Semiconductor Industry & Servers

Intel has unveiled eight new Integrated Processor chips that the company claims will yield new levels of performance and energy efficiency versus traditional system-on-chip (SoC) designs.

SEOUL, South Korea - Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip manufacturer, said Thursday it will close its only U.S. factory amid changes in production standards and steep price declines buffeting the industry.

Intel on Wednesday said it was developing new x86 chips to put in devices ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones...

Intel's plans to bring system-on-a-chip (SOC) devices to market have come to fruition, with the company introducing its first eight products for the embedded market. New devices for the consumer-electronics market are due later this year.

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor announced it will shut its US plant because of a global slump in the price of memory chips.

Over the weekend, Intel made a few price adjustments to its microprocessor lineup, with the largest cut being made to its E8500 Core 2 Duo processor.

InformationWeek - The package costs $2,999 and includes the 17-inch XPS M1730 powered by a 2.5-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 processor.

Prices for Intel's Bloomfield chips may disappoint after rumors purported they'd be far less expensive than billed.

AMD confirmed it was developing a low-power processor for mobile devices and sub-notebooks, ending speculation that it had...

InformationWeek - The chip maker expects to refute charges that it is harming competition with the tactics it is using in its battle with rival AMD.

SAN FRANCISCO - Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. fell at the market open Friday, a day after the chip maker reported the departure of Chief Executive Hector Ruiz and reported a wider second-quarter loss than analysts expected.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - European regulators have filed fresh anti-trust charges against the world's largest chip maker Intel, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the market to squeeze out its main rival.

SAN FRANCISCO - Under Hector Ruiz's leadership, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rose to challenge larger rival Intel Corp. as never before in AMD's nearly 40-year history.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc posted a wider-than-expected quarterly loss and named a new chief executive on Thursday, as the chipmaker struggled to regain market share from Intel Corp .

COMMAND CHANGE: Hector Ruiz, 62, is done as CEO at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. after six turbulent years. He now is executive chairman.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union regulators have expanded their antitrust case against Intel Corp., claiming that the world's largest semiconductor maker has deliberately squeezed rival AMD out of the chip market.

InformationWeek - President and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer was named CEO, and Hector Ruiz will become executive chairman of the chipmaker and chair of the board.

SAN FRANCISCO - The CEO of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is stepping down.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators made new accusations against chipmaker Intel Corp on Thursday, saying it paid retailers not to sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc .

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp posted a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and outlook for its current quarter on Thursday, citing a "tough" environment, and its shares fell 6 percent.

SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Tuesday posted a higher quarterly profit as the world's biggest chipmaker was helped by higher sales of microprocessors used in notebook personal computers.

(Reuters) - European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel Corp , expanding a probe into the chipmaker's marketing and sales practices, The Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

SAN FRANCISCO - Worried that the ailing U.S. economy has spilled abroad and hurt global PC sales, investors had subdued expectations for Intel Corp. in the second quarter. Intel is the world's largest computer chip maker, and its fortunes rise and fall with swings in PC demand.

To shrink chips further, IBM said it will invest $1.5 billion to boost its semiconductor manufacturing and research efforts.

Driven by strong processor sales, Intel earnings rose 25 percent in the second quarter of 2008 compared to the same period...

Intel has begun shipping its Centrino 2 microprocessors and chipsets for laptops. Formerly code-named Montevina, the next-generation platform gives notebook designers five Core 2 Duo processors to choose from, including a new Extreme chip capable of running at 3.06 GHz. Nearly 250 new consumer and business notebook PCs are slated to adopt Intel's latest processors and chipsets, the company said.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Intel Corp. said Tuesday its second-quarter profit rose 25 percent from a year ago to 1.6 billion dollars as the world's biggest computer chipmaker shook off economic headwinds.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp said on Tuesday quarterly net income rose 25 percent, helped by strong sales of microprocessors used in notebook computers, and gave a revenue forecast that topped expectations.

Nvidia said Monday that it plans to bring its SLI multi-GPU technology to the upcoming Bloomfield platform from Intel, based upon the Nehalem CPU. The announcement apparently resolves a licensing dispute dating back to 2003.