The battle between portable devices is heating up.

Blowing in the wind

New chip will be aimed at ultra-portable notebooks ranging in display sizefrom 11in to 13.3in.

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

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

Speculation from industry insiders has it that Intel is having significant trouble getting publishers and developers to programme for Larrabee.

The new quad line will go head to head with AMD's triple-core CPUs. Another reason to stick with Intel?

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.

Montevina's official launch is on the way, but meantime components are appearing in the wild - including the new 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo T9600.

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.

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 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.

Inteland Ericsson are teaming up to bring High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) to mobile Internet devices (MIDs). Ericsson also announced it would extend its 3G mobile broadband from notebooks to a plethora of other pocket devices.

There's more life in the x86 yet, with Intel pulling up to 8 core multi-threading out of its bag of tricks.

We're in mod-heaven with Gigabyte's new extreme cooling system, which uses tower-like heat sink and pure copper to stop your rig melting.

Freeze!A patch is reportedly on the way if you've an HP AMD machine affected by the SP3 problem.

IBM and its "technology alliance" have announced they'll be moving to 28nm process technology, perfect for small, low-powered, consumer devices and delivering a swift sharp kick to Intel's shins.

Lewis Hamilton wasn't the only Brit setting records for speed today as UK retailer Yoyo Tech unveiled the world’s fastest desktop PC, unceremoniously shoving the two time winning 8-core SUN UltraSPARC system from its throne.

New beta drivers promise extra performance and more...

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