Michael Singer

Looking to spread CDMA technology even further around the globe, inventor QUALCOMM Wednesday expanded its relationship with interWAVE Communications . The two companies currently have an existing licensing agreement for the third-generation wireless standard in only a handful of areas. The new agreement is expected to improve support of high-quality, high-speed voice and wireless data […]

Faced with a drastically changing market, memory-chip maker Micron Technology said Thursday that it would sell off some of its inventory to Cypress Semiconductor . Under the terms of the agreement, San Jose Cypress will buy Boise, Idaho-based Micron’s high-performance communications oriented synchronous SRAM product inventory. Financial details were not disclosed. Recently, Micron recently decided […]

In a partnership that is expected to advance the way games look, Silicon Valley-based Electronic Arts and NVIDIA inked a deal to produce and market next-generation 3D content. The deal to be bred under the EA GAMES and EA SPORTS brands includes franchises such as Madden Football, Command & Conquer, James Bond 007, Tiger Woods […]

With so many applications popping up on cell phones, Intel Thursday said it will ship a new set of flash memory chips later this year. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant said its new Intel Ultra-Thin Stacked Chip-Scale Packaging (CSP), features 1.8-volt Intel StrataFlash wireless memory with up to five ultra-thin memory chips stacked. […]

Looking to boost development of its next-generation chips, Intel Tuesday released new debugging software for Pentium 4 and Xeon processor-based systems. The tool called Thread Checker 1.0 is designed to help developers locate hard-to-find bugs in applications designed that include Hyper-Threading technology. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel says Hyper-Threading chips allow multithreaded operating systems and applications […]

Database software firm Sybase Tuesday launched a new online forum for its developers to share information about its products. Dubbed, CodeXchange, the site lets developers, customers and partners share code samples, collaborate on open source projects, and participate in community discussions. Membership is free and provides access to these and other benefits such as advanced […]

Hampered by soft demand and rising macroeconomic uncertainty, worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment dropped for the second year in a row, according to analyst group Gartner . Except for test equipment, the survey released Tuesday shows sales totaled $18.5 billion in 2002, a decline of 30.4 percent from 2001. Gartner based its stats on […]

Hoping to put the past aside, chip making companies Intel and Taiwan’s VIA Technologies have settled a series of pending patent lawsuits related to chipsets and microprocessors. The agreement includes 11 pending cases spanning some 27 patents most centering on Intel’s Pentium 4 product line. Under terms of the settlement, both companies Monday said they […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Tuesday announced the latest updates to its quarterly product and services portfolio with a focus on storage and managing the networks that serve them. Among a laundry list of releases, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker unveiled its N1 Data Platform. The system is the latest piece of the […]

The Wintel juggernaut has conquered the desktop and 32-bit servers, but it may face its greatest challenge in “big iron.” Preparations are being finalized for the April 24 release of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. The software and corresponding tools are expected to be the Redmond, Wash.-based firm’s most significant release, not because it is aiming […]

In its quest for the paperless office, Adobe Systems Monday said it is making sweeping changes to its Web document platform — Acrobat. The San Jose, Calif.-based Web publishing software giant said it would launch the next version of its authoring tool (Acrobat 6.0) in May 2003. The software will be sold in three separate […]

Looking to boost its server sales, Gateway Monday took the wraps off two new high-density compact servers. The Gateway 955 1U and the Gateway 975 2U are the company’s first compact rack-mount servers to run on Intel Xeon processors. The boxes can run up to 3.06GHz with 533MHz front side bus, dual-integrated Gigabit Ethernet network […]