PC World - Advanced Micro Devices is offering prizes to drum up more interest ahead of this month's launch of its 12-core server chip, as rival Intel also has server-chip launch plans.

Reuters - Global chip sales could rise by more than a fifth this year, bringing them back above pre-recession levels, industry watcher iSuppli said on Friday.

PC World - Intel will release its fastest and highly anticipated eight-core Nehalem-EX server processor later this month, a company executive said late Thursday.

InfoWorld - OSGi, which is intended to provide modularity for Java, is the focus of efforts afoot at IBM and the Eclipse Foundation, with IBM leveraging OSGi in its application server and Eclipse using it in a new framework for accessing enterprise technology.

AP - Semiconductor maker Altera Corp. on Wednesday raised its guidance for first-quarter revenue, citing improving sales across its product lines. But even with the boost, the forecast fell short of Wall Street expectations and shares fell in after-hours trading.

PC Magazine - On Tuesday, Asus launched the M4A89GTD PRO motherboard, with a novel feature: the ability to unlock, or enable processor cores that a user hasn't paid for.

PC World - Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said its first six-core processor for desktops will ship in the second quarter of this year.

PC World - AMD has announced its new 890GX chipset, the latest generation of its integrated graphics platform, and the first chipset to natively support SATA 6 Gb/s.

PC World - IBM on Tuesday announced new System x and BladeCenter servers, which are based on a new server design that the company claims will boost application performance while reducing energy costs in data centers.

Fairchild Semiconductor's (NYSE:FCS) N-Channel MOSFETs, the FDZ192NZ and FDZ372NZ, answer that need by providing lower RDS(ON) ratings,