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copyfight

Google, HP and others form League of Extraordinary Patent Holders

Tired of fielding lawsuits from patent trolls and scared of court injunctions like that faced by RIM which nearly shut down the company's BlackBerry service, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Verizon and Ericsson are among the companies rumored to be behind the formation of the Allied Security Trust. Ponying up $250,000 down payments and $5 million in escrow to make purchases, the trust seeks to buy patents before they fall into the hands of patent trolls. (That's the polite name the group's founders use for companies which seek to make money litigating infringers rather than by create products.) But the real bogeyman here is the rise of a possible patent troll to rule all patent trolls, Intellectual Ventures, which has close ties to Microsoft. More »

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9:00 AM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Jackson West
631 views, 3 comments

Latest by macbeach: I think the distinction that needs to be made is over software patents. Originally a patent was of no value until someone actually MADE something based on it. The patent protected the guy with the idea from not only having more »

microsoft

Intel says there's "no compelling case" to upgrade to Vista

Back when Vista launched, Microsoft predicted corporate clients would adopt the new operating system at twice the rate of its predecessor, Windows XP. Hasn't happened. Now even longtime Microsoft partner, chipmaker Intel, has decided to not upgrade its 80,000 employees to Microsoft Vista. An IT buyer at the company told the New York Times that, after "a lengthy analysis" Intel's "information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista." Instead, Intel will keep its employees on the same OS they've used since 2001, XP.

8:20 AM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
366 views, 3 comments

Latest by Norcross: I'm sure the network admins, looking at updating 80,000+ workstations with legacy printer drivers are all breathing a little easier right now. more »

Intel flips the switch on solar-cell startup SpectraWatt With $50 million from Intel Capital, giant chipmaker Intel has created SpectraWatt, a startup which plans to mass-manufacture solar cells. Solar cells are based on the same semiconductor technology used to make microprocessors, so conceivably Intel can leverage its silicon manufacturing know-how to achieve bigger and more efficient solar-cell fabrication. [News.com] (Photo by Jalal HB)

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apple

Intel Atom to be used in new, larger iPhone

At a birthday party for chipmaker Intel held in Munich, Hannes Schwaderer, CEO of Intel Germany, confirmed that Apple will be using the company's new Atom processor in a future version of the iPhone. Iit won't be the iPhone that we've come to know and love, or the 3G model expected soon, but a new, larger version — possibly a rumored mini-tablet. Less pocketable than an iPhone, less useful than the MacBook Air. Let the Apple Newton jokes commence! Update: Intel has written in to say everyone's wrong! No larger iPhone with or with Intel Inside™.(Photo by Windell Oskay)

3:40 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Jackson West
776 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: "Less pocketable than an iPhone, less useful than the MacBook Air." Can you say Kindle-killer? Portable DVD player killer? Dedicated game-gadget killer? Whole-house remote control? I can think of quite a few niches such a device could slide into quite nicely. Especially more »

feuds

AMD accuses Intel of microprocessor payola

Struggling chipmaker AMD has added a new allegation to the company's antitrust complaint against rival chipmaker Intel. In a 108-page document filed in federal court, plaintiff AMD accused defendant Intel of paying manufacturers like Dell not to use AMD processors, citing internal emails and other documents which were turned over through the discovery process in the case. AMD has been struggling, having laid off thousands in the last few months. CEO Hector Ruiz, pictured here, is expected to make a major announcement today in Austin, Texas, possibly splitting up the company into separate chip-design and chip-fabrication businesses.

10:20 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Jackson West
191 views, 3 comments

Latest by sample032: @macbeach: It's more like keeping AMD nipping at Intel's ankles is good for consumers. more »

acquisitions

Sprint, Clearwire work seven-way deal to create new wireless-broadband startup worth $12 billion

Clearwire, the wireless data company started by Seattle-area cell-phone billionaire Craig McCaw, will be recontsituted as a new company valued at $12 billion backed by primarily by Sprint, but also by cable providers Time Warner, Comcast and Bright House, chipmaker Intel and Web search behemoth Google. McCaw will continue as chairman of the board at Clearwire and Ben Wolff as CEO. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse agreed to give control to the pair as part of the deal, to ease concerns that Sprint's core wireless business would conflict as the new company's services began to compete for voice and data customers. Sprint has encountered numerous problems with deploying Intel-developed WiMax, and there's still the issue of whether the company will sell Nextel after a $35 billion acquisition in 2005 went south.

2:20 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Jackson West
339 views, 3 comments

Latest by thelifter: Now both companies can suck and half ass their operations more efficiently. more »

comebacks

AMD CEO's "Business Class" brand gambit

Is Hector Ruiz launching AMD into the business of making PCs? Not exactly. But after getting pummeled by Intel in 2007, the chipmaker wants to have more of a hand in designing them. It's no longer enough to sell chips, a field in which AMD excels technically; one must sell "chipsets" — entire ready-to-go packages of computing parts, including all the silicon a computer needs. Dell, HP, and others will actually manufacture AMD's new "Business Class" desktops and notebooks. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Owen Thomas
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apple

Intel lets Jobs play with its chips early, makes the other PC kids watch

Apple updated its iMacs today with a new processor from Intel that's not supposed to be available for another 45 days yet. It's not the first time Intel gave Steve Jobs first dibs. A year ago, new iMacs came out with an Intel 3.0-GHz quad-core processor that HP and Dell had to wait on.

3:00 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
610 views, 3 comments

hardware

Steve Jobs buys PA Semi for a chip -- a bargaining chip

Steve Jobs likes to say that Apple is the last company that makes "the whole widget." But it doesn't, not really. Sure, Apple makes software and designs hardware — but inside its gadgets are silicon brains from the likes of Samsung and Intel. Jobs is adept at bullying chipmakers for lower prices and faster delivery, but he can't order around their engineers like he does his own employees. That must rile him. Jobs's ego, therefore, is the best explanation for Apple's $278 million acquisition of PA Semi, a microprocessor design startup. But is Apple getting into the ruthlessly competitive semiconductor business? More »

11:00 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,598 views, 9 comments

Latest by Wabewalker: Nobody else remembers Steve Jobs’s famous beach quote? “I want a computer factory that takes raw beach sand in one end and outputs fully assembled computers on the other.” Whole widget, indeed. more »

explainer

Why does Intel think it's a Web 2.0 startup?

In an age when software rules, it's got to be tough to be stuck making hardware. Intel's Mash Maker is yet another "mashup" tool for connecting data from one website with tools on another, such as funneling addresses to Google Maps. Microsoft and Yahoo have similar products. Why is Intel, which makes chips, getting into such a profitless business? The "Intel Inside" advertising campaign convinced people to start asking what chip a PC runs on, but never persuaded them to care. A News.com reporter wangled this explanation from an Intel marketer: More »

5:40 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Owen Thomas
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Intel's profit contracted 12% to $1.44 billion in the first quarter as falling prices for flash memory and higher restructuring costs offset strength in its core microprocessor business. Revenue grew 9.3% to $9.67 billion. [AP]

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great moments in pr

Press release like it's 1999

"The next big thing in consumer gadgets will be the 'Internet in your pocket,'" according to Intel's announcement reported in the New York Times today. Where did I read that line nine years ago? Oh, right.

7:00 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Paul Boutin
491 views, 6 comments

wireless

Telecom says WiMax has "failed miserably"

Despite big-name backers like Intel and Sprint investing billions of dollars, WiMax still isn't available in the U.S. Perhaps that's a good thing. According to an Australian company that has actually rolled out the technology, it doesn't work. Buzz Broadband says WiMax "may not work," the tech has "failed miserably" and is "mired in opportunistic hype." Last September, Intel executive Sean Maloney said of his company's investment in WiMax, "Now we have to prove it was worth it." Good luck, Sean.

1:00 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Jordan Golson
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Blaming lower prices for flash memory, Intel dropped its gross profit-margin forecast for its first quarter. One the news, Intel shares fell 3 percent in after hours trading yesterday. [WSJ]

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the chart

Can we get a do-over?

2008 has not been kind to tech stocks, especially the Valley's leading lights.

4:40 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Jordan Golson
1,825 views, 13 comments

Latest by bubba_dude: @WormWalker, at $500 to $700 per share, 60%Y/Y growth seems to be priced into GOOG stock right now. So yes, the sky is about to start falling all the little "Googlies". more »

Intel is reviving ClearWire andSprint's failed WiMax partnership with a much-needed $2 billion investment. Intel has always been WiMax's biggest proponent, spending a ton of money on development and including the technology in its next laptop chip design. This is on top of the $5 billion that Sprint has promised to invest in WiMax over the next three years. [Gizmodo]

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rumormonger

Nvidia eyeing AMD acquisition?

Nvidia should think about buying chipmaker AMD to "rearchitect it," according to American Technology Research analyst Doug Freedman. Translation: Kick out management, change its technology direction, and end AMD's perpetual Perils of Pauline drama. Both AMD and Intel have plans to integrate graphics functions into their microprocessors, rendering Nvidia's graphics cards superfluous. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang would be a good candidate to turn around AMD's fortunes, and "buying AMD propels nVidia into a formidable competitor for Intel," says Freedman. More »

2:20 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Jordan Golson
909 views, 3 comments

Latest by NewRider: Ugh. These rumors. Last month it was IBM, this month it's Nvidia. Who will it be next month? Apple?! more »

advertising

Nvidia to spend $30 million-plus on first consumer ad campaign

High-end graphics card maker Nvidia is making an ad push to make the brand as recognizable as Intel, which has spend millions on its "Intel Inside" ad campaign. Nvidia controls more than two-thirds of the market for desktop graphics cards but is facing competition from Intel and AMD, which bought graphics chipmaker ATI last year. Must be exciting for Nvidia marketing exec Dan Vivoli, who finally gets to spend some money after 10 years at the company: The ad campaign could cost as much as $30 million-$40 million, compared to a $353,000 spend in the first 9 months of 2007.

12:00 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Jordan Golson
462 views, Comment

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