Intel Profits From Cost Cuts; Forecast Lags
May 1, 2007
Intel Profits From Cost Cuts; Forecast Lags | www.smartmoney.com
The PC Market has slowed down. Intel's weak Q2 sales revenue guidance confirms this.
Intel did a good job of cost cutting and making yield improvements, but not as good a job in booking business so far this year.
PC Bookings were pretty weak in Q1; this negatively impacted Intel.
Better bookings will occur in June if stronger than expected back-to- school PC builds materialize.
No winner yet in backplane brawl
April 9, 2007
No winner yet in backplane brawl | www.eetimes.com
• Backplane market too small to drive any long term trends
• High volume platforms will drive backplane solutions
• Ethernet and PCIe dominate with Niche positions for RIO and IB
Intel, Samsung and other placing their bets on Phase Change Memory
April 2, 2007
Intel to sample phase change memory in 1H 2007 | www.eetimes.com
Intel, Samsung and other placing their bets on Phase Change Memory.
Customers may now try PCM in NOR Flash applications.
PCM is a potential replacement for NOR Flash memory.
Who Will Pay for Home-Network Security?
February 15, 2007
Cisco's new security target: consumers | news.com.com
Security features in home networking hardware are not new.
Incremental revenue likely to come primarily from services rather than hardware.
This move could strengthen the competitive positions of Linksys routers and SA set tops.
February 15, 2007
AT&T Gets Fiber Envy | telephonyonline.com
AT&T is competing with cable MSOs, DBS and over-the-air stations, not Verizon.
These competitors all have their own bandwidth limitations.
VDSL2 provides headroom for FTTN network.
Tough Times Never Last for the Memory Industry, but Tough Memory Suppliers Do
February 6, 2007
Flash memory makers heading for tough times | news.com.com
This is the time of year for worrisome sentiment.
Seasonality is often forgotten.
Potential for overcapacity does exist but the industry has ways to adapt.
Korea is Leading the Way in Mobile WiMax
December 18, 2006
A Bad Week For WiMax | news.techdirt.com
Related to mobile WiMax, WiBro is real and being deployed in 2006.
Mobile WiMax interoperability testing has begun.
LSI Could Sell Off Agere’s Networking Business
December 13, 2006
LSI To Buy Agere in $4B Stock deal | online.wsj.com
Agere’s networking business has little synergy with the rest of the two companies’ merged product lines.
Selling off the networking business would produce cash and a more focused company.
Voltage Problems Are Painful, Expensive
August 29, 2006
Rumor: AMD is having trouble with 65nm processor voltages | www.legitreviews.com
Who cares about the voltage that a PC processor chip uses? Almost everyone. Here's why.
• The voltage, while tiny, determines the wattage (the total power and heat) that the chip consumes.
• Increasing the voltage a tiny bit increases power consumption by a lot (square law). It also increases heat dissipation, a big deal for laptops and other space-constrained systems.
• Finally, this is a difficult problem to fix. It involves a time-consuming and expensive engineering redesign of the chip.
Bad News for Rambus, but Little Effect on IP Licensing
August 3, 2006
FTC Finds Rambus Monopolized Memory-Chip Technology Markets | online.wsj.com
The FTC's ruling against Rambus has more to do with Rambus specifically than with the IP and patent licensing business in general.
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