Computer Hardware

Micron Technology Inc. will cut about 15 percent of its global workforce as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations, the company said Thursday. The bulk of the job losses will be in Boise, Idaho, where the semiconductor firm is...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ Micron Technology Inc. will cut about 15 percent of its global work force as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations, the company said Thursday. The bulk of the job losses will be in Boise, where the...

New applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week from a seven-year high, the Labor Department said Thursday, although claims remain at elevated levels that indicate recession. And new job cuts announced after the report was released...

It's as fast as 25,000 high-end laptops linked together. It has enough capacity to store 30 million novels. And someday, it might help keep you safe in severe weather. This is the Bluefire, an IBM supercomputer so powerful that scientists think it will...

What happened in Vegas Re "Simpson guilty on all counts," Oct. 4 Kudos to the Nevada judicial system. The entire O.J. Simpson trial took about three weeks to complete. The jury deliberated only one day. The judge was a no-nonsense jurist who kept the...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ Semiconductor sales totaled $22.7 billion in August, up 5.5 percent from a year ago and 2.4 percent from the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association said Thursday. The industry group said that sales for the year...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Oracle Corp. is selling computer hardware for the first time in its 31-year history, signaling an ambition to become more than a one-stop shop for business software. The expansion announced Wednesday by Chief Executive Larry...

SanDisk Corp., the world's largest maker of memory cards used in digital cameras, surged the most in eight years in New York trading after Samsung Electronics Co. made a $5.85 billion hostile bid for the company. Samsung offered $26 in cash for each...

Memory chip-maker Micron Technology Inc. is setting up for a big run—once chip prices recover, that is. Micron is in the midst of an industrywide downturn. With an oversupply of memory chips flooding the market, chip prices are down, and Micron...

As a pianist played "200 Candles," a roomful of Enoch Pratt Free Library fans toasted the bicentennial of the benefactor who gave away his millions, as he put it, "for all, rich and poor, without distinction of race or color." Known best today as the man...

Name: Dolores Silver Residence: West of Boynton Beach Birthplace: New York City Family: Two sons, Steven Silver, 50, of Greensboro, N.C., and Jay Silver, 45, of Cooper City Career: Retired from family hardware business Cause: The Museum of Lifestyle...

Looking for a way to combat chemical warfare, a local firm also may have found a powerful new antibiotic, thanks to a little help from its mentor friends in Chicago's biotech community. The biocatalyst developed by Oak Brook-based Lybradyn Inc. works...