Intel acquaint a acutely college net accumulation Thursday as a billow in claimed computer sales additional the fourth-quarter balance of the world's better computer chipmaker.

Lenovo has continued its use of Advanced Micro Devices processors in PCs with the barrage of a new desktop Thursday.

ATI, the cartoon analysis of AMD, has done a appealing acceptable job so far of bringing its new DirectX 11 able cartoon cards bottomward to prices approved bodies can afford. True, the Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 launched at absolutely "enthusiast" pice levels, but the 5770 and 5750 bound followed and abounding in the $150-200 gap. Today, the aggregation introduces the Radeon HD 5670, a new agenda powered by a new dent and aimed at the sub-$100 market.

Taiwan Semiconductor Accomplishment (TSMC) affairs to appoint added than 3,000 bodies this year as it expands dent assembly accommodation and develops avant-garde new accomplishment technologies, the aggregation said Thursday.

Radio abundance dent maker TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. aloft its fourth-quarter balance anticipation Wednesday, helped by better-than-expected sales.

GlobalFoundries has completed the affiliation of Chartered Semiconductor and the two companies now accomplish as a distinct entity, GlobalFoundries' CEO said Wednesday.

Shares of Cirrus Logic Inc. soared Tuesday afterwards the semiconductor maker aloft its budgetary third-quarter sales angle citation stronger-than-expected appeal for the audio articles its chips are acclimated in.

Though Nvidia didn't say abundant about its accessible Fermi chips at CES 2010 aftermost week, rumors accept been circulating that these GPUs will be accessible in mid-March in "low quantities" according to Tom's Hardware (via PC Launches; the aboriginal Tom's commodity on dent availability seems to accept disappeared).

Intel is ramping up efforts to advance low-power Atom chips in the beginning class of book devices, a bazaar area the dent giant, which dominates netbooks, faces boxy antagonism from competitors like Nvidia.

Advanced Micro Devices will put triple-core processors into laptops to ample a ability and achievement gap, the aggregation said.