Michael Singer

While wireless appears to be the only bright spot for the tech sector, the outlook for wireless integrated circuits (IC) is really souring, according to analysts. The debate intensified Wednesday when chipmaker Intersil said it was cashing out of the wireless LAN market and selling its Wireless Networking Product Group to fabless IC maker GlobespanVirata […]

Sun Microsystems Thursday said it will release a beta version of its upcoming Sun ONE Portal Server next week and introduced a new Java specification to compliment it. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker said version 6.2 of the beta release is coming Monday, July 21. Sun says it will stage a controlled early […]

Semiconductor maker Transmeta Wednesday said it has inked a deal that will put its chips in new low-cost Tablet PCs. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm said its 800 MHz Crusoe TM5800 processor has been incorporated in the TDV Vison V800XPT Tablet PC, the first Tablet PC priced under $1,000. In general, Tablet PCs are Windows […]

If the crystal ball is as clear as soothsayers say it is, the semiconductor manufacturing market is poised for a Renaissance of sorts in the next 12 to 18 months. New stats published Wednesday by Strategic Marketing Associates say fab construction spending will hit $1.2 billion, or more than double by the third quarter of […]

Funding for fabless semiconductor plants may be flip-flopping, but that is not frightening one firm from filing for that formally forbidden word — IPO. Chipmaker SigmaTel filed a prospectus last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the road towards its initial public offering; a debut that is expected to raise $75 million […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday officially launched an aggressive attack on Hewlett-Packard and the computer and printer maker’s joint partnership with Intel . Designed to take advantage of HP customers running Alpha processors and Tru64 operating systems, Sun unveiled its “HP Away” migration program as a “no-risk alternative” to being forced to migrate to Itanium-based systems — […]

Intel Tuesday said sales of its microprocessor products were relatively flat in the last three months, but that is still cause for celebration. For its second quarter of 2003, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it has doubled its second-quarter net income to 14 cents a share and increased its revenue 7.9 percent to $6.8 […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Looking to improve the way chips are made in the nano-technology manufacturing era, Applied Materials this week introduced a handful of new products designed to shrink chips to sizes of 90 nanometers and smaller. The company Monday said it has struck a deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to develop their next generation […]

Silicon Graphics (SGI) Monday launched its latest series of workstation and visualization products designed to help the company grab a bigger piece of the IT spending pie. The Mountain View, Calif.-based firm, known for its high-powered graphics computers took the wraps off of its Silicon Graphics Tezro visual workstation and Onyx4 UltimateVision. Both operate based […]

Chipmaking heavyweights AMD and Fujitsu Monday unveiled the fruits of their recently cemented relationship, which focuses on Flash memory . Under their $3 billion FASL joint partnership, the two companies have established the organization’s framework and say they will begin to market the chips under the new ‘Spansion’ global product brand name. The new company […]

Intel Monday refreshed its high-end Xeon processor line with a larger cache targeting next generation workstations and servers. The new Intel Xeon processor (code-named Prestonia) runs at 3.06 GHz and features a 1 MB level three (L3) cache with a 533 MHz system bus. Previous chips had about half the amount of cache available. The […]

In between taking those important phone calls, one Silicon Valley-based startup is hoping you’ll want to download the latest Christina Aguilera or Eminem music video on your Palm-powered PDA phone. San Jose, Calif.-based Thin Multimedia Friday said it has launched a new mobile video “Download & Store” service with the help of South Korea-based SK […]