When it comes to platforms, AMD's senior VP likes to think his firm has better offerings than its arch-rival Intel, and says this fall will be "very exciting" for his company.

With a diameter of just one millimeter, a tiny robot has been unveiled that will crawl through the body to diagnose artery blockage

DX11 will be the biggest step of the decade for graphics, AMD's Rick Bergman told us recently. AMD is pushing hard to be first with the compatible hardware

As AMD makes its roadmap simpler to understand, Intel is doing the exact opposite and sowing confusion, giving its rival significant channel traction.

An Isuppli reportpredicting the death of Moore's Law by 2014 has analysts close to Intel breaking out in hives.

Displayport promises HDMI-like image quality and ability to carry high-definition audio. Now Sapphire is taking advantage of this contender for the future of graphics card connectivity

AMD gave Computex visitors a bit of a treat this morning in Taipei at its press conference by showing off the world's first demo of DX11 graphics silicon, which is suspected to be the forthcoming RV870 GPU

At Computex today, home grown Taiwanese firm Acer unveiled its new Aspire One netbook sporting the Android operating system.

Intel's Sean Maloney kicked off Intel's first Computex keynote yesterday with praise for the Taiwanese motherboard makers, talk of Wimax and some optimistic talk about innovation being the way out of the present economic crisis

The old rate race is back on again between Nvidia and AMD, with Daamit doing its darndest to get a few DX11 cards out the door before the end of 2009, before the green goblin pulls the GT300 series cards out of its hat

AMD is likely to shift production of desktop CPUs to 45nm process technology by the third quarter of 2009 and launch several new CPUs, say sources in the know.

Nvidia will be heavily plugging GPU computing, Tegra, and Ion at this year's Computex in Taipei, whilst leaving talk of core-logic chipsets for the mainstream and performance segments by the wayside.

After already having spent a few days floating around the web, AMD has decided to make it official and announce that its new ATI Catalyst 9.5 drivers are, indeed, out.

AMD'S upcoming notebook platform, Tigris, is ready to roar at Computex 2009, according to reports in the Chinese-language Commercial Times.

Spanish firm iUnika has shown off four new netbooks at a Free Knowledge Foundation sponsored LibreMeeting in Madrid, including a couple of super eco-friendly models sporting solar panels and made from bioplastic.

ARM is looking to tap into a new stream of revenue from netbooks, fending off Intel's invasion into the mobile space by pushing further and further into the PC space according to Bob Morris.

Nvidia reckons Open CL and Direct X are key to operating system acceleration on the GPU and claims GPGPU (general-purpose graphics processing units) will allow for serious speed-ups of Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Snow Leopard.

ARM's Director of Mobile Computing, Bob Morris, says he sees a "fundamental shift" in the PC industry towards lower power, "full day use model" devices and reckons his firm is well placed to bring the fight to Intel in the cheaper than Atom chips sub $200 market.

We recently reported that the Taiwanese rumour mill was buzzing with whispers about Foxconn building a netbook for Apple, but now Apple's COO, Tim Cook, seems to have pooh-poohed the whole notion of netbooks, calling them "junky".

We've picked up on some Chinese whispering which would have us believe Apple could be about to release its very own netbook, with Foxconn Electronics chosen as the fruity toymaker's main manufacturing partner.