25th March 2000 Archive
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Intel to buy into Taiwan RIMM firm
$40 million for connector company Hon Hai?
Local Taiwanese sources said yesterday that chip firm Intel is set to take a $40 million share in a firm that makes connectors for Rambus inline memory modules (RIMMs). The reports suggest the money will be the first investment Intel has made in a components company. In the last 18 months, the Capital division of the Santa Clara …
Business 25 Mar 2000, 08:04
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AMD's Spitfire and other plans revealed
Firm outlines strategies to American resellers
A reseller of AMD products has revealed information about aggressive pricing changes the firm will make on the 24th of April next, and has also included details of Spitfire pricing the firm will announce on the same date. AMD held a reseller seminar overview in Toronto last week, intended to update its major North American …
Business 25 Mar 2000, 08:49
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MS offers terms for DoJ settlement, but resists breakup
Last-ditch flurry as the deadline looms
The Microsoft antitrust case appears to have moved closer to settlement. "Sources" - almost certainly lawyers from the states involved - have been leaking some information, although it is also possible that Microsoft has been looking after its own PR interests. Publicly, neither side is making any statements at the moment. What …
Business 25 Mar 2000, 09:18
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Flying sourcers to open Iridium…
...if they can persuade the free software community to come up with the readies
A group of "concerned individuals" wants to save the soon-to-be-dismantled Iridium satellite by converting the system into an 'open source' network for public use. The group, operating under the name Save Our Sats (we'll ignore for the moment that the satellites aren't actually ours), wants open source supporters, scientists, …
Business 25 Mar 2000, 15:24
