To Dief & ALL,
First Thanks for the article on the PII-333. Now back to business, here is today's list of interesting articles regarding the semiconductor industry.
National Semiconductor to build low-cost PC chip,
report says
By James Niccolai
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 6:14 PM PT, Feb 4, 1998
National Semiconductor has unveiled plans to develop a low-cost, single-chip PC device at its design center in Israel
that will be available for commercial use by June 1999, according to a press report published Wednesday.
Speaking at a news conference in Israel, Brian Halla, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, said National
Semiconductor will invest $100 million to $150 million in the project over the next 18 months, according to a Reuters
Financial wire report.
infoworld.com
S3 acquired Exponential's chip patents
By Elinor Mills
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 6:14 PM PT, Feb 4, 1998
Graphics accelerator pioneer S3 confirmed on Wednesday that it was the anonymous purchaser of Exponential
Technology's microprocessor patent portfolio in an auction last August.
infoworld.com
Sematech To Expand Research Activities
Globally
(02/04/98; 7:34 p.m. EST)
By J. Robert Lineback, Semiconductor Business News
U.S. consortium Sematech in Austin, Texas,
Wednesday announced a major expansion of its
semiconductor manufacturing research activities,
creating an international subsidiary to include chip
makers based outside the United States.
techweb.com
IBM Demonstrates 1-GHz Chip
(02/04/98; 3:12 p.m. EST)
By Patrick Waurzyniak, Electronic Buyers' News
IBM Research engineers on Wednesday said they had
successfully demonstrated the first experimental
CMOS microprocessor capable of operating at a
billion cycles per second (1,000 MHz or 1 GHz), only
days after Digital Equipment said its next-generation
Alpha chip would exceed the 1-GHz mark.
techweb.com
$100 single-chip PC on the
way
By Reuters
February 4, 1998, 9:55 a.m. PT
TEL AVIV--National Semiconductor today
announced that its design center in Israel will
develop a single-chip personal computer, a system
it hopes to introduce commercially by June 1999.
news.com
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