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Atherton, Calif. - Don Norman is worried. As a guru of the post-PC era, Norman consults widely and sits on the boards of eight companies, at least three of them […]

The PC is dead; a new era in computing has begun. That's not news. My predecessor in this job said as much two years ago in this same space. What's […]

It has become frighteningly easy to deliver death. We broadcast a speech, make a phone call, scramble a plane, push a button on a modern battleship and the deed is […]

Santa Clara, Calif. - Negotiations aimed at ending a dispute over the interconnect beyond PCI for future PC servers are at a standstill. Neither the Next-Generation I/O Forum, which is […]

The system-on-a-chip concept has been pulling the industry forward for at least three years. But according to the design-reuse report card that appears in our IP Trends report (after page […]

New York - The Corollary subsidiary of Intel Corp. gave its first public demonstration of its Profusion silicon here last week, a chip set for eight-way multiprocessing systems that is […]

After nearly 25 years of hard work that included a product flop, a failed alliance and plenty of grunt-level design engineering, Ken Kutaragi has become something of a celebrity in […]

Despite the hype of the Internet startups and their overvalued stock, the power of the Internet should not be underestimated. The Web has effectively ended the era of proprietary locks […]

Dallas - In a series of interviews around its annual financial- analysts' meeting here, Texas Instruments Inc. disclosed details of a new phase of its corporate strategy for being the […]

Next week the world's largest semiconductor company goes on trial. The Federal Trade Commission and the court of public opinion will be asked to determine whether Intel Corp. holds a […]

Palm Springs, Calif. - Peace is breaking out in the PC bus wars. Members of the Intel-led NGIO Forum and the competing Future I/O group backed by Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and […]

Palm Springs, Calif. - Intel Corp. sent the world of PC peripheral interfaces spinning last week when it announced it was working on a version of the Universal Serial Bus […]

This week, we celebrate the people who create the future. National Engineering Week provides an occasion to recognize those who shepherd the technology that increasingly forms the underpinnings of our […]

San Francisco - Toshiba Corp. will charge into high-end networking markets next month when it rolls out a family of 128-bit MIPS-based embedded controllers. The processors, aimed at high-end routers […]

Mark Feb. 1, 1999, down on your calendar as the day the world officially entered the post-PC era, the next watermark in the evolution of electronics. I didn't pick that […]

San Francisco - The merger of consumer electronics and broadband networking will drive semiconductor technology in the next decade, keynoters will tell the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) this week. […]

David Patterson and Jeff Hawkins illustrate a fundamental enigma underlying today's semiconductor industry. The two engineers work within 100 miles of each other on separate projects aimed at building the […]

India is sitting on an untapped gold mine. This nation of 1 billion people is rich in talented engineers, as EDA editor Richard Goering relates this week in the second […]

Concord, Mass. - Alpha Processor Inc., a subsidiary of Samsung, will roll out its first Alpha motherboards using core logic from Compaq Computer Corp. today in the first leg of […]

Just one week after patting Steve Jobs on the back for his accomplishments at Apple Computer, I find myself wanting to deliver a harder blow to a lower part of […]

It was a valuable object lesson to attend Macworld this month. Apple Computer is back, and the excitement among developers and devotees was palpable in the charged atmosphere of Steve […]

Research Triangle Park, N.C. - The freshly christened alliance of Compaq Computer, IBM and Hewlett-Packard was scrambling last week to hammer out the first technical details of its plan to […]

It's a sad day when technology giants act like bad-mannered schoolkids, but that's exactly what's happening with next-generation cellular phones. Big companies like Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Qualcomm ought to […]

San Francisco - Elbowing its way into the high-margin world of computer servers, Intel Corp. last week said it is designing multiple chip sets for eight-way multiprocessing systems, the first […]

Santa Clara, Calif. - A standoff over next-generation I/O schemes broke out into a full-fledged bus war last week as Intel Corp. and three of its largest customers squared off […]

As a gut-wrenching 1998 winds down, let's compare notes about what's on your plates for the new year. What do you see as the fundamental business or technology issues of […]

There's no doubt the much ballyhooed Telecommunications Act of 1996 is broken. But it's not clear that a petition to the Federal Communications Commission from major PC and local telephone […]

Santa Clara, Calif. - Intel Corp. will add new security and software functions to future chip sets, in a move that will boost the profile of its upcoming Katmai processors […]

We're in the I/O business here at EE Times: Every day, we sift through a boatload of hype and hidden agendas in the hope of telling true and fair stories. […]

Tom Engibous almost hit the nail on the head in his recent speech at the Semiconductor Industry Association's annual forecast dinner. The real challenge facing the chip industry, he said, […]

Hillsboro, Ore. - Citing concerns about Intel Corp.'s approach to open standards, three top PC server makers are refusing to endorse an Intel effort to define a next-generation computer I/O […]

I was just a kid when my dad stopped at a Holiday Inn somewhere in Canada on July 20, 1969 to get us in front of a TV to see […]

As I write this, I am on my way to Redmond, Wash., to hear about Microsoft's moves into wireless communications. That the company would make a high-profile push into a […]

Redmond, Wash. - A round of meetings on the contentious issue of an air-interface standard for third-generation (3G) cellular phones is raising hopes for a possible reconciliation between warring groups […]

San Diego - In the race to catch up with advances in microprocessors, the venerable PCI bus is shifting into high gear and getting lapped all within a week. On […]

Japan's best days are over. That was the provocative conclusion of Don Straszheim, president of the Milken Institute, at a recent Dataquest conference. But though Straszheim provided some compelling evidence, […]

San Diego - The semiconductor industry is slowly crawling back toward growth, according to an otherwise-gloomy forecast released last week by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics group. Semiconductor sales will […]

The irony was rich indeed when Intel Corp. announced it was making a $500 million investment in Micron Technology just days before the Department of Justice's antitrust trial against Microsoft […]

Call me a curmudgeon, but with misguided speculation about an electronics upturn running rampant, I'd like to inject a little reality into the discussion. Like many others, I've scoured the […]

We believe one of our jobs is to be a forum for the issues that are raised as standards are being hammered out. If you share that belief, we need […]

Some jobs are inherently risky. Choosing 40 forces that will shape the semiconductor industry is clearly one of them. Delivering to an audience of fact-oriented electronics engineers what is necessarily […]

At 40, the integrated circuit has come both to a point of maturity and a midlife crisis. No longer a fledgling snippet of silicon executing a single, simple function, today's […]

Creative tension. A senior Microsoft manager once used that euphemism to describe the relationship between his company and Intel. I think the context at the time was a debate over […]

The popular press and the American public have watched two courtroom dramas unfold this summer as if they were a new national pastime-Bill Clinton testifying about his alleged affair with […]

This has been the summer of love in the communications industry. One after another, giant telephone and cable carriers have merged to become even larger behemoths that control broader geographies […]

In our Profession section this week, Compaq's top technologist makes a reasonable argument that partnerships and industry standards drive today's computer business. I agree with his assessment, but I don't […]

We hear complaints almost daily about the glut of data that hits us from too many publications, Web sites and "push" e-mail announcements. The whines rise up like the sound […]

Santa Clara, Calif. - Intel Corp. will roll out its most powerful X86 chip to date here today, the Pentium II-class Xeon, boosting the PC architecture deeper into the territory […]

Like many baby boomers, I recall with mixed emotions grade-school classes in finding civil-defense shelters, understanding emergency-broadcast tests and being able to "duck and cover." Lessons in the looming threat […]

San Francisco -- Major PC, chip and cellular-phone makers this week will disclose a new short-range, wireless networking technology they plan to make widely available and build into their products […]