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Apple Drops Price Of MacBook Air
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The price reduction appears to be the result of a drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive. |
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IBM Back On Top Of Server Market
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Gartner revised figures for the first quarter, lowering server revenue growth from 4.3% to 2.5% and putting IBM back in first place ahead of HP. |
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Rebounding AMD Offers Three New X4 Phenom Chips
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices released three new Phenom quad-core processors for the desktop Tuesday, including an X4 9550 Black Edition that allows users to increase the clock speed. |
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Intel Dips, AMD Gains In Year-To-Year Market Share
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - ISuppli estimates that about half of AMD's year-to-year growth came at the expense of Intel, with the remainder from smaller chipmakers. |
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AMD Gains Ground on Intel in Chip Wars
(PC World)
PC World - AMD gained market share against Intel in first quarter microprocessor sales, iSuppli says. |
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Intel Calls out Mobile Chip Competitors
(PC World)
PC World - Intel said its mobile chips could dominate in the long run by offering value and software compatibility that competitors like... |
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AMD Debuts Three Quad-Core 'Phenom' Desktop Processors
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The processors are billed as energy efficient and ideal for small and sleek PCs that can help cut down on energy consumption. |
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AMD Releases New 140-Watt 'Black' Phenom X4
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - On Tuesday, AMD announced a new version of its flagship "Black" Phenom X4, as well as two energy-efficient versions of the Phenom X4 chip. |
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Intel pursues narrow Windows Vista rollout
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HP, Hitachi Boost Blade Server Offerings
(PC World)
PC World - HP and Hitachi boosted blade offerings, with Hitachi upgrading blades to use new Intel chips and HP combining blade servers in... |
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Hitachi Upgrades Server Line With Latest Intel Chips
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The BladeSymphony server line is available with the newest Intel Itanium and Xeon processors. |
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Chips Fall Where They May
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The widely tracked Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 17% in the first quarter. But the index -- a basket of 18 leading chip stocks tracked by the Philadelphia Stock Exchange -- has risen 14% since March 17 to 384. |
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Arm to Duel With Intel in the Server Space
(PC World)
PC World - Arm is getting ready to challenge Intel by moving its mobile chip architecture into servers. |
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Working Group Formed For Royalty-Free Parallel Computing Programming
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple has proposed the Open Computing Language, or OpenCL, specification to enable applications to access GPU and CPU resources through a C-based language. |
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AMD Counters Nvidia with Cinema 2.0 Graphics Chip
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - On the same day competitor Nvidia released its GPU 200 series of high-end graphics chips, Advanced Micro Devices announced what it called "the Cinema 2.0 experience" that will be possible because of its forthcoming teraFLOPS graphics chip. |
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Hynix to buy 9.5 pct of ProMOS in $168 mln deal
(Reuters)
Reuters - Hynix Semiconductor Inc (000660.KS), the world's No.2 memory chip maker, said on Tuesday it would buy about 9.5 percent of ProMOS Technologies (5387.TWO) for $168 million, expanding a strategic partnership with its Taiwan rival. |
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Stephen Morse: Father of the 8086 Processor
(PC World)
PC World - The engineer whose 30-year-old architecture still influences PCs today talks about how Intel took the SEX out of the pioneering CPU, and other tales from the beginning of the x86 era. |
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Birth of a Standard: The Intel 8086 Microprocessor
(PC World)
PC World - Thirty years ago, Intel released the 8086 processor, introducing the x86 architecture that underlies every PC--Windows, Mac, or Linux--produced today. |
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AMD Goes Hollywood With New Graphics Chips
(PC World)
PC World - AMD is targeting Hollywood with the new Radeon 4800 series graphics chips, which can render lifelike images in real time. |
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Rival Low-Cost Laptop PC Efforts Report Some Advances
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The one-laptop-per-child effort has had its problems, notably a fight between chipmaker Intel and the nonprofit group leading the effort, but there has been progress. |
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