% from the
last year's third quarter. A bright spot for the company
was microprocessors, and IDT's WinChip unit saw both unit
sales and revenues increase 35% over the preceding
quarter. I am satisfied with the improvement in our
financial performance for the third quarter," said
Len Perham, president and CEO. The company's earnings
period closed Dec. 27. "We saw firmer overall
business conditions and strong interest in our new
product offerings, plus we made solid progress on our
operaional restructuring program. This combination
allowed us to narrow our operating loss to
near-break-even, exceeding our expectations."
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By Mike Magee
January 19, 1999
The Register
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A hardware site has blown the gaff on
the Pentium III, having managed to obtain a
pre-production processor from an Intel partner. Firing
Squad has posted a review which reveals details of the
processor ahead of its official launch at the end of
February.
Intel admitted that the review did appear to be of a
genuine part, but said: "We don't comment on
unannounced products".
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By Kenn Hwang
January 13, 1999
Firing Squad
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Intel invented the general-purpose
microprocessor back in 1971, with the calculator-based
4004. Through the years, their influence has spread
considerably, and Intel CPUs, the brains behind the most
popular personal computers, have powered the PC through
over 6 generations of development and competition. Any
new line of Intel CPU, either praised or criticized, has
always had a lasting effect on the computing industry.
The i386 introduced the PC to 32-bit computing, and
introduced the "virtual x86 mode," a new
processor state which allowed DOS (real-mode)
applications to execute in protected mode (a major flaw
in the 286, in which protected mode was incompatible with
DOS apps).
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January 8, 1999
Firing Squad
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Regardless of whether you're planning on
upgrading soon, you're probably very interested in
Intel's newest performance CPU, the upcoming Pentium III
Processor, with its "KNI" instruction set, new
processor state, doubled L1 cache, and of course, higher
clock speeds. We're going to be given the opportunity
to run a few tests on the P3 sometime soon, using a
standard BX motherboard at 100Mhz FSB. Until then, I've
got a couple of interesting pictures we were able to snag
for ya.
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By Robert MacMillan
January 18, 1999
Newsbytes
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Intel Corp. does not plan to go into its
battle against Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
anti-competition charges without back-up. The
microprocessor giant confirmed it has has hired former
White House Counsel John M. Quinn and former Congressman
Butler Derrick, D-S.C., for Capitol Hill lobbying
purposes, an Intel spokesperson said. The spokesman,
Chuck Mulloy, told Newsbytes that the hires are not
designed specifically to help the company's cause in its
defense against the FTC, but "the whole FTC thing
was a catalyst for this effort."
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By Matthew Nelson
January 19, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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While RSA and other security companies
are using the RSA Data Security Conference to discuss
security and new products, the real buzz here at the show
this week is a deal between RSA and Intel to build
security directly into chips and streamline security
applications for those chips. RSA announced here it is
working with the chip giant to cross-license key security
technologies that are designed to let Intel and RSA
deliver enhancements to their respective products. The
companies will then co-market the products and RSA
intends to produce enhanced BSafe Crypto-C and Crypto J
software developers kit that are optimized for Intel's
planned security hardware features by mid year.
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By Tony Smith
January 19, 1999
The Register
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Third-party chip-set vendors look set to
reject the Intel-backed Rambus Direct DRAM in favour of
the next iteration of 133MHz SDRAM. And even Intel
itself appears to be preparing alternative technologies
to ease the transition to the new memory technology in
case supply fails to meet demand.
The PC133 SDRAM option is currently supported by
chip-set makers VIA, Acer Labs and SIS, according to
reports on the US newswires. The standard's backers claim
it will be easier to adopt than Direct DRAM because its
an evolutionary development rather than a revolutionary
one.
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Semiconductor Business News
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. here today
said it has begun mass production of high-speed DRAMs
based on the wide-bandwidth memory architecture created
by Rambus Inc. The Korean memory giant predicts that
Rambus DRAMs will be used in 30% of new PCs in 1999,
representing a $2.6 billion chip market. After
demonstrating early prototypes last year, Samsung said it
decided to accelerate its volume production of 72- and
144-Mbit densities of Rambus memories. During the first
half of the year, about 500,000 chips will be produced a
month--based on what Samsung calls"64-Mbit
equivalence" bit volume. By the end of 1999, Samsung
said it plans to increase the output to 5 million chips a
month.
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January 18, 1999
Semiconductor Business News
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UMC Group announced today that it will
offer its foundry services to controller-chip developers
that utilize Rambus Inc.'s memory interface, the Direct
Rambus ASIC Cell (RAC). In addition, Rambus today
announced it has successfully fabricated the RAC in the
form of test chips on UMC's 0.25-micron process. The
test chips have been fully characterized by Rambus and
meet Rambus' specifications, supporting 800-MHz memory
system operation. Targeted for UMC's foundry customers,
the Direct RAC delivers 1.6 gigabytes per second over a
72-pin interface.
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By Mike Magee
January 19, 1999
The Register
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Sources said that the long-awaited
Transmeta processor is set to arrive in the fourth
quarter of this year. And details have emerged about
what type of chip it will be.
The sources said there will be x.86 compatibility
built into the chip, and it will also function in Java
devices.
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By Mike Magee
January 15, 1999
The Register
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An unholy row is set to break out
between Intel and Microsoft after the software company
revealed details of the up-and-coming Merced
architecture. According to reports in the newsgroup
COMP.ARCH, Microsoft has "accidentally" issued
some binaries on CDs they have sent to their ISVs.
One of the pieces of code, dubbed IAS, IA-64(TM)
architecture (EAS 2.3) Assembler Rewrite X8 Apr 28 1998,
which does not run because of missing DLLs, does however
dump error messages and lists of assembler mnemonics and
strings relating to asserts.
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By Matt Loney
January 18, 1999
IT Week
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Intel will this week outline plans to
build security into PCs. The features being built into
processors are called security primitives and will start
appearing in processors and chipsets this year. The move
could ease fears about security for e-commerce and
authentication for network access. The `trusted,
connected' PC, to be un-veiled at the RSA Data Security
Conference in San Jose, California this week, will let
users know which server they are talking to, and give
system administrators control over which PCs can access a
server or network. Combined with biometric devices such
as fingerprint and retina scanners, this new technology
will ultimately provide much higher levels of security
than today's software-only solutions, based on
encryption.
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By Martin Veitch
January 16, 1999
IT Week
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Although Intel has a huge influence on
most system developments, computers will evolve and Intel
will become more of a back-seat driver, says Martin
Veitch It is true that Intel architecture is a huge
force in enterprise computing and one that is expanding
its domain from the desktop through to the data centre.
However, it should be noted that Intel is not and never
will be the way forward for all of us.
Even devout iconoclasts should admit that Intel
microprocessors are the direction for the vast majority
of the world's computer makers. That includes those that
have previously opted for proprietary routes and those
that have selected alternative architectures.
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By Mike Magee
January 18, 1999
The Register
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The biggest surprise in AMD's results
earlier this week was the effect of a problem with high
speed K6-2s which went unnoticed by everybody apart from
US chip title Electronics Buyers' News. Well done those
people. We should have noticed it -- but were affected
by Sydney A/B flu. Don't try this brand of flu yourself,
it's tiresome.
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By Jack Robertson
January 15, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Exploiting Intel Corp.'s staunch
allegiance to the Direct Rambus DRAM camp, third-party
chipset vendors are giving Intel's microprocessor
competitors a leg up in the race for market share. By
supporting an emerging 133-MHz SDRAM interface, chipset
suppliers such as Via Technologies Inc. are offering an
alternative to the Direct RDRAM architecture, which could
allow a new breed of mid-range PCs to play against
existing Intel-based machines, according to sources.
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The Register
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Memory manufacturers still reluctant to
shell out royalties for Direct Rambus technology have
announced that 29 assorted components firms have joined
what the Double Data Rate SDRAM consortium thinks is the
good fight. Towards the end of last year, as reported
here, 12 of the biggest DRAM manufacturers, led by Big
Blue, said DDR was the way to go.
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By Jennifer Baljko
January 15, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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The 1998 fourth quarter paved the way
for Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and National
Semiconductor Corp.'s Cyrix subsidiary to take market
share from Intel Corp. in the PC retail and mail-order
space, according to PC Data Inc. Intel-based PCs fell
from 75.1% of overall unit sales in the 1997 fourth
quarter to about 49.5% in the most recent period, the
Reston, Va. market research firm found.
During the same comparable period, the share of
systems powered by AMD processors grew from 13.3% to
26.2% while Cyrix saw its share grow from 3.1% to 14.6%.
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By Mike Magee
January 18, 1999
The Register
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Intel will introduce its mobile Celeron
platform on the 25th of this month as part of its move to
capture the low-end notebook market. The chips will
come at initial clock speeds of 266Mhz and 300MHz,
sources close to Intel said today.
The 266MHz part will cost $106 in quantities of 1000,
while the 300MHz chip will cost $185.
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By Mike Magee
January 17, 1999
The Register
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Hardware enthusiasts worldwide are
combining Celeron processors to create symmetric
multiprocessing (SMP) systems, despite Intel's attempt to
block the possibility. The trend was started by
Japanese enthusiast Kikumara, but now others are putting
together systems based on the technology.
Kikumara has provided step-by-step instructions on his
Web site and there is another series of instructions now
available at Fastgraphics.
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By Mike Magee
January 17, 1999
The Register
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Intel said today it will continue
supplying Slot One as well as 370 Socket Celerons until
the end of this year. That represents a u-turn from its
previous position. Last week, a US distributor is
claiming that Intel has already discontinued Slot One
designs for the Celeron 300A.
A notice at The Ram Warehouse is claiming that Intel
said it was discontinued on the 13th of January.
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