September 1, 2010 10:48 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers

Testing on IBM's new 5.2GHz processor pauses for a publicity photo.
(Credit:
PRNewsFoto/IBM)

IBM’s newest chip for mainframes boasts one of the highest speed ratings to date and will go into Big Blue’s fastest mainframe computers.
IBM, no stranger to cutting-edge chip designs, will use the new [...]

June 2, 2010 9:41 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers

IBM, Texas Instruments, Samsung, ARM, and others have formed a company to streamline development of products, such as tablets, on ARM processors.

Newly formed company Linaro is backed financially by a coterie of big companies.
(Credit:
Linaro)

Typically, companies wanting to develop for ARM processors–one of [...]

May 27, 2010 8:17 PM PDT
by Lance Whitney

Higher PC shipments helped Lenovo return to profitability in the fourth quarter.
The Hong Kong PC maker reported on Thursday a fourth-quarter net profit of $13 million versus last year’s fourth-quarter loss of $264 million. Sales for the quarter ended March jumped 56 percent to [...]