Group of tech companies, 3 labs to unveil chip-making machine

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Motorola, Intel, IBM and Sandia National Laboratories have united to introduce a chip-making device designed to extend Gordon Moore's 1965 law another decade; Moore's Law remarked that manufacturers will keep doubling the power of transisters about every year-and-a-half. The $250 million prototype at Sandia Labs employs extreme ultraviolet lithography which can produce circuits between 20% to 7% the size of the smallest chip created by normal lithography.

Manufacturing processes, Special industry machinery, not elsewhere classified, Semiconductor Production Equip, Semiconductor Machinery Manufacturing, Production management, Joint ventures, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Technology development, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Semiconductor production equipment industry, Semiconductor production equipment, Motorola Inc., MOT, United States. Department of Energy. Sandia National Laboratories, Technology transfer, Moore, Gordon E.

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Intel's Barrett vows to continue communications buying spree

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In the last two-and-a-half years, Intel Corp., under the guidance of Pres. and CEO Craig Barrett, has spent $10 billion on communications company acquisitions and mergers. The US economic downturn has slowed demand for PC microprocessor chips, the company's mainstay, and has pushed the company into other avenues of business. The largest acquisition was the $2.2 billion it spent in 1999 to purchase Level One Communications Inc.

Semiconductors and related devices, Semiconductor Devices, Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Asset sales & divestitures, Acquisitions & mergers, Semiconductor industry, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Telecommunications industry, Company acquisition/merger, Communications industry, Barrett, Craig R.

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Avant criminal case ends in plea bargain

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After a 7-year investigation, 7 defendants associated with Avant Corp. negotiated plea bargains with $35.3 million in fines for the company in a trade-secret trial. Avant chief Gerald C. Hsu and his colleagues, former Cadence employees, stole secrets from Cadence Design Systems; Hsu will face no jail time, though he will pay $2.7 million in conspiracy and securities fraud case. Mitch Igusa, Tzyh-Lih Wuu, Yuh-Zen Liao, Yun-Chung Cho were all charged with felonies that could be reduced in the Santa Clara County, Ca. court.

Prepackaged software, Computer Software, Software Publishers, Liabilities NEC, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Company legal issue, Cases, Practice, Trade secrets, Cadence Design Systems Inc., CDN, Hsu, Gerry, Igusa, Mitch, Tzyh-Lih Wuu, Yuh-Zen Liao, Yun-Chung Cho, Finkelstein, Julius, Avant! Corp., AVNT

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