AMD to invest $2.5 bln to expand Dresden factories
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Advanced Micro  Devices Inc. , the No. 2 maker of microchips for  personal computers, said on Monday it will spend an additional  &#36;2.5 billion to upgrade and expand its two factories in  Germany.
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The Chinese government gives Intel permission to spend $2.5 billion on a chip manufacturing plant on China's northeastern coast.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.  , expected to acquire graphics chip maker ATI  Technologies Inc.   for about $5.5 billion,  said on Sunday it would make a "significant corporate  announcement" on Monday.
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AMD has announced that its 65nm fabrication transition is now underway. AMD's goal is to fully convert its Dresden, Germany, fabrication facility to 100% 65nm by the middle of next year, with the first 65nm Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors due in the first quarter.
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American chipmaker Texas Instruments Philippines Inc. (TIPI) is spending as much as P16.95 billion or $300 million over the next two to three years to expand the production output of its
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Infineon Technologies AG, Europe&#39;s second-largest maker of semiconductors, plans to invest about $1 billion in a new factory in Malaysia to expand its automotive chip business and be closer to customers in the region.
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The Chinese government has given Intel permission to build a $2.5 billion chip-manufacturing plant in Dalian, on China's northeastern coast.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) may yet team up with another chip maker for the construction of a semiconductor fabrication plant (fab) to expand its manufacturing capacity for microprocessors, despite shelving similar plans in 2003, according to a senior company executive.
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The door maker will go private in a $2.5 billion deal.
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Indian conglomerate Bharti Enterprises is to spend up to $2.5bn to focus on expanding its retail business by 2015.
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Advanced Micro Devices on Monday introduced a high-end graphics card whose core will also be part of its next-generation Fusion processors.The ATI Radeon 3870 X2 graphics card combines two chips from its predecessor, ATI Radeon 3870, on one board, doubling its performance, said Patrick Moorhead, vice president of advanced marketing at AMD. The ATI Radeon 3870 had one chip on the card.The chips, manufactured using the 55-nanometer process, are more power efficient and deliver better performance than the previous graphics processors, Moorhead said.AMD will incorporate a graphics-processing core based on the X2 in its&#160;upcoming Fusion processor. Fusion will integrate a graphics processor and CPU on one chip, said John Taylor, an AMD spokesman.There are no overt tie-ins between Fusion and the X2, but the graphics-processing cores are expected to be similar, Taylor said.While X2 is designed for maximum graphics performance, the graphics-processing core will be adapted for notebook platforms and implemented in Fusion, Taylor said.AMD last week said the Fusion family&#39;s first processor, code-named Swift, will be based on the Phenom core and optimized for power management with the latest graphics and processing technology on a single chip. Notebooks with the Fusion processor are expected to be out in the second half of 2009.Targeted at PC users who want high-end graphics, the X2 graphics board supports Microsoft&#39;s DirectX 10.1 gaming platform, Taylor said.The graphics board plugs into a PCI Express slot and supports up to 1GB of memory. It includes DVI and DisplayLink ports to support external multimedia devices.The card will support CrossfireX technology by the end of this quarter, which will allow up to four graphics cards to work together to scale multimedia performance, AMD said in a news release.Priced at $449, the card is available worldwide.With high-end features and midrange pricing, AMD&#39;s Moorhead hopes the new graphics card will boost the company&#39;s product offerings and heat up competition with rival Nvidia.Pricing makes the X2 impressive, but even more significant is the card&#39;s improved performance while using just one slot, said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research. Users seeking a graphics performance boost usually end up buying two cards, which uses up two card slots.It&#39;s hard to predict whether the card will help AMD steal graphics market share from Nvidia, he said. &quot;It has the potential to do that if AMD is able to manufacture [X2] in volume,&quot; Peddie said.Nvidia held a 37.8 percent global market share in the third quarter of 2007, while AMD was in third place with 18.8 percent, according to numbers from Jon Peddie Research. Intel was in second place with 33.5 percent market share.
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Volkswagen is to invest $530m to build its first factory in India, the German Embassy in New Delhi says.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) has entered into sourcing and manufacturing technology agreements with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.
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E.ON, Germany's biggest power supplier, has said it planned to invest 25.3 billion euros (33 billion dollars) over the next three years, primarily in the construction and modernisation of power plants.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 26  â Intel, the chip maker, said on Monday that it would spend $1 billion to $1.5 billion to retool a factory in New Mexico to start making chips with advanced 45-nanometer-wide transistors in the second half of 2008.
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Air France-KLM could invest 6.5 billion euros (9.4 billion dollars) in Alitalia under a takeover plan which would see up to 2,000 jobs cut at the struggling Italian flag-carrier, a report said Friday.
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German maker of car parts and electrical household goods Robert Bosch said it would invest 10 billion rupees (217 million dollars) in India to take advantage of the country's fast-growing vehicle market.