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Intel debuts low-cost Itanium 2 chips
News The price is only $107 above the company's fastest desktop and notebook chips, which sell for $637 and are manufactured in much larger volumes, making them cheaper to produce. The Deerfield pricing seems deliberately calculated to attack one of the...
[September 8, 2003, 8:40]
How a handheld could help Dell compete
News Dell is bleeding market share to HP in its core PC business and is embarrassingly close to being overtaken by Acer for second place in the notebook market. His hiring is part of the turnaround mode that Dell has been in for almost a year now, and...
[December 11, 2007, 10:24]
Review of the Week, April 7-11
News The dreadnought attempted a return to calmer waters with the Armada notebook line. With K6 sales to come, the Californian firm said this week it is back in profit. This was the week that Internet Explorer 4.0 went public, the soi-disant Platform...
[April 11, 1997, 16:02]
Transmeta chief: 'We're years ahead of Intel'
News Transmeta Crusoe processors are now found in notebook PCs from seven out of the top 10 Japanese manufacturers, and four out of the top 10 worldwide. On a whistle-stop tour of Europe, where his company now has a sales presence, Transmeta chief...
[October 8, 2002, 15:51]
Microsoft and Dell go Red for Aids campaign
News For each special-edition notebook sold, $50 (£25) will go to the Global Fund. The companies will donate a portion of sales to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria. Microsoft and Dell are teaming up with the "Product Red" campaign...
[January 24, 2008, 15:18]
Dell: Microsoft warnings haven't hurt Linux uptake
News When we announced the Linux notebook we didn't get a call from Microsoft — whatever rumblings have been heard, they haven't been heard in Austin, Texas [where Dell is based]," Jarvis told ZDnet.co.uk.
[October 12, 2007, 13:58]
AMD slashes chip prices
News It's now cheaper to buy AMD's top five Athlon 64 X2 processors as well as the company's Turion ML notebook processors, if you're shopping in quantities of 1,000 processors. AMD reported strong sales of its processors across all segments, while...
[January 24, 2006, 8:50]
HP bumps Athlon up to business class
News On the portable side, pre-merger Compaq adopted AMD's Athlon and Duron chips in its Evo N115 notebook for small and medium-sized business customers. The sudden decline in PC sales in August 2000, however, dampened these plans.
[August 19, 2002, 9:23]
AMD debuts more 64-bit chips
News Advanced Micro Devices will turn up the heat on Intel on Tuesday by releasing a desktop chip and three notebook processors. Still, word-of-mouth recommendations from the enthusiast crowd can be crucial in sales, according to executives from AMD and...
[January 6, 2004, 7:30]
Psion targets corporates in the PDA/PAD market
News Psion also launched a sub-notebook, based on the Intel SA-1100 StrongARM architecture, called the netBook. White-collar users, such as insurance sales staff who need to tap into a form and send it to head office real time are a good example," said...
[July 16, 1999, 18:42]
AMD edges ahead of Intel
News Its share of the notebook market in that category also rose — to 31.5 percent in October from 26.2 percent in September. Intel also is still the market leader when factoring in overall PC sales in the US, including machines purchased through direct...
[November 8, 2005, 17:00]
HP cuts 'don't mean price war' with Dell
News HP says it has been using merger-related efficiencies, which lead to advantages such as lower component prices, to cut prices of its desktop and notebook PCs. For years, Dell has been the aggressor on matters of price, and its reward has been...
[February 14, 2003, 11:48]
The Week In Review
News Compaq recalled faulty adaptors from its Armada notebook line. This time the theme was server databases and Oracle, Sybase et al weren't impressed with Big Green's SQL Server sales arithmetic This was the week that Novell came back in from the cold...
[December 6, 1996, 16:48]
Windows 7 unlikely to cause leap in PC sales
News Veghte was pressed on whether Windows 7 will help Microsoft see improvement in the average selling price of Windows, which has taken a big hit because of the rise of netbooks, a low-cost notebook PC variant.
[June 9, 2009, 9:44]
IT giant opens for business
News The notebook PC has different form factors that require the development of components such as LCD screens, motherboards, keyboards, cases and cooling," he said. Fujitsu Siemens will be headquartered in the Netherlands but most sales and marketing...
[October 1, 1999, 15:11]
Dell sees earnings tumble 63 percent
News The company been spending much more on research and development on products in Round Rock, Texas, and produced another netbook plus more notebook models — including the high-priced Adamo — during the quarter.
[May 29, 2009, 8:55]
Dell beats estimates by a penny
News But he argued that the rising average price was primarily due to a higher mix of notebook PCs and servers, which are both more expensive than traditional desktop PCs. Dell beat expectations for its fiscal first quarter on stronger-than-expected sales.
[May 17, 2002, 12:03]
Desktop-based notebooks lead sales
News Many consumers, looking to trade up from a desktop to a new notebook, have purchased models like the Satellite 1905 because of the price and mix of features, which included a faster processor than available elsewhere -- in this case a 2.4GHz...
[January 9, 2003, 15:12]
Leader: Goodbye desktop, hello mobile
News The price of this single most expensive component in a notebook is collapsing as Taiwanese and Korean manufacturers reap the rewards of years of diligent R&D. Here in the 1998 real world, notebooks account for about 21 percent of all UK PC sales...
[July 1, 1998, 16:07]
IBM will make IDT's chips
News IDT's aim is to steal at least 5 per cent of the low-end notebook market. But with x86 sales expected to reach 100 million units this year, IBM may be hard-pressed to supply the 25 per cent of the market Intel's three rivals hope to take.
[March 18, 1998, 10:18]
