In a PC market that grew only 12% last quarter, Mac unit sales were up 51%, outpacing the market by three-and-a-half times and offering the strongest quarterly growth in almost two decades.

Rambus has scored another legal victory in its battle to collect millions of dollars in royalties on its memory chip patents, as a federal appeals court ruled that the FTC didn't offer enough evidence that the company engaged in monopolistic behavior. The court raised questions about whether there's enough evidence to support the FTC's claim that Rambus engaged in deceptive behavior in the standards-setting process. And even if Rambus did deceive the engineering council, it did not harm competition in a monopolistic way.

"...The two companies have reached an agreement under which Elpida will buy a single-digit percentage stake, making it ProMOS's third biggest shareholder...Another source close to PTI, ProMOS's chip packaging partner, confirmed the two sides had reached an agreement..."

Intel has decided that extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography will not be production-worthy by 2011 when Intel plans to begin manufacturing 22nm microprocessors, said Mark Bohr, director of process architecture and integration at Intel's logic technology development group (Hillsboro, Ore.).