Istanbul offers more performance at same power draw as quad-cores.

Boffins from Arizona State University have demonstrated a microrefrigerator which effectively cools a PC system by targeting specific chip hot spots.

In a world first, we've managed to get our hands on a review unit of Sony's stunningly thin ultraportable. Most surprisingly, it sports the newest Atom chip from Intel - the Z550 2.0GHz and GMA 500 graphics.

From budget laptops to ultra-tiny netbooks, ultraportables and high performance, we explain the tricks to finding out the ultimate laptop at the right price.

AMD has released a special limited edition processor designed for heavy overclocking. The Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR chips will support higher voltages and perform at higher frequencies.

There's a lot of fake news going around about the upcoming GPUish chip called the GT300. Let's clear some air on this Larrabee-lite architecture.

At his keynote address to the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco the company's general manager of architecture Sean Maloney will be showing off Intel's first 32nm processor, codenamed Westmere..

Intel unveils new laptop chips, while AMD launches its fastest desktop processors.

A new design and a fantastic new graphics chip, but this latest offering is as flawed and overpriced as ever.

Chip maker AMD has unveiled the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition, which it claims is the world's highest frequency quad-core desktop processor..

A GeForce CPU in your music player? It seems that Nvidia's Tegra chip give Microsoft's Zune - and around 50 other devices - some interesting gaming potential.

Intel has announced that its forthcoming mobile processor, codenamed Moorestown, will be much more efficient than at first thought, and has been showing off prototype devices.

From the Commodore 64 to Microsoft vs Apple, we take a look at the top 10 fights in technology history.

New processors to be based on Nehalem with integrated graphics capabilities.

Intel has officially launched its first Nehalem-based Xeon chips for servers and workstations, bringing increased performance and greater power efficiency in the biggest overhaul of the Xeon platform for years.

While Intel is rolling out new designs, AMD's focus is on getting the most out of its existing Phenom II process. The AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black edition is just what the doctor ordered.

The Nvidia Ion finally pops up in HP's latest netbook addition with an 11.6in screen, 250GB HDD and a graphics chip devoted to 1080p video and even some games.

Tilera has announced a new family of four processors, which includes one it claims is the first with 100 cores.

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.