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.

M18 chips aimed at multimedia mobile phones.

Two packages on a chip will help AMD to regain chip lead.

The announcement of a pair of 2GHz dual-core processors from ARM has drawn speculation over a new chip war with Intel in the netbook space, despite the fact that products based on the chips are not likely to appear for at least another year.

Prototype 'Alverstone' memory chips unveiled.

Company readies Phenom processors to compete with Intel's latest offerings.

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

Although it may be hard to tell from the explosion in chip speeds in the past year, an end to Moores Law is in sight. Manufacturing chips economically at 0.1 microns and below is going to be a challen

Consumer laptops upgraded with Core 2 chips.

There will be several iterations of the Voodoo4/5, each with a different number of VSA-100 chips, ranging from one to four running in SLI (Scan Line Interleave). The Voodoo5 5500 features two VSA-100 chips and has a total of 64Mb of 166MHz SDRAM, although both chips require their own texture memory, so some of the RAM is shared.

AMD’s next generation of CPUs brings 45nm technology and higher clock speeds - but is that enough to compete with Intel’s latest and greatest?

Chip firm will release its first six-core Opteron this summer.

DDR2 is here, but there's more to it than meets the eye. Tim Dean takes a look at the good and bad of tomorrow's memory.

Analysts at Gartner have got all excited about the fact that carbon chips are now ready for mass production.

Thinner chips and better sawing, bonding and connections.

First "Deneb" chips debut, but will the new CPU generation be too little too late for AMD?

16GB Nand chips double read/write speeds.