Semiconductor Industry & Servers

WASHINGTON - Semiconductor maker National Semiconductor Corp. beat analysts' earnings and sales estimates for its fiscal 2010 second quarter. Full Story »

Intel is likely to give an update on plans for its delayed graphics chip during the third quarter of 2010, an industry analyst said Wednesday. Full Story »

DALLAS - Semiconductor parts maker Diodes Inc. on Wednesday said revenue for the fourth quarter will be stronger than expected, bolstered by strong demand from Asian customers. Full Story »

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) bought a 20 percent stake of solar cell maker Motech Industries for NT$6.2 billion (US$193 million), the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday. Full Story »

SANTA ANA, Calif. - Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli said Tuesday that his semiconductor company awarded thousands of stock option grants to employees in the years after the company's initial public offering, but he didn't think there was anything illegal or improper in the way it was done. Full Story »

Cisco Systems tried to partner with major server vendors several years ago before coming out with its own blade servers earlier this year, and it's still open to a partnership with IBM, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday. Full Story »

An online retailer is taking orders for a new Clarkdale processor from Intel, providing early details of its next-generation desktop processor ahead of the product's official launch. Full Story »

Seagate tosses its hat into the solid state drive (SSD) market today with the unveiling of its Pulsar drive, a unit aimed at enterprise-level blade and server applications. The new drive stores up to 200GB of data in a 2.5-inch form factor with a SATA interface. With the Pulsar drive, Seagate lays claim to being "the first enterprise HDD vendor to deliver an enterprise-class SSD solution." Full Story »

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Shares of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. jumped Monday after rival Intel Corp. scrapped plans to make a new graphics chip that would have challenged both companies. Full Story »

Although Intel delayed its first stand-alone graphics processor, code-named Larrabee, the company could use elements of the chip's design and architecture in future products, analysts said on Monday. Full Story »

Intel has delayed plans for an advanced graphics chip based on its Larrabee silicon and software development, and it may be because of a Federal Trade Commission investigation into alleged anticompetitive behavior. Larrabee is a complex, multi-year project focused on a new approach to graphics and high-performance computing, according to Intel. Full Story »

Intel's decision to indefinitely delay its Larrabee graphics processor is a setback for the Linux community, delaying improved performance for users of open source operating systems. Competitors Nvidia and AMD, however, saw their share prices rise following the news. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Intel Corp has scrapped plans to launch an advanced graphics chip based on its novel Larrabee design, after concluding that delays in the project would make it uncompetitive, a spokesman said on Sunday. Full Story »

Intel announced that its initial foray into standalone graphics chips--the Larrabee Project--is delayed indefinitely. Intel cited developmental setbacks, but its hard not to connect the dots between the demise of the Larrabee Project and Intel's ongoing legal woes. Full Story »

Intel has canceled at least the first product iteration of its graphics chip, code-named "Larrabee," company representatives confirmed. Full Story »

Intel is delaying the commercial release of its Larrabee graphics processor, which had been due out next year, and is not providing a new launch date. Full Story »

An early engineering sample of Intel's upcoming Core i9 chip has been spotted on eBay, way ahead of the processors' scheduled 2010 release date. Full Story »

WILSONVILLE, Ore. - Mentor Graphics Corp., a provider of electronic hardware and software design products and services, on Thursday posted a smaller fiscal third-quarter loss and said it is seeing signs of recovery in the semiconductor market. Full Story »