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Nvidia complains about Intel tactics

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:30:33 +0000

Nvidia has joined Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in complaining loudly about the tactics Intel uses to sell its products, especially the strong-arm bundling of video chips with CPUs.

Intel dominates the PC CPU market, which is the area [...]

Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion settlement as the companies make peace

Sean P. Aune — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:56:40 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is going to receive $1.25 billion from Intel within the next thirty days, bringing to a close all litigation between the two companies.

After a lengthy battle between Intel and AMD, the two biggest microprocessor [...]

Intel’s antitrust woes cross the Atlantic

John Lister — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:22:39 +0000

Intel is facing a federal antitrust lawsuit from New York’s Attorney General over claims it used “bribery and coercion” to maintain its market share. It follows a record fine of $1.45 billion imposed by the European Union over similar activity.

As with the European case, [...]

Intel and AMD prepare to do battle again

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:38:16 +0000

Intel and AMD are forming battle lines for another round of processor warfare, each warming up to win the battle of the new, slimmer laptops to be managed by Windows 7.

Laptop [...]

Intel goes after ARM market

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:19:11 +0000

Intel’s short term plans include the production of system-on-a-chip products that will compete directly with ARM chips now being manufactured by Broadcom, Qualcomm, Samsung and Texas Instruments.

Intel, which is expected to be eclipsed by Samsung as the [...]

Samsung set to surpass Intel

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:41:51 +0000

Samsung Electronics has been steadily growing into a major industry power since it surpassed Sony’s market value in 2002 and now finds itself within reach of industry leader Intel.

Samsung, the giant of the Korean electronics industry, surged [...]

Intel buying multi-core software companies

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:53:07 +0000

Giant chip-maker Intel has been buying up specialty software companies in an effort to gain additional expertise in writing software for the multi-core processors that make up most of their lineup of CPUs.

The first of these was [...]

Intel plays human rights card in appeal against record European fine

John Lister — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:22:41 +0000

Intel has, as expected, appealed against a record $1.45 billion fine it received from the European Union over competition violations. But it appears the firm is appealing against the process rather than the facts of the case.

The firm [...]

Intel breakthrough could remove last barrier for solid state drive success

John Lister — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:51:04 +0000

Intel says it has found a way to produce solid state drives at less than half the existing price. It could be the last step to making the technology a serious mass-market alternative to traditional hard drives.

Back in November, [...]

TSMC may be moving into solar cells

Michael W. Jones — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:07:21 +0000

Semiconductor chip manufacturing is finally becoming a maturing technology, which may lead some current giants in the field to seek new growth markets in which to operate, such as building solar cells.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), the giant of silicon chip [...]