Semiconductor Industry & Servers

MILPITAS, Calif. - Chip maker ON Semiconductor Corp. said Monday it agreed to buy California Micro Devices Corp. for $4.70 per share. Full Story »

Netbooks could offer longer battery life and better system performance when Intel launches its second generation of Atom processors, which are due to start shipping soon. Full Story »

Facebook's new privacy policy was rolled out this week and although we have known for months that it was coming it grabbed a lot of headline attention just the same. Of course, there were plenty of complaints from users about various aspects of the changes, so Facebook has already made some tweaks. In other news, Intel's Larrabee delay, announced last week, carried over into this week. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Shares of chip maker National Semiconductor Corp. dropped Friday despite its strong fiscal second-quarter results as investors worried about the company's market-share losses. Full Story »

Over the next year, we will begin to see the impact of the move toward more GPU computing and tighter integration between the CPU and the graphics processor. Full Story »

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 »