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Intel won’t ship its Larrabee graphics processor, but elements of the chip will be used in future server and laptop processors, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. The company on late Tuesday said it wouldn’t bring its first discrete graphics processor to market, ending speculation about the chip’s fate after the company last year said [...]

Intel will soon release new low-power processors for a class of thin and light laptops that bridge the gap between netbooks and mainstream laptops, a company spokeswoman confirmed on Friday. The new processors will be available under Intel’s Core i3 and Core i5 brands and will power laptops that are as portable as netbooks but [...]

AMD is offering prizes to drum up more interest ahead of this month’s launch of its 12-core server chip, as rival Intel also has server-chip launch plans. AMD will award prizes valued at $8,189 to the person who best describes in an essay, video or blog post how to use 48 cores in a server, [...]

Advanced Micro Devices is expected to show off its latest laptop processors on Thursday, including quad-core chips for laptops that are due in a few months. The chips will include two to four cores and achieve higher levels of integration that could offer longer battery life to laptops, AMD spokesperson Steve Howard said at an [...]