Stories by: Sharon Gaudin

Intel's lawyers are evaluating whether a new manufacturing business spun out of Advanced Micro Devices could end a long-standing cross-licensing agreement between the firms.

By splitting off its manufacturing operations into a separate company, Advanced Micro Devices could be on track to become the nimble, innovative company that once had Intel on the run.

A US federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to halt experiments in the world's largest particle collider.

A system administrator - not a mathematician - used a grid of computers supplied by volunteers at the University of California, Los Angeles, to find the world's largest known prime number. The immense number is made up of nearly 13 million digits.

Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a quad-core processor-based server. After all, he figured, more cores means a more powerful machine that can do far more work than single-core systems.

Think of supercomputers and you tend to think of multi-million dollar machines that easily take up a football field. With miles and miles of cabling and cooling systems running beneath the floors.

The processor world has officially moved beyond quad-core.

A former Intel design engineer has been charged with theft of trade secrets from the chip maker while secretly working for rival Advanced Micro Devices.

Lenovo is cutting back on sales of desktops and laptop systems with the Linux operating systems pre-installed.

Advanced Micro Devices Monday unveiled more triple-core processors, adding to several models released earlier this year.

Just weeks before Intel is expected launch its six-core Dunnington processors, the company Monday unveiled four new Xeon chips.