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The Problem With Those Rumors of an AMD Buyout

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 16, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Rumors are rumors, but the ones that emerged yesterday that chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is ripe for a buyout don’t take into consideration the numerous complications that stand in the way of such a deal getting done. AMD’s relationship with Intel is a big one.

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Abu Dhabi's Ambitions for Chip Manufacturing Hub

Yun-Hee Kim, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 16, 2010 at 8:03 am PT

Over the last three decades, players in the cutthroat semiconductor industry have watched chip production move from the U.S. and Japan to South Korea, and then to Singapore and Taiwan. They’ve also witnessed over the past few years production move slowly to low-cost places like China where even chip giant Intel took a big gamble and set up an advanced manufacturing base in Dalian. But now, oil-rich United Arab Emirates wants in on some of the action with its ambitious plan to build a chip manufacturing hub in the country by 2030. Could it succeed?

Liveblogging Google's Earnings Call: Où Est Eric?

Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2010 at 1:41 pm PT

BoomTown liveblogged Google’s earnings call. CFO Patrick Pichette, whose delightful French accent livened up what was a newsless event, led the call. It turned out that the biggest news was changes in how Google will present its earnings calls going forward: No more CEO Eric Schmidt! But a parade of Google execs was there to replace Schmidt, all of whom said as little as he used to.

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Google CEO Sees Conclusion to China Talks Soon

Jerry Dicolo, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 10, 2010 at 12:56 pm PT

Google Inc.’s chief executive said Wednesday he expects the company will soon reach a conclusion to negotiations with the Chinese government regarding the fate of its China business. “We are in active negotiations with the Chinese government,” Eric Schmidt told reporters at a media summit in Abu Dhabi. Google has decided not to publicize the status of the negotiations, he said, but “something will happen soon.”

Absolutely Fabless

John Paczkowski in News on October 7, 2008 at 7:11 am PT

If it’s true that “real men have fabs,” as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chairman W. J. “Jerry” Sanders III once said, then AMD is the semiconductor industry’s latest eunuch. This morning the chipmaker said it will spin off its manufacturing operations, splitting itself into two companies–one to design chips and one to make them.