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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11 - Intel, the world's largest computer chip maker, reported strong demand for its products on Tuesday, a day after a main Silicon Valley rival, Advanced Micro Devices, warned that it expected to report lower profits because of a price war with Intel in the flash memory market. Intel said that its revenue was up nearly 10 percent in the fourth quarter, to $9.6 billion, while its profit dipped slightly, to $2.1 billion, or 33 cents a share, compared with $2.2 billion, also 33 cents, in the quarter a year earlier. At the same time, it gave...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microchip maker Intel Corp. on Tuesday reported its highest-ever quarterly revenue and boosted its budget for factory and manufacturing investments by more than $1 billion as profits exceeded Wall Street expectations. The bellwether report, the first earnings release of the year from a major U.S. technology company, boosted Intel's stock by 3 percent and lifted shares of semiconductor equipment manufacturers, for which Intel is a top customer. Earnings in the fourth quarter that ended Dec. 25 fell to $2.12 billion, or 33 cents a share, compared to a year-earlier profit of $2.17 billion, or 33 cents...

NEW YORK - The Central Intelligence Agency is hiring medical spies. Hidden in the back pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association is an agency advertisement seeking physicians who might want to become "medical analysts" and use their training to "assess the physical health of foreign leaders and terrorists."

CHANDLER, Ariz. (Reuters) - From a wind-swept industrial site in the Sonoran Desert, Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , appears to be gearing up for battle. Construction crews hammer away at an unprecedented $2 billion upgrade to one of Intel's two Arizona factories, preparing the world's largest chip maker to safeguard its lead in manufacturing from resurgent rivals and to put recent costly missteps behind it. The stakes are high: If Intel can pull off its complex renovation of the 8-year-old Fab 12 plant, it could pioneer a much cheaper alternative to building chip fabrication facilities from scratch. For...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - For decades, computer performance has been driven largely by the increasing numbers of ever-smaller transistors squeezed into the machines' silicon brains. With each generation, speeds jumped and prices dropped. hough the tiny switches built in silicon are the heart of the digital revolution, they can't shrink forever. And in recent years, chip companies have struggled to keep a lid on power and heat — the result of some transistor components getting as thin as a few atoms across. Now, the world's leading semiconductor companies have unveiled a remarkably similar strategy for working around the problem: In...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. have ended their partnership to co-develop the Itanium 64-bit processor line, according to a report from Reuters on Wednesday (Dec. 15). The move follows disappointing sales for servers based on the processor, according to the report. Intel and HP developed the processor about 10 years, but the chip has been a flop due to delays, cost overruns and lackluster demand. Under the terms with Intel, HP's Itanium development team, which includes several hundred engineers, will be acquired by Intel and remain in Ft. Collins, Colo., according to the report. "HP will...

President Bush (news - web sites) on Friday signed into law the largest overhaul of U.S. intelligence gathering in 50 years, hoping to improve the spy network that failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks. "Our vast intelligence enterprise will become more unified, coordinated and effective," Bush said. "It will enable us to better do our duty, which is to protect the American people." The 563-page bill, which endured a thorny path to congressional passage, also aims to tighten borders and aviation security. It creates a federal counterterrorism center and a new intelligence director, but Bush did not announce a...

A new director of national intelligence and a counterterrorism center are the central elements of the intelligence bill President Bush (news - web sites) will sign Friday. But the measure includes provisions intended to shore up security at airports, seaports and borders; halt terrorist financing and travel; help law enforcement officials; protect civil liberties; and promote U.S. values overseas. A look at key elements of the bill: Border security. Aiming to strengthen security along the nation's notoriously porous borders, Congress authorized the Homeland Security Department to hire 2,000 more border agents and 800 more Customs and immigration agents each year...

President Bush (news - web sites) is searching not only for a new director of national intelligence to become his chief adviser on intelligence but also for three other senior officials who will work atop the new organization created by the intelligence reform act he is scheduled to sign into law tomorrow. Along with the job of the intelligence director, or DNI, there is to be a principal deputy DNI, a director of a new national counterterrorism center, and a general counsel to the DNI, all of whom must be presidential appointees subject to Senate confirmation. In addition, the new...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Intel Corp. has reached an agreement to hire hundreds of Hewlett-Packard Co. engineers who helped design the Itanium microprocessor, a massive joint project between the two technology companies since the early 1990s. As a result, all Itanium processor design work will now be done entirely within Intel, though HP on Wednesday announced it plans to invest more than $3 billion over the next three years to continue its commitment to the chip. The HP team, which is based in Fort Collins, Colo., will not have to relocate, said Intel spokesman Robert Manetta. Other terms of...

Here is what I think, please feel free to respond and please keep it civil... The Intel reform bill, as a see it, is a bomb in the making. It adds a layer (or two) to the Intel process. Just what we need, more bureacracy!!! This entire bill should have just focused on INTEL REFORM. I know that there are provisions in this bill for USBP agents and that there were more stringent illegal immigration measures in this bill, but I am glad they were taken out. Why am I glad? Both issues need addressed separately. Both are grave concerns...

We love the sound of breaking, [Eva] Glass Ron Curry was formerly on the Intel Itanium team and said that he'd talked to software ISVs about the Itanium shortly after the firm announced its plans for the chip. He said a far more interesting thing too. According to Curry, Intel's "competitor" - that's AMD of course, took advantage of the work it had done. He said that the competitor announced its move into the 64-32 arena largely based on the work Intel had done.

International Business Machines, whose first I.B.M. PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said yesterday. While I.B.M. long ago ceded the lead in the personal computer market to Dell and Hewlett-Packard so it could focus instead on the more lucrative corporate server and computer services business, a sale would nonetheless bring the end of an era in an industry that it helped invent. The sale, likely to be in the $1 billion to $2 billion range, is...

One sign that Intel is having trouble dancing to technology's current beat may be the world's most expensive disco ball.For a company holiday party next month, a handful of engineers assembled a disco ball - with hundreds of small reflective devices - to hang above the dance floor. The mirrors are leftover projection-television chips from Intel's planned effort to enter the digital television market - an effort the company recently abandoned only 10 months after a splashy introduction at the Consumer Electronics Show last January. The TV effort became yet another in a series of embarrassing stumbles for Intel. The...

In the beginning Intel created the 4004 and the 8008. And these processors were without enough memory and throughput. And Intel said "Let there be an 8080," and there was an 8080 and Intel saw that it was good. And Intel separated the 8008 market from the 8080 market. And Intel said, "Let there be an 8085 with an oscillator on the same chip as the processor, and let an on-chip system controller separate the data from the control lines." And Intel made a firmament and divided the added instructions which were under the firmament from the added instructions which...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans on Saturday blocked passage of legislation addressing the Sept. 11 Commission's terror-fighting recommendations to President Bush, but GOP leaders said they would press the effort later this year. However, the failure to get an agreement in Congress' postelection session most likely means the legislation will die for the year. "It's hard to reform. It's hard to make changes," Speaker Dennis Hastert said as House members left town after a rare weekend session.

A new director was named Tuesday for Canada's spy service, which has been without a permanent head since Ward Elcock ended his 10-year term in the spring. Prime Minister Paul Martin said Tuesday that the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service will be headed by Jim Judd, who has formerly served as the highest-ranking bureaucrat with the Department of National Defence. Coincidentally, Mr. Elcock was named in August to the defence post Mr. Judd once held. "Jim Judd brings proven and sound leadership to his new position," Mr. Martin said in a statement. "His unique combination of foreign and defence policy...

Do any of you remember the "accidental" meeting/contacts between Kerry people and Iranians, and recently S. Korean intel agents? This would explain the radical, illogical answers tonight.

New York, September 21: President Pervez Musharraf has said he would not allow American investigators to question Pakistan's disgraced scientist A.Q. Khan who provided nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. Musharraf in an interview to The New York Times said he had succeeded in breaking up Khan's network but was not certain if the full extent of the scientist's activities had been discovered. "I'm 200 per cent sure that it has been shut down," the General said of Khan's network. "But if you say whether I am sure over what he's provided in the past, no sir, I'm...

US President George W. Bush (right) with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 22 September 2004 1307 hrs Singh-Musharraf summit could speed up South Asian peace process NEW DELHI : The first summit between India's new prime minister and Pakistan's president could give an impetus to the nations' slow-moving peace process but a solution on Kashmir remains distant, analysts say. Manmohan Singh, who became prime minister in May after his left-leaning coalition's shock election victory, is to meet President Pervez Musharraf Friday on the sidelines of the United Nations General...