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  • AMD upbeat on Q4 sales record

    Looks like it's stopped digging that financial hole

    AMD cited strong seasonal consumer demand for PCs for record Q4 sales of $968.7 million. Net income was not bad either, coming in at a respectable $65.08 million for the quarter, equivalent to $0.43 per share. This makes a nice change from the dismal set of figures posted by AMD for Q3, 1999 the semiconductor maker, lost $105.5 …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 00:15

  • Transmeta could face Intel legal challenge

    Clean room technology won't stop pleaders

    Transmeta may have surfed through most of the tough questions raised yesterday – about bugs (yes folks – potentially, there'll be twice as many) – compatibility and performance, but what about Chipzilla itself? There hasn’t been an Intel clone which hasn’t raised the attention of the Santa Clara lawyers, and some of these have …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 09:25

  • Transmeta Linux flavour smoked out

    Which flavour of Linux is in Mobile Linux?

    Curiously under-reported yesterday was exactly which flavour of Linux forms the core of Transmeta’s embedded Mobile Linux. This comes as part of the package for its offering to would be OEMs of Internet appliances. Recall that of the two chips, the little one - the single-watt TM3120 – is being shipped with a stripped down …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 09:27

  • No home for Rambus at Transmeta

    Now, not soon, probably not ever

    Right. Where did that horse go? The Register cornered a contented-looking Taiwanese contingent at yesterday’s Transmeta party, but they were unable to explain the clip-cloppetting we all heard. But we rapidly agreed that this was the sound of the (now Six) Dramurai trotting into the distance. For Transmeta confirmed that Rambus …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 09:30

  • Transmeta's real mystery: its OS tweaking auction

    Who's the fairest of them all? Windows! Er, we mean no one…

    Let's get this right. There are no favoured operating systems in Crusoeland. Transmeta has no instruction set of its own. There’s nothing to write to. And that code morphing engine hasn’t any preferences either– so don’t think that's been tweaked to any particular operating system. And oh no - certainly not Linux, even though we …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 09:39

  • Intel extends Via legal action

    Paranoid about chipsets? Chipzilla it say yes

    Chip giant Intel has complained to the US International Trade Commission (ITC) that competitor Via is taking patent liberties with technology it owns on the P6 front side bus. That follows a series of legal actions Intel took in the second half of last year, alleging that Via and some of its subsidiaries infringe its patents. …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 10:52

  • Couple abducted in chip robbery

    Driven home after raid

    A computer company manager and his wife were kidnapped at gunpoint, driven to the firm where they both work, and forced to open the doors. The robbers grabbed £250K-worth of chips from the safe of SPD, yesterday's Evening Standard reports. Mission accomplished, they drove the couple back to their home in Alton, Hampshire and …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 11:06

  • Corel – the serial Linux deal-maker

    Is the Corel alliance programme smart, or just plain confused?

    Corel's aggressive Linux alliance-building programme - six deals in five weeks - shows no sign of slowing down, with the Tuesday announcement of Corel having taken up to a 30 per cent stake in Ottawa-based OE/ONE.com for an undisclosed sum. No wonder Corel thinks it has only done five deals, according to its Q4 financial …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 11:17

  • Intel obliterates refs to unannounced chipsets

    We took extensive notes. Solano, Greendale well advanced

    Intel pulled down pages which showed references to some up and coming chipsets only minutes after they were posted, cheating many readers of the chance to see information about unannounced products. The first time we posted the URLs, Intel took down the pages only moments after we noticed them. On the second occasion, after we …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 11:48

  • Apple achieves anticipated double-digit growth

    Units, profits, revenues -- all up in Q1 2000

    Apple CFO Fred Anderson's prediction that the company would achieve double-figure growth during its first quarter of fiscal 2000 proved accurate yesterday when he announced profits of $183 million on revenues of $2.34 billion. Those figures represent increases of 20 per cent and 37 per cent, respectively, on the same period last …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 11:51

  • Apple ‘compensates’ Jobs with $40m aircraft, 10m shares

    The secrets of Jobs' $1 salary revealed

    So what did Steve Jobs gain for announcing to the world that he was no longer Apple's interim CEO, but the position's permanent incumbent? In a jaunty release, the company confessed it had offered up to its saviour a Gulfstream V light aircraft (retail price: approx. $40 million) and the right to buy ten million Apple shares. …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 12:19

  • You'll have to wait a tad for Intel SpeedStep II

    Maybe three months or so before the Next Step

    There were some funny moments at an Intel press conference held in the gruesome Edwardian Suite at Le Meridien the other night. But not that many. At the presentation, which was well attended, with a clutch of analysts and a gaggle of British hacks, Intel started to show a brief video which seemed to be suggesting that using …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 12:47

  • Intel gets down on the farm

    The £90m server farm, that is

    Intel is investing £90 million in a 10,000 server farm which will come online in Q2 this year. The sever farm sited at Winnersh, Reading will employ 170 people and offer server space for small businesses who have little resources for supporting e-business. Intel chose the site over Amsterdam and Frankfurt, the decision being …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 12:49

  • Movie studios sue four over DeCSS distribution

    Defendants alleged to have promoted piracy

    The movie industry's battle against the DeCSS continued this week with the launch of two lawsuits against website owners providing the DVD decryption utility online. In New York, eight major film studios, including Paramount, Warner Bros, Columbia and 20th Century Fox, together alleged two webmasters, Shawn Reimerdes and Eric …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 12:49

  • IT failures not all our fault, says Blair govt

    The bucks stops somewhere else

    The government is passing the buck over a string of embarrassing IT failures in the direction of the private sector. Many of them were implemented under the private finance initiative, which gives the government an exit route away from the flack it has been taking. Among the high profile system failures have been in the Passport …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 13:13

  • RealNetworks wins ban on ‘streaming VCR’

    Updated Streambox unable to sell software until trial concluded

    RealNetworks has won the latest round in its legal tussle with streaming media 'video recorder' software specialist Streambox. Following a setback ten days ago, when US District Judge Marsha J Pechman refused to grant RealNetworks a preliminary injunction against Streambox products on the grounds she needed more time to decide …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 13:33

  • Linuxcare files for $92m IPO

    Company's business, finances precarious, though

    Linux support and services specialist - and one-time supposed Red Hat acquisition - Linuxcare this week registered its decision to IPO with the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). The scheme calls for the release of an as yet undecided number of shares worth $92 million (which is very likely to change in the run-up to …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 14:53

  • AOL profits triple but traders are worried

    Time Warner deal should take of that

    AOL may have near tripled its quarterly profits but traders fear growth will fall when the Time Warner merger is completed. The world's leading ISP saw profit increase from $86 million to $224 million thanks to the growth in online shopping, rising advertising revenues and increased membership which now stands at 23 million. AOL …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 15:11

  • Gerstner: IBM has six months to prove itself again

    What turns around goes around, as the Great Magician might have said...

    Lou Gerstner wrote to IBM employees yesterday saying: "As I see it, we have two quarters - 180 days - to prove that the second half of 1999 was an aberration, not the beginning of a trend." His concern about the rather miserable results that IBM turned in this week - revenue down nearly 4 per cent in the quarter compared with …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 15:25

  • AMD share price soars

    Desktop market share close to 20 per cent

    AMD's share price soared to the dizzy heights of $47 in after-market trading after the company announced quarterly results yesterday evening. When Wall Street opened this morning, the share price was $441/2 a rise of $31/2 on yesterday's closing price. That is likely to make Friess Associates very happy bunnies. The company …

    Business 20 Jan 2000, 15:32