Late News (10 September)
- Northamber has been signed up to distribute Siemens Pyramid?s Primergy range of high-end servers. The agreement, which began on 8 September, forms part of Northamber?s advanced products portfolio.
- Dell CEO Michael Dell has sold $26 million of his own shares in the PC vendor. Morton Topfer, vice chairman and second in command, has also cashed in more than $12 million of shares.
- Sega Enterprises and Microsoft are negotiating the joint development of computer games that will run on a 128-bit machine based on the Microsoft Windows CE OS.
- World Com will buy Compuserve for $1.2 billion in stock from H&R Block, but then sell off Compuserve?s Interactive Services division to America Online.
- Silicon Graphics (SGI) has confirmed that it will launch a workstation line based on Microsoft and Intel technologies. SGI has said the NT-based box will not ship until the end of 1998 at the earliest.
- Merisel is no longer recommending that its stockholders should vote for its debt restructuring agreement with noteholders. Shareholders vote on the proposal on 18 September.
- Andy Clarke has left Digital to join Datech 2000?s client/server division as Digital business manager. Clarke was desktop product manager for the UK.
- Intel has unveiled its 233MHz and 200MHz mobile Pentium processors with MMX technology for notebook PCs. The vendor claims they are its fastest chips yet and are the first to be built on its advanced 0.25 micron manufacturing process which is claimed to result in a 40 per cent reduction in power consumption.