WinChip maker IDT throws in the towel. winchip maker idt throws in the towel. Low-cost chip manufacturer IDT has withdrawn from the Intel-compatible processor business. Low-cost chip manufacturer IDT has withdrawn from the Intel-compatible processor business....

VIA to acquire IDT's Centaur. via to acquire idts centaur. VIA Technologies Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire certain assets of IDT Inc.'s Centaur design subsidiary, including its WinChip microprocessor technology. VIA will also absorb IDT's x86 microprocessor design team, located in Austin, Texas. IDT announced plans to exit the x86 microprocessor market on July 14. VIA and IDT have also entered into a patent cross-license agreement, allowing each company to utilize intellectual property covered by the other's patents....

Intel will pay IDT $20.5 million as part of the agreement....

IDT soups up SRAMs. idt soups up srams. Tailored for high-speed networking equipment operating at low voltages, IDT claims to have developed the industry's first 1-Mbit dual-port SRAM implemented on a single chip....

Programmable Eight Channel Voice CODECs from IDT. programmable eight channel voice codecs from idt. IDT is now pushing a new family of octal CODECs that are capable of processing eight individual analog voice channels. IDT is now pushing a new family of octal CODECs that are capable of processing eight individual analog voice channels. IDT's new voice CODEC bundle teams the octal device with two quad CODECs. IDT's octal voice CODECs are sampling now with production quantities available in late August 2001....

IDT Clocks in With New Chips. idt clocks in with new chips. IDT's new clock generator family is targeted at high-performance communications and networking applications and generates specific clock frequencies for applications that include Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel. IDT says the clock generators provide low jitter and permit multiplication of the base frequency input by 2, 3, 4, 4.25, 5, 6, 6.25 and 8 (overclocking)....

MIPS Technologies Licenses 32-Bit Chip to IDT. mips technologies licenses 32. MIPS just let us know today that it has licensed its 32-bit MIPS32 4Kc processor core to communications IC provider IDT. The 4Kc core will be used by IDT to develop high-performance, system-on-a-chip designs for the communications market. IDT will use the core to go after applications like line-powered office gateways/routers, Ethernet switching and storage area network systems. ...

Broadcom and IDT Team up with Reference Design for LAN Switch Market. broadcom and idt team up with reference design for lan switch market. Broadcom and IDT just told us about a production-ready local area network (LAN) switch reference design for managed Ethernet switches. Broadcom and IDT just told us about a production-ready local area network (LAN) switch reference design for managed Ethernet switches. The reference design uses the on-chip peripheral component interface (PCI) of the IDT RC32332 integrated processor with a connection to Broadcom's StrataSwitch II Ethernet switch fabric. Additional information about the RC32332 and other IDT products can be found on IDT's web site . ...