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Article | 15/05/2009 Plantronics launches new wireless headsets at CeBIT

At the CeBIT tech tradeshow in Sydney, Plantronics announced the release of its Savi Go and Savi Office communications headsets.

Article | 14/05/2009 Intel: Antitrust agencies are testing the limits

Antitrust regulators around the world, led chiefly by the European Commission, are testing the limits of the law in their pursuit of Intel and its pra...

Article | 14/05/2009 Intel CEO 'strongly disagrees' with 'baffling' $1.44B antitrust fine

Intel Corp. said today it intends to appeal the European Commission's $1.44 billion fine for anticompetitive behavior in the chip market, with CEO Pau...

Article | 13/05/2009 Otellini: Sparc uncertainty an opportunity for Itanium

Oracle's decision to acquire Sun Microsystems has created a larger market opportunity for Intel to put its Itanium chips into more enterprise servers,...

Article | 13/05/2009 Intel grants $12M in multicore graphics research

Intel on Tuesday said it was granting US$12 million over five years to Saarland University in Germany to research graphics technologies.

Article | 12/05/2009 AMD gains processor market share on Intel

After five quarters of declining market share, Advanced Micro Devices gained ground in chip shipments over chief rival Intel during the first quarter ...

Article | 11/05/2009 EU antitrust ruling against Intel due next Wednesday

The European Commission is expected to make one of the most significant antitrust decisions in its history on Wednesday when it punishes computer chip...

Article | 8/05/2009 Intel to stop shipping one Core i7 model later this year

Intel plans to stop selling one of its high-end desktop chips this year, less than one year after it was released, the company confirmed Thursday.

Article | 7/05/2009 AMD merges graphics, microprocessor operations

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced it was consolidating the operations of disparate business units in the company.

Article | 7/05/2009 Intel's Atom chip finding its way into servers

Intel's Atom processor is starting to find its way into some types of servers, bringing a new low-power option for end-users but raising a potential b...

Article | 6/05/2009 China's chips to power blade servers this year

Blade servers based on microprocessors designed in China will power a supercomputer prototype to be revealed by a government-backed Chinese firm in Se...

Article | 4/05/2009 Taiwan's big five DRAM makers post massive losses

Taiwan's five largest DRAM makers reported massive losses in a slew of earnings reports filed late Thursday evening, raising questions about how much ...

Article | 1/05/2009 Via may seek greater role for Nano in servers

Via Technologies may try to extend the use of its Nano processors from netbooks to servers in a potential challenge to Intel and Advanced Micro Device...

Article | 1/05/2009 Price war: Bargain ATI graphics card serves notice to Nvidia

ATI Technologies Inc.'s new Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor launched earlier this week, receiving plaudits for incorporating cutting-edge technology...

Article | 1/05/2009 Apple snapping up chip designers

A year after buying low-power processor designer PA Semi, Apple is looking for yet more chip design expertise.

Article | 29/04/2009 Win 7, Snow Leopard could give graphics chip a spark

Graphics chip shipments fell during the first quarter this year, but could stabilize later this year as people look to upgrade PCs with new operating ...

Article | 29/04/2009 Intel releases new low-power motherboards

Intel has launched two new motherboards for small form factor notebooks and desktops.

Article | 29/04/2009 AMD pulls dual-core server processors, cuts prices

Advanced Micro Devices has pulled dual-core server processors from its product lineup, also cutting prices of some Opteron chips by close to 43 percen...

Article | 23/04/2009 With six-core chips, AMD preps for stimulus money fight

The U.S. government is beginning to spend billions of dollars quickly to stimulate the economy. And that may be why Advance Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) s...

Article | 28/04/2009 AMD and XFX Announce Technology Partnership

AMD announced that XFX is now an official AMD technology partner, joining the group of AMD add-in-board (AIB) partners. XFX plans to provide new produ...