Tom Krazit

As processors continue to grow smaller, chip designers are hammering away at the power consumption of those chips while examining power-thrifty methods of increasing performance, according to presentations at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Monday.

Intel Corp.'s next generation Xeon processor and future versions of the Prescott Pentium 4 processors will come with 64-bit extensions technology, said Craig Barrett, Intel's chief executive officer, Tuesday during his opening keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

Intel Corp. has developed a way to move light through silicon at gigahertz speeds that could boost the bandwidth of servers and PCs with photonic connections, the company said Thursday.

With the IT industry apparently recovered from the downturn of recent years, Intel Corp. will spend its Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) talking about what it considers technology's next era: increasing mobility, the digital home, and the "tera era" of large data sets and complex applications, executives said Monday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) updated its lineup of Media Center PCs Friday with lower-priced models that feature Intel Corp.'s new Prescott Pentium 4 processors.

Intel Corp. has added software development tools for its recently released Prescott processors to its software library as well as tools to help improve the performance of applications that use its hyperthreading technology, the company said Tuesday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. unveiled its Opteron servers Tuesday along with new servers based on the latest edition of its UltraSPARC processor, as the company hopes to reverse its recent slide with new products and new technologies.

IBM Corp. will unveil the new ThinkPad X40 next Tuesday as the lightest notebook ever built by the company as well as the first...