AMD starts work on new Dresden Fab for 300mm wafers

AMD has begun the construction of new manufacturing facilities in Dresden, Fab 36. The significance of this lies in the fact it will support the processing of 300mm wafers - and the larger the wafer the more chips that can be produced from them. Furthermore, the site - which will produce the next generation of AMD products - will use AMD's patented manufacturing system, Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM 3. ...more

ARM rolls out multiprocessor chip

ARM, the British designers of embedded RISC microprocessors, has unveiled its first configurable multiprocessor core. The MPCore, for embedded network devicers, can be configured to contain up to four processors. It supports up to four-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), four-way asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP), or any combination of the two. ...more

Gates rues his megawealth

Poor Bill Gates: the world's richest man has revealed that he wishes he was not. 'There's nothing good that comes out of that,' the Microsoft founder told a conference of online advertising executives near the company's Redmond, Washington HQ. Gates is worth an estimated $50bn, although he has made considerable efforts to give a lot away. ...more

Verisign sues ICANN over Site Finder dispute

US domain name registry Verisign is to sue the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) alleging that ICANN overstepped its authority when it threatened sanctions against Verisign over its controversial Site Finder service. The dispute was over a redirect put in place by Verisign which redirected non-assigned or mistyped .com and . ...more

UPDATED: BPI threatens UK music file sharers with court action

The UK record industry has warned music file sharers to stop or face court action. The BPI said that unauthorised swapping of music using peer-to-peer software such as Kazaa is illegal under the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. It will be contacting individuals it suspects of making large numbers of songs available, asking them to desist. ...more