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iHS iSuppli predicts that Microsoft’s ARM-enabled Windows 8 operating system will bring a new series of low-cost laptops stealing possible a significant share from Intel.

At the moment ARM enabled laptops are almost nonexistent. However, the market analyst believes that in 4 years ARM based laptops will account for 22.9% of global laptop shipments from 3% forecast for next year.

The laptops will be priced well under $700 - many in the sub-$500 segment, according to CNET and iHS-iSuppli analyst Matthew Wilkins.
 

Hewlett-Packard launched a lawsuit against Oracle over Oracle’s decision to terminate developing software for Intel's Itanium processor, the chip used by HP in its high-end servers.

In its filing HP alleges that Oracle's March 22 decision to discontinue all future software development for Itanium violates "legally binding commitments" that Oracle made to HP and the companies' 140,000 joint customers.

Advanced Micro Devices is introducing its new processors that will aim personal computers and challenge Intel and Nvidia. New Llano chips will include both central and graphics processors meant for mid- to high-end laptops and desktop computers.

Part of AMD’s Fusion family the new chips significantly improve battery life and will go on sale very soon.

This week at the Computex technology exhibition in Taipei Asus will show its first new PC in the "Ultrabook" class on Intel chips. Intel says it will include the best features of tablets and will go on sale by Christmas and cost under $1,000.

The Ultrabooks will be slim and lightweight but still pack high-performance processors. They should account for 40 percent of laptop sales to consumers by the end of next year, Tom Kilroy, a senior vice president at Intel, told Reuters in an interview.

Microsoft disclaimed comments made by Intel software chief Renée James at Intel's Investor Meeting 2011 at the company's Santa Clara, California, headquarters this week. The Redmond firm said that James’ comments on the next version of Windows were "factually inaccurate and unfortunately misleading."

Intel announced its plans to launch mass production of the world’s first 3-D microprocessor transistor.

“This transition to 3-D devices will help us continue Moore’s Law,” said Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr at the news conference Wednesday. “Clearly you can pack more things into a small space if you go vertical with 3-D.”

According to the forecast made by market research firm HIS iSuppli, half of the notebooks and a growing number of PCs shipped in 2011 will feature graphics-enabled microprocessors as designers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) increase competition for the units that raise multimedia speeds without additional hardware.

HIS says that the processors with built-in graphics capabilities will be installed this year on 115 million notebooks, half of total shipments, and 63 million desktop PCs, or 45 percent of the total.

As many rumors are roaming about the net about Apple’s forthcoming launch of a new MacBook Pro, more details are surfacing about the new technologies that will be used in the next generation of Apple’s MacBook Pros or iPads. It was reported that Apple may deploy Intel's Light Peak technology, introduced in 2009.

A $5 billion high-end microchip factory will be built by Intel Corp in Arizona by the year of 2013 as the world’s largest chip maker wants to boost up the US manufacturing capacity.

Intel said in a statement that the construction should start this year and when completed the plant will make next-generation 14-nanometer line-width transistors and microchip wafers of 300 millimeters.

Earlier last year Intel said that it plans to spend $6 billion to $8 billion on high-tech manufacturing facilities in Arizona and Oregon, creating as many as 8,000 construction jobs.

According to new prognosis made by many analysts major tech companies will likely manage to keep up their sales and profit growth in 2011 while still economic troubles in the United States and euro zone debt issue could impact the results.

Intel Corp and other sector heavyweights are expected to keep expanding, albeit at a slower pace than in 2010. Meantime, heavy suppliers like Oracle Corp should enjoy some revival of corporate spending in the first half, while select consumer-centric companies should also do well.

$1.5 billion will be paid by Intel Corp to Nvidia to license a technology putting an end to a legal dispute between two tech Titans. It was a major victory for Nvidia whose shares climbed up 4 after hours in recognition of the value of its high-end graphics technology to Intel.

Under the terms of the settlement agreement Intel will have the right to use Nvidia's technology in its PC chips as graphics processing becomes increasingly important.

Advanced Micro Devices has joined the open source MeeGo project launched by rival Intel and Nokia in a move to benefit from potential growth in demand for devices using the new platform.

Intel and Nokia announced their plans earlier this year to develop MeeGo, a merger of Nokia's Linux Maemo software platform with Intel's Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-source software.

The MeeGo operating system was designed for netbooks, tablets, in-vehicle infotainment systems and smartphones.
 

The world’s largest chip maker Intel plans to “win” the tablet market, as stated by the company CEO Paul Otellini.

"At Intel," he told reporters and analysts on a conference call announcing Chipzilla's third-quarter financial performance, "we're going to utilize all the assets at our disposal to win this segment: the world's best silicon process technology, the best compute architecture, and our global scale."

A new anti-theft technology is under development by Intel to make laptop theft useless for criminals. The company will be incorporating anti-theft technology into laptops and network chip sets, and partnering with developers and hardware OEMs to deliver enhanced anti-theft technology. By placing crypto keys in hardware the technology will render a stolen laptop useless even if a thief swaps its hard drive.

While Intel confirmed that its HDCP master key indeed leaked to the Internet the chip maker is not worried over the possible pirate use of the key. The company says it will sue anyone who does it.

“There are laws to protect both the intellectual property involved as well as the content that is created and owned by the content providers,” said Tom Waldrop, a spokesman for the company, which developed HDCP. “Should a circumvention device be created using this information, we and others would avail ourselves, as appropriate, of those remedies.”