(Reuters) Intel Corp. has introduced five laptop microprocessors that it said will boost performance, cut power use, and lengthen battery life, as competition heats up with upstart chip designer Transmeta Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The mobile Pentium III processor-M will provide almost a 50 percent gain in performance on data-intensive applications over the previous mobile Intel Premium III processor, and the new processor supports Intel technology that automatically switches laptop power modes, providing for more energy-efficient mobile PCs, Intel said.
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(ZD Net) A PCI industry group is expected to endorse Intel's Arapaho or 3GIO technology over AMD's HyperTransport as the 'input-output technology of the future.' Currently, everything from modems to network cards plugs into computers using the widespread PCI (Peripheral Components Interconnect) standard. But increasing the speed of PCI will become prohibitively expensive, and engineers have been searching for an alternative that will let computers keep pace with ever-faster CPUs Rival chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices each had designs that could do the trick, with AMD's HyperTransport further along than Intel's. But now, after the industry group in charge of PCI met Friday, the question of succession has been largely decided in favor of Intel's technology, code-named Arapahoe and sometimes called 3GIO. A final vote by PCI-SIG is scheduled for Friday, after lawyers from member companies have had a week to review Arapahoe, but the group is expected to adopt the technology, PCI-SIG President Roger Tipley said in an interview.
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(AP) Hit by falling profits and slumping demand worldwide, NEC Corp. said it would cut 4,000 jobs by next March in an effort to turn around its computer chip division. The Japanese electronics giant also said it would close some production lines and reduce investment as part of a restructuring plan that calls for lessening its dependence on a glutted chip market and emphasizing its networking and solutions businesses.
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(Press Release) Maxtor Corporation has announced the release of the Ultra ATA/133 hard drive interface specification, which boosts data transfer rates between the computer and the hard drive up to 133 megabytes (MB) per second. The new interface is one-third faster than earlier record-breaking Ultra ATA/100 technology integrated in most PC computer systems and performance adapter cards sold today. Currently, VIA Technologies Inc, Silicon Integrated Systems Corp (SiS), Adaptec Inc, Promise Technology Inc, and Silicon Image have formally completed licensing agreements to use Maxtor's Ultra ATA/133 interface technology in upcoming systems and chipsets.
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(Press Release) ATI Technologies Inc. is now shipping the XCLAIM TV USB EDITION external TV tuner to the Macintosh consumer market for just (USD) $99 manufacturer's suggested retail price. XCLAIM TV USB EDITION enables Mac users to easily multitask by watching TV while downloading from the Internet or keeping an eye on a favorite TV show while responding to e-mail messages.
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