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| Top Stories for April 19, 2001 (details below) | |
| Semiconductor Business News | Intel loses $1 billion outside PC-centric Architecture Group in quarter |
| EBN | AMD and Via complaints helped spark EU probe of Intel |
| C/Net | Intel to preview new workstation, server chip |
| Electronic News | Intel Beats Estimates By A Penny; Earnings Drop 64% |
| eWEEK | Corporate IT nonplussed by Intel's optimism |
| C/Net | Investors hail Intel as analysts vary |
| C/Net | AMD beats targets but sees slowdown |
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Truths...from the rumor mill |
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| The Register | Intel 0.13 micron crossover - 'not this year' |
| The Inquirer |
Intel a Fibzilla on IA 64? No 64-bit till December |
| The Register | Data-corruption bug hits VIA chipsets |
| The Register | AMD and VIA stoke EC Intel fire - EBN |
| The Inquirer | Intel Gigablade is go... ...as a trademark anyway |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of April 15, 2001 |
Older News |
| April 19, 2001 | |
Intel loses $1 billion outside PC-centric Architecture Group in quarterBy Mark LaPedus April 18, 2001 |
Intel Corp.'s move to break out its financial results for the first time disclosed the company had a first-quarter operating loss of $1 billion in its communications and emerging chip segments.
In the first quarter of this year, Intel reported sales of $1.5 billion in these segments, which includes the company's Wireless Communications and Computing Group, the Communications Products Group, the Network Communications Group and the New Business Group. |
AMD and Via complaints helped spark EU probe of IntelBy Bruce Gain April 13, 2001 |
The eight-month-old European Commission investigation into Intel Corp.'s alleged antitrust violations in Europe was triggered in part by complaints from Intel's chief microprocessor rival and by a 1997 U.S. Federal Trade Commission inquiry into Intel's business practices, sources close to the investigation said.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., together with Taiwan-based Via Technologies Inc., filed a complaint last September with the European Commission that prompted the official EC investigation. |
Intel to preview new workstation, server chipBy Michael Kanellos April 18, 2001 |
Intel will show off Foster, the Pentium 4 chip designed for workstations and servers, for the first time next week at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker will demonstrate two-processor workstations running the new chip, which will hit the market commercially later this quarter, a company representative said. Foster will be the first member of the Xeon chip family to be based on the Pentium 4. Current Xeons are based on the Pentium III. |
Intel Beats Estimates By A Penny; Earnings Drop 64%April 17, 2001 |
Intel Corp.’s first quarter earnings fell 64 percent to $1.1 billion. Excluding acquisition-related costs, net income was down 58 percent from the previous quarter.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel (nasdaq: INTC) posted earnings per share of 16 cents, just beating analysts' estimates of 15 cents per share, according to First Call Corp. Despite this, Intel’s earnings dropped 63 percent from 43 cents per share in the same quarter a year ago and 58 percent sequentially. |
Corporate IT nonplussed by Intel's optimismBy Ken Popovich April 18, 2001 |
Despite reporting a whopping 82 percent drop in profits Tuesday, Intel Corp. executives expressed optimism that PC-related sales have "bottomed out" and projected microprocessor shipments will rebound during the second half of this year.
But corporate customers, who are still trimming expenses amid an ongoing economic downturn, say they won't be shopping for new high-tech hardware anytime soon. |
Investors hail Intel as analysts varyBy Tiffany Kary April 18, 2001 |
There are as many opinions on Intel's first quarter as there are Wall Street analysts.
While investors unanimously cheered Intel's prediction that its business has stabilized, analysts were split between the bulls and a loud minority of bears that warned that the worst is far from over. Intel shares were up $3.91 to $29.95 Wednesday morning, a gain of some 15 percent, though still well off their 52-week high of $75.81. |
AMD beats targets but sees slowdownBy John G. Spooner April 18, 2001 |
Advanced Micro Devices reported first-quarter earnings Wednesday that topped analyst expectations but warned of a sales drop in the current quarter.
The company reported income of $124.8 million, or 37 cents a share, on revenue of $1.19 billion, excluding charges. Income was down 34 percent from the same quarter last year, when the company reported income of $189.3 million, or 55 cents a share. |
Truths...from the rumor mill |
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Intel 0.13 micron crossover - 'not this year'By Linda Harrison April 18, 2001 |
Intel today said the world should not expect the crossover to 0.13 micron technology to take place in 2001.
Speaking during a conference call where the chip giant announced its first quarter results, Paul Otellini, exec VP and general manager of Intel's Architecture Group, described Q1 as "a tough quarter". He said demand had been weak in all geographical areas, and especially bad in the US. |
Intel a Fibzilla on IA 64?
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OVER-CONFIDENT PREDICTIONS by Intel executives that its flagship products such as the 64-bit McKinley and its now - almost redundant Itanic or Itanium - are nearly ready are far off the mark, according to sources close to the
action.
In fact, further delays are inevitable not only because of delays in Linux 64 bit OS systems, as reported here, but more importantly (sorry Linuxers) because the Great Satan of Software is thunking so hard about 64-bit support for Windows XP that if it goes gold by December, Santa Claus will probably have a fit and think he's 2002's Big Easter Bunny. |
Data-corruption bug hits VIA chipsetsBy Tony Smith April 12, 2001 |
VIA has confirmed a data-damaging glitch in its 686B Southbridge chip - a major part of the Taiwanese company's KT-133A chipset - and is working with mobo makers to prepare BIOS updates to fix the problem.
The southbridge part is used in the vast majority of AMD Athlon-oriented mobos, primarily the KT-133, but it can be used with northbridge parts from the Apollo Pro 133, KX-133A and AMD-76x chipsets too. VIA said it is investigating the problem to see how many chipsets are affected. |
AMD and VIA stoke EC Intel fire - EBNBy Team Register April 17, 2001 |
AMD and VIA were behind the complaints which led to the European Commission's anti-competition investigation of Intel, Electronics Buyers News claims.
Incidentally, AMD and VIA are supposed to have jointly filed their EC complaint against Intel, according to EBN. Does this mean that there is a new rapprochement between the two companies, or simply that they hate Intel even more than they loathe each other? |
Intel Gigablade is go......as a trademark anywayBy Mike Magee April 19, 2001 |
IN OUR RELENTLESS SEARCH to make sure you're aware of trademarks Intel might register, take note of Gigablade, which the firm registered on the 9th of April last.
This one is registered in the US as Gigablade and in Germany as Gigiblade but no-where, as far as we can see, as Giggleblade. Intel does have a trademark on Gigemac, however, as we're with the letter G, but our fave ones starting with the letter G are Gatherround (dozens of countries) and Gao Neng Ben Teng (lots of Asian countries - means Advanced Ability Pentium, apparently). |
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