Beset by sinking prices for microprocessors and the cost of acquiring graphics chip company ATI, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter loss of US$574 million, down from a profit of $96 million for the same quarter last year.

With Intel Corp. processors supporting the company's Virtualization Technology (VT) becoming more pervasive, Linux kernel developers are writing the code to improve hardware virtualization and hence performance.

Mac users have been clamoring for a version of Photoshop that's built for Apple's Intel-based processors.

Intel Corp. says it has rushed introduction of a new quad-core chip originally scheduled for next year to Monday to meet demand from server manufacturers for the processor.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) began selling its top chip for desktop PCs made with a 65-nanometer design on Tuesday, continuing its efforts to keep up with Intel Corp. as the industry migrates from 90-nm design to a faster, more efficient generation of processors.

Intel Corp. has started to produce samples of a quad-core processor called Penryn that offers faster clock speeds and larger cache sizes, an executive said Thursday.

Mobile phones will undergo a dramatic transformation over the next few years, incorporating more powerful processors and more storage, as well as new technologies, a Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. research and development (R&D) executive said Monday.

IBM Corp. plans to crank up the speed on its Power6 server chip to 5.0GHz, far higher than competing processors from Intel Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc.

By 2010, processor performance will increase 300 percent per watt as users demand eight times more grunt for encoding.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) on Tuesday released a new version of its Opteron processor, the popular server chip that has made AMD a serious competitor of rival Intel Corp.

Intel Corp. unveiled its new Core 2 Duo processor lineup on Thursday, increasing the pressure on rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). The 10 new dual-core chips promise markedly better performance and greater energy efficiency than Intel's existing products.

Several barrages of rockets fired by Hezbollah guerillas in southern Lebanon hit the Israeli port city of Haifa on Sunday. The coastal city is home to one of Intel Corp.'s most important processor design centers.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lowered its sales forecast for the second quarter on Thursday due to slower than expected sales of certain laptop and desktop PC microprocessors.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will ship four-core processors for servers, workstations and high-end desktops by mid-2007, company Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester said Thursday.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Tuesday launched its new AM2 CPU socket, bringing support for fast DDR2 memory to the company's desktop processors. As expected, PC World's tests showed negligible performance gains from the new socket, but the change positions AMD for more notable performance gains with future products.

In a surprise move, Dell Inc. on Thursday announced it will use Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) in its high-end, multiprocessor servers by the end of the year.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) aims to grab notebook PC business from Intel Corp., launching a new line of Turion mobile processors Wednesday.

Intel Corp. opened on Monday a new research and development center at its lab in Braunschweig, Germany, to focus on the design of multicore processors.

Dell Inc. moved to solidify its position in the lucrative gaming market Tuesday by launching the XPS M1710, a dual-core processor machine designed to let gamers simultaneously play three-dimensional games while encoding music or scanning for viruses.

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.