Engineers are one step closer to developing an optical computer, following the successful creation of an optical transistor from a single molecule.

You have to ask whether they've really thought this through: using a giant robot rat to find disaster survivors. Victims might just decide to stay where they are.

Psystar, currently under legal fire by Apple and bankruptcy proceedings, is selling computers again, including a not so cheap Core i7 enthusiast system.

Sales of semiconductors worldwide rose by 5.4 percent in May, compared to the previous month.

Dell is trying to appease Taiwanese consumers threatening legal action over a pricing mistake.

Apple has issued gear to its retail stores that can fix the problem of cracked screens.

German scientists have created batteries so thin that they can be printed out, and reckon they'll be doing it on a commercial scale by the end of the year.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is the first major workstation vendor to announce systems that can be ordered with AMD’s monolithic 6-core Opteron 2400-series processors, previously code-named Istanbul. With up to 12 cores, HP’s workstation is an option to Intel Nehalem-based DP workstations.

We may be seeing the next capacity jump in memory cards soon, as Micron today announced that it has begun mass production of 34 nm NAND flash memory chips, resulting in 16 Gb and 32 Gb devices that should pave the way to 16 GB mainstream cards as well as 64 GB cards on the high end.
 

AMD has released the mysterious Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR processor, which is, according to the company, the most capable processor desktop CPU offered by the company. In fact, the CPU is so special and rare that you can’t buy it. If you are a famous overclocker you are almost certain to get a free sample and you may have a chance to get your hands on it if you say ‘please, please’ and promise to spend all your time on overclocking it. Otherwise, your best bet may be Ebay – and it will be expensive as there are less than 100 chips available.