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• Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 to contain Intel Atom chip, source says

  By Agam Shah | 20 May, 2013 22:42

  Samsung will soon release its first Android tablet based on an Intel Atom processor, according to a source familiar with the plan, in what would be a vote of confidence for Intel chips in mobile devices.

• Shrinking chips challenge Moore's Law

  By Agam Shah | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  Intel will continue to fulfill Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but the challenge of keeping up with it is growing as chips get smaller, says a company executive.

• Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut

  By Marc Ferranti and Joab Jackson | 17 May, 2013 21:17

  A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave.

• Desktop chips zip past 4GHz; next stop 5GHz?

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 10 May, 2013 19:33

  Mobility has all but eclipsed speed and anything else as the capability garnering the most attention in desktop processors.

• Intel CEO's legacy: PC glory, smartphone grief

  By Brad Chacos | 10 May, 2013 15:31

  Paul Otellini's reign as Intel's CEO ends this week.

• Nvidia says Tegra 4 devices will be announced this quarter

  By Agam Shah | 09 May, 2013 22:28

  The first mobile devices to use Nvidia's Tegra 4 chips will be announced this quarter, meaning smartphones and tablets based on the new processor should be available soon.

• Galaxy S4's U.S. version needs added image processor for eye-tracking

  By Matt Hamblen | 09 May, 2013 19:37

  Samsung has built several different Galaxy S4 smartphones, including a U.S. version running a Snapdragon processor that requires an extra image processor to enable heavily promoted user functions such as eye-movement recognition.

• Is this leaked hybrid the world's first Haswell-powered laptop?

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 09 May, 2013 19:35

  Sony's refresh of its Ultrabook convertible notebook line will be slim and run for 10 hours before seeking a socket, if an alleged leaked video is to be believed.

• Could be business as usual with Intel's new CEO

  By Sharon Gaudin | 02 May, 2013 20:17

  With Intel's new CEO ready to step up next month to lead the world's largest chip maker, industry analysts don't expect to see any big change in strategy.

• With Intel's Otellini out next month, no CEO replacement yet

  By Sharon Gaudin | 16 April, 2013 22:35

  Just a month before Paul Otellini steps down as CEO of Intel, the company does not yet have a replacement.

• Oracle takes apparent step toward standardizing on a single chip design

  By James Niccolai | 08 April, 2013 10:08

  Oracle's unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors marked what some analysts think is a step toward an expected standardizing of the vendor's two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture.

• The pros and cons of an Apple-Intel divorce

  By Tom R. Halfhill | 22 January, 2013 14:37

  There's no need for an OS X-iOS merger, but Apple could ditch Intel in its Macs -- or adopt Intel in the iPhone and iPad

• The pros and cons of an Apple-Intel divorce

  By Tom R. Halfhill | 22 January, 2013 14:37

  There's no need for an OS X-iOS merger, but Apple could ditch Intel in its Macs -- or adopt Intel in the iPhone and iPad

• AMD passing on phones, focusing on tablets and hybrids

  By Sharon Gaudin | 09 January, 2013 11:07

  The PC market may be taking a beating but chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is has no plans to move toward the hot new market: smartphones.

• Best products of 2012: Cool PC accessories

  By PCWorld staff | 29 November, 2012 15:17

  This is where we give key peripherals, components, and networking products their due. The competition was particularly fierce in the router market this year, as companies jockeyed for position in both the nascent 802.11ac space and the more established 802.11n segment.

• Europe looks to ARM chips for supercomputing edge

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 15 November, 2012 11:13

  The European Union is moving to build a high-performance computing industry to challenge U.S. dominance, but it doesn't want to play catch-up. It wants to leapfrog, and it is seeing whether ARM Holdings technology can give it that edge.