Sources close to AMD tell Digitime of the company's plans to release 6 Llano-series desktop APUs in Q3 2011, with 5 more following in Q4 2011, in its effort to take on Intel's Sandy Bridge.

AMD should be unveiling its 32nm A-series Llano APUs at Computex Taipei 2011, the sources continue.

Llano the code name for AMD's Sandy Bridge rival-- with the A-series chips carrying dual- or quad-core processing units, Radeon HD 6000-series graphics chip and dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. They are also meant to have power-saving features, including Read more...

Jon Peddie Research reports the global workstation market gaining a moderate 6.4% sequential gain in Q4 2010-- growth the analyst describes as a new high water mark (at least compared to 2010's recessionary lows). 

In total the industry shipped 903.7 thousand workstation units in Q4 2010.

HP and Dell continue reigning the W.W. workstation market-- HP has the lead with 41.3% market share, while former leader Dell has 37.2% share. JPR also believes HP's current leadership represent a long-term "changing of the guard" for the workstation market's top.  Read more...

HP CEO Léo Apotheker outlines the company's strategy for the future, in his first major speech since taking control-- with the announcement of the company's shift towards cloud-based ambitions.

The company is set to open what it calls "the industry's first open cloud marketplace", combining the consumer app store with an enterprise application and services catalog.

It also has data center plans for developers and business customers-- where they build and host internet-based applications within both public and private clouds.

WebOS will also Read more...

i/o opens a new factory to produce its ANYWHERE fully integrated data center modules. 

With an initial capacity of up to 18 MW of data center modules per month, the factory is set to start off its assembly lines by Q2 2011's end. 

ANYWHERE modules include all infrastructure required for always-on data centers, with an architecture scaling to 1000s of cabinets in a single deployments. On top of all this is the i/o OS, a fully integrated data center monitoring, alarming, remote control and management system. 

It provides real-time information on critical Read more...

As reports speculated over the last week, Nokia and Microsoft announce what they're calling a "broad strategic partnership" taking on Google and Apple in the smartphone war.

The partnership involves Nokia putting Symbian development aside in favour of using Windows Phone 7-- concentrating on hardware design instead. 

Both companies will share technology-- Nokia phones will adopt Bing and adCenter, Nokia Maps will become part of Microsoft's mapping services, while Nokia's Ovi app store will integrate with Microsoft marketplace (with Microsoft providing Read more...

Cisco announces its acquisition of Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) digital media processing platform provider Inlet Technologies, just on the eve of Barcelona's Mobile World Congress. 

Inlet's ABR technology adapts video stream quality based on real-time network conditions-- technology Cisco was surely looking for as it sets to strengthen its Videoscape platform.

The acquisition itself involves $95m worth in cash and retention-based incentives for all of Inlet's shares,a deal that should concclude by Q2 2011's end. 

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