With a sales increase of 14.2 percent to $181.7 billion the global chip market celebrated its renaissance in the past year. In particular, a strong development in the second half for the upward trend was responsible. The positive trend to continue iSuppli also in the current year according to the IT market. The market researchers to write “If in 2001 and 2002 were the dark years for the semiconductor industry, the year of the...

After it became known that Intel would obviously revise the Prescott processor to help this new power, the response was great. But obviously, the world’s largest CPU manufacturer has changed the plans for the Xeon. So, also Intel’s server processor from next year with a raised front side bus 266 MHz (1066 MHz QDR) is to be the solvent customers. There are plans including the “Blackford” and “Greencreek”,...