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Business, technology and wealth news: Motorola Creates Subsidiary For New Chip Motorola has created a new wholly owned subsidiary to focus on a breakthrough chip that combines low-cost silicon with state of the art optics.
Advanced Micro Devices amd rose on news that the chip manufacturer plans to build a 64-bit microprocessor that will compete directly with Intel's intc new chip.
Suppliers to the US group are benefiting from the news, with chip designer Arm up 21p at £10.52, rival Imagination Technologies 8p better at 250.5p and Laird 3.2p higher at 319.3p.
Broadcom is just one of many companies that are expected to make news regarding chips with more than one core.
Not so good news in chips, however, results at AMD disappointed investors as the company blamed lower earnings on aggressive pricing for semiconductors.
A judge's decision last week dismissing a Federal Trade Commission antitrust case against Rambus, a designer of computer memory chips, is proving to be bad news for memory chip makers on two fronts.
But Intel, which is closely watched as an indicator of the overall health of the technology industry, still managed to disappoint investors with news that average chip prices were lower than expected, leading it to miss its target for gross margin.
The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose last week, withstanding the vagaries of a week overshadowed by the Republican National Convention, an unsurprising but mostly positive employment report and surprisingly negative news from the chip maker, Intel.
The news sent the chip maker's shares up in extended trading Tuesday despite warnings of uncertain near-term demand.
