Tom Krazit

The decision to spin off Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS), announced Monday, brings renewed promise to both SPS and the company's cell phone business despite exposing some of the inner political turmoil at the parent company, analysts said Tuesday.

Motorola Inc.'s embedded and networking semiconductor business will be separated from the rest of the company's operations and spun off as a new entity, Motorola announced Monday.

Motorola Inc. announced a new applications processor last month that is designed to improve the performance of multimedia applications and the security of mobile transactions in cell phones and PDAs.

A lawsuit alleging that IBM Corp. overlooked higher-than-usual incidences of cancer among workers at its manufacturing facilities should be dismissed, the company last week argued in the Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Clara in San Jose.

Ready or not, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) strategy to bring 64-bit technology to the x86 world took its biggest step Tuesday with the launch of the Athlon 64 processor for desktop and notebook PCs.

SAN JOSE - The long-awaited launch of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) Athlon64 processor is less than a week away, and it's only a matter of time before rival Intel Corp. duplicates AMD's approach, the company said Wednesday.

Gateway Inc. will cut 850 manufacturing jobs in addition to the 450 announced at the beginning of September, and further layoffs will come later this year, the firm recently announced.

Motorola Inc. will announce a new applications processor Tuesday that is designed to improve the performance of multimedia applications and the security of mobile transactions in cell phones and PDA.