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• Intel to ship new Pineview netbook chips in Q4

  Intel will ship a new line of Atom processors for netbooks and nettops during the fourth quarter of this year, a company official said late on Wednesday.

• Intel targets homes with new processor for TVs

  Intel's chips already go into many laptops, but it is now making a play for television sets and cable boxes through a new processor it released on Thursday.

• Intel ports Linux netbook OS to desktops

  Intel has expanded the scope of Linux-based Moblin by porting the OS from netbooks to mobile devices and desktops, where it could compete with Microsoft's Windows OS.

• Intel releases fastest laptop chips to date

  Intel on Wednesday released its fastest laptop processor to date, also setting the stage to release its next generation of chips for mainstream laptops.

• Intel connects PCs to devices using light

  Intel is working on a new optical interconnect that could possibly link mobile devices to displays and storage up to 100 meters away, a company official said on Wednesday.

• Intel shows laptop with four screens

  Intel is showing off a prototype laptop this week that has four screens, increasing the display area so that multiple applications can be viewed simultaneously.

• Intel ahead of schedule with new Xeon server chips

  Intel is set to start production of its next-generation Xeon quad-core server chips ahead of schedule, which could then appear in systems as early as the first quarter of next year, a company official said on Tuesday.

• Moore's Law has decades left, Intel CTO predicts

  Moore's Law will keep going strong for decades, Intel CTO Justin Rattner predicts.

• Intel shows working Larrabee system

  Intel on Tuesday demonstrated the first system based on its Larrabee graphics processor, providing some more details about a product that remains something of a mystery.

• Otellini says PC industry on brink of recovery

  The PC industry is set to come out of the most damaging recession in decades as computer shipments begin to pick up, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said on Tuesday.

• Seagate ships self-encrypting drives for enterprises

  Seagate Technology has announced it is shipping its Seagate self-encrypting drive (SED) across its portfolio of enterprise-class hard drives.

• Intel promotes app store model for netbooks

  Intel on Tuesday took a step in bringing application stores to netbooks, announcing a program that will help developers build applications for mobile devices.

• Updated: Intel accuses EC of mishandling antitrust evidence

  Intel on Monday sharply criticized the European Commission, which found it guilty of anticompetitive behavior, accusing the regulator of being selective with evidence it looked at and, essentially, setting out to find the company guilty.

• EU reveals 'smoking gun' e-mails from Intel antitrust probe

  In an unusual move, the European Commission unveiled e-mail exchanges between Intel and computer manufacturers that its antitrust officials describe as "smoking gun" evidence from the probe that resulted in the chip maker being fined just over $1.45 billion in May.

• New Linux Moblin netbooks to be announced at IDF

  A new Linux netbook based on Moblin will be introduced this week, and it may represent a new way that the Linux community is approaching the mass market.