In 1996, Intel had selected Rambus memory for its next-generation microprocessor.
For example, Intel's culture of intense focus on next-generation microprocessor design and on leading-edge semiconductor processes led it to the top of the highly competitive microprocessor market.
National Semiconductor-here's a company with semiconductor right in its name-is not going to make next-generation microprocessors anymore.
A large supercomputer to be built by Sandia National Laboratories and Cray Inc. will use next-generation microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the chip maker said yesterday.
Today, Indian engineers are designing aircraft engines, automotive components and manufacturing plants, next-generation microprocessors, telecom products and medical devices for Western companies.
In clusters of modern low-and high-rise office buildings set amid acres of lush greenery here, thousands of engineers are hard at work, writing software for the latest telephones, designing next-generation microprocessors and developing wireless broadband technology.
Since Intel launched its last major disruptive innovation (the i386 chip), in 1985, it has earned more than $200 billion in operating income, most of which has come from next-generation microprocessors.
This finding has relevance to the marketplace for new cameras, next-generation microprocessors and computers, and other high-valuation goods, which are unlikely to be as effectively sold in group-buying markets.
Without a large portfolio of patents to trade beforehand, semiconductor firms developing incrementally improved products (next-generation microprocessors and memory chips, for instance) would run into litigation and injunctions at every turn.Pursuing patents aggressively for cross-licensing agreements has little to do with encouraging innovation, though.
The addition in chip-making capacity at the plant, which is outside Albuquerque, N.M., will make Intel's next-generation microprocessors -- the brains of personal computers and servers -- and will include both its Pentium 32-bit class of chip as well as its forthcoming 64-bit chip.
Versum Materials makes the specialty chemicals and machines that semiconductors firms use to build next-generation microprocessors.
