Top 10: Once again, worrisome financial news prevails
Start to finish, the week was full of news related to the sorry state of the global economy, with Sun capping things off by announcing it will cut thousands of jobs. Casting a little hopeful light on yet another week of dismal news was optimism from IT professionals who say that, unlike with previous downturns, they aren't being ordered to make drastic cuts.
AMD jumps into the netbook fray
AMD announced that it was developing processors for netbooks, aiming to supplant Intel's dominance in the space.
AMD jumps into the mini laptop fray
AMD is jumping into the mini laptop space, delivering processors starting in 2009 for small laptops that can run basic applications like Web surfing and e-mail
AMD looks to purge past chip problems with Shanghai
AMD hopes to move beyond past chip blunders with the Thursday launch of its latest quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Shanghai.
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