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Worldwide availability is being explored, although the service is offered only in the U.S. for now. The company also announced new ultraportable Elitebook laptops with Intel's latest Sandy Bridge processors

The technology, which uses silicon photonics, will be in products in about four years, an Intel researcher says. It should enable faster data transfers between smart phones, tablets, PCs and peripherals

The companies hope to bring more storage capacity to tablets and smart phones. The flash memory, made using 20-nanometer process technology, will provide more dense storage than earlier flash chips made using older manufacturing technologies

The tablet will be available in the U.S. on April 24. No word yet on a Canadian launch date

The deal will shrink the number of players in an already small group of analog semiconductor suppliers, an analyst says

The company's new PowerEdge microservers are single-socket, low-power servers aimed at cutting energy bills. The new servers are built for customers looking to host Web, print, content or file servers

The processor giant said the departure of Anand Chandrasekher won't hurt development of tablet and smart phone chips. Intel has struggled to make its presence felt in this market thus far

The upcoming Llano chip puts AMD in a better position to compete with Intel, which offers Sandy Bridge chips