24th April 1999 Archive

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3Com subject of takeover speculation

Stock rises on rumours, but company could still be a bargain

Struggling NICs-to-handhelds vendor, 3Com, could be on the brink of being taken over, if latest industry rumours are to be believed. Computer Reseller News (CRN) is reporting speculation that Nokia, Ericsson, Lucent, Siemens and even Apple are in the frame and ready to swoop. In fact, it cites "any company interested in gaining …

Business 24 Apr 1999, 05:28
Wanted: buyer for Mitsubishi PC plant

One careless owner, going cheap

Mitsubishi is hawking its Japanese notebook PC production plant to rival vendors, according to a Taiwanese trade magazine. The company is likely to retain its PC design team but will contract out manufacturing - probably to a Taiwanese or Japanese competitor, Eurotrade reports. Mitsubishi PC unit shipments in the year to March …

Business 24 Apr 1999, 09:11
AMD K7 500 trounces Pentium III/500

First FPU benchmarks leak out

An engineer at AMD has leaked details of internal FPU (floating point unit) Winmarks on the up and coming K7 to The Register. But at the same time he has said he is disappointed at the management and production problems at the firm. The engineer, who insists on strict anonymity, said that the K7 running at 500MHz has an FPU …

Business 24 Apr 1999, 10:27
VIA prepares for PC-266 memory

And where does that leave Chipzilla?

Japanese site PC Watch is reporting that chipset company VIA is ready to ship its Apollo Pro Plus 693A family. And that will support not only the PC-133 memory standard but also AGP4x. According to the site, there will be a version of the Apollo Pro Plus supporting PC 266 DDR synchronous memory later in the year. Intel has …

Business 24 Apr 1999, 10:48