David Legard

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) on Monday launched its fastest mobile processor to date, the AMD Athlon XP 1800+, the company said in a statement. The 1800+ runs at a clock speed of 1.53GHz, a slight increase over AMD's previous top-of-the-line XP 1700+ mobile processor, which runs at 1.47GHz.

ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) companies should examine the success of Asian companies like Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in creating globally competitive brands, Malaysia

The worldwide market for mobile and professional services will grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 58.5 per cent to be worth US$30.4 billion by 2006, according to estimates released Monday by research firm IDC.

A merger of the cellular phone operations of national carrier Telekom Malaysia Bhd. and Technology Resources Industries Bhd. (TRI) moved closer Thursday with the appointment of four Telekom nominees to the board of TRI, according to the government news agency Berita Nasional Malaysia (Bernama).

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$11.37 billion in May, 2.8 per cent higher than the $11.07 billion reached in April, according to figures released Monday by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

The PC industry has reached the milestone of 1 billion PCs shipped since the advent of personal computers just over 25 years ago, according to research from Gartner Inc. and Intel Corp.

Slowdown may be a relative term in a mobile market which is adding 5 million subscribers per month, but China

A new nanotechnology take on the old punch-card storage system has enabled IBM Corp. researchers to demonstrate a data storage density of 1 trillion bits (1T bit) per square inch -- 20 times higher than the densest magnetic storage currently available, IBM said in a statement Tuesday.