I.B.M. to show a breakthrough in chip making

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International Business Machines Corp. will be announcing a major innovation in the manufacture of semiconductor devices. Using material from Dow Chemical Co., IBM has developed a process by which semiconductor chips can be manufactured smaller, yet perform about 30 percent faster than current computer chips. The material, known as a "low k-dielectric" plastic, has been around for some time and is an execellent insulator, yet is extremely difficult to handle. IBM has come up with methods of polishing and patterning the material, thus allowing chip designers to create smaller, more compact, faster semiconductors.

Chemicals & Allied Products, Chemical Manufacturing, CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS, Production management, Innovations, Product information, Semiconductor device, Electronic components, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Integrated circuit fabrication, Chemicals, Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Michigan), Thermal insulation, Materials, DOW, Insulating materials, Semiconductors

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Gateway and AOL bypass industry stalwarts on components

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Gateway Inc. and America Online Inc. are joining forces to produce a new Internet home appliance for sale beginning later in the year. Instead of an appliance with an Intel processor and Microsoft software, the companies will use a processor designed by Transmeta Corp. of Santa Clara, CA and the Linux operating system. The appliance is to be one of many in the 'post-PC' computer era in which PC's are displaced by Internet-friendly devices. Microsoft and Intel prefer to believe that the PC will remain at the center of the computing world for years to come.

Electronic computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Product development, On-Line Information Services, Computers & Auxiliary Equip, Videotex & Teletext, Telegraph & other communications, Computer industry, Online services, Internet services, America Online Inc., AOL, Contracts, Gateway Inc., GATE, Cooperative agreement for product development, Alliances and partnerships

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Responding to small rival, Intel sees mobile-chip edge; rebutting Transmeta, it says it'll stay No. 1

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At the 2000 Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, CA, Intel Inc. executives said they were not worried about Transmeta Corp.'s inroads on the mobile microprocessor market. Transmeta has said that its Intel-compatible chips give off less heat, consume less power and run just as fast as Intel's microprocessors. Transmeta's chips, for portable computers, run on software that allows the chip to change power allotment depending on the program in use.

Market share, Intel Corp., INTC, Company market share

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