China market: Over 310,000 x86 servers shipped in 2Q12, says IDC

Nov 2, 12:09

There were 316,000 x86 servers shipped in the China market during the second quarter of 2012, increasing by 5.6% on year. Of the shipments, 26,700 were 4-way units, up 33% on-year,...

AMD to bridge x86 and ARM processors for data centers

Oct 30, 11:05

AMD has announced that it will design 64-bit ARM technology-based processors in addition to its x86 processors for multiple markets, starting with cloud and data center servers. AMD's...

Supply chain estimates x86 Surface Price at US$500-700 and RT below US$399

Sep 18, 01:30

Microsoft's own-brand Surface tablets are expected to launch at the end of October with the related supply chain players estimating that the Surface RT's hardware cost is at around...

Notebook players pessimistic about ability of Ice Cream Sandwich to defeat iOS

Sep 22, 01:30

Notebook players, seeing that first-tier brand vendors such as RIM, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are all backing away from the tablet PC bandwagon, are turning pessimistic about...

AMD sets to deliver next generation x86 platforms for Windows 8

Sep 14, 17:02

AMD has announced that it has created drivers to enable support for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system on AMD-based tablets, netbooks, PCs and servers. Continuing a long history...

ARM to have big slice of notebook market in 2015, says IHS

Jul 19, 10:38

After more than 30 years of domination by a single microarchitecture - Intel's X86 - the PC microprocessor (MPU) market finally is set for some real competition with shipments of...

NPC to ramp up CPU-use FC substrate output

May 20, 01:10

Nan Ya PCB (NPC) will be able to grow its output of flip-chip (FC) substrates for Intel's x86 CPUs later in the second quarter of 2011, on the strength of improved yields, according...

Standalone application processors are wining in mobility markets, says Petrov Group (part 1)

Mar 8, 15:40

Several years ago there was a widely accepted expectation that application mobile processors would be fully integrated with baseband processors on a single chip. However, today we...

x86-based digital media players to see rise in IPTV market

Dec 16, 16:49

As demand for digital media player devices from hotels and shopping malls in China is rising quickly plus x86-based digital media players are gradually replacing system-on-a-chip-based...

Netbook shipments of Taiwan-based vendors from 2007-2010

Oct 31, 16:41

Netbooks are low-cost notebooks with screen sizes below 10-inch mainly designed for Internet usage. Devices adopt either a solid state drive (SSD) or traditional hard drive and typically...

Adoption by Intel makes digital controllers mainstream technology, says Petrov Group

Oct 29, 10:37

The next generation of Intel's power architecture, VR12, to be introduced in the third quarter of 2011 represents a watershed industry event, according to Boris Petrov, managing director...

VIA expects to benefit from Intel lawsuit, says paper

Newswatch - Aug 11, 16:42

VIA Technologies recently noted that Intel's settlement with the US fair trade commission (FTC) will allow the company's x86 patent contract with Intel to be extended for another...

ARM-based CPUs will overtake x86 in ultra-mobiles in 2013, says ABI Research

Jan 22, 16:30

While an estimated 90% of ultra-mobile Devices (UMDs) shipped in 2009 were based on an x86 processor architecture, the introduction of ARM-based systems introduces greater choice...

Asustek aims to increase revenues by about 30% in 2010

Oct 30, 16:57

Asustek Computer expects that its 2010 revenues will have a chance to approach NT$300 billion (US$9.23 billion), which would represent on-year growth of about 30%. The company is...

Competition for high-growth mobile chip market escalating in 2009, says In-Stat

Aug 19, 17:04

The battle for the fast-growing mobile semiconductor market will intensify in late 2009 with the introduction of new processors from each camp - ARM and x86, reports In-Stat. Intel...

Intel x86 CPU market share rose to 80% in 2Q09

Aug 10, 11:50

Intel's share of the x86 CPU market rose to 80.5% in the second quarter of 2009, up from 78.2% in the first, thanks to price cuts for its desktop CPUs and the recovery of some CPU...

AMD introduces new quad-core server processors

Apr 23, 14:49

AMD has introduced the 45nm quad-core AMD Opteron EE processor, a 40W average CPU power (ACP) processor designed for dense data center environments such as those built for cloud computing...

Taiwan market: Enterprise spending on servers drops 20% in 2008, says IDC

Apr 2, 17:00

Enterprise spending on servers dropped 4.9% on year in the Asia Pacific market excluding Japan during 2008, of which, Taiwan dropped 20%, according to IDC.

Intel notifies AMD of cross-license breach

Mar 17, 12:26

Intel has disclosed that the company has notified AMD that it believes AMD has breached a 2001 patent cross-license agreement with Intel. Intel believes that Global Foundries is not...

Worldwide server shipments and revenues suffer declines in 4Q08, says Gartner

Mar 4, 15:52

Worldwide server shipments in the fourth quarter of 2008 declined 11.7% from the fourth quarter of 2007, while server revenue decreased 15.1%, according to Gartner.

Taiwan market: x86 server shipments up, but revenues down in 2Q08, says IDC

Oct 28, 14:34

Although x86 server shipments to Taiwan in the second quarter of 2008 increased compared to the first quarter, revenues have dropped, according to sources at server vendors citing...