Heartland Payment Systems figured it was in pretty good shape when it took out a $30 million cyber insurance policy. Unfortunately, the credit card transaction processor was the victim of a massive data breach in early 2009 that resulted in losses estimated at $145 million. The insurance company did pay Heartland the $30 million, but the company was on the hook for the remaining $115 million.

Nem méri olcsón új CPU-ját a vállalat, mégis nagy reményeket fűz hozzá: tervei szerint a HP-t és az IBM-et is meg fogja szorongatni vele.

Oracle released its Sparc T4 processor in standard rack and blade servers, as well as a big clustered system.

The schedule for Apple's A6 processor points to a June launch for the next iPad, a noted industry analyst said.

Intel exec admits Apple's warning was 'a real wake-up call'.

Intel hopes to rejuvenate interest in the PC market with Ultrabooks, which will bridge the gap between tablets and PCs.

STEC is joining the ranks of vendors selling solid-state storage for caching within servers.

DataCell briefly accepted 'thousands' of WikiLeaks donations via a new payment processor, before Visa shut it down again.

ARM Holdings hopes to wrestle dominance of the mobile PC market from Intel and have ARM-based processors in more than half of all tablets, mini-notebooks and other mobile PCs sold in 2015, the company's president said Monday.

IDC on Thursday predicted that ARM will capture a 15 percent share of the PC microprocessor market by 2015, as the company dials up development of processors for laptops and desktops.

AMD posted gains in both revenue and profit in the first quarter, citing lower prices but higher unit sales of microprocessors compared with a year earlier.

IBM on Thursday demonstrated its fastest graphene transistor, which can execute 155 billion cycles per second, which is about 50 percent faster than previous experimental transistors shown by the company's researchers.

The chip war will heat up as Advanced Micro Devices prepares PC processors to rival Intel's Sandy Bridge chips, which have already started appearing in laptops, analysts said this week.

Some PC makers are halting sales of PCs with Sandy Bridge processors as they try to work out issues related to Intel's faulty chipset, companies said on Wednesday.

Intel on Monday said it had stopped shipments of the chipset used with its latest generation of Core processors after it found a design flaw.

Intel and IBM will soon provide details of their latest high-end server processors, which may contain cutting-edge technologies that could ultimately be found in future PC and server chips.

Cisco has invested in Tilera, a developer of multicore processors for cloud computing and communications, as part of the chip maker's $45 million round announced this week.

Microsoft said Wednesday that the next version of its Windows PC operating system will run on Arm processors, part of an effort to adapt Windows to the fast-growing market for tablet computers, where Apple and Google have gained traction.

The world's largest chip maker will show off its most advanced line of microprocessors ever at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Wednesday, complete with a range of laptop and desktop PCs with the chips inside.

Intel has been working with several industry experts to improve the safety of football helmets, including an idea to put its tiny Atom microprocessors inside football helmets to measure and feed real-time impact data to medical personnel on the sidelines of a game.