AMD launches 64-bit Turion mobile processor
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Thursday introduced its Turion line of 64-bit mobile processors and said several notebook makers plan to introduce systems based on the new chips.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Thursday introduced its Turion line of 64-bit mobile processors and said several notebook makers plan to introduce systems based on the new chips.
Seagate Technology on Thursday began shipping a 1-inch hard disk drive with a 6G-byte capacity, the same day that rival drive maker Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) announced a similar product.
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices plans to ship a dual-core version of its 64-bit Athlon 64 microprocessor for desktop and mobile PCs during the second half of this year -- but the chips won't be targeted at the high end of the market, the company said.
AU Optronics, one of the world's biggest makers of LCDs (liquid crystal displays) used in computers and television sets, reported Thursday that its net income and net profit hit record levels in 2004, despite an industry-wide steep drop in LCD prices during the second half of the year.
China's Lenovo Group on Friday reported that its total group revenue for the three months to Dec. 31 dropped by almost 4 percent compared with the same period a year earlier. At the same time it announced a range of senior management appointments that will be made when its acquisition of IBM's PC business is completed.
Chinese networking equipment vendor Huawei Technologies and U.K. telecommunications equipment maker Marconi are a step closer to inking a mutual distribution agreement, the two companies said in a statement Monday.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, reported that its net income for 2004 rose 95 per cent to $US2.9 billion, setting a new record for the company.
The acquisition of IBM's PC business by China's largest PC maker, Lenovo Group may pose a threat to U.S. national security and deserves a closer review by the U.S. Congress and government agencies before a decision is made on whether or not to approve the deal, three U.S. lawmakers said this week.
IBM and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, a contract chip maker in Singapore, have agreed to extend a semiconductor technology development partnership that the two companies began in 2002.
Antivirus software vendor McAfee will sell off its McAfee Research division to Sparta as part of a move to streamline its operations.
The release date of Asianux 2.0 has been moved up by one month so that the operating system can be proposed for a massive education database to be built in South Korea, according to one of three Asian companies developing the software.
Taiwanese police arrested several suspects and seized an unspecified number of re-marked Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) processors in a Dec. 30 raid on four businesses at several locations in Taiwan, an AMD spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Stan Shih, the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Taiwan's Acer Inc. and a highly respected pioneer of Taiwan's IT hardware manufacturing industry, officially retired on Dec. 31, according to a company statement.
Cisco Systems Inc. and its employees have donated US$2.5 million for humanitarian relief and reconstruction projects for those affected by the earthquakes and the subsequent tsunamis that ravaged coastlines across South Asia, the company said Thursday.
China's first network based on IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) formally entered operation on Saturday, according to the China Education and Research Network Information Center (CERNIC).