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Apple Drops Price Of MacBook Air (TechWeb)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:25:00 GMT

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The price reduction appears to be the result of a drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive.

IBM Back On Top Of Server Market (TechWeb)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:19:00 GMT

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Gartner revised figures for the first quarter, lowering server revenue growth from 4.3% to 2.5% and putting IBM back in first place ahead of HP.

Rebounding AMD Offers Three New X4 Phenom Chips (NewsFactor)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:15:06 GMT

NewsFactor - Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices released three new Phenom quad-core processors for the desktop Tuesday, including an X4 9550 Black Edition that allows users to increase the clock speed.

Intel Dips, AMD Gains In Year-To-Year Market Share (TechWeb)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT

TechWeb - InformationWeek - ISuppli estimates that about half of AMD's year-to-year growth came at the expense of Intel, with the remainder from smaller chipmakers.

AMD Gains Ground on Intel in Chip Wars (PC World)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:40:10 GMT

PC World - AMD gained market share against Intel in first quarter microprocessor sales, iSuppli says.

Intel Calls out Mobile Chip Competitors (PC World)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:40:23 GMT

PC World - Intel said its mobile chips could dominate in the long run by offering value and software compatibility that competitors like...

AMD Debuts Three Quad-Core 'Phenom' Desktop Processors (TechWeb)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:57:00 GMT

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The processors are billed as energy efficient and ideal for small and sleek PCs that can help cut down on energy consumption.

AMD Releases New 140-Watt 'Black' Phenom X4 (PC Magazine)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:12:58 GMT

PC Magazine - On Tuesday, AMD announced a new version of its flagship "Black" Phenom X4, as well as two energy-efficient versions of the Phenom X4 chip.

Intel pursues narrow Windows Vista rollout (Reuters)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:33:47 GMT

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/semiconductor/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080626/tc_nm/intel_vista_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080626/2008_06_26t143154_450x288_us_intel_vista.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=ldQz2rx6ZmDg_vzT9kg0Uw--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="An undated screenshot of the Windows Vista operating system. (Microsoft Corporation/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Intel Corp , the world's biggest chipmaker and decades-long business partner of Microsoft Corp, has no immediate plans to roll out the software giant's Windows Vista operating system to all its employees.</p><br clear="all"/>

HP, Hitachi Boost Blade Server Offerings (PC World)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:40:10 GMT

PC World - HP and Hitachi boosted blade offerings, with Hitachi upgrading blades to use new Intel chips and HP combining blade servers in...

Hitachi Upgrades Server Line With Latest Intel Chips (TechWeb)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:52:00 GMT

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The BladeSymphony server line is available with the newest Intel Itanium and Xeon processors.

Chips Fall Where They May (Investor's Business Daily)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:38:38 GMT

Investor's Business Daily - The widely tracked Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 17% in the first quarter. But the index -- a basket of 18 leading chip stocks tracked by the Philadelphia Stock Exchange -- has risen 14% since March 17 to 384.

Arm to Duel With Intel in the Server Space (PC World)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:20:11 GMT

PC World - Arm is getting ready to challenge Intel by moving its mobile chip architecture into servers.

Working Group Formed For Royalty-Free Parallel Computing Programming (TechWeb)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple has proposed the Open Computing Language, or OpenCL, specification to enable applications to access GPU and CPU resources through a C-based language.

AMD Counters Nvidia with Cinema 2.0 Graphics Chip (NewsFactor)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:44:06 GMT

NewsFactor - On the same day competitor Nvidia released its GPU 200 series of high-end graphics chips, Advanced Micro Devices announced what it called "the Cinema 2.0 experience" that will be possible because of its forthcoming teraFLOPS graphics chip.

Hynix to buy 9.5 pct of ProMOS in $168 mln deal (Reuters)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:15:06 GMT

Reuters - Hynix Semiconductor Inc (000660.KS), the world's No.2 memory chip maker, said on Tuesday it would buy about 9.5 percent of ProMOS Technologies (5387.TWO) for $168 million, expanding a strategic partnership with its Taiwan rival.

Stephen Morse: Father of the 8086 Processor (PC World)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

PC World - The engineer whose 30-year-old architecture still influences PCs today talks about how Intel took the SEX out of the pioneering CPU, and other tales from the beginning of the x86 era.

Birth of a Standard: The Intel 8086 Microprocessor (PC World)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

PC World - Thirty years ago, Intel released the 8086 processor, introducing the x86 architecture that underlies every PC--Windows, Mac, or Linux--produced today.

AMD Goes Hollywood With New Graphics Chips (PC World)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:50:10 GMT

PC World - AMD is targeting Hollywood with the new Radeon 4800 series graphics chips, which can render lifelike images in real time.

Rival Low-Cost Laptop PC Efforts Report Some Advances (Investor's Business Daily)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:18:21 GMT

Investor's Business Daily - The one-laptop-per-child effort has had its problems, notably a fight between chipmaker Intel and the nonprofit group leading the effort, but there has been progress.