From DailyTech: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) still is in a very uncertain position. Its GPUs are currently getting outpriced and outcompeted by NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA). On the CPU side, it is shining in certain niches -- heavily threaded applications (with Piledriver server chips...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital announced its solid-state hybrid drives (SSHD), storage devices that combine high-speed NAND flash memory and high-capacity rotating media, last September, but since the products are still in development, they will likely miss window of opportunity...

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital on Wednesday reported revenue for Q2 of its fiscal 2013, which ended on December 28, 2012. The company’s revenue was down significantly as a result of substantial drop in hard disk drive (HDD) shipments and flat average selling price. While the...

From CNET News.com: LG's Optimus G Pro smartphone will reach consumers in April, at least those in Japan.

Japanese provider NTT DoCoMo announced the news yesterday. A Google-translated version of the company's press release revealed early April as the launch date for the successor...

From DailyTech: Google has reported impressive fourth quarter earnings for 2012, but missed analyst expectations on the revenue front.

Google's revenue was $11.34 billion in Q4 2012, not including Motorola Home's sales of $802 million. Analysts were expecting $12.4 billion for the...

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...