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.

Technology companies across Asia have found ways to help people in Japan left devastated by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake last Friday, the 7-meter tsunami it spawned, and displacement caused by troubles at a nuclear power plant there.

Prices of widely used chips, including NAND flash memory and DRAM, have both risen sharply since the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck and hurled tsunami waves at the northeastern part of Japan.

A cég mérnökei nagy erőkkel dolgoznak a Snapdragon chipek fejlesztésein. A cégvezetők abban bíznak, hogy a Microsofttal kötött együttműködés révén új piaci szegmenseket hódíthatnak meg.

Qualcomm on Tuesday said it is stepping up its software efforts as its chips begin supporting more operating systems, including Microsoft's upcoming Windows OS, which will be targeted at mobile devices, tablets and PCs.

Intel has completed its US$7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee, the chip maker announced on Monday.

Az IDC elemzőcég szakértői szerint az AMD a Llano chipek késése miatt nem tudja kihasználni a Sandy Bridge processzorok gyártási hibája miatt kialakult lehetőségeket.

Slip-ups by a competitor are usually good for business, but Intel's recent problems with its Sandy Bridge chips won't help Advanced Micro Devices to steal market share from its bigger rival, according to IDC.

Looking into its crystal ball at where trends are leading, Intel hopes to bolster on-chip capabilities to vastly improve the security and functionality of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

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.

A Microsoft arra kérte az Intelt, hogy fontolja meg a szerverek kiszolgálására is alkalmas, 16 magos Atom processzorok kifejlesztését. A mobil eszközökben használt, alacsony energiaigényű és nagy hatékonyságú integrált chipek révén az adatközpont-szolgáltatók nagymértékben csökkenthetnék a költségeiket.

Microsoft has asked Intel to develop a 16-core version of its low-power Atom chip for use in servers, part of a wider effort to reduce power consumption in its massive data centers, a Microsoft executive said Thursday.

A Black Eyed Peas énekese több éves szerződést kötött a chipgyártóval. A keddi bejelentés szerint többek között a kreatív innovációs tevékenységet fogja igazgatni.

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.

Egy mobileszközökbe szánt 14 nanométeres chip kifejlesztésén fáradoznak.

Egy mobileszközökbe szánt 14 nanométeres chip kifejlesztésén fáradoznak.

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.

Szebb grafikákat képesek előállítani a játékok a DirectX 11 révén. Az ellenlábas AMD Fusion már DirectX 11 kompatibilis.

Intel on Thursday defended its Intel Insider feature in the latest Sandy Bridge PC chips, which secures streaming of high-definition movies from online movie services to PCs.