Tom Krazit

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has made itself into a consistent thorn in Intel Corp.'s side with its Athlon XP desktop processors over the last few years, but hasn't made much headway against Intel's popular Xeon processors and notorious Itanium 2 processors for servers. On Tuesday, the company will unveil its Opteron server chip, which puts a new twist on a familiar technology.

Shipments of Intel Corp.'s new 3GHz Pentium 4 processor have been halted Monday due to the discovery of an "anomaly," according to an Intel spokesperson.

Microsoft Corp. will release a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) forthcoming Opteron and Athlon64 processors, the company announced Wednesday.

Intel Corp. released a new software tool aimed at helping developers check for bugs in multithreaded software applications for use on processors with Intel's hyperthreading technology.

Intel Corp. updated its XScale line of processors for PDAs (personal digital assistants) Monday with three new chips that make use of stacked flash memory and a smaller design.

Unisys Corp. released the newest version of its server management software Monday along with new software programs that manage applications on its data centre servers.

Third-quarter revenue at Palm Inc. fell sharply compared to the third quarter of last year, and the company posted a loss even after excluding a pair of charges, the company said Thursday in a release.

IBM Corp. is voluntarily recalling about 56,000 monitors that have the potential to catch fire due to a faulty component on the monitors