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Intel's profit surged to $1.73 billion, or 26 cents a share in the first quarter, including a $162 million charge related to the settlement of a patent dispute. A year earlier, the profit was $915 million, or 14 cents a share. The company also said it expected second-quarter gross profit margin, a measure of the profitability of each sale, of 60 percent, plus or minus a few points.

LONDON [MENL] -- Iranian intelligence has been operating at least 18 covert centers in Iraq as well as targeting Shi'ites deemed as aligned with the United States in a nearly $1 billion effort to prevent the spread of democracy in that Arab country. A former Iranian official in Teheran's intelligence community publicly disclosed the first details on Iran's intelligence presence in Iraq. The defector said Iran has bolstered its intelligence presence throughout Iraq where Teheran has sought to exacerbate ethnic tensions and encourage a nationwide revolt against the United States. The centers have been located in Baghdad, Basra, Karbala, Najaf,...

Chinese government policies that favor Chinese companies over foreign firms are driving some U.S. tech companies from the booming market. This month, chipmakers Intel and Broadcom said they'll stop selling wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, chips in China. A new law requires that the chips include a security technology licensed by Chinese companies. The technology can hurt chips' performance and compatibility with other devices, says Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. And implementing it requires U.S. chipmakers to share valuable intellectual property with Chinese companies, says Semiconductor Industry Association President George Scalise. The Wi-Fi dispute is one of several being waged between the...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Taking a page from automobile marketers, Intel Corp. will now assign model numbers to its chips and eliminate measurements of raw speed from its product names, the world's largest chip maker said on Friday. The move marks a break from decades of chip marketing strategy, and comes at a time when Intel is trying to pack into its chips more features, such as security and multi-tasking, that fall outside what has long been the primary measurement of raw speed -- the number of megahertz or gigahertz. The shift, one analyst said, will better position Intel's...

U.S. Spurns China's Tax on Chips By Michael Singer U.S. Trade officials filed a case at the World Trade Organization Thursday asking that China drop its 17 percent value-added tax (VAT) on imported semiconductors and integrated circuits. While not a legal lawsuit, the complaint suggests that the preferential tax treatment to chips produced in China is harming the U.S. and other imports. In a statement, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Zoellick said the U.S. believes that the discriminatory tax policy is inconsistent with the national treatment obligations that China assumed when it joined the WTO in December 2001. The USTR...

Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) said it may stop selling certain chips in China by June because of a Chinese government rule regarding wireless technology, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reported. The new rule sets a June 1 deadline for wireless-data products to use a unique security standard developed by Beijing. Intel said it doesn't expect to comply by that date because of concerns over how computers with its chips would perform using the standard, among other factors. As a result, the world's largest maker of microprocessors expects to stop selling -- at least temporarily -- communication chips for laptops in...

Intel Corp. said it could be forced to stop selling some computer chips in China this summer because it can't meet a deadline for compliance with a new Chinese government rule. Intel's announcement was the first concrete indication that trade in key products could be hurt by the Chinese rule, which requires that personal computers, mobile phones and other wireless-data products sold in China must use a unique security standard developed by Beijing, starting June 1. It raised the temperature further in the simmering trade dispute between China and high-tech manufacturers from the U.S. and elsewhere over the controversial rule....

In the vernacular of espionage, he was a "spook," a World War II shadow soldier whose field of operations knew neither front lines nor rear. Art Jibilian was attending Navy radio operators school in 1943, when he was first approached by a recruiter for the Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA. The man told Jibilian of his likely assignments, "Sometimes we will drop you by parachute. Sometimes you will go by submarine. You will have a 50-50 chance of making it back." "He didn't pull any punches," Jibilian recalls today. "He told me the OSS needed radio operators...

Large computer makers and Asia are growing in importance to Intel's business, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Intel also disclosed that the Internal Revenue Service is examining its 2001 and 2002 tax returns. The chipmaker is audited this way every two years, according to an Intel representative. It is already in dispute with the IRS over tax credits taken for 1999 and 2000 that could cost it $600 million. In the annual 10K filing, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company reported that approximately 42 percent of its total revenue of $30.1 billion last year came from...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The old geek's joke about the microchip so warm it can iron your pants or fry an egg could soon be an understatement, according to Intel, the world's largest chip maker. If unchecked, the increasing power requirements of computer chips could boost heat generation to absurdly high levels, said Patrick Gelsinger, Intel Corp. chief technology officer and the chip maker's research visionary. By mid-decade, that Pentium PC may need the power of a nuclear reactor. By the end of the decade, you might as well be feeling a rocket nozzle than touching a chip. And...

Intel Developer Forum We’d like to welcome Doctor Transformation By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 17 February 2004, 18:13 CRAIG BARRETT kicked off the Intel Development Forum by saying the economy had started to pick up. But once he'd got that stuff out of the way, he confirmed that Nocona, its next generation of Xeons, will have 64-bit address extensions which he described as the worst kept secret in San Francisco. Right. Steve Ballmer said in a video that Microsoft was very excited by the introduction of 64 bit extensions. People would continue to run their existing applications in 32-bit. This adds...

WASHINGTON - In a sign of how Republicans may try to quell criticism of prewar intelligence in Iraq (news - web sites), the head of the House Intelligence Committee tried Wednesday to direct blame to the Clinton administration.

GOP Blames Clinton for Iraq Intel Lapse 1 hour, 9 minutes ago WASHINGTON - In a sign of how Republicans may try to quell criticism of prewar intelligence in Iraq, the head of the House Intelligence Committee tried Wednesday to direct blame to the Clinton administration. Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Fla., said he heard a 1998 speech in which then-President Clinton warned that something must be done about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. "Unfortunately, he did not complete that task before his term expired," Goss said at a Capitol Hill press conference. Goss said the...

February 11, 2004 Intel Says Chip Speed Breakthrough Will Alter CyberworldBy JOHN MARKOFF AN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11 — Intel scientists say that they have made silicon chips that can switch light like electricity, blurring the line between computing and communications and presenting a vision of the digital future that will allow computers themselves to span cities or even the entire globe.The invention demonstrates for the first time, Intel researchers said, that ultrahigh-speed fiberoptic equipment can be produced at personal computer industry prices. As the costs of communicating between computers and chips falls, the barrier to building fundamentally new kinds of...

<p>NEW YORK — Secretary of State Colin L. Powell returned to the United Nations yesterday, a year and a day after his Security Council presentation on Iraq's suspected weapons — this time with an unrepentant defense of the intelligence that prompted the United States to oust Saddam Hussein.</p>

Culturecom Takes on Wintel with V-Dragon By Doug Young HONG KONG (Reuters) - Watch out, Wintel -- a new "Draglin" is coming to China. Hong Kong's Culturecom Holdings Ltd. has combined its Chinese-friendly V-Dragon central processing unit (CPU) with the open-source Linux operating system. The plan is to take on the dominant "Wintel" combination of PCs that run on Microsoft Corp's Windows software using Intel Corp CPUs. In its drive to take on Wintel, Culturecom has found powerful allies in IBM Corp, which is making and supporting the new chips, and the Chinese government, which is promoting Linux...

Prescott Arrives : Intel debuts their new Prescott core today by launching 4 new CPUs while also scaling legacy architectures. We benchmark them all. Introduction Intel has been promising their new core for a while now and on this Super Bowl Sunday they finally deliver. Intel teases us with four new Prescott cores, a newly clocked Gallatin core, and the final chapter of the Northwood core. We put the 3.2GHz CPUs head to head to head and of course throw in Athlon64s and an AthlonFX-51 in order to find out who is king of the silicon. Officially, Prescotts in 2.8GHz,...

<p>Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday will announce that it earned a record-breaking $2.5 billion Linux-based revenue in fiscal 2003, with its Linux services and solutions business posting a 40 percent rise over fiscal 2002.</p> <p>While the revenue was derived from the sale of Linux-related products and services, the Palo Alto, Calif., company did not specify exactly what was included and counted as Linux-based revenue.</p>

SAN JOSE (AP) -- Intel Corp. posted better-than-expected profits and record revenue in the fourth quarter, a period marked by robust global demand for the company's computer chips in laptop, desktop and business machines. The results offered strong vindication of Intel's decision to continue spending on research and equipment during the darkest months of the technology downturn. However, Intel's stock slid 3 percent after the report. "We ended the year on a high note as ongoing strength in emerging markets coupled with improving demand in established markets drove revenue to record levels," said Craig R. Barrett, Intel's chief executive....

'Intel inside' comes to flat panel TVs 14:05 09 January 04 NewScientist.com news service Computer chip giant Intel is to enter the consumer electronics market for the first time with a chip specifically designed to power cheaper, better flat-panel TV displays. Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini told the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday that his company’s new liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) chips would yield displays priced below $2000 and provide crisper images than rival technologies. These include the digital light processors (DLP) pioneered by Texas Instruments - those displays sell for between $3000 and $6000. Philips, Sony, Mitsubishi and Toshiba...