NewsFactor - AMD’s Puma is coming onto the stage. The new laptop platform from Advanced Micro Devices, with AMD’s dual-core Turion X2 Ultra mobile processor, a seven-series chip set, and ATI Radeon HD 3000 series graphics, was to be unveiled Wednesday at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan.
PC Magazine - AMD’s ATI division on Wednesday announced a new external graphics solution, known as XGP, that will allow discrete graphics modules mounted in an external chassis to be connected to laptop computers. ATI also announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800 graphics chip and a new ATI PowerXpress feature.
PC Magazine - On Wednesday, Windows Mobile device maker HTC announced the Touch Pro, a sliding-keyboard, touch-screen smart phone with an innovative 3D interface and some pretty awesome specs.
USATODAY.com - With rogue ninjas, demons and six-armed behemoths traipsing about, it’s safe to say Ninja Gaiden II’s protagonist has plenty of enemies to battle. Yet Ryu Hayabusa faces a more frustrating obstacle during his bloody journey on the Xbox 360: the camera.
AP - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rolled out a new package of chips for laptops Wednesday, a major overhaul of its mobile lineup the chip maker hopes will help it climb out of a deep financial trough.
PC World - Acer will likely launch more, smaller mobile Internet devices in future, an executive said.
AFP - Japan’s third-largest cellphone operator Softbank Mobile said Wednesday it had clinched a deal to bring Apple’s iPhone to Japan.
PC World - Intel showed off a small PC that uses a chipset to handle Blu-ray video playback.
Reuters - Softbank Corp (9984.T), Japan’s third-biggest mobile phone operator, has agreed with Apple Inc to sell iPhones in Japan by the end of this year, Softbank said in a statement on Wednesday.
PC World - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will uncage its Puma laptop chip platform at events in Taipei and Paris on Wednesday.