AFP - Computer chip titan Intel Corp. said Friday it had received a subpoena this week from US antitrust regulators after a two-year informal review on "competition in the microprocessor market."
Reuters - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission
has opened a formal antitrust investigation of semiconductor
maker Intel Corp for anti-competitive conduct, Intel
and the FTC said on Thursday.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The semiconductor and display industries will see significant changes as more people rely on wireless devices to connect with friends, according to iSuppli. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:28:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
TechWeb - InformationWeek - SolidDB is an in-memory relational database that can serve as a high-performance front end to either DB2 or Informix Dynamic Server. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
NewsFactor - On Wednesday, AMD announced an external graphics platform technology called ATI XGP. The company hopes to revitalize its notebook-chip business by bringing desktop graphic performance and rich-media capabilities to laptops. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:54:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
Investor's Business Daily - Is the No. 1 chipmaker a gung-ho outfit with an aggressive way of doing business? Or does it employ dirty tricks and, worse, violate laws governing fair trade? -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:38:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
TechWeb - InformationWeek - In the lawsuit originally filed in 2005, AMD accused Intel of giving computer makers illegal discounts and retaliating against manufacturers who used AMD chips. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:04:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
Reuters - The trial date in a long-running
legal battle between chip giant Intel Corp and smaller
rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc was delayed until
2010, both companies said on Thursday. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:07:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
NewsFactor - Chip designers have been in a furious race against Moore's Law -- the observation by Intel cofounder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years -- with some experts suspecting the industry will soon be unable to maintain that rate of growth. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:33:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
PC World - No Nvidia chipset for Via processors was launched at Computex, but the partnership between the two companies is just getting... -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:10:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A number of computer makers launched Atom-based products at Computex including Asustek's new Eee PC and rival Acer's Aspire One. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
PC Magazine - Realtek Semiconductor said Wednesday that consumers should expect Fujitsu notebooks to start appearing with Wireless USB built in, as Realtek will be supplying the modules. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:09:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Looking to supplant Centrino, the CPU-graphics combination includes the Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile processor and the AMD 7-series chipset. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:55:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
