Stories about: National Semiconductor

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    Billionaire SAS co-founder keeps on coding 19/09/2009 08:18:00

    John Sall doesn't have to work. As one of SAS Institute's four co-founders, the 60-year old has a net worth of $US3.1 billion, according to Forbes' estimate, ranking him the 196th richest person in the world (just ahead of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Ralph Lauren).
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    Silicon Valley sees its worst year since 2001 14/04/2009 07:37:00

    There's not much good news for this year's Silicon Valley 150, a tech-sector portfolio created and tracked by the San Jose Mercury News. Most of the companies on the list suffered stomach-churning losses as the economy tanked last year.
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    AMD sees no Geode chip replacement in sight 27/01/2009 11:44:00

    Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said it has no replacement planned for the aging Geode low-power chip, creating uncertainty for its use in products like future XO laptops made by One Laptop Per Child.
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    TI slashes profit forecast by two-thirds 09/12/2008 12:14:00

    Texas Instruments pulled down its profit forecast for the December quarter by as much as two-thirds on Monday, and it also cut its revenue expectations, saying the economic downturn is having a powerful impact on the market for its chips.
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    With Sun's job cuts, tech sector layoffs in '08 hit 140,000 17/11/2008 08:50:00

    The economic downturn that has resulted in tens of thousands of layoffs in the housing and financial services sectors is now bearing down on the tech industry. The job cuts announced by Sun Microsystems on Friday are only the latest in the growing toll.
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    AMD takes on Intel with its own low-power chip 21/07/2008 09:09:50

    Advanced Micro Devices is developing a low-power processor for mobile devices and sub-notebooks, the company confirmed Friday, quashing months of speculation that it had abandoned the project.
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    Apple's iPhone profit margin greater than 50 percent 04/07/2007 08:19:48

    Each 8GB iPhone sold by Apple puts US$333 more in the till than the device cost to build, a market research company said Tuesday after tearing apart the new phone.
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    Researchers suggest Microsoft losing money on Xbox 360 25/11/2005 08:19:32

    Despite promises from Microsoft executives that the retail price of the new Xbox 360 game console would cover production costs, product tear downs by two different market researchers suggest that the company is losing money on the machines.
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    Torvalds updates Linux kernel 22/06/2005 08:02:51

    Linus Torvalds has released version 2.6.12 of the Linux kernel, a major revision including support for Trusted Platform Modules (TPM), significant changes to many drivers and other changes.
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    IBM fits PCs with new hardware-based security chip 17/09/2004 07:13:24

    IBM has begun using new security hardware from National Semiconductor in its desktop PCs in an effort to fend off viruses and hackers.
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    Chip makers moving to reduce use of lead 08/04/2004 11:29:41

    Intel and National Semiconductor have announced plans to significantly reduce the amount of lead contained within their products, the companies said in separate press releases.
 
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