Monthly Archives: November 2009

An Intel investor, frustrated that the chip maker has been hit with $2.7 billion in fines and settlement payments this year, wants to force top company executives to pay the money. Continue reading →

Sun Microsystems today announced an upgrade to its Sun Storage 7000 family of disk arrays that it says doubles the performance and capacity of the system. Continue reading →

The glut of antitrust actions against Intel should start to fade away with the company’s settlement of lawsuits and patent disputes filed against it by AMD. Continue reading →

The 1.25 billion settlement announced today by AMD and Intel may do more than resolve the ongoing legal fight between the two firms; it might encourage them to cooperate on some shared technical issues, say analysts. Continue reading →

Intel needs to prop up AMD, but it also has to focus on its real long-term threat, ARM. Continue reading →

Intel CTO Justin Rattner today said the company’s agreement to pay $1.25 billion to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by AMD shouldn’t affect the company’s R&D operation Continue reading →

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Thursday announced that they have settled all antitrust litigation and patent cross-license disputes between the companies. Continue reading →

AMD expects that production of its new 5800 series graphics processing units will be meeting the needs of PC makers by the end of this month. Continue reading →

AMD has confirmed that a TSMC foundry has been slow to ramp up production of its new 40-nm graphics chip, which is forcing PC makers to delay shipments of desktop and laptop systems. Continue reading →

With New York’s Attorney General filing antitrust charges against Intel Corp. this week, industry watchers say the Federal Trade Commission will join the fray against the chip maker, maybe even before the end of the year. Continue reading →