31st December 1998 Archive

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One month ago today: Intel quietly cuts Celeron prices

We're vertically but not journalistically challenged

We were slightly amused yesterday to see that Reuters told the world that Intel had quietly cut prices on its existing Celerons at the beginning of the month. Its story was picked up by both the Wall Street Journal and Cnet today. There was nothing quiet about it. Both OEMs and distributors were told about the move at the end of …

Business 31 Dec 1998, 09:10
Triads reach Cyberspace

Singapore member arrested

If you thought that the Web was sad enough already, think on. Local Singapore paper The Straits Times reported today that 19 year old Lester Tang was arrested earlier this week for allegedly being involved in the creation of the Ang Soon Tong website. The site, hosted in the US, included pictures of secret society songs, …

Business 31 Dec 1998, 09:33
Acer plans broadband PC-mobile phone combo

And the technology seems to represent a design win for Qualcomm...

Taiwanese giant Acer is set to throw in its lot with Qualcomm, Nokia and LG Electronics to construct a combination personal computer and mobile telephony device, according to reports in Taipei. Acer Peripherals and major Compaq OEM Inventec have co-operated in the design of the devices, the first of which is scheduled to appear …

Business 31 Dec 1998, 10:46
Microsoft's plans for ‘WinATMs’ Everywhere

William Harris' deposition describes a planned link with MasterCard in 1994

In 1994 Microsoft was planning to bundle a form of 'personal ATM' with Windows 95, according to the testimony of Intuit executive William Harris, which was released yesterday. The WinATM project never flew, but according to Harris Microsoft had in that year been involved in a series of planning meetings with MasterCard and …

Business 31 Dec 1998, 10:48
AMD plans 1000MHz K7 copper whopper

IBM, Motorola, AMD – plot thickens

Sources close to AMD said today that future plans for the K7 are already well in place, after its Dresden fab comes onstream next year. AMD has always had designs to use copper, as first revealed by The Register when it talked to senior VP Dana Krelle at the introduction of the K6-2 in Versailles 15 months back. But now sources …

Business 31 Dec 1998, 12:10
Intel says days of overclocking gone

New chips will prevent it

Letters written by an Intel microprocessor designer to an Internet overclocking site have revealed that the practice is set to become a thing of the past. Chip engineer Karl Andrews wrote to the Overclockers Comparison Page earlier this month and said that newer chips will have a "more effective speed control method" built into …

Business 31 Dec 1998, 15:39