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Intel buys computer chip business from Digital
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Intel yesterday increased its stranglehold over the computer
chip market by buying the chip business of US rival Digital
Equipment and slashing the world-wide price of its Pentium
processor by an average of 20 per cent. Andrew Yates reports.
Intel said that it wanted to cut prices of its Pentium
processors in an aggressive bid to increase its market share and
raise production at its computer chip plants.
Ronald Whittier, Intel's senior vice-president, said: "Our
traditional business strategy is to pass on the advances in
computing to consumers. And inherent in that is, for a given
processor, ...
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IBM develops fastest computer chip. (IBM engineers, including Mark Dean, director of the Austin, TX research lab, developed the new product)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet
; ...that is three times faster than any other computer chip available today. The processor, which is the first 1,000 megahertz computer chip, was designed at IBM's Austin (Texas...Research Lab, displays the world's fastest computer chip.
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Another profitable quarter for Hynix.(Business)(The company benefits from a recovery in the computer chip industry)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...sales will rise 48 percent to $940 million, according to the survey. Hynix has a 900-employee computer chip plant in Eugene, along with computer chip plants in South Korea. After piling up $9.6 billion in losses and being bailed out by creditors...
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 "USA Today (Magazine)")
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Shrinking "laboratory" onto a computer chip.(miniature laboratories on computer chip)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine)
; ...developed a way to take specialized instruments from the chemistry lab, shrink them 1,000 to 1,000,000 times, and put them on a computer chip. This will allow scientists to pack dozens or hundreds of laboratories --each fully capable of carrying out complex chemical...
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Computer chip regulates insulin pump in diabetics.
Newspaper article from: Transplant News
; Engineers at the University of Delaware are perfecting an algorithm for a computer chip that would regulate insulin delivery by an implantable pump in patients with type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes. The Delaware...
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EGYPT: INTEL POSTPONES COMPUTER CHIP MANUFACTURING PROJECT.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...newspaper (February 17, 2002), the American Intel Computer Company has decided to postpone the constructing of a $500 million computer chip manufacturing project in Egypt. Intel planned to establish the factory in the October 6th City. The company informed the...
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CPA celebrates a decade of dissent.(Environment)(The activist organization was founded in 1995 to oppose the Hyundai plant)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...least one toast to their nemesis Hynix. If the South Korean computer chip manufacturer formerly known as Hyundai hadn't come to town...Bascom announced on May 21, 1995, that they would build a computer chip factory here, hundreds rallied in opposition. Environmentalists...
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IBM.(PLANTS CLOSING IN THE U.S. & BRITAIN)
Newspaper article from: Manufacturing & Technology News
; IBM has laid off 450 workers at its U.S. computer chip manufacturing facilities, including 300 at its Poughkeepsie and East Fishkill, N.Y., facilities, and another 90 at is plant in...
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Arkansas is among 34 states suing computer chip manufacturers over computer chips called dynamic random access memory, or DRAM chips.(Business Briefs)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business
; Arkansas is among 34 states suing computer chip manufacturers over computer chips called dynamic random access memory, or DRAM chips. The lawsuit claims the chip makers conspired...
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Chip in the old block: American attitudes toward the Internet.(Century marks)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; American attitudes toward the Internet 11% are willing to have a computer chip implanted in their brain in order to have direct access to the Internet 13% think it would be good to implant computer chips in...
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INDIA: AMD TO EST. BANGALORE DESIGN CENTER.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; According to Business Line , US computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., is planning to set up a design centre in Bangalore and hire 120 engineers by the end of 2005...
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