Components For Laptop

Advanced Micro Devices is developing a low-power processor for mobile devices and sub-notebooks, the company confirmed Friday, quashing months of speculation that it had abandoned the project.
The chip will compete with Intel’s Atom processor and potentially supplant AMD’s low-power Geode x86 system-on-chip, which is included in One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop. Based on the [...]

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Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) gained some ground on rival Intel in the lucrative microprocessor market during the first quarter, market research iSuppli said late Tuesday.
AMD’s share of global microprocessor market revenue in the first quarter rose by 2.2 percentage points compared to the same time last year to 13 percent, iSuppli said. Meanwhile, [...]

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Intel and Advanced Micro Devices both gained momentum in the first quarter of this year as the longtime price war between rival chipmakers slowed.
Research firm iSuppli this week reported that average selling prices for both AMD and Intel wares held steady between the fourth quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008. “This price [...]

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Toshiba Monday unveiled the first laptop computer to use the computing-intensive Cell chip that was first was designed for Sony’s PlayStation 3 game console.
The PC maker announced three new high-end laptops — the Qosmio G55, Qosmio X305 and Qosmio F55. Designed for gaming and multimedia applications, the new machines are slated to hit the market [...]

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While Intel has set limits on the types of technologies that can used with its Atom processor, Via Technologies is giving laptop makers free rein when it comes to choosing specifications for systems based on its latest processor, the Nano.
“There’s no limitation in terms of Windows Vista support, Blu-ray, all those sorts of things,” said [...]

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Intel and Micron Technology are set to unveil a jointly developed 34-nanometer, 32-gigabit NAND flash memory chip that should enable the production of cheaper solid-state drives with larger storage capacity.
Measuring less than the size of a thumbnail, the new flash chips will be manufactured on 300-millimeter wafers and will provide approximately 1.6TB of NAND per [...]

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Apple purchases PA Semi for $278M

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Server makers have been moving to add Advanced Micro Device’s quad-core chip to their product lines, despite what amounts to a six-month delay by AMD in getting the processor out the door.
Indeed, if AMD hadn’t been hit with problems in the new chip, code-named Barcelona, it would seem as if nothing had changed for the [...]

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For all the fanfare surrounding the launch of Intel’s Centrino Atom chip package at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, there was a notable shortage of new products based on the chips, apart from a few concept designs rolled out for the occasion.
Centrino Atom, which includes an Atom processor and a chipset, was billed as [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices announced a new graphics chip set at the CeBIT conference in Germany.
The new AMD 780G chip set will include DirectX 10 — an update to DirectX 9 — a collection of APIs for handling multimedia tasks. The new chip set will also have nearly three times more transistors than its predecessor [...]

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