Components in pictures

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  IN PICTURES: Intel Solutions Summit 2012 in Bali, Day 2
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  In Pictures: Top 10 performance desktop PCs
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  In Pictures: Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chips
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  In Pictures: If it ain't broke, don't fix it: ancient ...

• Microsemi denies existence of backdoor in its chips, researchers disagree

  By Lucian Constantin | 01 June, 2012 19:27

  Semiconductor company Microsemi has issued a statement denying that one of its products, a popular silicon chip called ProASIC3, has a backdoor built into it.

• Samsung buys Swedish wireless chip company Nanoradio

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 June, 2012 10:32

  Samsung Electronics has acquired Nanoradio, a Swedish company that develops energy-efficient chipsets for Wi-Fi, it said on Friday.

• New wave of ultrabooks to include 30 touchscreen models, Intel says

  By Agam Shah | 31 May, 2012 14:08

  A fresh crop of ultrabooks sporting Intel's latest "Ivy Bridge" Core processors will start to go on sale next month, including 30 models with touchscreens, according to Intel.

• New wave of ultrabooks to include 30 touchscreen models, Intel says

  By Agam Shah | 31 May, 2012 04:05

  A fresh crop of ultrabooks sporting Intel's latest "Ivy Bridge" Core processors will start to go on sale next month, including 30 models with touchscreens, Intel said Thursday.

• Intel reaches for China's high-end market with new Lenovo smartphone

  By Michael Kan | 31 May, 2012 02:49

  Intel announced on Wednesday the availability of another smartphone built around its processors, this time in China. But the high price of the new Lenovo LePhone K800 could make it a tough sell in the country, where many consumers are buying low-cost smartphones, according to an analyst.

• Windows 8, ultrabooks to get top billing at giant trade show

  By Michael Kan | 30 May, 2012 22:05

  Windows 8 and ultrabooks are expected to take center stage at the Computex trade show in Taipei next week, as industry giants Microsoft and Intel try to develop products that can compete better against Apple's iPad.

• yARN: Are we in for a fresh wave of interest in virtual desktops?

  By Stephen Withers | 30 May, 2012 08:45

  The traditional reason for considering virtual desktops in place of conventional PCs has been TCO, with much of the saving coming from the ongoing management and administration benefits. But those savings largely accrued because of the difficulty of managing large numbers of PCs, so small businesses couldn’t really benefit unless they went down the DaaS (desktop as a service) route.

• Dell introduces three new All-in-One PCs

  By Ian Paul | 30 May, 2012 08:06

  Dell has rolled out a new set of all-in-one PCs including a new addition to the XPS lineup for those who want an Apple iMac without actually buying an iMac.

• What smartphones will be like in 2012

  By Jared Newman | 12 November, 2011 01:31

  Since the advent of the first modern smartphone--arguably the original Apple iPhone in 2007--the power of these mobile computing devices that also happen to make phone calls has advanced by leaps and bounds.

• Display tech to watch this year: Haptics create a buzz

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 16 March, 2011 05:33

  If multitouch display technology is proliferating, haptic feedback is helping to fuel the trend. Haptics provide tactile feedback to your fingers as you touch a display by vibrating all or part of the display surface.

• ARM CEO: PC market not our target

  By Agam Shah | 12 January, 2011 05:41

  Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS would work on the ARM architecture. ARM processors go into most of the world's smartphones and tablets, and with Windows support, the company can now focus on the wider market for PCs, where it has virtually no presence. Nvidia also announced that it was building its first ARM-based chip, code-named Denver, for PCs and servers.

• What's new in PC components

  By James Mulroy | 11 January, 2011 02:35

  The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't just all tablet, cameras, and laptops; there's plenty of news for the PC component geek, too, ranging from tiny flash drives that pack a lot of heat to the hand-held gaming console.

• Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?

  By Robert X. Cringely | 08 January, 2011 09:25

  Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forward progress only by hip-deep mounds of tablet PCs. Everyone appears to be tapping, swiping, and gesturing on some kind of sleek black touch-sensitive device, when they're not squinting at blurry 3D screens waiting for their turn with the polarized glasses.

• Ways to share spare CPU cycles

  By Ian Paul | 16 August, 2010 03:15

  A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worthy cause.

• Intel breaks mold, poised to fill 'compute continuum' gaps

  By John Mark V. Tuazon | 07 July, 2010 08:52

  Chip manufacturer Intel is defying conventions and moving out of its established space in personal computing systems, and spreading their territory to include tablets, mobile phones, and smart TVs, among others.