According to several analyst reports issued Friday, the heavyweight chipmaker closed 2001 on a high note, thanks to unexpectedly large demand for its chips. Analysts estimated the sales would have ...

AMD gained nearly four points of market share against its rival to end the year with just more than 20 percent of the PC processor market, despite losing two points sequentially from the third quarter ...

As we all know, 2001 was one of the worst years in the short history of semiconductors and PCs. The tough year led to a 7 percent unit decline in 32-bit nonembedded microprocessors. In one sense, this ...

In late 1993, executives and engineers at two of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, started secretly meeting in a nondescript HP conference room in Sunnyvale. The rules ...

(This article originally appeared in the Mercury News on May 28, 2001.) In late 1993, executives and engineers at two of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, started secretly ...