9th September 2000 Archive

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Kingston takes stance on Rambus Affair

Irvine, CA It's neutral but everyone needs more memory

Senior executives at Irvine-based Kingston Technology today gave their take on the current argy-bargy over double date rate (DDR), synchronous DRAM and Rambus. The 1500 strong manufacturer, which has a 13 line surface mount technology (SMT) plant where tier one vendor AST used to ply its wares, said that SDRAM will still be …

Channel 9 Sep 2000, 01:02
Siemens looks to unload UK chip plant

Atmel wants Govt cash guarantee

Siemens is in talks with US chip maker Atmel to offload its North Tyneside fab for around £35 million. The US outfit plans to invest a further £700 million is also asking the UK Department of Trade for grant aid to develop the plant, which could create 1,500 jobs. The factory - currently mothballed - is a bit of an …

Channel 9 Sep 2000, 09:37
Kingston factory to shorten memory chain

Irvine Wafers shipped in to Payton place

A cunning plan by memory firm Kingston Technology means that a $100 million investment in clean room technology will shorten the supply chain for modules from eight weeks to 10 days. John Tu, co-founder of the firm, talked yesterday about how its Payton subsidiary, which involves clean room technology and a capital investment …

Channel 9 Sep 2000, 16:37
American Express offers temporary CC numbers for the Web

About time, too

In a bid to reassure skittish consumers, American Express announced a new product Thursday that will use 'disposable', one-time credit card numbers for on-line shopping. Once the number has been used, it is cancelled, meaning that the compromise of a Web-site's customer database would not yield a working CC number from those …

Media 9 Sep 2000, 17:40
White House sticks its nose in Napster appeal

Your tax dollars at work

The Clinton Administration has seen fit to submit a brief of amici curiae to the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals arguing that the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 does not apply to Napster's appeal of a copyright infringement suit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) back in December. While anyone …

Media 9 Sep 2000, 18:20
Washington Roundup

Odds and ends from the Belly of the Beast

The House Subcommittee on Government Reform last week enumerated the many privacy abuses of the Clinton Administration and lamented the loophole within the 1974 Privacy Act which 'empowered' them. Frustration mounted as Deputy Assistant Attorney General William Treanor patiently explained that the Privacy Act makes a direct …

Media 9 Sep 2000, 21:12
APM bug slows latest, greatest ThinkPad to a crawl

Everything slows to a crawl

The IBM ThinkPad A20P, which received rave reviews all over the place when it was launched earlier this year, has found itself between the rock of Big Blue and the hard place of ATI. Numerous users leaving numberless messages on IBM's support boards and on other public forums, are complaining that D3D/Open GL speed slows to a …

Business 9 Sep 2000, 23:21