16th January 1999 Archive
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A year ago: IBM, Gateway, AMD, Acer enter rumour mill
Rumours abound that moves are afoot
AMD promised us that VIA would support its PC 100 fast Socket Seven bus and sure enough that will come to pass this week. But a mole close to Intel told The Register last week that talking about PC 100 and DRAM (as we have), he might as well tell us the truth about why the chip giant posted revised specs. According to him, Intel …
Business 16 Jan 1999, 08:47
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Samsung-Linux plans emerge as Alpha takes shape
Volume this year with AMD in the frame too
More details have emerged of plans that the Alpha partnership has to grab Intel market share. At the same time, it appears that AMD will introduce its SharpTooth product on the 24th February as a spoiler for the Katmai platform, released later in the month. As revealed here some weeks ago, Compaq and its partners Microsoft and …
Business 16 Jan 1999, 10:41
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Trident turns in big Q2 loss
Pins hopes on AMD, MS, Samsung partnership
Trident Microsystems reported a drop in sales of 30 per cent for its second quarter but claimed it was on the road to reducing the shortfall. But the better it does, the more likely it is it will fall to market consolidation. The company said that it sold $20,652,000 worth of its product in Q2 1999, compared to $26,939,000 in …
Business 16 Jan 1999, 17:09
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DDR camp refuses to give up ghost
First there were 12, now there’s 29 ghosties
Memory manufacturers still reluctant to shell out royalties for Direct Rambus technology have announced that 29 assorted components firms have joined what the Double Data Rate SDRAM consortium thinks is the good fight. Towards the end of last year, as reported here, 12 of the biggest DRAM manufacturers, led by Big Blue, said DDR …
Business 16 Jan 1999, 17:10
