Austin chip exec to take over Conexant
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Blog: Longtime exec in Austin's chip industry is heading west to take the reins at the California chipmaker.
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Herb Kelleher, one of the Southwestâs founders, will step down in May. A replacement has not yet been named.
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AMD is looking to take market share in the server, corporate desktop and notebook space using its x86 architecture. &quot;We&#39;re talking x86 chips down to a buck,&quot; said AMD CEO Hector Ruiz at a conference on Friday.
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(InfoWorld) - Texas Instruments, the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, plans to work more closely with its Asian contract chip manufacturing partners to develop new production technologies, a company spokeswoman confirmed. The company said earlier this year it planned to stop developing its own chip production technologies and instead work more closely with contract manufacturing partners on joint development. A TI spokeswoman confirmed that the company plans to work with Asian contract chip makers, or foundries, on the new strategy. TI currently farms out chip production to four Asian chip foundries: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.Â (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) of Taiwan; Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing; and China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., according to Tracy Zhou, head of media relations in the Asia Pacific region for TI. "For the cooperation with foundries, TI will continue working with its current advanced logic foundry partners," she said in an e-mail. The change in tactics is significant. TI is one of the world's biggest chip makers, and has long developed its own production technologies. For any new chip, engineers must focus not only on the circuit design of the chip itself, but also on how it will be mass produced. If a design is too complicated to manufacture at a reasonable price, it can get the boot even if it has promising features. The outsourcing of chip production development by companies that previously did it mostly themselves, such as TI, has become a trend over the past several months, said Jackson Hu, the chairman of UMC, at the company's fourth quarter investor conference last month. "Some companies are even closing their own chip factories and farming out orders to foundry chip makers, while others are simply no longer investing in chip production R&D, and instead putting that investment money into chip product design efforts. We believe this is a positive industry trend, a win-win situation, and a strong affirmation of our R&D capabilities," Hu said. The fact that a company the caliber of TI is willing to leave the production side of technology development up to contract chip makers, at least in part, shows how far the foundry business has come. TSMC was the first company to focus on manufacturing chips that are designed by other companies. Before TSMC opened, small chip design firms had to ask Intel, Motorola, and other big companies to manufacture their chips, and these companies would only agree if their factories weren't already full. Most small companies didn't have enough money to set up their own chip factories because the high tech plants then cost around $1 billion each. Now, new ones cost around $3.5 billion. TSMC stepped in to fill the gap, setting up huge chip factories and taking orders from customers, mainly in the U.S. The result has been the steady growth of chip design companies that never build their own factories. Mobile phone chip developer Qualcomm and graphics chip designer NvidiaÂ are two examples of companies that have been wildly successful, despite not owning their own factories. They farm out production to foundries such as TSMC and UMC.
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Paul Otellini, a 30-year Intel Corp. veteran who oversaw the launch of the Pentium processor in the 1990s, will replace chief executive Craig Barrett when he steps down to become chairman in May, the semiconductor giant's board of directors announced Thursday. -AP
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Intel's boss was raised on the inside. Now he must turn it inside out.
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Sprint Nextel Corp  on Tuesday named the head of Embarq Corp , its fixed-line spin-off, as its chief executive, hoping the telecom industry veteran can turn the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider around.
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London mayor to step in as company in charge of tube network upgrade heads for administration.
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German chip maker expects to continue to service current customers of Texas Instruments division.
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Chipmaker to focus on technology and features instead of megahertz.
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(InfoWorld) - The Via Technologies executive charged with running the company's chipset business has resigned, taking a team of engineers with him, according to a source familiar with the situation. Chewei Lin, the vice president and general manager of Via's platform group, resigned from Via to join ASMedia Technology, a subsidiary of Asustek Computer, the source said. ASMedia designs chips for consumer electronics like MP3 players and LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions. Lin's departure was first reported Friday by Taiwanese Web site DigiTimes, which also reported that 40 Via engineers left with him. The source could not immediately confirm the number of Via engineers that resigned with Lin, but said the figure reported by DigiTimes "sounds reasonably accurate." Via declined to comment on Lin's resignation. If the microprocessor is the brain of a computer, chipsets -- consisting of a memory controller hub, also called a Northbridge, and an I/O controller hub, known as a Southbridge -- are the central nervous system, connecting the processor with the computer's memory, hard disk and other components, such as the graphics card. Chipsets designed to work with processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices were once the mainstay of Via's business. But that changed in recent years as the company put more effort into expanding its own processor business. Chipsets remain an important source of revenue for Via, but company executives see low-power processors, and systems based on them, as the company's best hope for future growth. Most of the chipset development work done by Via is focused on Intel and AMD processors. These chipset designs are later tweaked and modified to work with Via's own line of processors.
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Intel&#39;s (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) board on Thursday confirmed what many predicted: Chief Operating Officer and President Paul Otellini, 54, will assume the mantle from Chief Executive Craig Barrett.
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The chip maker wants to pipe media to your home -- and within it.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 23--Christine King, chief executive officer of AMI Semiconductor in Pocatello, was elected to the IdaCorp Inc. and Idaho Power Co. board of directors Thursday. The appointment takes effect Nov. 1.
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Chipmaker exec describes upcoming launch of its first quad-core chip.
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By Tim Ruzek, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Sep. 22--Austin city officials are considering an eight-year franchise agreement with Charter Communications, the only cable company operating in Austin.
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In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA and other intelligence agencies, has hired an Intel Corp. manager with a background in cyber security as its new chief executive.