Stories about: First International Computer

Via Technologies released the hardware design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under an open-source license on Tuesday, a move intended to make customization easier and shorten design cycles for system makers.

Everex is refreshing its Cloudbook line of ultraportable, Linux-based notebooks with redesigned models that may eventually include low-power Intel Diamondville processors, bigger screens and more storage.

After introducing a US$198 Linux desktop this week, PC vendor Everex said it will bring Linux laptops under US$300 to users next year.

Nine months after its official launch, Australian developers have already extended the capabilities of the world's first non-proprietary Linux powered mobile phone.

Samsung Electronics has begun producing a flash memory-based solid-state disk drive for mobile computing applications.

Multinational mobile handset makers may be dabbling with Linux-powered phones for Asia and the US, but the Australian market has been largely ignored, that is until OpenMoko arrives later this year.

Taiwanese electronics company First International Computer (FIC) hopes to replicate the open nature of the PC in mobile phones with the debut of a smartphone running an open Linux-based mobile software platform developed by one of its product managers.

Advanced Micro Devices and its hardware partners are taking advantage of the Computex Taipei 2002 exhibition to show off motherboard and chipset support for AMD's upcoming Hammer family of 64-bit processors, with at least one motherboard maker giving a hint as to how fast the desktop version of the chip may run when it ships later this year.

The Low-Powered, Low-heat Crusoe microprocessor from Transmeta Corp. is starting to pop up in more laptops and Internet appliances.