From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics, a major maker of consumer electronics, memory and various semiconductors, said on Wednesday that later this year it would start test production of chips using 20nm process technology. The company will offer its foundry customers test shuttles in...

From X-bit Labs: A media report suggests that Taiwan-based vendors will ship Intel Atom “Medfield” powered devices in the third quarter this year. The release timeframe of the code-named Medfield system-on-chip (SoC) seems to be ahead of schedule.

The first products based on Intel...

From InfoWorld: Google has made available the full SDK for the Android 3.0 mobile platform, featuring a UI redesigned for tablets and more connectivity options.

Also being released are updates to SDK tools and ADT (Android Development Tools) for Eclipse (10,0.0). "We are pleased to...

From PC World: Nintendo's revised and formalized its glasses-free 3DS handheld launch lineup, and we've got the changes, which boost the game tally from 13 to 18 in total. That's if we're counting all three iterations of nintendogs + cats separately, anyway.

The list looks pretty...

From CNET News.com: Business computers have long been an area where design has started to matter, and HP's newest line of business-oriented EliteBook p- and ProBook b- and s-series laptops do their best to provide some additional style to IT-friendly computers.

We've already...

From CNET News.com: The Dell XPS 15, though bulky, was one of our top mainstream laptops in 2010. Updates to the XPS 15 and 17 line of high-end Dell laptops retain the somewhat homely look of their predecessors, but add new second-generation Core i-series processors, upgraded...

From DailyTech: The Windows Phone 7 platform was a pretty ambitious undertaking for Microsoft. It represented a complete reboot for Microsoft's mobile efforts and offered up perhaps the most innovative interface on the market today. But it was not without problems.

Since launch...

From DailyTech: For those of you running Windows 7 (and that's likely a huge portion of DailyTech readers), Microsoft has officially made Service Pack 1 (SP1) available to the public. This move comes just a week after Microsoft provided SP1 to MSDN/TechNet subscribers.

“Remember -...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. may formally introduce the first commercial implementation of the already well-known Light Peak interface as early as this Thursday. Moreover, Apple can be the first implementer of the technology with its new breed of Macbook Pro notebooks.

On Thursday...

From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has initiated shipments of its first commercial chips made using 28nm process technology. At present TSMC manufactures only field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) using its most simplistic 28nm fabrication process called...