Taiwanese chip manufacturer Via Technologies has released a new energy efficient CPU, the Via Nano, which will go head-to-head with Intel's latest mobile processor the Atom.
The latest notebook chip from Intel will come out May 10, according to sources, along with price cuts and a new naming scheme.
Intel on Monday formally launched three new laptop chips and outlined a push to equip more consumer-oriented notebooks with wireless networking.
With its C7 processor, Via Technologies hopes to eliminate its performance credibility gap and allow notebook makers to come out with light notebooks for under US$800.
Advanced Micro Devices announced its new "Rev F" generation of Opteron server processors on Tuesday in the US, the next volley in a competition with Intel's newly competitive Xeon models.
AMD, Infineon and United Microelectronics are to work together to develop manufacturing processes that allow even more microelements to be included in chips.
Next week will see the launch of the new top-of-the-line chip in a revamp of Sun's core Unix server line, News.com has learned.
The launch of the 2.4GHz processor for desktops, the chipmaker's fastest Pentium 4 to date, is part of bigger plan to push the Pentium 4 into nearly every sector in the PC market.
Despite Intel's protests, it appears that a Pentium 4 desktop processor can be effectively used in a laptop computer--which, if done correctly, could save some buyers hundreds of dollars, according to testing by ZDNet UK Reviews.
Optimism was the main message from Intel CEO Craig Barrett during the company's annual analyst conference Thursday, as he and other executives introduced plans for new chips and improved chipmaking processes.
Intel's first Celeron chips based on the architecture behind the Pentium 4 will come out next week, a move that will allow the company to cover the entire PC market with the same chip design.
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AMD's new processor outperforms a 2GHz P4 when running mainstream and high-end productivity applications, but is second-best when it comes to 3D modelling.
Speed isn't a measure of speed. That's Intel's message with its new naming scheme for its mobile CPUs.
Advanced Micro Devices launches 64-bit chips for servers with both single and multiple processors. It's also looking to fend off Itanium advances from rival Intel.
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