From DailyTech: There’s no question that the popularity of touch-based tablets like the Apple iPad caught the PC industry off guard. Once it became clear that the iPad wasn’t just a simple fad that would go away, the industry responded to get their own competing products out the door...

From X-bit Labs: As the rumours about Intel Corp.’s plan to abandon microprocessor sockets in the future mainstream desktop platforms emerge and then get partly denied, Advanced Micro Devices promised to continue using sockets for its chips for at least another two years. Considering...

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to enable even slimmer notebooks (ultrabooks) and business-oriented tablets, Intel Corp. will release Core i-series and Pentium-series “Ivy Bridge” processors with thermal design power of just 10W or 13W. Makers of actual computers will be able to further...

From CNET News.com: Nokia announced a new lower-end Windows Phone today, the $249 Lumia 620, hoping customers will be drawn to its rounded corners and bright colors when it launches in January of 2013.

The Lumia 620 is a 3G model with a 3.8-inch screen, 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4...

From DailyTech: Computer maker HP has filed suit against Chunghwa Picture Tubes and Tatung Company of America seeking to recover damages because of LCD price-fixing. Both of those companies are subsidiaries of Tatung Company, a consumer electronics maker from Taiwan.

In November of...

From DailyTech: Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V) announced on Tuesday that it had at last located a buyer for its gleaming Finnish headquarters. Mired in financial troubles, Nokia has been selling off assets -- including some of its patents -- to help it sustain its Windows Phone 8 push as it...

From X-bit Labs: Globalfoundries, the world’s second largest contract maker of semiconductors, will start to produce test wafers using its hybrid 14nm eXtreme mobility (XM) process technology as soon as in the first or second quarter of 2014. Early adopters of the technology will be...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday released its new server-class microprocessors based on Piledriver micro-architecture that will be used inside machines with one or two processors. AMD positions its nine new chips as ideal for cloud providers and web hosts. The new...

From CNET News.com: Reports suggest that Apple is in the hunt for former Texas Instruments engineers in Israel, in a bid to expand its operations in the country.

According to sources speaking to The Next Web, Apple has been hiring "dozens" of engineers after the chipmaker cut 250...

From DailyTech: TV maker Sharp Corp has been having a very difficult time of late with profitability declining significantly. It was announced today that Qualcomm is set to invest as much is $120 million in Sharp, which would make it the largest shareholder.

One portion of the...