Ben Ames

Samsung Electronics America Inc. plans to change the processor in its Q1 Ultra Mobile PC, replacing a chip from Intel Corp. with one from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), according to a published account.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will ship four-core processors for servers, workstations and high-end desktops by mid-2007, company Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester said.

When consumers boot up their new Dell Inc. desktops and notebooks next week, they will find a Google Inc. homepage and search tools, not the familiar Microsoft Corp. versions, the world's largest PC vendor confirmed.

In a surprise move, Dell Inc. on Thursday announced it will use Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) in its high-end, multiprocessor servers by the end of the year.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is hoping to take a bite out of Intel Corp.'s market share by selling energy-efficient versions of its desktop processors, the company said. This month, the company will release energy-efficient versions of three chip designs: the Athlon 64 X2 dual core and the Athlon 64 and Sempron single cores.

The Treo 700p smartphone is the first smartphone to have both the Palm OS and EvDO (evolution-data optimized) wireless broadband. With added e-mail and Office functions, a digital camera and MP3 music player, the 700p will appeal to both consumer and enterprise users.

In search of ways to make its mobile phones better networked and easier to use, Nokia Corp. recently unveiled a lab where it will collaborate with academic researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass.

Level 3 Communications Inc. has expanded its network to cover additional U.S. cities by announcing that it agreed to pay $1.2 billion to acquire TelCove Inc. This is the third acquisition within five weeks by Level 3, of Broomfield, Colorado. And Level 3 is not alone; the entire industry is in the middle of a hot merger and acquisition period.