Intel has released a short animated video illustrating the process by which sand is turned into silicon and a CPU. But the over-simplicity has us leaning towards AMD's older and more interesting video

Parallels is making Windows applications on the Mac an even more seamless experience with the release of Desktop 5 for Mac, which adds support for Windows 7 and a new Crystal view mode that gives Windows applications a more Mac-like appearance.

Apple's latest update brings a beefier iMac lineup with better-than-HD screens and tasty new peripherals

Intel’s three new CPUs promise Core i7 power in an economical and efficient package. We put them through their paces to see whether small really is beautiful

Chip giant Intel has taken the wraps off its latest mobile processor based on its Nehalem architecture..

Intel has delivered a sneak preview of the innovations and products expected at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco next week..

Get your head around the new range of Intel desktop silicon, including the new Nehalem-based Core i5 and i7 chips.

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..

The Nehalem-based xeons are a landmark release, with exceptional performance married to great power.

Several PC makers expect to have Nehalem-EX 16-core DP desktops, in fact super workstations, at the chip's launch towards year-end

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.

The long awaited Core i5 'Mainstream' processors are finally on the way to desktops, complementing Intel's existing Core i7 enthusiast processors.

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

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

AMD celebrated its Opteron chip's sixth birthday in a fitting way by accelerating the six-core Istanbul release to June, and by announcing the 12-core total of two Istanbul dies in one Magny-Cours package to come out half a year later.

A glimpse of things to come from Intel's Clarkdale processor.

The days of unreliable seven-day forecasts may be a thing of the past, thanks to the Bureau of Meteorology's investment in a new Sun Microsystems supercomputer that uses Intel's new Xeon 5500 chip.

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.

Microsoft is experimenting using tiddly netbooks to run data centres.