Mark Hachman

Advanced Micro Devices climbed to its best quarter in the past two years in terms of processor sales, an analyst said Monday. Analyst firm Mercury Research found that AMDs unit share of the microprocessor market reached 16.6 percent, its highest in eight quarters. Intel, meanwhile, saw its share drop from 83.7 percent a year ago […]

Broadcom Corp. has upgraded its integrated voice-over-IP chip to Gigabit Ethernet speeds, company officials said Monday. The BCM1103 component is designed to sit within a VOIP phone, routing and encrypting calls as well as data to and from the PC. Broadcoms previous chip used a 10/100 Fast Ethernet connection, a slower speed that is slowly […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intergraph Corp. settled their differences Friday, with HP agreeing to pay $141 million to Intergraph to end a long-running patent dispute. HP will pay Huntsville, Ala.-based Intergraph $141 million by Jan. 28 to settle a dispute over the so-called “Clipper” patents, which has been the focus of disputes and later settlements with […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Tuesday that it recorded a fourth-quarter loss as the company tried to pay down debt. Processor sales hit a record high. As expected, however, AMDs Memory Group suffered both an operating loss and a drop in revenues both sequentially and from a year ago. While AMD warned on Jan. 10 […]

Users may pay a penalty in battery life for the increased performance found in the new “Sonoma” Centrino platform from Intel Corp., one notebook manufacturer said. Intel launched its Centrino platform at an event in San Francisco Wednesday, as expected. The new platform includes five new Pentium M processors, ranging from the 1.6GHz Pentium M […]

Intel Corp. reported record revenue for the fourth quarter of 2004, capping off the year with additional records in sales of microprocessors and chip sets. Intel on Tuesday reported net income of $2.1 billion on sales of $9.6 billion for the fourth quarter. While net income dipped 2.1 percent compared with a year ago, the […]

Intel Corp. will launch the next-generation “Sonoma” mobile platform on Jan. 19, according to an e-mailed announcement from the company. At a launch event in San Francisco, Intel will unveil more than 80 notebooks using the technology, which includes the next-generation “Dothan” processor, the “Alviso” chip set, and improved Wi-Fi connectivity. Of note is a […]

LAS VEGAS—WiMax provider Alvarion Inc. said Thursday that the company is on schedule for mobile WiMax deployment, with a demonstration of the technology scheduled for next year. The public WiMax timetable, according to Intel Corp. and other WiMax supporters, is to bring to market the first WiMax chips in 2005 for residential deployment, with a […]

LAS VEGAS—Representatives for the Blu-Ray Disc Association said Thursday that several rights management issues still remain under discussion. In response to audience questions at a news conference held at the Consumer Electronics Show here, executives said the issues of region encoding and content protection systems are still being finalized. Four new members also were added […]

LAS VEGAS—Guess what? Your DVD player might now be obsolete. Hewlett-Packard Co. and Royal Philips Electronics NV said Wednesday that they have developed a content-protection system for DVDs, designed to protect users from burning “protected” DTV broadcasts. The encryption system will be built into next-generation DVD players as well as media. Without a player and […]

LAS VEGAS—Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett looked forward to the companys launch of its next-generation mobile “Sonoma” platform by touting some of the applications of a mobile lifestyle. Barrett spoke Thursday in the opening keynote here at the International Consumer Electronics Show, which has replaced the Comdex exposition as the largest showcase for consumer electronics […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and IBM said Monday that they had developed a new strained-silicon process that offers more performance at the same power levels, a technology that will enter production in mid-2005. Specifically, the new “Dual Stress Liner” technology has been found to deliver up to a 24 percent increase in transistor speed within […]