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The latest Intel and AMD microarchitectures fall short of promised performance gains, Facebook's operations chief says.

Intel and Nokia are in a research agreement to work on Intel chips and chipsets for mobile devices.

Nvidia hopes to develop chips that enable applications such as image recognition and video search on mobile devices like smartphones and low-cost laptops, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said on Tuesday.

Intel is getting ready to release two processors, an Atom chip called Pineview and a new desktop processor called Clarkdale, that include integrated graphics, a capability that spells the beginning of the end for third-party chipsets with integrated graphics.

An improved version of Via Technologies' Nano processor is on track to ship later this year, with a dual-core version set to follow soon after.

Intel's acquisition of Wind River on Thursday is a strong push by the chip maker to extend Linux support across devices that use its processors, analysts said.

Anand Chandrasekher, the senior vice president of Intel's ultra mobility group, showed off a handful of sleek prototype mobile devices containing its upcoming Moorestown platform at the Computex exhibition in Taipei on Thursday.

AMD plans to deliver its first graphics processor with support for Microsoft's new DirectX 11 graphics API later this year, it said Wednesday at Computex in Taipei.

After several years researching the natural variances in computer chips that that are impossible to control, model, or replicate, Srini Devadas realized he could exploit them to create a class of electrical circuit primitives -- called physical unclonable features, or PUFs -- that let each chip have a unique, noncopyable signature.

Netbooks made with the processors required to run Google's Android software will be on show at Computex Taipei 2009 this week from at least five or six companies, an executive from Arm Holdings said Monday.

Nvidia President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took a shot at rival Intel on Monday, telling reporters that computers running Windows 7 with an Atom processor paired with Nvidia's Ion graphics chip can be cheaper and more powerful than systems based on Intel's mobile processors designed for slim laptops.