Intel opens chip plant in Ireland

Intel has opened its third large-scale 65nm manufacturing facility. Sited in Leixlip, Ireland, the plant will be Europe's first high-volume 65nm chip factory. Production at the $2 billion plant, FAB 24, will use 300mm wafers (the largest possible for more efficient chip production) to turn out multi-core microprocessors. ...more

And also today (22-October-2001)...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. MS recruits top developer Microsoft has recruited the C++ expert Stanley Lippman to its Visual C++.NET team. ...more

AMD Opteron to shadow Intel Xeon pricing

At the end of July, AMD re-jigged its pricing for the 64-bit Opteron server range to make way for a new release, the Model 246, which appeared earlier this week. From now on, however - according to reports on the Net - AMD will be explicitly shadowing the price charged for Intel's 32-bit server processor, the Xeon. Effectively, AMD is serving notice of higher charges for subsequent Opteron chips. ...more

Movie Studios steps up fight against file sharers

The US movie industry has stepped up its fight against the illegal copying and sharing of films with a second wave of lawsuits against file sharing network operators. The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA), which represents all the major studios, would not say how many suits it had filed against networks that use BitTorrent or eDonkey software. One such service - www. ...more

Dixons launches Internet phone service

The Dixons Group which revolutionised the ISP business with the launch of Freeserve in 1998, now hopes to play the same trick with the telephone business. The company is launching a 'Freetalk` all-in-one unit which is aimed at transforming the telephone business. Freetalk, which will be sold in DSG 1000 PC World, Dixon, Currey and Link stores throughout the UK is based on VoIP technology developed by 8x8 Inc, one of the US's leading suppliers. ...more