Although Intel's Atom processor shortage has had a large impact toward notebook vendors' low-cost notebook (netbook) shipments, IPC (industrial PC) makers, who also have their eyes on Atom platforms, say they are not feeling as much pressure. Read more

Opinion - AMD pitches an enticing idea that takes advantage of the massive horsepower hidden in the company's graphics card. Read more

It is a great time for PC vendors and consumers to buy DRAM, as competition this segment remains strong and prices show little signs of recovery (according to DRAMExchange, 1 Gb DDR2-667 chips are currently selling for about $2. Read more

AMD looks to be entering the ultra-lightweight ring, though the arena is already crowded. On Tuesday, at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD displayed working demonstration models of at least two sub-notebook designs. Earlier in the day compet Read more

Shanghai (China) - AMD is currently preparing its presentations for the company's annual stockholder meeting next week and we hear that the company will let us know that more than 1 million quad-core CPUs have been shipped. Read more

Redmond (WA) - The initial uproar over news of Microsoft's forensic USB thumb-drive appears to be misplaced. Read more

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Santa Monica (CA) - More than 10 million households in the US now have a high-def disc player and more than half of the country is aware of the Blu-ray Disc format, according to a new study from Interpret. Read more

There is lots of confusion about AMD cutting its workforce these days. Read more

Lite-On IT, the largest Taiwan-based maker of half-height optical disc drives (ODDs), has secured OEM orders for Blu-ray Disc (BD) ROM drives from Dell with a monthly shipment volume of 20,000-30,000 drives, according to suppliers of chipsets and other key components of ODDs in Taiwan. Read more

Hynix Semiconductor has decided to cut production of NAND flash amid an industry-wide over-supply and fast falling prices, according to sources within the memory industry. Read more

Mountain House (CA) - There is a storm developing around Creative Labs, as the company is opening fire against rivals and users on multiple fronts. Read more

Intel, ST Microelectronics and Francisco Partners have completed the transaction to create Numonyx , a new semiconductor company that will be developing and manufacturing NOR/NAND flash memory as well as phase change memory (PCM) devices. Read more

Fremont (CA) - CPU wars, graphics wars and now we also have sound wars. Read more