Sumner Lemon

IDG News Service

Lemon is a reporter for the IDG News Service.

sumner_lemon@idg.com

Recent articles by Lemon

As inflation climbs, Vietnam's PC market on shaky ground
Aug. 29, 2008
Vietnam posted its highest inflation rate in 17 years this month, reporting a 28.3 percent increase in prices as concerns grow about the impact on the country's PC market.

Atom demand still stymied by testing bottleneck
Aug. 29, 2008
Demand for Intel's Atom processor is strong, with computer makers clamoring for more chips to plug into the small, portable laptops called netbooks, but the chips remain in short supply. The problem isn't that Intel can ...

Sony opens lithium-ion battery plant in Singapore
Aug. 28, 2008
Sony was scheduled to open a lithium-ion polymer battery plant in Singapore on Thursday, marking a milestone in the company's efforts to expand its production capacity for batteries.

Time working against AMD's asset-light plans
Aug. 25, 2008
The clock is ticking for Advanced Micro Devices.

Intel will ship dual-core Atom processor next month
Aug. 21, 2008
Intel plans to release a dual-core Atom processor in September, part of a motherboard package that's designed for low-cost desktops, the company said at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

More cores, bigger cache give boost to Dunnington
Aug. 21, 2008
Intel plans to launch its six-core Xeon server processor next month, with the extra cores and a larger cache giving the chip a performance advantage over the company's existing quad-core chips.

Singapore gets iPhone, but no visual voicemail or iTunes
Aug. 21, 2008
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) will start sales of Apple's iPhone 3G handset at midnight tonight local time but users who buy the phones won't get support for visual voicemail or access to videos and music sold ...

OQO shows off handheld computer based on Atom
Aug. 20, 2008
Handheld computer maker OQO showed off an Atom-based device at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, a significant design win for the chip maker.

Malaysia's Packet One launches WiMax service
Aug. 19, 2008
Malaysian WiMax operator Packet One Networks began commercial services Tuesday, marking another step in the ongoing rollout of the broadband wireless technology.

Intel plans to support 2.3GHz, 3.5GHz WiMAX next year
Aug. 18, 2008
Intel plans to extend the frequency ranges supported by its WiMAX chipset next year beyond the 2.5GHz profile, according to a company executive.

Intel drops Centrino Atom brand after five months
Aug. 14, 2008
Intel has dropped the Centrino Atom brand after just five months, opting instead to use just the Atom brand across this part of its product line.

$196M should cover costs of bad graphics chip, Nvidia says
Aug. 13, 2008
Nvidia took a one-time warranty charge of US$196 million against its second-quarter revenue on Tuesday, saying that amount should cover the cost of replacing bad Nvidia graphics chips used in a range of laptop models ...

AMD aims high-end graphics cards at Nvidia
Aug. 12, 2008
Advanced Micro Devices Tuesday unveiled a graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, that is widely expected to outperform rival Nvidia's top-end graphics card, the GeForce GTX 280.

Via's third-party chipset business back in the spotlight
Aug. 12, 2008
Via Technologies may not have released a third-party chipset in over two years but that didn't stop the technology media from jumping on the story Monday, reporting the company had left the third-party chipset business.

PC industry scared netbooks may hurt laptop sales
Aug. 11, 2008
Advanced Micro Devices has no immediate plans to release a processor designed for low-cost laptops, sometimes called netbooks, saying its not yet clear whether or not growing shipments of these devices will cannibalize ...

Intel's Nehalem desktop chips to be called Core i7
Aug. 10, 2008
The high-end desktop versions of Intel's Nehalem processor family will carry the Core i7 moniker when they are released later this year.

Elpida to invest in Chinese DRAM plant
Aug. 07, 2008
Japanese memory-chip maker Elpida signed a deal on Wednesday to invest in a joint-venture DRAM (dynamic RAM) fabrication plant to be constructed in eastern China, a move that will boost the company's monthly production ...

Group offers tools to evade China's Web censorship
Aug. 04, 2008
Reporters covering the Beijing Olympics who are frustrated by Chinese Internet censorship can use free software tools developed to help Chinese users circumvent these controls, according to a representative of a group ...

Nvidia likely to confirm scale of chip troubles soon
Aug. 01, 2008
Are the costs of resolving the chip-packaging problem that affected some Nvidia graphics chip in line with the company's forecast? We'll soon know.

Portugal to buy 500,000 Classmate PCs for students
Jul. 31, 2008
Portugal plans to buy 500,000 Classmate PC computers during the upcoming school year as part of a program to expand computer and Internet usage among schoolchildren. The deal is the biggest yet announced for the low- ...

Via's Nano processor tops Intel's Atom in first reviews
Jul. 30, 2008
Performance comparisons of Via Technologies' Nano processor and Intel's Atom chip conducted by several hardware-enthusiast sites Tuesday confirmed what many industry observers have long suspected: the Taiwanese ...

SMIC swimming in red ink, hopes to break even in Q4
Jul. 29, 2008
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), China's largest chip maker, racked up another loss during the second quarter and restated its first-quarter results, nearly doubling the loss it earlier reported for ...

WiMAX at sea, the journey begins
Jul. 21, 2008
Ships that call on Singapore can now use WiMAX instead of satellite to connect to the Internet.

Three U.S. cities should see Centrino 2 with WiMAX this year
Jul. 17, 2008
When Intel ships its Echo Peak wireless module later this year, the company will meet its stated goal of adding WiMax as an option to its Centrino 2 laptop chip platform in 2008. But shipments of Centrino 2 laptops ...

Intel's quad-core mobile chip coming next month
Jul. 15, 2008
Intel will release it's first quad-core processor for laptops next month, rounding out a broad update to its mobile computing platform.