From DailyTech: If you're a budget computer shopper or OEM looking to build budget systems, take note -- Intel Corp. (INTC) is pushing its 22 nm Ivy Bridge cores out into the low end of the commodity CPU market.

The company yesterday announced eight new budget dual-core parts --...

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. is in talks to invest between $1 and $3 billion into Dell as a part of the widespread efforts to take Dell private. The reasons why Microsoft needs a rather significant stake in a large private computer maker are not obvious, but perhaps, Microsoft...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said on Tuesday that it would refresh its AMD Radeon HD family of graphics processors in the first half of the year as well as launch new “Never Settle” free video game bundles program in the first quarter of 2013. Both initiatives are designed...

From CNET News.com: Superstorm Sandy and mounting pension costs took a toll on Verizon.

The New York telecommunications provider posted a fourth-quarter loss of $4.22 billion, or $1.48 a share, compared with a year-ago loss of $2 billion, or 71 cents a share. The results were...

From DailyTech: AMD has hired a pair of new senior engineers that have experience gained from working with Apple and QUALCOMM. Reuters reports that the hires are a sign that AMD is diversifying beyond the computer industry and into the hot mobile sector.

The new engineers are...

From DailyTech: It was a rocky week for one of China's top two smartphone and telecom equipment OEMs and an optimistic one for the other. ZTE Corp. (SHE:000063) on Sunday reported that it would likely lose 2.9B yuan ($466.2M USD) for 2012. ZTE is China's second largest...

From X-bit Labs: The yet-not-officially-announce next-generation video-game systems from Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. are projected to utilize microprocessor technology that is not yet available for personal computers. The recent rumours about Xbox Next and PlayStation 4 “Orbis”...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. is getting ready to release its highest-performing single-chip graphics solution ever in the coming months as it adopts its code-named GK110 graphics processing unit originally positioned for high-performance computing only for the consumer graphics...

From CNET News.com: When Microsoft announced last year a "limited time offer" for Windows 8 upgrade pricing, some thought -- or at least hoped -- the discounted price might be indefinite.

Microsoft officials announced on January 18 that this will not be the case.

After January 31...

From DailyTech: RIM has been selling apps to BlackBerry smartphone users for long time now via its BlackBerry App World. The company has announced that as part of the preparations for the launch of BlackBerry 10 it has changed the name of BlackBerry App World to BlackBerry World. RIM...