Despite agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion in hush money, which sounds like an admission of guilt, Intel claims it’s done nothing wrong and never did – and such a position is memorialized in the 20-page deal it signed with AMD Wednesday. Intel CEO Paul Otellini claims it would have been improvident for Intel to [...]
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Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors. Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North American Acadia captured in Longfellow’s magnificent tear-jerker “Evangeline,” [...]
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Tukwila, the next Itanium chip – which once upon a time was supposed to be out in, oh, let’s see, 2006/2007, and was just delayed this past February until some time around the middle of this year – has been delayed yet again, this time until the first quarter of 2010. Intel is mumbling something [...]
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Intel and Dell have moved to snuff out the trademark claims of Psion Teklogix, the Ontario-based Anglo-Canadian concern that has been sending cease-and-desist letters to PC manufacturers, retailers, the media and bloggers since right before Christmas maintaining that it owns the word “netbook.” Psion complained to Google on January 29 and ever since then Google [...]
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by Maureen O’Gara Wanna bet that Intel has found a way to get AMD to drop its cherished antitrust suit against the semiconductor giant – and that AMD handed Intel the six-gun to blow it away like in a Sam Peckinpah movie? It all revolves around AMD’s so-called asset light strategy and the fact that [...]
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With demand sucking wind and an inventory stockpile still to sell, Intel said late Wednesday that it would shutter five manufacturing operations – two assembly test facilities in Malaysia and one in the Philippines as well as a 200mm wafer fabrication plant in Oregon and wafer production in California, a move that will affect 5,000-6,000 [...]
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