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  • NatSemi says Transmeta, Intel no threat to Geode

    CeBIT 2000 Geode gets everywhere at show

    A senior executive at National Semiconductor has told The Register that the firm believes it can stay ahead of Transmeta's Crusoe technology and continue to make big design wins for its Geode, x86 compliant, technology. Jurgen Heldt, marketing director of National Semiconductor Europe, said that since Geode's launch last year, …

    Business 27 Feb 2000, 11:21

  • AMD Athlon 600 goes on allocation

    CeBIT 2000 First signs of big price actions

    Vendors and distributors at German trade fair CeBIT have said they were told last week that supplies of the Athlon running at 600MHz will now be severely restrained. This is further evidence that AMD will phase out the 600MHz in April of this year, to make use of Athlon processors with higher frequencies, and to aggressively …

    Business 27 Feb 2000, 11:23

  • Mobo makers unenthusiastic about Camino

    CeBIT 2000 Write something nice, they say

    A straw poll of a number of manufacturers exhibiting at CeBIT has demonstrated that Intel's Camino i820 chipset is unpopular with third party mainboard vendors. Soyo, Chaintech, Gigabyte, Asus and a clutch of other Taiwanese mobo manufacturers were displaying boards using the i820 chipset, but conversations with staff at these …

    Business 27 Feb 2000, 11:24

  • USB 2.0 spec two, three months away

    CeBIT 2000 Plenty of USB 1.1 around, however

    Hall Nine at CeBIT is the noisiest place in Hannover, and also the most crowded, with firms like 3dfx demonstrating their wares at ear-numbing decibels. Right at the front of the show, there is a large area devoted to smaller companies from Taiwan, with many showing the elements that make up a PC (such as cases and power …

    Business 27 Feb 2000, 11:39

  • Intel slashes prices, intros 866MHz, 850MHz chips

    And so it came to pass. AMD's turn today

    A memorandum from Intel to its channel has confirmed price cuts it will make on its products as from today. (See bottom of story for links to our previous predictions about these price adjustments). At the same time, in the memo, Intel has explained the reasons for the price cuts and the introductions, which it attributes to the …

    Business 27 Feb 2000, 19:59

  • BT offers free local calls ‘within a year’

    Sunday Express splash

    BT is to introduce unmetered access for consumers "within a year", according to the Sunday Express. In return for a "relatively small" monthly flat fee, the company will offer what the paper calls "free local calls" for voice and data services. BT expects to recoup revenues lost from charging calls on a metered basis, by …

    Business 27 Feb 2000, 22:04

  • Exhibitors less than gruntled with CeBIT crash

    CeBIT 2000 DT 'nearly overwhelmed'

    CeBIT 2000, the world's biggest technology fair, had a problem with its technology, this week. Hundreds of exhibitors were left without Web access on their stands following a hardware crash on the show's main telecomms system. Deutsche Telekom was "nearly overwhelmed", according to CeBIT organisers, by the flood of calls from …

    Business 27 Feb 2000, 22:18

  • Pine trails MP3 on CD portable

    CeBIT 2000 Play that funky music, Geek Boy

    Pine Group will have a portable CD and MP3 player in UK shops from 1 April, the company said today -- no joke, honest. The Hong-Kong vendor is claiming a world first with the product, which will let users play CDs made by downloading music from the Internet via a CD writer, as well as being able to play normal music CDs. With a …

    Business 27 Feb 2000, 22:56