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AMD establishes China subsidiary [December 15, 2003]
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has established a wholly owned Chinese subsidiary, Advanced Micro Devices (China) Co. Ltd.,
as the company looks to beef up its presence in the world's most populous country.
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Great moments in geekdom [December 12, 2003]
Seventeen years, two months, and 16 days ago, I wrote my first column for this esteemed rag. Back then I could barely spell
DOS, let alone sniff out scoops. Since that day I’ve worn out a dozen hats and at least as many editors, and reported nearly
2,000 bits of rumor, gossip, and corporate innuendo. In honor of InfoWorld’s 25th anniversary, my editor asked me (OK, he
offered me 50 clams) to recount some of the more dubious moments of geek history.
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Sun boosts Sun Fire V1280 processor [December 11, 2003]
Sun Microsystems Inc. is boosting the processor clock speed on its 12-way Sun Fire V1280 server.
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Intel to target 802.11g, mobile consumers next year [December 11, 2003]
BANGALORE, INDIA - Intel Corp.'s Centrino platform with 802.11g wireless LAN support will not be available for Christmas holiday
sales, but this situation will not significantly impact Centrino notebooks sales, according to a company executive.
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Update: Intel reorganizes communications groups [December 10, 2003]
BOSTON - Intel Corp. has decided to combine its communications businesses into a single unit, one week after expressing concern
over the long-term growth prospects for that business.
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AMD eyes 45-nanometer transistors [December 09, 2003]
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) researchers on Tuesday revealed details of how their company plans to build processors using
the next-generation 45-nanometer process technology that AMD hopes to have in production by as early as 2007.
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IBM lets polymers assemble nanoscale structures [December 08, 2003]
IBM Corp. has come up with a method of letting molecules assemble themselves inside chip structures to form nanoscale structures
that add redundancy and performance improvements to chips, the company said Monday.
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NEC develops world's smallest transistor [December 08, 2003]
Engineers at NEC Corp. have developed the world's smallest transistor with a gate length of 5 nanometers, the company said
Monday.
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Top Via execs indicted for industrial espionage [December 08, 2003]
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Taipei District Public Prosecutors Office has accused both the chairman and the chief executive officer
of Via Technologies Inc., a leading vendor of PC chip sets and other semiconductors, of copyright infringement and industrial
espionage, a company executive confirmed on Monday.
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Sun adds meat to low-cost server line [December 05, 2003]
Sun Microsystems is sharpening its low-end server strategy with its first blade system based on a processor from AMD.
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Intel narrows Q4 outlook, plans $600M charge [December 04, 2003]
Intel Corp. narrowed its previous guidance for fourth-quarter revenue Thursday on the strength of its microprocessor business,
but will take a $600 million charge in the quarter to account for reduced long-term growth prospects in its XScale processor
business.
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Study: Carbon nanotubes make the best semiconductors [December 04, 2003]
Carbon nanotubes, the experimental materials seen as possible replacements for conventional chip-making materials, conduct
electricity better than any other material at room temperature, according to researchers at the University of Maryland in
College Park.
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New Arm processor core targets WLAN, Bluetooth chips [December 03, 2003]
Less is more, at least when it comes to Arm Ltd.'s new processor core design. The company reduced the size and the number
of transistors on its new ARM968E-S core in order to reduce the power consumption of chips used to connect to wireless networks,
it said Wednesday.
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Texas Instruments divests last of Micron holdings [December 02, 2003]
Chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has sold the remaining shares it held in memory chip company Micron Technology Inc.,
the company said Monday.
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TSMC's board approves $1.4 billion capacity expansion plan [December 02, 2003]
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, announced Tuesday
that the company's board of directors had approved an appropriation of $1.4 billion for future expansions of production capacity
at its manufacturing plants.
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