Michael Singer

Semiconductor maker Semtech Monday unveiled a new chipset for motherboard OEMs and ODMs who are forced to build two separate systems with processors from either Intel or Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) . Camarillo, Calif.-based Semtech’s answer to the conundrum is a new configurable Vcore power chipset, which combines the company’s SC2643VX multiphase DC-to-DC controller and […]

Europe’s largest mobile phone company, Vodafone Monday scored a coup that aims to put its services in the majority of computer hardware makers’ mobile devices. The U.K.-based company, which boasts upwards of 107 million subscribers, said it has signed global agreements with the leading computer equipment suppliers Dell Computer , Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett Packard , IBM […]

STMicroelectronics Friday released a high-performance BiCMOS comparator it says will improve notebook computers, PDAs, PCMCIA cards and cell phones. BiCMOS is a merger of ECL and CMOS wafer processes allowing both types of circuit to exist on the same chip. BiCMOS technology overcomes the limits of the conventional circuits in terms of reduced power consumption […]

The U.S. Department of Commerce Friday said it is investigating the practices of South Korean chipmakers after a complaint filed by Micron Technology alerted them to possible biased government paid subsidies to make dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. As internetnews.com previously reported, Boise, Idaho-based Micron claims South Korea gave multi-billion-dollar bailout packages and loan […]

Hoping to ride the government IT spending gravy train, defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Internet business software firm Siebel Systems formed a strategic alliance this week. Under their new pact, Lockheed Martin technical personnel to train and become certified on the implementation of Siebel eGovernment and Siebel Homeland Security Applications. Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin designs, […]

Intel Thursday said it has signed a deal with the Department of Energy to build the largest InfiniBand cluster test bed built yet at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Some 128 computers from ProMicro Systems will be networked together, each containing dual Intel Xeon processors and using InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters, configured together within a […]

Hoping to give yet another secure layer to smart cards, microprocessor designer ARM Wednesday said it has agreed to work with M-Systems for its SecurCore family of cores. Kfar Saba, Israel-based M-Systems produces flash memory chips. SecurCore is Cambridge, UK-based ARM’s 32-bit answer for smart card and secure integrated circuit (IC) development. The technology is […]

The road to Microsoft’s next generation SQL Server database software (code named “Yukon”) is smoothing out with the release of some beta testing samples. The Redmond, Wash.-based software behemoth Wednesday released SQL Server 2000 beta 2 for 64-bit machines and SQL Server 2000 SP3 beta 1 for public testing. The 64-bit version should shipping in […]

In its quest to help make the Internet’s networking standard event faster, Intel Tuesday released a handful of new optical components for sampling that could help companies with their 10-Gigabit Ethernet development. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip making giant introduced five separate devices for building optical transceivers in data centers including the Intel LXT16713 1:1 […]

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Tuesday continued its quest to unseat rival Intel with a strategy focused on 64-bit computing and networking. CEO Hector Ruiz has said that AMD is “dead serious” about becoming ousting Intel to become the No. 1 player in the “computational processor market.” Part of that strategy involves focusing on the growing […]

E-mail has changed the way we do business. It’s immediate, inexpensive and in your face. But in the vicious battle for the Inbox, knowing how to separate your company’s message from run-of-the-mill spam is a delicate balancing act. Market research firm Radicati Group estimates spam output will soar seven-fold to around 15 billion messages a […]

A U.S. District Court in Silicon Valley Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Verizon Communications against rival Covad Communications . Northern District of California Judge Jeremy Fogel said that Verizon’s suggestion that Covad falsified repair claims to boost its sales figures is “moot” and issued a ruling dismissing all of Verizon’s claims “with prejudice.” Both […]