Stories by: Ben Ames

Hoping to gain customers among fast-growing small businesses, Dell has launched a storage array optimized for simple operation and low price.

Citing surprisingly high demand for its processors, Intel has upgraded its third-quarter revenue forecast to a range of US$9.4 billion to US$9.8 billion from the company's previous estimate of US$9 billion to US$9.6 billion.

Advanced Micro Devices hopes to seize a larger share of the server chip market from its rival Intel this week when it launches the Barcelona quad-core processor.

Hewlett-Packard launched a server based on Intel's new Tigerton quad-core Xeon processor Thursday, battling IBM for customers who run data-intensive business applications like enterprise resource planning and virtualization software.

Henri Richard will join Freescale Semiconductor as its new chief sales and marketing officer, just weeks after stepping down from the same position at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

IBM has demonstrated how to perform certain computer functions on single atoms and molecules, a discovery that could someday lead to processors the size of a speck of dust, the company said Thursday.

US government antitrust regulators have asked Intel and STMicroelectronics NV to provide more information about their plan to spin off their flash memory unit into a new company, the vendors said Thursday.

IBM announced an upgraded version of its blade server based on the Cell processor on Wednesday, adding memory and data throughput for better performance on high-end applications such as graphics and finance.

Just two weeks after revealing that some employees had falsified corporate revenue to meet earnings targets, Dell reported a profit of US$733 million (AU$897.8 million) for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, up 46 percent from its mark of US$502 million for the same period last year.

HP has introduced a revamped print strategy in an effort to bolster the company's lucrative printing business by giving users creative tools and Web-linked capabilities.