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By Michael Kanellos
April 16, 1998
C/Net
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Complex, data-heavy Web sites and
business applications that only the fastest desktop
computers can process are scarce, but these are exactly
what Intel needs to drive sales of its Pentium II chip. At
the moment, few business applications require consumers
to graduate from low-end Pentium MMX computers to Pentium
II systems.
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By Patrick Waurzyniak
April 16, 1998
Electronic Buyers' News
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Wracked by continued losses and revenue
declines, Opti said Thursday that the company's talks
with potential suitors to buy the chip set maker, or
portions of its assets, have been unsuccessful to date. Opti,
which in February disclosed it had secured an investment
banker to help sell the company, reported $9.8 million in
sales for its fiscal 1998 first quarter ended March 31, a
58.3 percent drop from $23.6 million in revenue for the
first quarter last year.
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By Robert Lemos
April 16, 1998
ZD Net News
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BIOS developers Phoenix Technologies
Ltd., of San Jose, Calif., and Award Software
International Inc., of Mountainview, Calif., agreed
Thursday to merge in a stock swap valued at almost $120
million. The combined companies' products will span a
broad range of software services for PC and consumer
electronics makers, including BIOS software for PCs and
laptops.
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By Kurt Oeler
April 16, 1998
C/Net
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Almost all of this year's revenue growth
in Intel and Intel-compatible microprocessors for the
desktop arena will go to Intel's rivals, according to a
new market research report. The desktop market for x86
processors will grow 3 percent to $11.9 billion dollars
in 1998, but Intel's revenues will remain flat, according
to Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst for Dataquest.
Declining industry prices are offsetting the chipmaking
giant's increased unit shipments, Brookwood said.
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0.25-micron Technology from Austin Fab
Takes Performance to New Level IBM® rolls out two new
Aptivas with AMD-K6 processors
AMD today introduced a 300-megahertz version of the
AMD-K6® processor based on 0.25-micron process
technology and produced in the company's Fab 25 facility
in Austin, Texas.
A 266-megahertz version of the AMD-K6 also is
available from Fab 25.
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By Brett Glass
April 17, 1998
Sm@rtReseller
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Last week's Alabama federal court ruling
enjoining Intel Corp. from engaging in discriminatory
practices involving its intellectual property could have
some implications for Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in its
ongoing antitrust suit with the U.S. Department of
Justice. The court barred Intel (INTC) from giving
advance technical information about new processors to
some companies and not others and refusing to license
patents on CPU buses to makers of competitive chip sets
and motherboards.
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By Michael Kanellos
April 16, 1998
C/Net
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Although the new Celeron chip is getting
a tepid response from computer vendors, the processor
will begin to appear in low-cost terminal computers in
Japan later this year. Intel (INTC) will market digital
information terminals with Japanese and European
computers vendors in the second half of the year,
according to reports in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a major
Japanese business newspaper.
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By Ken Presti
Apr. 16, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Intel Corp. Wednesday unveiled its new
line of super fast Pentium processors along with a new
chip aimed at the cost conscious entry level marketplace. The
new Pentium II processors run at 350MHz and 400MHz,
respectively, and are designed to run in conjunction with
an enhanced 100MHz system bus, a 50 percent increase in
speed over its previous bus generation. Together, the two
devices offer an aggregate speed boost of up to 30
percent, said Intel officials.
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By Reuters
April 15, 1998
C/Net
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Worldwide sales of Intel-compatible
microprocessors will rise only 16 percent in 1998,
reflecting collapsing prices, market researcher Dataquest
said on Wednesday. The report also stated that Intel
would lose ground to chip competitors in 1998.
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By Staff Writer
April 15, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Reflecting price erosion in
microprocessors for desktop PCs, worldwide revenues for
x86-based MPUs will grow only 16% to $22.722 billion in
1998, according market researcher Dataquest here today. In
1997, x86-based microprocessors used in computing grew at
more than 27% to $19.578 billion, based on Dataquest
estimates. In 1998, midrange and workstations will be the
growth drivers instead of desktop personal computers,
concluded the research firm in a new x86 forecast.
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April 15, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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In a move to match up microprocessors
with different system price and performance requirements,
Intel Corp. today rolled out two new Pentium II chips
running at 350 and 400 MHz and the first Celeron
processor, which is targeted at low-cost personal
computers, operating at 266 MHz. "Intel's goal is
to deliver the best products for each segment of
computing," said Paul Otellini, executive vice
president of the Intel Architecture Business Group.
"Pentium II processor-based systems bring the
highest levels of performance and functionality to
business and consumer users, while Intel Celeron
processor-based PCs deliver the quality, value and
compatibility that users expect from Intel."
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By Robert Lemos
April 13, 1998
PC Week Online
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Intel Corp.'s battle plan for
introducing new processors is fairly straightforward: Rev
up the marketing machine, call in a media blitz, and roll
out several platoons of supporting PC makers. Those PC
makers, however, will be breaking rank in San Francisco
on Wednesday, when Intel announces Celeron, a pint-sized
Pentium II for the sub-$1,000 market.
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By Mark Spiwak
April 15, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Intel has upped the performance ante
once again with its Pentium II line of central processing
units (CPUs) and support circuitry. The company unveiled
Wednesday the 440-BX, a new motherboard chip set that
supports a 100-MHz system bus rather than 66 MHz. Just as
important, Intel is bringing out 350-MHz and 400-MHz
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By Kimberly Caisse
April 15, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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In contrast to the number of companies
unveiling new products that will have the latest Pentium
II processors, only a few have said they will build
commercial systems with Intel Corp.'s low-cost Celeron
processor. PCs with the Celeron chip, a 266MHz Pentium
II without the Level 2 (L2) cache, are not expected to
start shipping until the end of May as Santa Clara,
Calif.-based Intel ramps up production.
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By Mark Hachman
April 15, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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IBM Microelectronics Inc. may elect not
to follow partner Cyrix Corp.'s lead in renaming its
microprocessor line, a company spokesman said. Although
Cyrix Corp. chose to rename its 686MX processor the M II,
IBM Microelectronics is considering building its own
brand image further, said the spokesman for IBM,
Fishkill, New York.
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By Dan Briody
April 15, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel's introduction here on Wednesday
of its Celeron chip and new Pentium IIs was unique in
that it was the first time the chip giant introduced a
high-end and low-end processor for the PC space,
underscoring a dramatic shift in the PC market toward
low-cost solutions. But Intel was quick to point out
the value of the high-end 350- and 400-MHz Pentium II
chips, while glossing over the marked departure from its
long-standing business strategy of ever-higher processor
speeds with the announcement to cache-less 266-MHz
Celeron chip.
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By Reuters
April 15, 1998
C/Net
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Intel (INTC) expects solid demand in
Europe for PCs based on its new high-speed computer
chips, despite the market's trend toward low-priced
machines. The Santa Clara, California-based company,
which today unveiled Pentium II processors running at 350
and 400 MHz as well as the inexpensive Celeron chip for
sub-$1,000 PCs, believes some segments of the PC market
continue to seek more and more performance even as sales
of computers priced under $1,000 boom.
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By Reuters
April 15, 1998
C/Net
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The Nasdaq Composite Index surged more
than 20 points to a new record today amid strength in
technology stocks after bellwether Intel (INTC) said its
business prospects were positive for the second half of
the year, traders said. "It's like a giant weight
was lifted from the market," one trader added.
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By Robert Lemos
April 16, 1998
ZD Net News
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PC chip giant Intel Corp. delivered a
mixed message on Wednesday during an event kicking off
its Celeron and faster Pentium II processors. "It
[the Celeron] is superior to the Pentium processor in
every way," said Paul Otellini, Intel (INTC)
executive vice president, during a 35-minute presentation
introducing the Celeron and the 350MHz and 400MHz
versions of the Pentium II.
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By Michael Kanellos and Brooke Crothers
April 15, 1998
C/Net
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New computers based on Intel's fastest
chips as well as the controversial Celeron processor
debuted today. At the Palace of Fine Arts in San
Francisco, Intel formally announced the Celeron chip for
sub-$1,000 PCs and 350- and 400-MHz Pentium IIs.
A raft of new systems are predicated on the
microprocessor giant's latest chips. Approximately 40
computer vendors were on hand to demonstrate their wares.
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By Andy Santoni
April 15, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Just a day after reporting disappointing
revenues, Intel held a party here Wednesday morning to
introduce its fastest Pentium II processors and the first
Celeron processor for Basic PCs. As expected, the
Pentium II processors run at 350 and 400 MHz and Celeron,
designed under the code-name Covington, is a 266-MHz
chip.
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By Tom Quinlan
April 15, 1998
San Jose Mercury News
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Intel Corp. said Tuesday it will
eliminate 3,000 jobs over the next six months -- the
high-flying company's first significant workforce
reduction in 12 years and the most dramatic sign yet of
tough times in the personal computer industry. Although
Intel said it can shed that number of positions -- about
5 percent of its total -- without significant layoffs,
the announcement capped a dismal first quarter for
Silicon Valley's most powerful profit-making machine. The
Santa Clara chip giant, which had warned of poor
financial performance in an early March announcement,
reported that its quarterly sales were down 7 percent
from a year earlier and profits declined a whopping 36
percent.
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By Michael Kanellos
April 14, 1998
C/Net
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Intel (INTC) reported revenues of $6
billion and earnings of $1.3 billion or 72 cents a share,
a significant decline in profitability from last quarter
and the year-ago period. The chip giant also announced
that close to 3,000 employees will be laid off largely
through attrition from its workforce of some 65,000 over
the next six months due to lower-than-expected demand for
computer chips. This is the first employee cutback for
the company since the mid-1980s when it made a strategic
shift away from memory and into microprocessors.
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By Dawn Yoshitake and Michael Kanellos
April 14, 1998
C/Net
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Things are not turning out exactly the
way Intel (INTC) had planned. Overheated expectations,
combined with a slowdown in sales and a decline in
computer and processor prices, conspired to deliver one
of the more dismal first quarters for the chip giant in a
while. As a result, Intel will take the rare step of
reducing its employment base by 3,000 people--close to 5
percent of its workforce.
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By Jim Davis
April 14, 1998
C/Net
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On the eve of the announcement of
Intel's (INTC) first low-cost chip, support from PC
manufacturers for the Celeron seems tepid, with only a
handful expected to announce new systems upon the chip's
debut. Based on Pentium II technology, the Celeron is
Intel's first chip designed specifically for use in
low-cost personal computers priced at or below the $1,200
level, which the company refers to as "basic
PCs."
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By Michael Kanellos
April 14, 1998
C/Net
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As it introduces the low-cost Celeron
and two high-end versions of the Pentium II, Intel (INTC)
will cut prices tomorrow on existing Pentium II
processors. A scheduled price action will accompany the
unveiling of Celeron and the 350-MHz and 400-MHz Pentium
IIs, according to an Intel spokesman.
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By Kelly Spang
April 14, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Intel Corp. said it will slash 3,000
positions over the next six months in the wake of what
company executives called a "disappointing
quarter." Santa Clara based Intel said the head
count reduction would come predominantly through
attrition, but noted there would be "localized
reductions in workforce."
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By Mark Hachman
April 14, 1998
Electronic Buyers' News
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Stung by lower OEM demand for the second
straight quarter, Intel Corp. here today announced it
suffered lower revenue and earnings for its first fiscal
quarter 1998, prompting planned workforce reduction of
3,000 employees. Intel reported net income of $1.3
billion on revenue of $6.0 billion, down 27% and 7%,
respectively, from the fourth quarter 1997. Net income
and revenue also fell 36% and 7%, respectively, from the
same period a year ago. The net income for the quarter
included a one-time charge of about $165 million for the
acquisition of Chips and Technologies Inc. Earnings per
share were $0.81, excluding the one-time charge.
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By Mark Hachman
April 14, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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It's belt-tightening time at Intel Corp.
Stung by lower OEM demand for the second straight
quarter, Intel suffered lower revenue and earnings for
its first fiscal quarter 1998, prompting a planned layoff
of 3,000 employees and a reduction in capital
expenditures.
'We got ahead of ourselves in both our revenue
expectations and our investments," said Andy Bryant,
vice-president and chief financial officer for Intel,
Santa Clara, Calif., in a conference call with analysts.
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By Andy Santoni
April 14, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel on Tuesday reported lower
first-quarter revenues and earnings, and said it will
reduce headcount by approximately 3,000 people over the
next six months. For the quarter, more than one-half
of microprocessor revenue was generated from P6
micro-architecture products, led by the Pentium II
processor, according to Paul Otellini, Intel executive
vice president and general manager of the Intel
Architecture Business Group. In fact, Otellini expects
unit shipments of P6 processors to surpass those of
Pentium MMX processors this week.
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By James Niccolai
April 15, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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As expected, Intel on Tuesday reported
disappointing results for its first fiscal quarter,
prompting the chip maker to announce staff reductions of
as many as 3,000 employees. Intel's net income in the
first quarter, which ended on March 28, tumbled 36
percent from $2 billion in the same period a year ago to
$1.3 billion, the company said.
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By Tom Quinlan and Miguel Helft
April 14, 1998
San Jose Mercury News
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A federal judge in Alabama has declared
that some of Intel Corp.'s most basic business practices
are in violation of U.S. antitrust law -- a surprising
ruling that places the firm in a delicate legal
predicament. The preliminary injunction by U.S.
District Judge Edwin L. Nelson has only a minor immediate
impact on the Santa Clara chip giant, forcing it to
continue supplying technical information and products to
a small Alabama computer company. But Nelson's 80-page
ruling in a suit brought by Intergraph Corp. of
Huntsville has profound implications: It accuses Intel,
like its sometime ally Microsoft Corp., of using its
dominance in one market sector to have unfair influence
over another sector.
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April 13, 1998
San Jose Mercury News
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A federal judge has granted a measure of
relief to Intergraph Corp. in its battle against computer
chip giant Intel Corp. over patents, but antitrust issues
and claims for unspecified damages await a jury's
decision. U.S. District Judge Edwin Nelson's ruling
Friday allows the Huntsville firm renewed access to
advanced product information and marketing events with
Intel that had been blocked during the lawsuit, said
Intergraph CEO Jim Meadlock.
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By Mark Hachman
April 14, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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Cyrix Corp. has renamed future versions
of its 686MX chip in a predatory attempt to cash in on
the reported weakness of Intel Corp.'s Celeron processor,
which Intel will introduce on Wednesday. Future
versions of the 686MX processor will now be called the M
II, a nomenclature deliberately designed to provoke
comparisons to Intel's Pentium II, according to Cyrix
executives.
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By Lisa DiCarlo
April 13, 1998
PC Week Online
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Cyrix Corp. beat Intel Corp. (INTC) to
the punch today by announcing the 300MHz M II 300, the
first in a new line of low-cost desktop microprocessors
that support a 100MHz bus. Intel will follow Wednesday
with 350MHz and 400MHz Pentium II processors with a
100MHz bus. It will also introduce Celeron, a cacheless
266MHz Pentium II designed for low-cost desktop PCs.
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By Michael Kanellos
April 13, 1998
C/Net
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It may not be straight, but the legal
path is clear for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to build
microprocessors that use the "P6" system bus, a
closely guarded Intel technology. Should AMD decide to
follow this course, selling chips with a P6-style data
pathway would make it easier and cheaper for AMD to get
into the mainstream PC market because the chips would be
largely interchangeable with Pentium IIs, analysts say.
In the next two years, Pentium II-compatible computers
are expected to make up the lion's share of the PC
market.
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By Jack Robertson
April 10, 1998
Semiconductor Business News
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Intel Corp. here amazed industry
analysts by making a quick midcourse correction in fabs
to cut production costs for its new Celeron low-priced
Pentium II version. As part of the cost-cutting, Intel
canceled or delayed major fab equipment orders totaling
as much as $100 million with up to five vendors,
according to industry reports. Analysts attributed the
cuts to a quick switch to manufacture a profitable
Celeron chip, not to any slowdown in microprocessor
production.
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By Stephanie Miles
April 13, 1998
C/Net
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Major server manufacturers like IBM,
Hewlett-Packard, Gateway 2000, and NEC will announce new
Pentium II servers in conjunction with Intel's
introduction of new high-speed processors Wednesday,
offering more powerful systems at a lower price. Intel
will announce new Pentium II chips running at 350 MHz and
400 MHz, in addition to a new 266-MHz chip called Celeron
that's aimed at TV set-top boxes and sub-$1,000 PCs.
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By Jim Davis
April 13, 1998
C/Net
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Silicon Graphics (SGI) will begin to
move closer to chip giant Intel (INTC), as more details
of SGI's plan to revitalize itself emerge. Later this
year, SGI will start making workstations that use Intel's
next-generation "Slot 2" Pentium II processor,
marking the company's transition from the use of its own
processor designs to next-generation chip designs from
Intel.
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By Michael Kanellos
April 13, 1998
C/Net
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Following closely on the heels of rival
AMD, Cyrix will release a version of its premier desktop
processor tomorrow running at what the company claims is
equivalent to a 300 MHz chip, while debuting a new brand
name for the chip. The M II is Cyrix's answer to the
recently released 300-MHz K6 processor from AMD and the
upcoming Celeron processor to be released Wednesday by
Intel.
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By Kelly Spang
April 13, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Stepping up its CPU speed, Cyrix has
leaped over its recently announced 266 megahertz (MHz)
product and shifted volumes to a 300MHz processor. Less
than a month ago, Cyrix, a subsidiary of National
Semiconductor (company profile), unveiled its fastest
6x86MX processor -- a PR266 chip -- to be available in
volume by the end of the second quarter.
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By Margaret Kane
April 13, 1998
ZD Net News
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An Alabama federal court has ordered
Intel Corp. (INTC) to continue to ship early production
chips and provide advanced product information to
Intergraph Corp. despite a lawsuit between the two
companies. Intergraph sued Intel in November of last
year, claiming that the semiconductor giant was violating
antitrust regulations and engaging in anti-competitive
behavior. Specifically, Intergraph claimed Intel was
using its dominant market position to coerce the
Huntsville, Ala., workstation manufacturer to give up
patent rights.
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By Kora McNaughton
April 13, 1998
TechWeb
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Workstation vendor Intergraph won a
small victory in its patent-infringement suit against
Intel Friday, when a federal judge ordered the chip maker
to provide Intergraph with product information and
marketing support while the case is pending. |
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By Alexander Wolfe
April 13, 1998
EE Times
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Desktop-workstation vendor Intergraph
Corp. has won a big victory in its acrimonious legal
dispute with Intel Corp., with a federal judge issuing a
preliminary injunction that prohibits Intel from
"taking any action adversely affecting . . .
Intergraph," according to a copy of the decision
made public by Intergraph. "The court supported
the contentions we made," said Jim Meadlock, chief
executive officer of Intergraph (Huntsville, Ala.).
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By Mark Hachman
April 13, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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In a ruling that highlights the
continuing tension over Intel Corp.'s business practices,
a federal court has sided with a customer who accused the
chip maker of violating U.S. antitrust laws. On
Monday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District
of Alabama ordered Intel to provide technical
documentation, chip samples, and an allocation of
production microprocessors to Intergraph Corp. of
Huntsville. Intergraph accused Intel of cutting off the
company after the two firms got into a cross-licensing
dispute.
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By Dan Goodin
April 13, 1998
C/Net
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Intergraph (INGR) said today that it won
a preliminary injunction against Intel (INTC) as part of
its federal lawsuit accusing the giant chipmaker of
patent infringement and antitrust violations. Intergraph
said in a news release that a U.S. federal district court
in Alabama on Friday prohibited Intel "from
terminating Intergraph's rights as a 'strategic customer
in current and future programs,' or from otherwise taking
any action adversely affecting Intel's business
relationship with Intergraph."
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By Michael Kanellos
April 10, 1998
C/Net
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It may not be straight, but the legal
path is clear for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to build
microprocessors that use the "P6" system bus, a
closely guarded Intel technology. If AMD decided to
follow this course, selling chips with a P6-style data
pathway would make it easier and cheaper for AMD to get
into the mainstream PC market because the chips would be
largely interchangeable with Pentium IIs, analysts say.
In the next two years, Pentium II-compatible computers
are expected to make up the lion's share of the PC
market.
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By David Lammers and Ron Wilson
with additional reporting by Anthony Cataldo
April 13, 1998
EE Times
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Intel Corp. will seek to redefine the
desktop PC in two weeks when it rolls out processors and
a core-logic chip set that for the first time push its
external CPU bus to 100 MHz. But industry watchers fear
that the associated PC-100 memory specification will
leave the pack of DRAM, module and motherboard makers
eating Intel's dust as they race to keep up. The first
iteration of the 100-MHz system bus will be in the form
of Intel's 440BX chip set, a two-chip solution that will
support up to 1 Gbyte of memory and two processors. The
core logic is expected to run $7 to $10 more than the
66-MHz 440LX chip set for Pentium II systems. Intel is
expected to formally announce the 440BX, along with its
350- and 400-MHz Pentium II processors.
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By Jack Robertson
April 13, 1998, Semiconductor Business News
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Intel amazed industry analysts by making
a quick midcourse correction in fabs to cut production
costs for its new Celeron low-priced Pentium II version. As
part of the cost-cutting, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel
(company profile) canceled or delayed major fab-equipment
orders totaling as much as $100 million with up to five
vendors, according to industry reports. Analysts
attributed the cuts to a quick switch to manufacture a
profitable Celeron chip, not to any slowdown in
microprocessor production.
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