On May 1, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will start selling its Q1 ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), the first of a new breed of handheld device that Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. hope will change the way people use computers.

Microsoft Corp., which has been carving a larger slice of the mobile device OS market, is developing a new product, code-named "Crossbow," which will incorporate features such as instant messaging, a Microsoft executive confirmed Monday.

Google Inc. plans to revamp its enterprise search devices on Wednesday when it announces a new version of its Google Mini for small and medium-sized businesses and an upgrade to its Search Appliance for larger organizations.

Az Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processzorgyártó vállalat közzétette 2006. első negyedévi pénzügyi jelentését, melyből kiderül, hogy - többek között a kétmagos Opteron processzor iránti óriási keresletnek köszönhetően - sikerült elérni az 1,33 milliárd dolláros összbevételt.

Az Advanced Micro Devices már nyilvánosságra hozta legfrissebb pénzügyi jelentését, az Intel azonban óvatos. Elemzők szerint a jövő héten kiadásra kerülő riportjukban 35 százalékos nyereségcsökkenés szerepel majd. A rivális AMD viszont az utóbbi időkben nagyon belehúzott, egyre nagyobb piaci részesedést sikerül "ellopnia" az Inteltől.

Annak újabb jeleként, hogy az erős processzorok jövőjét a többmagos dizájn jelenti a vaskos, egy darabból álló chipekkel szemben, az Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) kibocsátotta egymagos Opteron processzorcsaládjának utolsóként ütemezett darabját. Az Opteron 256-os és 856-os modellek már kaphatóak is, a 156-os piacra kerülése pedig harminc napon belül esedékes.

In another sign that the future of powerful processors lies in multicore design instead of dense monolithic chips, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) released the last scheduled upgrade to its family of single-core Opteron processors.

Az Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) megkezdte a vállalat legújabb, Németországban, Drezdában található gyárából származó első processzorainak szállítását.

Via Technologies Inc. is a company that takes pride in bursting illusions, such as the idea the new ultramobile PCs would only come equipped with Intel Corp. microprocessors. Instead, it appears that any x86-based processor will do.

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the first three devices developed around the new ultramobile PC form factor they teamed up to develop over a year ago in a project code-named Origami.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to launch its first desktop and laptop processors by the middle of the year that support DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory chips, AMD executives said on the sidelines of a news conference at the Cebit IT show in Hanover, Germany.

Never mind worrying about hackers stealing your password. A security researcher with the Finnish military has shown how they could steal your fingerprint, by taking advantage of an omission in Microsoft Corp.'s Fingerprint Reader, a PC authentication device that Microsoft has been shipping since September 2004.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday announced three additions to its family of dual-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations, boosting the speed of the chips to 2.6GHz.

Google Inc. has introduced its lowest-priced Google Mini search device to date, in an attempt to capture the most price-sensitive segment of the small-business market.

Is Microsoft Corp. planning to announce details of a new portable device code-named Origami later this week? That is the question raised by a Web site called Origami Project.

The flash memory chips popular in consumer devices from iPod music players to memory cards for digital cameras and mobile phones saved the DRAM (dynamic RAM) industry from a major collapse last year, market researcher Gartner Dataquest said Monday.

Plextor, perhaps best known to Mac users for its external optical drives and personal video recorder (PVR) devices, has entered the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with the introduction of its PX-EH line. Prices start at US$299.

IDC reported on Thursday that high-end devices helped contribute to the shipment of 825 million mobile phones in 2005.

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported the highest quarterly revenue in company history for its fiscal 2006 second quarter on the strength of its Windows OS and a series of highly anticipated product releases. Still, the company fell slightly shy of analysts' revenue expectations.

Elnököt váltott a világ második legnagyobb processzorgyártója, az Advanced Micro Devices, így 11 év után Hector Ruizt Dirk Meyer követi majd az elnöki székben.