Mobility

Intel Corp.'s first dual-core chip was a hastily concocted design that was rushed out the door in hopes of beating rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) to the punch, an Intel engineer told attendees at the Hot Chips conference.

Costs are on the rise for several types of PC components, including memory chips and LCD screens. But while that's a concern for procurement managers at PC makers like Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., users should have little to fear, analysts said.

Intel Corp. plans to introduce a major change in the architecture used to build its chips during its upcoming Fall Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. The highlight of Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini's keynote speech on Aug. 23 will be the announcement of Intel's "next-generation architecture," which will arrive in the second half of 2006.

If a new key is needed, the car is plugged into a computer that downloads the codes over the Internet to the vehicle and VW

In 1965, Moore penned an article for Electronics Magazine that set the course for the future development of the semiconductor industry, although he had no idea at the time how pervasive Moore's Law would become.

China's Lenovo Group Ltd. has begun work on a project to build a computer that is nearly 10 times more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputer, a company spokeswoman confirmed. When completed, the Lenovo supercomputer will offer performance of 1,000 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second).

Antenna Software, a mobile software vendor that specializes in distributing back-end applications, has arrived in Europe. Antenna already has a number users at European branches of U.S. customers, many of which use Research In Motion (RIM) Blackberrys, according to the company's European vice president Bob Apollo.

On Thursday, China dropped a decade-old peg to the U.S. dollar and said it will allow its renminbi currency to fluctuate more freely against a group of currencies. Initially, the change amounts to a 2 per cent rise to 8.11 renminbi per dollar. Before the revaluation, a dollar bought 8.28 renminbi. It may seem like a small change, but currency fluctuations can have a huge impact on product prices