Synopsys acquires ArchPro Design Automation

Synopsys acquires ArchPro Design Automation
San Jose Business Journal - Synopsys focuses on electronic design automation software for semiconductor design. ArchPro is venture funded by firms that include Intel Capital, the investment unit of Santa Clara-based Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) and Santa Clara-based Entrepia

Software Notebook: Mac finally getting its games on
Seattle Post Intelligencer - EA's move can be traced largely to Apple's shift to Intel computer processors, which share a common architecture with those in Windows PCs. EA says it will rely on technology from TransGaming Inc. that converts Windows games to run on Intel-based Macs

Chandler is gaining on traditional upscale E.V. locales
East Valley Tribune - But as companies such as Motorola and Intel moved in, that gap began to shrink. By 1990, Chandler’s median income had increased to $37,855, less than $1,000 below Scottsdale’s $39,182. Today, census data estimates both cities at around $68,000.

IDC: Low-cost laptop no threat to PC
ZDNet UK - Chipmakers Intel and AMD, as well as software maker Microsoft, also have similar initiatives. Intel's Classmate PC is a sub-$400 notebook for school students in emerging nations, while AMD's Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) is aimed at providing

Intel drives Itanium road map toward 32 nanometers
ITnews - USA - The next-generation high-end Itanium microprocessor due out after 2008 is expected to be built on a 32-nanometer process and would include a new microarchitecture. Intel on Thursday unveiled the product road map for its high-end Itanium

Winners of the Intel-AMD War
Street.Com - What about the "shameless" charge Negroponte leveled at Intel? There have been charges in the blogosphere that Intel is price dumping to kill OLPC. According to Intel the Classmate will retail for "under $200". However, according to this blogger

Novell Readies 'Virtual Machine Driver Pack'
eWeek - network, bus, and block device drivers said to enable unmodified Windows and Linux guest operating systems to run on SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) 10 SP1 and Xen 3.0.4 with near-native performance in virtual environments on systems with Intel

Intel shares rise 4% following Goldman upgrade
Marketwatch - SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Intel Corp. shares climbed more than 4% Friday after a Goldman Sachs analyst raised his rating on the No. 1 chipmaker on the grounds that outsourcing moves by top rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. could actually end up