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After three years of declining fortunes, Silicon Graphics is placing a big bet on introducing a line of workstations built around Intel chips and Microsoft software. The new machines are expected to be priced lower than Silicon Graphics' home-grown designs but offer similar performance advantages due to their inclusion
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The New York Stock Exchange experienced a historic rally on January 6, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing above the 9,500 level for the first time in history. The Dow Jones rose 233.78 points to close at 9,544.97, with heavy buying by fund managers and
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Microsoft has created Complete Commerce, a package of Web hosting, development, and technical support for electronic commerce sites, in an effort to capitalize on the growing demand for e-commerce solutions. The software giant has partnered with technology companies such as Intel, Compaq, and 10 commercial hosting services to offer a
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Intel Corporation has featured Torrent Systems' Orchestrate in a demonstration of high-performance Business Intelligence on Intel Architecture at Oracle OpenWorld Japan. The demonstration showcased the capabilities of the Orchestrate-enabled data warehousing application on an Intel Pentium(R) II Xeon(tm) processor-based four-way server running a Red Hat version of
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A significant public-private partnership has been forged between Intel Corp., Sandia National Laboratories, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to develop a radiation-hardened version of Intel's Pentium series computer chip. This collaborative effort aims to
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Avant!, a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software, has announced the availability of its high-performance Verilog simulator, Polaris, on Red Hat's Linux operating system running on Intel-based servers. This move makes Avant! the only major EDA vendor to provide the highest performance Verilog simulator on Intel-based
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Compaq Computer Corporation has made its leading DECss7 telecommunications server platform available worldwide, running on Microsoft Windows NT Server on any Intel-based computer. This platform is designed to be fully distributed across multiple computers and offers scalability, high availability, and high performance to telecom equipment manufacturers and software developers. DECss7
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Intel Corp. is partnering with Internet Cable Corporation to showcase the potential of high-speed cable Internet connections in the Wild Dunes suburb of Charleston, South Carolina. The partnership will demonstrate Intel's Intel(R) Video Phone technology, which enables full-motion, real-time video and audio communication over cable modems. This
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Sony's VAIO Digital Studio computers have begun shipping with Aureal Semiconductor's Vortex AU8820 chip, which includes A3D audio technology. This technology allows users to experience fully immersive audio in a 360-degree space using headphones or two or more speakers. The new VAIO series, including the E302
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Actel Corporation, Synplicity, Inc., and VeriBest, Inc. have joined forces to develop an integrated tool environment for Programmable Logic Device (PLD) design. The suite of tools, based on VHDL and Verilog standards, is being developed for the PC environment and is expected to be released in Q1 1999. The tools
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced the development of a new SPECCTRAQuest design methodology optimized for Intel's future Merced processor, the first implementation of the IA-64 architecture. This methodology will reduce the time required to design high-speed processor-based systems by providing the ability to rapidly architect, explore, design,
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The Government's antitrust trial against Microsoft entered its fourth week, with lawyers for the software giant attempting to discredit an Intel executive who has emerged as a crucial witness. Steven McGeady, an Intel vice president, testified this week that Microsoft executives, including William H. Gates, had threatened Intel&
