National semiconductor halts Cyrix PC chip production

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National Semiconductor Corp has discontinued its Cyrix personal computer chip operations on May 5, 1999, amid intense competition from rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The firm will instead concentrate on manufacturing chips for cable TV set-top boxes and other so-called information appliances, as company CEO Brian Halla implies that the investment needed to lead in that market is considerably lower than the investment required to compete with Intel in the PC-chip market. National Semiconductor, which will divest its stake in a PC chip-production facility in Maine and layoff 550 employees, miscalculated when it believed that Intel would not compete to launch chips into PCs priced under $1,000.

United States, Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Production data, Silicon Chips, National Semiconductor Corp.

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Corel bucks Microsoft trend

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Corel Corp of Canada will release a version of its popular WordPerfect processing software to run on computers based on the free Linux operating system. The company said that it expects Linux-based software to account for 50% of its revenues in five years. The company's WordPerfect software has been struggling against Microsoft's Word, which is the default standard on most PCs particulary those that run on Microsoft's Windows operating system.

Canada, Software Publishers, Product introduction, Word Processing Software Pkgs (Micro), Corel Corp., Word processing software

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