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• Which CPU? Intel Sandy Bridge vs. AMD Fusion

  Over the next few weeks, Intel and AMD are set to unleash two new families of CPUs: Sandy Bridge (Intel's 2nd Generation Core processors) and AMD Fusion, respectively. These new processing chips offer a range of exciting improvements over existing CPU architecture, including on-board graphics chipsets, increased power efficiency and Full HD video optimisation.

• AMD Radeon HD 6800 series is the new midrange graphics champ

  With the release of the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards, AMD delivers fantastic value for the average PC gamer.

• Analysis: Intel, AMD end a bitter business and technical battle

  The settlement reached today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Intel may not simply resolve some of the business issues the two companies have had; it might even encourage them to cooperate on some shared technical issues, say analysts. In fact, Intel's $1.25 billion payment to AMD may, in the end, turn out to be only a small part of what the accord delivers.

• AMD talks Bulldozer, Hemlock and Fusion

  If chip makers competed on the basis of code names rather than products then Advanced Micro Devices might have beaten Intel a long time ago.

• AMD, Intel budget chipsets go head to head

  For years, Intel and AMD have been battling for predominance in the processor/chipset market. AMD's latest plan seems to be to push back on economic grounds -- to offer high-value budget chipsets targeted at the soon-to-be-released Windows 7 systems, and high-performance chipsets that are slightly slower, but much cheaper, than equivalent Intel products. And Intel is firing back.

• Laptop battery life benchmarks are out of juice

  In an industry that gets off on throwing obscure benchmarks at buyers, laptop battery life is one of the easiest to understand.

• Ghosts of Cyrix, PowerPC, Transmeta haunt x86-bound Nvidia

  Experts have one question about Nvidia's public admission last week that it may offer its own PC processor: What took you so long?

• Intel, AMD multicore chip sales may be slowed by software

  Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a quad-core processor-based server. After all, he figured, more cores means a more powerful machine that can do far more work than single-core systems.