Tom Krazit

By the end of May, Intel Corp. will release a new chipset and network adapter for business PC users that brings several new IT management technologies into the PC world, according to company executives. Intel was expected to announce that the Intel 945G chipset and the Intel Pro/1000 PM networking chip will begin to ship in PCs by the end of the month. The new products will allow for the introduction of technologies such as Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) and will fit into Intel's Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP).

Motion Computing Inc. unveiled its latest Tablet PC design Tuesday, hoping to light a fire under a PC category that has not lived up to early expectations. The new Motion LE1600 uses Motion's familiar slate design, but in a much lighter and powerful package than its predecessor, said Elizabeth Clark, director of product marketing for the Austin, Texas, company. The new Tablet PC weighs just 3.1 pounds (1.4 kilograms) with a 12.1-inch display, down 0.25 pounds from the older M1400 Tablet, she said.

Intel Corp.'s top server executive acknowledged the disparity between the server processor road maps of his company and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Thursday, but said Intel should weather the storm based on its revitalized product line and a renewed focus on end users.

Transmeta Corp. will cease production of all but a few of its low-power processors, shifting its focus to building new businesses around engineering services and intellectual property licensing, the company announced Thursday.

After reviving NCR Corp., Mark Hurd now has another reclamation project on his hands. Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP's) board of directors has selected him as the company's new leader following the abrupt dismissal of Carly Fiorina earlier this year, according to multiple media reports Tuesday.

By 2015, Intel Corp. hopes that its early forays into multicore processors and virtualization technology will evolve to more sophisticated technologies that can deliver the levels of performance necessary to transform computing, Intel

A new standard for PC expansion cards is starting to appear in notebooks, bringing wider bandwidth and standards compliance practices to the thousands of...

Fresh off the launch of its Sonoma platform in January, Intel Corp. is pushing ahead with new mobile technologies designed to improve the performance and manageability of notebook PCs, executives said Wednesday. About one-third of all transistors produced today at Intel are dedicated to mobile devices, said Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Mobility Group, during a keynote address.