02/03/2011
IDG News Service – New York Bureau
IDG News Service – Lenovo on Thursday said it would stop shipments of its latest IdeaPad laptops and IdeaCentre desktops in the wake of Intel’s revelation of a flaw in the Sandy Bridge chipset design.
The PC maker is also offering refunds or the option to replace motherboards at [...]
01/26/2011
Thomson Reuters – Taipei Bureau
IDG News Service – Intel will invest around $25.8 million in joint research with Taiwan’s top-ranked university to raise the island’s world tech profile and investigate how the Internet can detect and interact with objects, it said Thursday.
The maker of microprocessors and the Taipei-based school will spend at least three [...]
19/2011
Business Insider – Online, The
Intel wants the world to know that Microsoft’s decision to port Windows to ARM processors hasn’t created a rift between the old partners — even if some individual execs are hinting that they’re frustrated with Microsoft’s slow move.
An Intel spokesperson said, “With over 30 years of compatibility, we will easily [...]
18/2011
Thomson Reuters
TEL AVIV, Jan 18 (Reuters) – U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) will invest $2.7 billion over the next two years upgrading its plant in southern Israel to produce its next generation of chips.
The amount includes a 740 million shekel ($210 million) grant recently approved by the Israeli government.
“We are already in preparation for [...]
01/17/2011
EE Times Europe
LONDON – Intel Corp. is set to spend $500 million as it re-commissions Fab 14 at its wafer fab site in Leixlip, Ireland, according to local reports. The move will create 200 long term technical jobs after a two-year build is completed. More importantly the investment looks set to secure the jobs at [...]
01/11/2011
BBC America
The world’s biggest micro-chip maker Intel has agreed to pay its smaller rival Nvidia $1.5bn (£965.2m) to use its technology.
The move brings to an end a legal dispute that began in 2009.
Intel had sued Nvidia, a graphics chip maker, over the right to keep making an Intel designed chip. Nvidia then counter-sued. [...]
12/22/2010
Dow Jones Newswires
Chip maker is working with Google on Internet-capable television sets; sees forthcoming ‘perfect storm’.
Intel Corp. continues to target Internet-connected television sets to fuel its growth, even as initial attempts to popularize Web searching on TV sets are experiencing snags.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant has partnered with Google Inc. in the development [...]
12/21/2010
Dow Jones Newswires
U.S. antitrust regulators cleared Intel Corp.’s proposed acquisition of security-software company McAfee Inc., helping pave the way for the $7.68 billion deal to close next year.
While the Federal Trade Commission has blessed the transaction, regulators in Europe continue to eameine the combination. Intel said on its website Tuesday it is continuing to [...]
12/20/2010
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Intel Corp.’s $7.68 billion deal to buy security-software specialist McAfee Inc. is running into close scrutiny by European officials that could at least delay completing the high-profile transaction.
The European Union’s antitrust regulator has privately expressed concerns during its preliminary review of the deal, which could prompt the regulator [...]
12/15/2010
CNET News.com
Light Peak promises to move big chunks of data like full-length movies in seconds and is backed by heavyweights Intel, Sony, and Apple. But how will this be implemented in consumer products? I asked Jason Ziller, an Intel manager heading up Light Peak work at Intel.
Will MacBook Pros coming later this year use [...]
