Tom Krazit

Demonstrations of wireless notebook and cell phone processors by Intel Corp. executives were the highlights of "Client Day" at the Spring Intel Developer Forum here Wednesday.

IBM Corp. has unveiled a new supercomputing on-demand initiative, which allows users to avoid the purchase and maintenance costs of large servers in favour of short-term agreements with IBM to process specific jobs.

Having amassed a huge lead in the market for desktop and notebook processors, and a growing share of the market for handheld device chips, Intel Corp. announced its new PXA800F chip Thursday.

The additional cache placed on the die of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) new Barton core for its Athlon XP processors vaults the Athlon XP 3000+ ahead of rival Intel Corp.'s highest-performing processor, AMD said Monday.

Intel Corp. will discuss the next-generation of its Itanium processor family and outline techniques developed for future integrated circuits at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSC) this week in San Francisco.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) released a new processor in its line of server chips Tuesday, adding the Athlon MP 2600+ to its product lineup, the company said.

Chief information officers (CIOs) expect their IT budgets to grow for 2003 over 2002, but at slower rates than the ones experienced in the late 1990s, according to the results of a monthly poll conducted by CIO Magazine in the U.S.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Friday ended the speculation over the launch dates for its upcoming chips, announcing that the 64-bit Opteron server chip will be introduced on April 22 in New York.