Agam Shah

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Intel acknowledges SSD 320 bug, working on upgrade

Power loss could cause Intel's SSD 320 solid-state drives to lose data. On rebooting the system, the system BIOS could report the SSD as having only 8MB of storage capacity

Intel investigates possible bug in SSD 320 drives

The chip maker is offering to replace affected drives until the issue is resolved. Intel is also offering live chat support

Intel Sandy Bridge woes fail to help AMD, iSuppli says

AMD's efforts to take advantage of Intel's Sandy Bridge woes fall flat. Intel's sheer volume of chip shipments also helped the company gain revenue share over AMD, ISuppli said

SGI, Intel to speed up supercomputers 500 times by 2018

Silicon Graphics hopes to use Intel's MIC (many integrated cores) accelerator chips for high-performance computing. Today's fastest supercomputers top out at around 2.5 petaflops, but efforts to improve throughput and on-chip performance are under way

Apple will pay Nokia to settle patent suit

Nokia had alleged Apple was infringing its patents in the iPhone, iPad and other devices. The financial terms and structure of the contract were not disclosed by Nokia

HP announces laptops with new AMD Llano chips

The new Pavilion and ProBook laptops have dual- and quad-core A-series chips. The new processors integrate the CPU and graphics processor in a single chip

Intel’s new Atom processor to lower netbook prices

COMPUTEX 2011: The new Atom N435 processor is targeted at sub-$200 netbooks in emerging markets. The single-core Atom N435 runs at 1.33GHz and includes 512KB of cache, making it the slowest of second-generation N-series processors that go into most netbooks today

AMD finally enters tablet market with new chip

COMPUTEX 2011: The new AMD Z-series chips will bring a full PC client experience to tablets, a company executive said. AMD has been criticized for not moving quickly enough to deliver chips for the booming tablet market

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