Ben Ames

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) showed a laboratory version of its promised "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron 8000 server chip to analysts and said it plans to begin selling the product in the second quarter of 2007. AMD will pitch the chip to users of high-end, commercial workstations and servers.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) launched a motherboard with four cores on Thursday, targeting gaming enthusiasts in an effort to keep pace with the release of quad-core chips by rival Intel Corp.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is offering a "virtual house call" service to users who have trouble getting their PCs to work. HP Instant Care, announced Monday, provides personalized service over the Internet.

Four weeks after beating Wall Street estimates for financial earnings, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices will lay off 375 workers, according to published reports.

Intel has launched a family of quad-core processors, hoping to take back its crumbling share of the server market and win users in the trendy gaming PC segment.

Nvidia Corp. has released a new computing architecture that allows developers to perform numerical computation on the company's graphics processing units instead of relying on standard processors.

Months after gaining US$612.5 million from Research in Motion in a patent infringement lawsuit settlement, NTP has filed a similar suit against Palm.

A group of professors has formed a research collaboration to train students how to design future versions of the World Wide Web.