AMD Wednesday announced three dual-core additions to its Opteron processor lineup that use less power than standard versions of the chip. At the same time, the company added more dual-core Opteron chips to the high end of the line.

IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. accelerated their horse race in semiconductors when each unveiled at midnight Saturday Eastern Time similar chip-manufacturing advances.

Beset by sinking prices for microprocessors and the cost of acquiring graphics chip company ATI, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter loss of US$574 million, down from a profit of $96 million for the same quarter last year.

LG Electronics Inc. has unveiled the fruits of a cell phone design partnership with Italian fashion goods maker Prada SpA.

Shipments of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s PlayStation 3 console hit 1 million units in Japan on Tuesday, the company said. That's just over two weeks behind Sony's original launch plan, which envisaged hitting the million mark before the end of 2006.

A Fujitsu Siemens ultrakönnyű, könnyen átalakítható noteszgépe, a Lifebook P1610-es 3G-s chippel ellátott változatban is megjelenik.

SanDisk Corp. has launched a 32G-byte solid-state drive using flash memory chips, intended as a replacement for conventional hard disk drives.

Intel Corp. should have to share documents that could show it used monopolistic practices to force overseas PC vendors and retailers to shun Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) chips, the special master to a U.S. federal court recommended Friday.

After watching its market share for the North American desktop PC market slip in a soft third quarter, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will seek greater profits in 2007 through a new family of quad-core server chips and its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI.

Flash memory and hard-disk drives could face a challenge from a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, being developed by a group of companies led by IBM Corp.

Intel Corp. says it has rushed introduction of a new quad-core chip originally scheduled for next year to Monday to meet demand from server manufacturers for the processor.

Mozilla Corp. has hit an early milestone on the road to the next version of its open-source browser, but the final product is still a year away, developers say.

Since it was sunk 65 years ago today at Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack by the Japanese during World War II, the heavily damaged USS Arizona battleship has been slowly leaking fuel oil from its massive collection of now-submerged oil tanks into the harbor.

Via Technologies Inc. announced that two of its PC chipsets have passed Microsoft Corp. Windows Vista Basic certification tests, ensuring trouble-free installation and driver upgrades.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) began selling its top chip for desktop PCs made with a 65-nanometer design on Tuesday, continuing its efforts to keep up with Intel Corp. as the industry migrates from 90-nm design to a faster, more efficient generation of processors.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) launched a motherboard with four cores on Thursday, targeting gaming enthusiasts in an effort to keep pace with the release of quad-core chips by rival Intel Corp.

The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) is not concerned about reports from the U.K. that say RFID (radio frequency ID) chips in passports can be cracked in as little as 48 hours.

Intel Corp. has started to produce samples of a quad-core processor called Penryn that offers faster clock speeds and larger cache sizes, an executive said Thursday.

Az Eneco bejelentette, hogy a cég által szabadalmaztatott új chiptechnológia forradalmasítja majd az áramtermelést. Mások szerint erre nem kerül sor.

A Sun Microsystems felállított egy független OpenSPARC közösségi tanácsadó testületet, amely az UltraSPARC T1 processzoron alapuló chiptervezési és kiegészítő szoftverfejlesztési munkákat hivatott elősegíteni.