Tom Krazit

Desktop PCs with Intel Corp.'s Grantsdale chipset, scheduled for release in the first half of 2004, will allow users to run wireless networks from their PCs, the company said Monday.

Intel Corp. has demonstrated working SRAM (static RAM) chips with transistors built using the company's 65 nanometer process technology, the company announced Monday.

Intel Corp. plans to aggressively introduce 90 nanometer processors in 2004, and expects continued growth in shipments of wireless chips and high-end server processors as it looks to emerging markets for increased demand, executives told financial analysts in New York Thursday.

Gateway Inc. launched three new enterprise storage devices, including its first entry into the SAN (storage-area network) and NAS (network-attached storage) market, at Comdex on Tuesday in Las Vegas.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) introduced three higher-performing Opteron server processors Monday and announced the chips now support a fast memory standard.

Intel Corp. will change two materials used in the manufacturing of its chips in order to improve performance and reduce power leakage as its transistors shrink over the next four or five years, the company announced Wednesday.

Intel Corp.'s increasing focus on wireless technologies won't include the production of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, said Intel President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini Tuesday at Forrester Research Inc.'s Executive Strategy conference in Boston.

Processor core designer Arm Ltd. and NEC Electronics Corp. have signed an agreement to develop a multiprocessor core for multimedia devices and mobile handsets, the companies announced Monday.