Business
Texas Instruments released two pieces of bad news Thursday, announcing that it will cut 3,200 jobs and will take Fujitsu Ltd. to court after failing to reach a patent agreement.
July 19, 1991
* Fujitsu Business Communications Systems signed a 10-year, $17-million lease for 146,482 square feet of industrial space at 9400 Jeronimo Road in Irvine.
Oct. 24, 2000
Business: Tariffs will price Japan firms out of Cray’s specialized market. Panel decision rubs salt in trade wounds.
Sept. 27, 1997
Technology and the Internet
Officials of the leading computer software industry trade group, accusing International Business Machines of unfair trade practices, will discuss today whether to take up their complaints with U.S. and European governmental agencies.
Dec. 11, 1987
Some reporters had to strain to hear what Malcolm Baldrige, soft-spoken commerce secretary and cowboy of the Reagan Cabinet, had to say that frosty March morning over breakfast at the Sheraton Carlton Hotel.
Dec. 1, 1987
Asia: Nation’s electronic giants have had ‘dismal’ results. They face entrenched U.S. rivals.
Nov. 17, 1997
To some it was like selling Mount Vernon to the redcoats: Fairchild Semiconductor, a pioneer of America’s high-technology industries and the mother company of Silicon Valley, was being purchased by foreign rival Fujitsu of Japan.
Nov. 30, 1987
Continuing the digital version of the quest to find how many angels can fit on a pin, Seagate Technology Inc. today announces that it can now pack enough data on a normal floppy disk to play music continuously for more than 22 days.
July 19, 1999
Continuing the digital version of the quest to find how many angels can fit on a pin, Seagate Technology Inc. today will announce that it can pack enough data on a normal floppy disk to play music continuously for more than 22 days.
AT&T; claimed U.S. leadership Thursday in the race to produce the “megachip,” a computer memory chip four times more powerful than any now available, and announced that it has begun producing the semiconductors on a limited basis at a plant in Pennsylvania.
Sept. 6, 1985