(ZDNET) Advanced Micro Devices said Friday that fierce price competition from Intel took its toll on the company's third quarter, which will fall well below analysts' expectations. The game of one-upmanship isn't anything new between AMD and Intel as the two chipmakers race to make faster--and cheaper--semiconductors. But Intel seems to have inflicted some body blows on AMD this quarter. For the third quarter ending Sept. 30, AMD said it will report a pro forma loss between $90 million and $110 million, or 26 cents a share and 31 cents a share. That projected loss doesn't include restructuring and other charges, expected to be between $80 million and $110 million. AMD said last month it would lay off 15 percent of its work force.
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(AP) - Sun Microsystems Inc., a leading maker of computer servers and workstations, lowered its earnings outlook for the first quarter and announced plans Friday to cut its work force by about 9 percent, or nearly 3,900 jobs. Sun, which had avoided layoffs during the current economic downturn, blamed its worsening condition on a steep slowdown in orders following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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(Press Release) Western Digital Corp. has announced a WD Caviar 100 GB Special Edition hard drive that uses an 8 MB buffer to deliver data to users faster than any hard drive in its class has before. The new WD Caviar 100 GB Special Edition hard drive provides a higher percentage of cache hits and significantly faster time to data than industry-standard 2 MB versions. This Special Edition drive is currently available in limited quantities via Western Digital's online store at store.westerndigital.com and through select WD channel partners. The price for this premium product is $379.
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- [Electric Tech, ViaHardware] VIA 4-in-1 Drivers Version 4.34 Final: VIA has released their latest version of their 4-in-1 driver pack. The release provides more stability for VIA based motherboards with bug fixes.
- [Electric Tech] SIS AGP Driver Available (v1.07): SIS has released a new AGP Driver for the SiS735, SiS733, SiS635, and SiS633 chipsets.
- [Tweakers Asylum] New NVIDIA Det. XP 21.85 Available
- [NT Compatible] The 3dfx FAQ & download has been updated and include now also Windows XP drivers
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CyberLink Corp., announced that PowerDVD 3.0 will be shipped with Hewlett-Packard Company's new HP DVD-writer dvd100i, its first combination DVD+RW/CD-RW drive. CyberLink's PowerDVD is one of the most popular software-only DVD players and is well known for its playback support of various file and disc media formats. Using the DVD+RW format and integrating CyberLink's PowerDVD, HP's DVD-writer offers users multiple capabilities, including playback of video titles (DVD or Video CD), video files (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2), MP3 digital music files and Audio CDs. The HP DVD-Writer dvd100i is expected to begin shipping October 2001.
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