From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday confirmed that it had begun revenue shipments of its next-generation Opteron microprocessors powered by Bulldozer micro-architecture with up to sixteen cores and known under Interlagos code-name. The first servers based on the new...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has altered its high-end desktop product plans for next year and cancelled its Komodo central processing unit (CPU) with eight or ten processing cores as well as canned Corona platform. The modified roadmap of AMD includes Vishera...

From Tom's Hardware: Intel released 11 new "Sandy Bridge" processors for the LGA 1155 socket. The release looks to address some price points in the below $100 range and take aim at AMD's "Llano". The Core i3-2125 is one chip designed to take aim directly at the "Llano" with its clock...

From X-bit Labs: Creative Technology, a leading designer of multimedia products, on Monday introduced its first new lineup of SoundBlaster audio cards in years. The latest Sound Blaster Recon3D audio cards will be based on Sound Core3D quad-core multimedia processor deliver hardware...

From Tom's Hardware: The Intel 710, codenamed "Lyndonville", will come in three capacities (100 GB, 200 GB & 300 GB), a 2.5" form factor and will utilize the SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) interface. The new series is setup to succeed the previous generation X25-E series just as the Intel 320...

From PC World: Google says it's working to keep the virtual lights on for businesses that are being incorrectly labeled as "closed" on Google Maps. The issue was raised in a New York Times article that profiled a handful of businesses that had been temporarily labeled closed on...

From CNET New.com: Depending on which of today's Best Buy-related iPhone 5 reports you want to give the most credence to, the highly anticipated gadget could launch during the first week of October, or a bit later, on October 21.

Boy Genius Report's Jonathan Geller says a tipster...

From DailyTech: In the realm of deals that seem technically sound on paper, but are uncertain when it comes to execution, Dell Inc. has entered an alliance with Chinese internet giant Baidu, Inc. to produce tablets and smartphones.

Much like rival Hewlett-Packard Comp., Dell has...

From DailyTech: We learned just a few months ago that Hulu had placed a "for sale" sign on its store window, and now, the video streaming subscription service site is to receive about five first-round bids.

Earlier this year, Hulu, which is owned by Walt Disney Co., News Corp...

From X-bit Labs: JEDEC, an industry-standard setting organization, has announced the publication of release 4 of the DDR3 serial presence detect (SPD) document. The updated specifications supports several new memory module types, including new versions of UDIMM, RDIMM, CDIMM and...