Tom Krazit

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has agreed to purchase the Information Appliance business unit of National Semiconductor Corp. for an undisclosed amount, adding chips for thin-client devices and set-top boxes to AMD's portfolio, the companies announced Wednesday.

Benchmark results for unannounced Opteron processors posted on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) Web site, coupled with steep price cuts on the Opteron line Monday, appear to indicate that AMD is planning to introduce three new Opteron chips in the coming weeks.

PeopleSoft Inc. Friday closed its deal to acquire J.D. Edwards & Co., purchasing 88 per cent of the outstanding shares of its fellow enterprise software firm, and expecting to buy the remaining shares by the end of August.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) expanded its range of Opteron processors Monday, adding the 800 series for eight-way servers and the 100 series for single-processor servers, the company said in a release.

Dell Computer Corp. will offer its notebook customers the choice of wireless LAN (WLAN) or wireless wide area network (WWAN) technology under an agreement signed Tuesday with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to let Dell customers connect to cellular data networks through an expansion card.

On top of two new notebooks, Hewlett-Packard Co. took the time Wednesday to announce a new line of Pavilion desktop PCs and Media Center PCs to attendees at CeBIT America in New York.

The Pentium 4 processor got a little faster Monday, as Intel Corp. bumped up the processor's clock speed to 3.2GHz, making it the fastest chip in Intel's product line.

The Pentium 4 processor got a little faster Monday, as Intel Corp. bumped up the processor's clock speed to 3.2GHz, making it the fastest chip in Intel's product line.