Mark Hachman

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new policy Monday to prevent proprietary extensions to wireless standards from breaking compatibility with other devices. The alliance said it would pull its logo—certifying interoperability with other Wi-Fi products—from devices whose extensions made them inoperable with other devices. The policy seems to be the Wi-Fi Alliances response to the “good […]

Intel Corp. has pushed back the release of its next-generation Centrino mobile platform, aka “Sonoma,” according to sources close to the company. The chip set was originally slated for shipment in the second half of the year, and most industry watchers expected its release earlier than later. The issue concerns the “Alviso” chip set, part […]

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. suffered the first mauling of grumpy bears worried about a slowdown that a semiconductor industry organization says is due to arrive next year. The Austin-based spinoff of Motorola Inc. cut the price of its IPO (initial public offering) to $13 a share, down from an estimate range of $17.50 to $19.50. The […]

Gateway Inc. is in the midst of paring down its consumer-electronics product lines, according to company officials, potentially leaving the bulk of its consumer-electronics business out in the cold. Following the companys merger with eMachines Inc. in March, Gateway said it would slim down its PC product lines. Now, the company is also “defining” its […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Wednesday reported flat revenues and slightly lower profits for the second quarter of 2004, a performance mirroring that of rival Intel Corp. AMD, of Sunnyvale, Calif., reported net income of $32 million on revenue of $1.26 billion. Net income slipped 28 percent from the previous quarter. Revenue increased 2 percent […]

A new DRM (digital rights management) scheme for next-generation content has won the backing of two major studios as well as some of the biggest names in technology. IBM, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matsushita Electric/Panasonic, Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. joined The Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros. Studios to back the “Advanced Access Content […]

Dragged down by lower microprocessor shipments and skyrocketing inventories, Intel on Tuesday reported flat revenue and earnings for the second quarter. Intel Corp., based in Santa Clara, Calif., reported a net income of $1.8 billion on revenue of $8.05 billion, slightly lower than the $8.1 billion in revenue that analysts expected. While the companys earnings […]

Major hardware makers have responded to Microsofts pleas to develop 64-bit drivers, building up the necessary infrastructure to support upcoming 64-bit operating systems. For enterprise customers, the necessary code may be in place; but the outlook for support by smaller vendors and for legacy devices is uncertain. A number of chip companies polled by eWEEK.com […]

Its official—Wi-Fi has reached commodity status. On Tuesday, Conexant Systems Inc. preannounced lower earnings for the current quarter, based on an influx of low-cost Wi-Fi chips produced by Taiwan manufacturers. Conexant executives said that the price of 802.11g components is now on the order of 802.11b chips in certain markets. Although the Wi-Fi market has […]

Its official – WiFi has reached commodity status. On Tuesday, Conexant Systems Inc. preannounced lower earnings for the cureent quarter, based on an influx of low-cost WiFi chips produced by Taiwan manufacturers. Conexant executives said that the price of 802.11g components is now on the order of 802.11b chips in certain markets. Although the WiFi […]