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Intel Atom Processor Shipments for Netbooks Drop
Netbooks may have propped up PC sales during the worst of the recession, but the Intel Atom processors behind popular mininotebooks saw their shipments decline by 33 percent in Q1 compared with Q4, proving they are not recession-proof. The drop in netbook shipments indicates that mininotebook OEMs held significant inventory of Intel Atom processors coming…
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Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10-2 Netbook Offers Bigger Keyboard, Instant-On Skype
Lenovo will release its IdeaPad S10-2, a thinner and lighter update to its IdeaPad S10 netbook, but featuring a bigger keyboard in answer to customer feedback. Like its predecessor, the IdeaPad S10-2 features facial recognition technology and QuickStart instant-on capabilities for applications such as Web browsing and Skype. The IdeaPad S10-2 starts at just over…
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AMD Market Share Leaps Forward, Intel Maintains Dominance
New data from research group IDC shows Advanced Micro Devices gained on arch rival Intel in the first quarter PC microprocessor market. There is of course still a huge gap between the two — Intel earned a 77.3 percent unit global market share, a loss of 4.7 percent, while AMD held 22.3 percent, a gain…
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Intel Says PC Sales Slump Hits Bottom
If chips and processor sales are an indicator of the downstream health of the IT marketplace, Intel chief Paul Otellini is signaling that PC and server sales may have stabilized. He told analysts that Intel sales are “a little better than we expected.” Intel stock value jumped 3 percent in after hours trading following Otellini’s…
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Top 10 Tech Stocks Defying Recession Pressures
Top 10 Tech Stocks Defying Recession Pressures Losses continue to run wild on Wall Street, but tech stocks are one bright spot for those looking to invest. With last month’s earnings round up many companies indicated they have seen the bottom and expect to see modest gains in the second quarter. Following are ten stocks…
