From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest contract maker of chips, said that it did not see Intel Corp. as a threat to its foundry business even after the latter decided to give one of TSMC's customers access to its 22nm process technology, an...

From X-bit Labs: In a completely surprising move, Intel Corp. on Monday said that it would produce field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to privately owned Achronix Semiconductor Corp. using 22nm process technology. For the first time in history the world's largest maker of...

From InfoWorld: After facing virtually no competition for months after releasing the iPad, Apple's dominant market share faces a challenge as consumers consider purchasing tablets that could be viable iPad alternatives.

Competition is always good, and tablets with Google's Android...

From PC World: On Sunday, Sony Ericsson finally started rolling out the Android version 2.1 upgrade to its Xperia X10 family, which also includes other improvements.

Users in the Nordic countries will be the first to get the upgrade, and then the rollout will continue in other parts...

From CNET News.com: After spending the last several months touting itself as "All In" when it comes to cloud computing, Microsoft now plans to spend several hundred million dollars to convince businesses what that actually means.

The software maker is launching its largest-ever ad...

From CNET News.com: Facebook has revealed that a data broker has been buying identifying Facebook user information from app developers, and as a result the social-networking powerhouse has placed some developers on a six-month suspension.

The announcement, which Facebook made Friday...

From DailyTech: Sales rankings in the mobile sector are a bit confusing. There's OS market share, there's smartphone OS market share, there's hardware market share, and there's smartphone hardware market share. To make matters worse, both domestic (U.S.) and global numbers are...

From DailyTech: Sony Corporation, Japan's largest electronics exporter and the fifth largest media conglomerate in the world, reported mixed news when it came to its fiscal second quarter earnings report on Friday.

The earnings were highlighted by some impressive gains. Most...

From X-bit Labs: Throughout its history Intel Corp. has been developing its process technologies all by its own. However, with 10nm manufacturing process even the world's largest maker of chips may form a research alliance with other semiconductor companies.

According to Japanese...

From X-bit Labs: Even though Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company claims that the yields on its most advanced 40nm node are high enough for mass production of advanced chips, actual designers and suppliers of graphics processing units still seem to have problems.

"We have had...