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AMD's Fusion to define Netbook offerings?
News Chipmaker's strategy to fuse processor and graphics chips by 2009 "has characteristics" that fit requirements of ultraportables, says a Singapore-based executive.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, Notebooks and tablets, Hewlett-Packard Co., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Mobile, Notebook, processor, power management, Computex
Chip battle to go small?
News Even as new ultra-mobile PCs make their debut, chipmakers are gearing themselves for a share of the UMPC market with targeted processors.
Tags: CommunicAsia 2008, Processors, Mobile processors, Notebooks and tablets, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Mobile, Chip, Notebook, ASUS, Ultramobile PC
Govts urged to help SMEs through downturn
News APEC SME seminar recommends governments reserve part of their ICT procurement budgets toward enabling smaller businesses to ride out economic crisis.
Tags: Government, Funding, Innovation, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, Asia-Pacific, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, Malaysia, Intellectual Property Right
Netbook sales keep Quanta competitive
News Netbook sales have kept Quanta afloat in the downturn. But the Taiwanese electronics maker is looking to cloud computing for new PC sales.
Tags: Cloud computing, Personal Computers, Notebooks and tablets, Acer Inc., PC Company, Sales, Cloud computing, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Inventec, Laptop Computer
Intel demos ultra-mobile Moorestown
News Chipmaker claims new platform will use 10 times less idle power compared to first-generation MID platforms based on the Atom processor.
Tags: Mobile processors, Notebooks and tablets, Intel Corp., Mobile, Mobile Internet Device, Chip, Internet Device, Video, HSPA, processor
Intel apologises for iPhone rant
News Chipmaker Intel has released an apology for comments made by its executives this week on the inadequacies of the iPhone and the ARM processor driving it.
Tags: Mobile processors, Battery, ARM, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Apple MacBook, VP, processor, Apple iPhone, Taipei
Intel: Spintronic CPUs at least 10 years away
News Intel says alternative methods of radically increasing the performance of CPUs are years away, as the focus remains on incremental improvements to get smaller and more efficient chips
Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., CPU, Chip, Computer, computer processor, performance, robot, Taiwan, transmitter
Intel unveils new cooling tech for ultrathin laptops
News Keeping the outside of notebooks cool has been a challenge. Chipmaker's new technology will be licensed to customers so they can make "thinner and thinner laptops."
Tags: Processors, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., PC Company, Apple MacBook, Quad-core, Computer, processor, HyperThreading, Laptop Computer
Where's technology when the earth shakes?
Blogs This past week has been calamity filled. Following the freak dust storm in Sydney, Typhoon Kestana flooded into the Phil...
Acer's disappointing Q1 earnings
News news analysis An investor favorite, Taiwanese PC maker Acer disappoints with first-quarter earnings below analyst expectations.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Consumer Technology, Personal Computers, Acer Inc., PC Company, Bloomberg L.P., computer, Earnings, Microsoft ASP, industry
Intel slams 'slow' iPhone ARM CPU
News Any speed shortcomings in Apple's iPhone were the fault of its rival chipset manufacturer ARM, a senior Intel executive said in Taiwan yesterday.
Tags: Mobile processors, Smart phones, Mac OS, ARM, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Smart Phone, CPU, performance, Apple iPhone
Asus to launch laptops with instant-on feature
News Five new laptops from Asus, announced at Computex Taipei, will include the Splashtop instant-on software for hitting the Web without loading Windows.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Web browsers, operating system, Mozilla Firefox, ASUS, Embedded Linux, software, Laptop Computer, Computex, Linux
The mini-laptop changing the game
News Taiwan's Asustek has produced a global hit by shrinking the size, horsepower, and price tag--down to US$300.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Personal Computers, AsusTek Computer, Notebook, Computer, brand name, technology company, Best Buy Co. Inc., U.S., Dell Computer Corp.
Acer closes in on Dell's No. 2 PC ranking
News The scrappy Taiwanese computer maker, long an also-ran in the U.S. market, has recently pushed its way toward the front of the line.
Tags: Handhelds, Web sites, Domain names, Mobile processors, Sales channels, Sales/revenue, Forecasting, Hewlett-Packard Co., Acer Inc., International Data Corp.
Could Lenovo and Acer team up?
News After announcing a record quarterly loss of US$264 million, China's largest PC company is struggling while its Taiwanese rival is closing in on Dell.
Tags: Mergers, Personal Computers, Acer Inc., Sales, Chinese company, Lenovo Group Ltd., China, Beijing, industry, Dell Computer Corp.
