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Friday 22 May 2009
Acer launches home server using Atom processor
Acer has announced the Aspire easyStore home server for customers in the US. Designed for households and home-based businesses with multiple PCs, the Aspire easyStore offers a simple...
Thursday 14 May 2009
SMIC and Intel implement measures to prevent swine flu at plants in China
With cases of swine flu reported in China's Sichuan province, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Intel, which both have plants in the area, have started...
Tuesday 12 May 2009
Worldwide processor market remained weak in 1Q09, says IDC
Worldwide PC processor shipments in the first calendar quarter of 2009 fell significantly for the second quarter in a row, according to new data from IDC. While the decline was slightly...
Thursday 7 May 2009
AMD tightens organization
AMD has announced a new operating model that centers the organization on four equally critical functions: products, technology, marketing and customers.
Thursday 30 April 2009
Atom market on track, says Intel
While recent market reports have some makers claiming that demand for the Intel Atom processor is slowing while other players, notably in the China market, are saying that supply...
Thursday 30 April 2009
China white-box market seeing no Atom shortages, says local netbook maker
Commenting on recent reports of shortages of IC components in the local China netbook market, president of China-based white-box netbook maker Jumper said that there is currently...
Thursday 23 April 2009
AMD introduces new quad-core server processors
AMD has introduced the 45nm quad-core AMD Opteron EE processor, a 40W average CPU power (ACP) processor designed for dense data center environments such as those built for cloud computing...
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Intel GN40 netbooks held back by Windows XP
One of the main selling points of Intel's Atom N280 processor and GN40 chipset bundle for netbooks is enhanced 3D graphics performance and hardware video decoding, but some of these...
Monday 20 April 2009
VIA to see limited benefit from OLPC refresh
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) announced a hardware refresh for its XO-1 notebooks on April 17, but VIA Technologies, CPU and chipset supplier of the new XO-1 Gen 1.5, is unlikely to...
Wednesday 8 April 2009
IDF Beijing: Intel reveals new processors for mobiles and servers
Celebrating the one-year anniversary of Intel's introduction of its Atom processor family, Anand Chandrasekher, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility...
Wednesday 8 April 2009
AMD offers an upgrade program for Opteron server processors
AMD has announced a global AMD Opteron upgrade program allowing its channel partners and customers to receive up to a 35% discount when upgrading their AMD Opteron processors.
Thursday 26 March 2009
CE makers adopt Intel platform for multimedia products
Intel's consumer electronics SoC – Intel Media Processor CE 3100 – has been adopted by several China-based makers for multimedia products, according to industry sources...
Friday 13 March 2009
VIA announces VX855 MSP for SFF and mobile PCs
VIA Technologies has announced the VIA VX855 media system processor (MSP) – a power efficient, all-in-one chipset that addresses the key performance and entertainment requirements...
Monday 16 February 2009
Lenovo to launch 12-inch Atom netbook
Lenovo reportedly plans to launch an Atom N280-based IdeaPad S20 netbook featuring a 12-inch panel. The specification would break Intel's restrictions for netbook products that state...
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Global PC processor market to decline through 1H09, says IDC
Worldwide PC processor shipments fell significantly in the fourth calendar quarter of 2008, according to IDC. A further demand decline in the first quarter of 2009 points to a very...