Will the current shortage of hard disk drives, the result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand, lead to a glut of PC chip inventory?
The plan, announced at the Intel Developer Forum here, pairs the Web portal's widget service with fresh processors that the PC chip giant has crafted especially for televisions.
Experts said the FTC's case rests on whether Intel's dominance of the PC chip industry is so great that antitrust law should take precedence over the intellectual property laws that Intel says should govern its behavior.
By using its dominance to gain access to competing firms' intellectual property, Intel diminishes the incentive for companies to develop new PC chip technologies, thus harming competition and cementing its own dominance in the industry, the FTC argues.
Several new systems sporting this chip produced an average PC WorldBench 98 score of 235, roughly 10 percent faster than the fastest PII systems we've tested (which, at 450-MHz, scored 214).
Wipro Technologies says its designers enabled a U.S. semiconductor firm to bring a chip for a gaming PC to market 20% faster than it could have done with a U.S. design team.
Banatao was a legend in the business because he had started S3, the first big PC graphics-chip success.
Evercore Partners analyst Patrick Wang this morning offered some cautionary comments on PC-related chip stocks, cutting his ratings on AMD and Nvidia and reducing estimates on Intel in the face of ongoing evidence of weak PC demand.
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While Monday marks the official launch of the chip, none of the leading PC makers were ready to offer a Duron system yet.
Looking into the second quarter, Samsung expects to improve profitability in the chip business with a recovery in PC DRAM price and by expanding its new product category with mobile application processors based on 32 nanometer-class process technology.
Buying a new PC is an expensive proposition, but research firm Canalys believes that Microsoft should dig deep and chip in a few dollars to help make your new PC a little bit cheaper.
It incorporates Creative's innovative patented Quartet digital signal processor (DSP) with four independent processor cores, and is the first processor to integrate an array of DSP cores with high-quality HD audio codecs of over 100dB on a single chip, giving it tremendous versatility for PC and embedded configurations.
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Why not declare the slower 286 chip the endpoint of Big Blue's PC line?
The model 70CT, with a port replicator, includes a 120-MHz Pentium MMX chip, a 1.5GB hard drive, and PC Card slots.
In the PC market, a new Nvidia Corp. chip is getting rave reviews, and the Intel 740 graphics chip recently joined the fray.
Fundamentals are improving and we expect the current PC refresh cycle to continue to lift both chip makers results, as pent up demand starts to work through the system.
In particular, UBS noted concerns that there could be trouble looming for chip companies with big exposure to the consumer electronics, PC and auto sectors, given weak spending trends.
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As well as being one of the world's largest chipset manufacturers, Via also happens to be an emerging player in the PC processor market, with its own Cyrix III chip.
Mobile phone chip giant Qualcomm is gearing up to make an entry into the PC microprocessor market.
PC, funds or travel tickets can be downloaded to the chip without the need for a special smart-card reader.
Intel also faces a U.S. lawsuit filed in federal court by rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices in 2005, claiming that Intel had forced PC makers to boycott AMD, "threatened retaliation" against customers using or selling AMD processors and offered rebates to customers designed to block the purchase of AMD's products.
Two things: the open architecture of the PC, and the foundry business, which allows companies focused on chip design to outsource the production of their chips.
Intel rivals VIA Technologies and Advanced Micro Devices have similar plans to cram PC chips into ever smaller gizmos, edging toward a clash with the swarm of chip makers already cranking out processors for smart phones and other gadgets.
Intel rivals VIA Technologies and Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) have similar plans to cram PC chips into ever smaller gizmos, edging toward a clash with the swarm of chip makers already cranking out processors for smart phones and other gadgets.
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