After delays, Intel points to chip-making advance
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Intel is on track to introduce the world&#39;s most advanced chip production technology in its products next year, the largest semiconductor maker said Sunday.
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AMD has delayed general availability of some key products until early next year, when it projects the chips, along with other new processors, will return it to profitability.The biggest hit went to its quad-core microprocessor, code-named Barcelona, which it needs to compete against Intel among server vendors. The chips, along with AMD&#39;s desktop platform, Phenom, won&#39;t be generally available to customers until the first quarter of next year. The products were supposed to ship in volume by the end of this year, but&#160;a technical design error in the chips caused AMD to slow the schedule so it could apply a fix, said Dirk Meyer, the company&#39;s president and COO in a meeting with analysts on Thursday.The company&#39;s Puma platform, a set of chips aimed at laptop PCs, will also be delayed until the second quarter of next year, a costly miss considering the fact that the laptop PC market is growing at around 30 percent per year.AMD also reduced its planned spending on new production lines to $1.1 billion from a previous estimate of $1.7 billion and said all its business divisions wouldn&#39;t return to profitability until next year.The statements caused AMD&#39;s stock to fall as much as 5 percent during early trading on the New York Stock Exchange, before rebounding to down just 1.8 percent, at $8.81 in the afternoon. The market was still open as of this writing.AMD executives apologized for missteps, such as the delay in Barcelona.&quot;We blew it, we&#39;re very humbled by it, we learned from it, and we&#39;re not going to do it again,&quot; said Hector Ruiz, chairman and CEO of AMD. He said AMD would go back to its habit of under-promising and over-delivering.To start, the company will be on a path to break even financially by the second quarter of next year and return to profitability by the end of the third quarter, he said. The financial performance will be boosted by the launch of several new products in graphics, chipsets, digital TV processors, and more, not including the delayed products.The company forecast its processor shipments will rise at least 15 percent next year, while graphics processor shipment growth will be greater than 6 percent, digital TV processors more than 13 percent, and handheld chips up 8 percent.AMD&#39;s gross margin will rise to between 46 percent and 50 percent next year, up from 37 percent during the past four quarters, said Bob Rivet, chief financial officer of AMD.&quot;We&#8217;re in a massive product refresh. In 2007, we were living on some old stuff. 2008 is all new stuff, and we believe it will yield goodness,&quot; he said.
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The quad-core server chip won't appear until later this year, but AMD's trying to show potential customers the chips are up and running.
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As Intel pursues a new path with improved multi-core chips, AMD says itâs already one step ahead. Intel told the world this week that there is no race to market the next generation of microchips.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Advanced Micro Devices Inc  has delayed shipments of a key, high-end microprocessor until the first quarter of next year and does not expect to break even until the second quarter, the chipmaker said on Thursday.
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Intel Corp., the giant chipmaker, which has been plagued by product delays and cancellations this year, raised its fourth-quarter revenue forecast on Thursday well above Wall Street expectations.
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Chip maker likely is making way for new products.
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Company denies the chip has been delayed, but many had expected it sooner.
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Chipmaker to focus on technology and features instead of megahertz.
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The upstart chipmaker is still on the right path.
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Intel on Tuesday released third-quarter financial results showing that it continues to struggle to sell a substantial stockpile of computer chips as demand for personal computers remains slow.
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Intel-rivaling chipmaker does not immediately explain why its first-quarter sales will fall short of its previous estimates.
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Intel Corp. updated its 2005 product plans at its analyst meeting in New York Tuesday, including a timetable for its so-called &quot;Ts,&quot; the processor technologies that are beginning to take precedence over clock-speed increases.
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Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are revving up for what they see as the next big step in the evolution of x86 processorsâthe introduction of dual processing cores.
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Intel plans to use novel materials and manufacturing processes to develop smaller and faster computer chips once current technologies no longer do the trick.
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By MATTHEW FORDAHL    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Contradicting fears that the semiconductor industry's pace of development is slowing, Intel Corp...
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INTEL, the worldâs largest company making computer microchips, said it expected a much better performance in the first half of next year.