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| Top Stories for November 20, 2001 (details below) | |
| C/Net | Broadcom files patent suit against Intel |
| EBN | Via claims Pentium 4 chipset is being embraced |
| Electronic News | AMD: Smaller Is Better |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
| The Inquirer | Rambus virtually dead on desktop - Intel |
| The Inquirer | Microsoft, Intel hammer and tongs over SMT |
| The Inquirer | Micropro report ambiguous about IA-64 |
| The Register | Transmeta: delayed chips to ship by year end |
| The Inquirer | AMD not exiting chipset business |
| The Register | ATI A3 Athlon XP chipset revealed |
| The Register | VIA in talks with Intel to settle P4 chipset fight |
| The Inquirer | AMD less leaky than Intel? |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of November 18, 2001 |
Older News |
| November 20, 2001 | |
Broadcom files patent suit against IntelBy Reuters November 19, 2001 |
Communications chipmaker Broadcom said Monday it had filed a
lawsuit charging that certain Intel semiconductors infringe on
patents held by Broadcom. In a complaint filed Monday in the Eastern District of Texas, Texarkana Division, U.S. District Court, Broadcom alleges that some of the chips Intel makes to support its microprocessor infringe on patents issued to Broadcom for display technology. |
Via claims Pentium 4 chipset is being embracedBy Faith Hung November 16, 2001 |
Via Technologies Inc. claims to be gaining ground with its
Pentium 4 chipset, as several major distributors in the U.S.,
Europe, and China have agreed to sell the product despite
legal threats from Intel Corp. Ingram Micro Inc., Eprom Inc., Leadman Electronics Inc., Leadertech Systems of Chicago Inc., Eastern Data, Inc., Agaman and Daiwa in the U.S. as well as some unidentified distributors in Europe will carry Via's double-data-rate P4x266 chipsets, according to Frank Jeng, marketing director of Via. |
AMD: Smaller Is BetterBy Tom Murphy November 19, 2001 |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) believes size really does
matter in microprocessors. Smaller is better when it comes to
reducing costs. Last week, Electronic News ran a story citing Intel Corp.'s plan to convert to 300mm manufacturing in 2002 as advantage in cost. No sooner was the story published than AMD VP for external affairs Ben Anixter took issue with the assertion from Goldman Sachs analyst Jim Covello that Intel's 300mm manufacturing plans would put it in the driver's seat in 2002. Anixter's assertion is that the die sizes of AMD's Athlon processors were so much smaller than Intel's Pentium 4 that it would more than offset any gains Intel would make by moving to from 200mm manufacturing to 300mm manufacturing. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Rambus virtually dead on desktop - IntelBy Mike Magee November 16, 2001 |
A SENIOR EXECUTIVE AT INTEL has dared to say that DDR will
supplant Rambus by 2003, confirming suspicions that RDRAM
won't be long for the Santa Clara roadmaps. Nico Ernst, writing on Tec Channel, got the confirmation from Anand Chandrasekher, who has been outspoken in the past about Intel technology. The report quotes Chandrasekher as saying that by 2002 DDR based PCs will hog the performance desktop memory space. |
Microsoft, Intel hammer and tongs over SMTBy Mike Magee November 18, 2001 |
SOURCES SAID THAT a huge row is brewing between Microsoft and
Intel - Wintel - over the vexed question of simultaneous multi
threading (SMT). The problem is that SMT, which apparently can be switched on by Intel when it wants to, somewhat messes up Microsoft's plans for Windows XP. Microsoft - the rumour goes - wants Intel to scotch talk of SMT altogether, an unlikely event given that the chip giant has talked up the benefits of the technology and sometimes says it can offer a 60 per cent boost for systems. |
Micropro report ambiguous about IA-64By Mike Magee November 19, 2001 |
A REPORT FROM In-STAT MDR, which produces the Microprocessor
Report, says that Intel will have "its work cut out" toppling
IBM and Sun from their dominant position in the 64-bit market
over the next few years. The $2,000 report claims that Intel's evolution to the 64-bit market with IA-64 will take several years, and the firm will have to match or beat these two firms in reliability, serviceability and performance. The report called "Intel Server and Workstation Processors" also predicts how the firm will try and keep its average selling prices high over the next few years by using its 32-bit technology. |
Transmeta: delayed chips to ship by year endBy Tony Smith November 16, 2001 |
Transmeta reiterated its roadmap at Comdex yesterday and
pledged that its delayed 0.13 micron 667MHz TM5500 and 800MHz
TM5800 Crusoe processors will ship in volume by the end of the
year. That may pacify key Transmeta customers Sony and Fujitsu who this week gave the chip company a public whipping for not shipping the Crusoes on schedule. Both vendors admitted that they have had to delay the introduction of new sub-notebook PCs because of Transmeta's inability to ship chips on time. |
AMD not exiting chipset businessBy Mike Magee November 19, 2001 |
AMD HAS CONTACTED us to say that reports that it is "getting
out" of the chipset business are greatly exaggerated, because
it's not. In fact, an article we wrote headlined AMD gets out of chipset business, and based on an Extremetech story, is substantially true. It's the headline AMD thinks is misleading, not the body text, always a potential minefield for news stories. |
ATI A3 Athlon XP chipset revealedBy Tony Smith November 19, 2001 |
Mobo maker First International gave ATI's A3 chipset its first
public outing at Comdex last week. And, as we've reported
before, the chipset will support AMD's Athlon XP processor. ATI has held open the prospect of a PC chipset for some time - ever since it was granted a Pentium 4 bus licence by Intel. That deal, plus ATI's desire to compete with nForce, the Athlon-oriented chipset from arch-rival Nvidia, suggested that ATI's part would support Intel processors. |
VIA in talks with Intel to settle P4 chipset fightBy Robert Blincoe November 19, 2001 |
VIA is close to settling its legal battle with Intel over the
Taiwanese firm's P4 chipsets, according to the Commercial
Times of Taipei. In the meantime it is signing a number of distribution deals to handle the P4 chipset- in spite of the legal threats from Intel. Both stories come courtesy of EBNonline. It reports that big distie name Ingram Micro has, according to VIA marketing director Frank Jeng, signed up to sell the P4x266 chipset. |
AMD less leaky than Intel?By Eva Glass November 19, 2001 |
AT THE END OF LAST WEEK we reported on problems with Intel's
.13 micron Tualatin processes and other problems the chip
company might face in moving to 300mm (12-inch) fabrication. We mentioned there was also some fabrication difficulty with Intel's copper interconnect process and that insiders told us that the Tualatin was suffering from excessive leakage. Now it appears the evidence for leakage we mentioned in this piece is available in Intel documents and its processors leak far more than AMD's own. |
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