- Mon Feb 8 1999 AMD discounts chips to match Intel
The chip price war continues as AMD discounts its K6-2 processors up to 24 percent to match Celeron cuts.
- Mon Nov 1 1999 Apple to make graphics chip buy
Apple Computer is in the final stages of acquiring all or part of Raycer Graphics, a graphics chip designer, in an apparent bid to strengthen the 3D capabilities of Apple computers, sources say.
- Thu Aug 17 2000 Chip newcomer Transmeta files for IPO
The processor start-up, which hopes to take on Intel in the lucrative market for notebook chips, files to raise $200 million through an initial public offering.
- Tue Sep 16 2003 Intel chips to do double duty
As more and more transistors crowd their way onto silicon in the next few years, the company's processors will develop split personalities.
- Tue Jul 29 2003 Chip firms team up for mobile standards
Nokia and chip industry players Texas Instruments, ARM and STMicroelectronics form an alliance to promote standard ways for the silicon chips inside cell phones to work together.
- Thu Aug 28 2003 Intel cuts off wireless networking gear
The chipmaker quietly exits the market for wireless networking products to focus its efforts on its Centrino technology.
- Mon Oct 22 2007 Qualcomm likely to avoid another chip ban
Judge recommends halting investigation stemming from Nokia's complaint to the ITC that Qualcomm chips infringe on patents.
- Mon Apr 22 2002 Wireless firm adds hybrid modem to mix
GTran Wireless unveils one of a growing number of the so-called hybrid modems--cards that are able to switch between wireless networks and Internet services.
- Fri Jan 31 2003 Wireless firms jumping gun on new spec?
With an OK for the speedy 802.11g wireless spec still months off, the impatience of early adopting gear makers could create interoperability headaches and rile consumers.
- Thu Jun 12 2003 Wireless spec approved, next under way
A standards body approves the 802.11g specification and starts work on another spec--802.11n--that promises to lead to even higher data-transmission speeds.




