Intel's Cutback About to Hit Home
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By Alex Pulaski, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Sep. 5--The most significant corporate shake-up in two decades for  Oregon's largest private employer is expected to begin taking shape today.
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Technology stocks sank Friday after Intel Corp., the world&#39;s largest chipmaker, disappointed investors by slashing its revenue forecast.
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Intel Corp. lowered its revenue projections for its third quarter yesterday, citing slow consumer purchases across the globe. The world&#39;s largest chipmaker reported that it expects revenue for the three-month period ending Sept.
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It's good news for users: as CPU and memory chip sales fall, so will prices--to vendors' dismay.
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Intel has slashed prices across the board as it prepares to get behind new processor lines due this autumn. The Itanium server line has seen cuts of over 30 per cent, while prices for Intel&#39;s fastest business
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Intel, the world's leading computer chip maker, slashes its revenue forecasts, triggering a decline in global chip stocks.
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By Review, Idaho Business  Intel announced September 5 that it plans to lay off approximately 10,500 employees by the middle of 2007, reducing its workforce to 92,000.  Local microchip manufacturer Micron has a joint operating venture with Intel to produce flash memory.
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With Christmas just 11 days away, you have to wonder what Hector Ruiz is going to find under his tree. It&#8217;s been a terrible year for Advanced Micro Devices, and the chipmaker&#8217;s analysts conference on Thursday did nothing to spread holiday cheer.Confirming what many in the chip world had suspected for some time, CEO Ruiz and other AMD execs fessed up that bugs in its new quad-core Barcelona server and Phenom desktop chips will&#160;delay these key next-generation technologies.The technical problems will delay general availability of the fastest version of the chips for three or four months. Customers willing to settle for slower clock speeds will be able to get the processors sooner; for example, AMD will ship a 2 gigahertz version of the Barcelona first, instead of the expected 2.5 gigahertz speed. In either case, the chips will be close to a year late; the original target date was the first quarter of 2007.AMD STUMBLES AS INTEL SPEEDS AHEADThe problem couldn&#8217;t come at a worse time. AMD has struggled all year to close the performance gap between its high-end chips and Intel&#8217;s. Barcelona, the company had promised, would restore its technical supremacy. Indeed some analysts said they had expected the quad-core server chip to do just that. &#8220;At 2.5 gigahertz it would have beaten any Intel products,&#8221; said analyst Nathan Brookwood of Insight64. &#8220;But at 2 gigahertz, it&#8217;s bringing up the rear,&#8221; he said.Intel, meanwhile, has corrected many of the problems that dogged it earlier in the decade. &#8220;AMD isn&#8217;t competing against the Intel of two years ago,&#8221; said Dean McCarron of Mercury Research. Intel has had quad-core chips in the market for about a year. To be fair, its chips are based on a somewhat simpler design; Intel gets to four cores by packaging two dual-core chips together. By contrast, AMD&#8217;s design integrates four cores on one chip, a more efficient solution, said McCarron. Except that AMD&#8217;s approach reduces yields and thus raises manufacturing costs, he added.There was earlier speculation that Barcelona&#8217;s problems were related to the ATI graphics chipset, but the problem turns out to be deeper, at the chip level. AMD has said it is related to the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) in the processor&#39;s L3 cache.DOUBTS ABOUT A QUICK FIXIn the Thursday conference, analysts had expected discussion of the company&#8217;s &#8220;asset light strategy,&#8221; which will apparently entail outsourcing more manufacturing to foundries such as Chartered Semiconductor or TSMC. But they didn&#8217;t get it, and the lack of details made CEO Ruiz&#8217;s promise to return to profitability in 2008 less credible to Wall Street. AMD&#8217;s financial performance has been terrible, losing money for four straight quarters. Part of the reason: Intel and AMD have engaged in a bloody price war, a struggle that has been very tough on the smaller company&#8217;s profit margins. But the Barcelona and Phenom delays are serious self-inflicted wounds.AMD&#8217;s stock lost another few points yesterday and has now shed about 40% in the last two months and a bone-jarring 56% since the beginning of the year. At $8.84 a share, Thursday&#8217;s closing price, the stock is at its lowest ebb since the summer of 2003. Ironically, AMD has so far&#160;rewarded Ruiz with pay raises.
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SAN FRANCISCO: Intel upcoming mid-quarter report will be closely watched for signs of weak back-to-school computer sales, though recent market share gains in memory chips could help offset any softness in computer microprocessor demand.
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Intel Corp. INTC.O, the world's   biggest maker of microchips, is expected to announce major job   cuts on Tuesday as part of a plan to trim $1 billion in costs   and regain its competitive edge, analysts and media reports   said.
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[Technology India]: New York, Oct 19 : The world&#39;s leading computer chipmaker Intel has jumped off the chip speed roller coaster by yanking its four giga hertz (4 GHz) Pentium 4 processor off the drawing board.
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A fundamental change in the design of microprocessors is presenting software developers with a challenge &#151; and a huge financial opportunity.
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When it comes to chips, Intel believes in the old clichÃ© that you can&#39;t be too thin. The world&#39;s leading chipmaker is pushing the semiconductor manufacturing envelope by shrinking the size
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Shares of Intel fell sharply as the nation's largest semiconductor maker lowered its revenue and profit margin forecast.
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Intel Corp., the world's biggest   microchip maker, is set to announce sweeping job cuts later on   Tuesday, the Financial Times said, amid speculation that up to   10 percent of its staff could go.
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A strong demand for its computer chips brightens otherwise dismal year for the maker of semiconductors. By Laurie J. Flynn. SAN FRANCISCO -- Eking out a strong finish to end a disappointing year, Intel Corp
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The good news, analysts say, is that price cuts will keep the PC market afloat. The bad news is that revenue will decline.