Chipless firm stirs commotion in chip market
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Rambus Inc. has earned $43 million in revenue, employs 165 people and its stock price is listed as just over $317 a share. The company makes no products, but its founders created a way to speed up memory chips in personal computers and other electronic devices. The market value of the company recently tripled to over $7 billion, but the company has its detractors, as well as its believers. The company's chip technology is licensed to semiconductor makers such as Intel Corp., yet some analysts feel that Rambus is a niche player in the semiconductor industry. Others feel that Rambus's royalty structure and technology will allow it to reap major benefits from a $40 billion industry.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2000
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Intel, expecting faster growth, lays out plans for new products
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Intel plans new products that should boost both the high and low ends of the chip market, the company told analysts. The announcement signals an Intel belief that it will resume growth soon despite a 36% decline in 1st qtr 1998 profits. Pres and CEO-elect Craig Barrett said Intel will unveil the Katmai microprocessor, which will feature a processing speed breakthrough of 500MHz in the first half of 1999. Another plan entails integrating auxiliary chips for handling graphics and logic functions into one piece of silicon by 1999, according to Barrett. Intel said it will begin to address growth problems caused by its slow entry into the sub-$1,000 PC market and a shortage in computing software performance through the early 1999 release of Microsoft's Chrome program, which features 3D graphics in navigating the World Wide Web.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1998
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Intel unveils a prototype of Merced chip
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Intel Corp. demonstrated the first working prototype of its next-generation microprocessor at a technical conference in Palm Springs, California. The chip, code-named Merced, has been anticipated for a while and Intel's chief executive officer, Craig Barrett, assured the conference that the chip is on schedule for mass production in the middle of next year. He did not disclose its processing speed but showed that the chip was able to handle complex three-dimensional animations. Merced is Intel's first chip that processes 64 bits of data at a time, as opposed to 32 bits, which should markedly increase its power when using specially designed software. The chip was demonstrated running an early 64-bit version of Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system, another product that has been delayed for a long time and is expected to be critical to the success of both companies in the area of high-end computers.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1999
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