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Acer has thrown in the gauntlet in the tablet war as it has announced that its dual-screen tablet Iconia TouchBook will be available for pre-sale in U.S.

ThinkEquity lowered its profit estimate of Nvidia Corp. citing lower PC graphics growth.

Intel rolls out out a new generation of SSD products

Intel's next generation of SSD products are faster, have higher capacity and use the 25 nanometer NAND flash memory process.

The year 2011 will be the biggest period yet for graphics-enabled microprocessors (GEM), as the penetration of GEMs reaches 50 percent in notebook PCs and 45 percent in desktops, according to IHS iSuppli research.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia launched the GeForceGTX 590 and claims it as the world's fastest and quietest graphics card.

A former Intel Corp managing director testified on Tuesday that he shared the chipmaker's secrets with his close friend, hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, the central figure in the biggest Wall Street insider trading trial in decades.

An Intel Corp executive testified that confidential details about a big wireless network transaction were leaked before the announcement of the deal, a key transaction in hedge fund founder's Raj Rajaratnam insider trading case.

Solid state drives (SSD) in 2011 is expected to a near doubling of revenue and hit more than $4 billion, according to new IHS iSuppli research.

Mosaid Technologies Inc filed a suit against several technology companies, including Intel Inc, Dell Inc and Research in Motion, for what it called patents violations of its Wi-Fi technology.

Intel Corp. has acquired New Venture Partners' portfolio company, Silicon Hive, a spin-out from Philips Electronics (Philips). Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Intel is said to join hands with Taiwan-based notebook makers to push in to Android tablet PC market, a move after Microsoft said its Windows operating system will add support for ARM-based platforms.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said it has agreed to acquire additives maker Lubrizol for $135 a share in cash, or $9 billion, making it one of the largest acquisitions in its history. Eli Lilly and Co. announced that it has made an irrevocable, unconditional offer to acquire the animal health business of Belgium-based Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, a Johnson & Johnson Co.

The company is looking to create supercomputers with 1,000 times more power than today's machines.

NVIDIA's chief executive officer, Jen-Hsun Huang, said the company will focus on making its signature graphics processors more energy efficient with parallel architectures, with its innovation targeting the mobile computing sector.

The list includes the latest cool gadgets across the globe.

A sweeping insider trading case that shook the hedge fund world is finally set for trial, with onetime billionaire Raj Rajaratnam fighting to stay out of prison in a courtroom drama over corporate secrets, tapped telephones and friends-turned-government witnesses.

Shares of Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) touched a new 52-week high of $34.90 on Wednesday.

Apple iPad 2 was spotted in Amazon’s German website by Yourdailyapple.net.

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) could be an attractive acquisition target for companies, including Broadcom Corp. and Oracle.

SeaMicro, a manufacturer of low energy data servers, is using Intel dual-core processors for its next major product.