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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) got another vote of confidence in the power of its 64-bit Opteron processor this week when China's Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd. took the wraps off an Opteron-based supercomputer, capable of handling more than 10 trillion floating operations per second (TFLOPS).

China has long been one of the fastest growing markets for mobile telecommunication services, but statistics released by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) for the first half of this year reveal that subscriber growth has slowed substantially in the world's most populous country, both in terms of percentage growth and the number of new subscribers.

The number of Internet users in China grew at a markedly slower rate during the first half of 2003 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the latest figures released by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) in its Semi-annual Survey Report on the Development of the Internet in China.

Intel Corp. is looking to boost its wireless networking push with the development of chips that will be the building blocks in broadband wireless networking equipment that could replace existing last-mile networking technologies, such as cable and digital subscriber lines.

Intel Corp. is looking to boost its wireless networking push with the development of chips that will be the building blocks in broadband wireless networking equipment that could replace existing last-mile networking technologies, such as cable and digital subscriber lines.

Via Technologies Inc. is getting into the mobile computing market with the introduction of a low-power processor designed for use in slim and light notebooks.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Taipei District Court has dismissed a criminal complaint filed by Taiwanese mobile phone maker DBTel Inc. against Motorola Electronics Taiwan Ltd., Motorola Inc. said Thursday.

Today marks the 100th day since the World Health Organization (WHO) first alerted the world to the threat of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and companies that do business in China are beginning to count the cost of the disease.