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Portable MP3 player |
| Jan.3 |
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Network Assoc. names new CEO
| Jan.15 |
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Layoffs at 3Com |
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Intel acquires Xircom |
| Jan.16 |
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Intel beats expectations
| Jan.29 |
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Energy-saving microprocessors |
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| Feb.13 |
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Applied Materials beat expectations
| Feb.16 |
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Riverstone Networks: IPO |
| Feb.20 |
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Molester Sought in Kidnap Try |
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Intel Slashes Spending |
| Feb.26 |
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3Com Cutting Hundreds of Jobs |
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Intel to Buy VxTel for $550 Million |
| Feb.28 |
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Optical Networking Chips |
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3Com lowers revenue |
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| Mar.1 |
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CEO trades posts with president |
| Mar.2 |
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Students Try Homelessness |
| Mar.8 |
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Intel to cut 5,000 jobs
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Nat. Semicond. beats expectations |
| Mar.9 |
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Jury recommends death |
| Mar.16 |
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Fast processor for laptops |
| Mar.21 |
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3Com loss worse than expected
| Mar.23 |
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Greeks Being Phased Out University |
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3Com announces more job cuts |
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| Apr.4 |
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$20 Million Gift Business Wire has pledged money to create a learning center. It's largest gift to Santa Clara University in its history
| Apr.11 |
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Former FCC chairman to join board |
| Apr.12 |
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Feinstein meets high-tech CEOs |
| Apr.17 |
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Intel net income drop 80% Results beat analysts' expectations. Some of company businesses will feel the effects of the economic slowdown
| Apr.23 |
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Intel Launches Pentium 4 Chip Processor has 1.7 GHz. The price is $352 | |
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| May.7 |
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3Com cuts 3,000 jobs Company plans to cut 30% of its work force, to help return to profitability
| May.8 |
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Nat. Semiconductor cut 1,100 jobs
| May.9 |
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Exodus to cut 15% jobs |
| May.10 |
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Santa Clara cooling to A's ballpark |
| May.11 |
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Intel Science Fair
| May.13 |
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Officers Shoot Man With Knife |
| May.15 |
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Applied Materials misses expectations |
| May.21 |
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Processors for Workstations |
| May.24 |
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G. Moore steps down from board He will continue as chairman emeritus and director emeritus. Moore's Law still describes growth in the high-tech
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Covad shows $1.4 billion loss DSL provider lowered its results for previous quarters. Report was delayed
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Transmeta licenses from AMD |
| May.29 |
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Next-generation processor |
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| Jun.5 |
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Covad finds new CEO
| Jun.7 |
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Revenue within expectations |
| Jun.8 |
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3Com scraps modem lines |
| Jun.9 |
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World's Smallest, Fastest Transistor |
| Jun.12 |
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SONICblue cut jobs by 30%
| Jun.13 |
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Integrated Device to cut 900 jobs
| Jun.20 |
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Intel to Consider Cuts |
| Jun.21 |
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Exodus stock plunges |
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Shares of Transmeta fall 54% |
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Teachers vie for prized housing |
| Jun.26 |
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3Com loses $518 million Company failed to meet analysts' reduced expectations
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| Jul.2 |
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Fastest Chips Chips are running at 1.6 billion and 1.8 billion cycles per second. Company sees 2 gigahertz soon | |
| Jul.5 |
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Sexual assault |
| Jul.9 |
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Motorcycle slams into van. 2 dead
Van struck the concrete center divider on I-101. 5 minutes later, a motorcycle ran into the rear end of van
| Jul.17 |
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Intel beats expectations In the 3-month period it had a net profit of $196 million | |
| Jul.30 |
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Low-power processors for laptops |
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| Aug.2 |
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Covad CFO steps down |
| Aug.14 |
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Applied Materials beats expectations |
| Aug.21 |
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Intel discontinues Rex organizer line |
| Aug.22 |
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Intel to release fastest Pentium |
| Aug.23 |
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Santa Clara Won't Talk to A's |
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Exodus considers takeover |
| Aug.27 |
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Intel launches fastest Pentium Pentium 4 is to hit 2 gigahertz. Company cut prices on its 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 processors to $133 each
| Aug.28 |
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3.5 GHz processor |
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| Sep.4 |
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Hancock resigns from Exodus |
| Sep.5 |
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Second Fruit Fly Species |
| Sep.6 |
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Quarter revenue as expected 3d-quarter revenues are on track with forecasts. Revenue for the 3 months will be slightly below the midpoint of the range
| Sep.10 |
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New chipset for Pentium 4 |
| Sep.12 |
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SONICblue cut another 90 jobs |
| Sep.15 |
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Guilty for copying specs of chip Say Lye Ow pleads guilty copying computer files about the design and testing of Merced microprocessor
| Sep.17 |
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Rambus reached pact with Intel |
| Sep.19 |
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3Com below forecasts, cuts jobs |
| Sep.20 |
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Applied Materials cut work force by 2% |
| Sep.22 |
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Parents of victim calling for peace |
| Sep.25 |
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Intel names first CTO |
| Sep.26 |
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Exodus files for bankruptcy protection Exodus Communications said business will continue to operate. Company has obtained $200 million in debtor financing | |
| Sep.27 |
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Car-Based Devices |
| Sep.29 |
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83-year-old woman missing |
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| Oct.2 |
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Peribit Networks names CEO |
| Oct.7 |
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Tiny packaging for chips |
| Oct.11 |
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Bin Laden aide visited mosque in 1990s Ayman Al Zawahari used a fake name, and was soliciting funds for Afghan refugees | |
| Oct.13 |
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Cheerleading Competition |
| Oct.16 |
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Intel meet expectations 3rd-quarter profits fell 96%. Company doubts about consumer confidence during holiday season
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Transmeta CEO replaced Mark K. Allen, was replaced by Chairman Murray A. Goldman just 7 months after his appointment
| Oct.17 |
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$186.9 million loss |
| Oct.19 |
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Consumer electronics division to close
| Oct.24 |
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Orderly faces sexual battery charges
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University gets $15 million
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| Nov.4 |
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Moore invests $4.6B into philanthropy Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation focuses on higher education, environmental causes and medical and scientific research
| Nov.7 |
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Tentative deal to take BART south BART and Valley Transportation Authority announced a deal to take BART from Fremont to San Jose and Santa Clara
| Nov.9 |
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Intel sets up R&D lab near UC
| Nov.13 |
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Low-Power Pentium III for Servers
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Covad gets $150 million loan
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Electric-hybrid buses
| Nov.19 |
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Feds allege insider trading
| Nov.25 |
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Breakthrough in Transistor Design
| Nov.28 |
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Troubled 3Com won't renew name 3Com intends to take its name off the former Candlestick Park when deal with 49ers expires at the end of the season
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| Dec.6 |
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Revenue to beat forecasts Revenue for the 3 months will be between $6.7 billion and $6.9 billion
| Dec.9 |
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Moore pledges $261M to conservation
| Dec.11 |
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Sentenced for copying trade secrets
| Dec.12 |
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Applied Materials to cut 1,700 jobs Chip equipment maker will cut 10% of its work force, in response to the semiconductor industry slump
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Transmeta offers gloomy guidance
| Dec.13 |
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Covad to emerge from bankruptcy
| Dec.14 |
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Intel lost patent case
| Dec.16 |
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Palestinian has sued Macy's for firing
| Dec.18 |
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3Com beats expectations Network equipment maker's loss narrowed and businesses showed signs of improvement
| Dec.19 |
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Officer-involved shooting
| Dec.21 |
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Biotech companies patent settle suits