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| Top Stories for July 2, 2001 (details below) | |
| Infoconomy.com | Transmeta faces law suit over power claims |
| C/Net | Dell quizzes customers on AMD chips |
| Bloomberg.com | Via Technologies June Sales Fall to $58.7 Million |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
| The Inquirer | ITANIC strikes iceberg, iceberg sinks |
| The Inquirer | Intel and Alpha convergence revealed |
| The Inquirer | AMD and Samsung could save Alpha day |
| The Register | Intel's Mobile Roadmap |
| The Register | VIA sees C3 emerge as server chip |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of July 1, 2001 |
Older News |
| July 2, 2001 | |
Transmeta faces law suit over power claimsJuly 2, 2001 |
Transmeta has been hit with a class action law suit that
charges the Santa Clara, California-based microprocessor
designer with making misleading claims about the power of its
Crusoe line of microprocessors. The suit, filed by the prominent American class-action law firm, Milberg Weiss, says that "unbeknownst to shareholders, at the time of the IPO [initial public offering], Transmeta's Crusoe chips could not deliver both longer battery life and high performance". |
Dell quizzes customers on AMD chipsBy John G. Spooner June 29, 2001 |
Is longtime Intel champion Dell Computer testing the waters
for home PCs based on Advanced Micro Devices processors? A recent survey commissioned by the leading PC maker asks customers to state a preference between a PC based on AMD chips and one that uses Intel processors. Dell is the only major North American PC maker to use Intel processors exclusively. Others, such as Compaq Computer, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and IBM offer both Intel and AMD chips in their desktop lines. |
Via Technologies June Sales Fall to $58.7 MillionBy Iain Pocock July 2, 2001 |
Via Technologies Inc., Taiwan's biggest chipset designer, said
sales in June fell to their lowest in 16 months, as slumping
demand for personal computers crimped shipments. Sales in June fell 0.1 percent on year and a quarter from the previous month to NT$2.02 billion ($58.7 million), said Charlton Chen, a Via spokesman. Sales in the first six months of the year rose 44 percent on year to NT$18.3 billion, or 41 percent of sales forecast for the year. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
ITANIC strikes iceberg, iceberg sinksBy Mike Magee June 29, 2001 |
BEFORE REVISIONISM and deconstruction occurs, readers should
swivel their browsers to this PDF at Alpha Powered and consign
it to their hard drives before it disappears forever. And rescue the HTML files at Alpha Powered, too, if you can, and before it's too late, and all hands are lost. There's also, somewhat ironically, the same document in different formats at the main Compaq site. |
Intel and Alpha convergence revealedBy Mike Magee June 30, 2001 |
"Compaq is totally committed to Alpha as its
high-performance e-business platform. It will keep and extend
its performance lead over other 64-bit architectures, in
particular IA-64" - Jesse Lipcon, now ex-Compaq guy, quoted on
Alphapowered.com AN ENGINEER close to Compaq's plans has delivered a presentation to the INQUIRER which indicates the direction Intel will take over the next 10 years as it moves Alpha technology into its existing Itanium roadmaps. Although, he stresses, not all future options for the convergence of the chip technologies are yet complete, this is the broad direction Intel will take to integrate Alpha. |
AMD and Samsung could save Alpha dayBy Mike Magee July 1, 2001 |
SO WE NOW KNOW that Samsung and API Networks are in the clear
on being able to produce Alphas for whenever. But what if AMD and Samsung - and the API Networks bunch - were to get together and make a go of the "non-exclusive" technology that, according to Compaq's Capellas and Intel's Otellini, means that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be disinterested in the deal? |
Intel's Mobile RoadmapBy Tony Smith June 29, 2001 |
More details of Intel's mobile processor roadmap have emerged,
courtesy of company sources cited by Web site Xbit Labs. Much of the information has been covered by The Register before, but one or two extra snippets help to fill out the schedule Intel has in place over the next 12 months and beyond. So, the first Mobile Celeron to hit 1GHz will ship in April 2002, by which time the entire Mobile Celeron family, including the Low Voltage and Ultra-low Voltage parts, will be based on the 0.13 micron Tualtin core. |
VIA sees C3 emerge as server chipBy Tony Smith June 29, 2001 |
Like Transmeta and Intel before it, VIA is getting its chips
installed into energy-efficient servers. The company yesterday
said that US-based server maker Rauch Medien will use its C3
x86-compatible processor for a new family of low-power rack
machines. Rauch Medien's Linux-based GreenServ systems typically draw less than 3OW, a quarter of the power that regular servers require. Equally, the GreenServs pump out much less heat. About a third of that is the C3, which draws 10W. The servers use Flash memory instead of a hard drive, which also contributes to the low power consumption, but ups the unit cost. |
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