[September 3, 2010] HardwareCentral's CPU Price Watch for September 3, 2010
With nothing new making its way onto the charts these days, it's no surprise that significant price drops remain an exception in this issue of the CPU price guide. And until we see some new product releases from the two camps, that isn't very likely to change.

[August 20, 2010] HardwareCentral's CPU Price Watch for August 20, 2010
This issue of our biweekly price watch contains a number of modest price drops. But with more CPUs holding steady than dropping, and none falling by particularly huge amounts, this week's guide is unlikely to spur any sort of buying frenzy.

[August 10, 2010] The Atom Alternative: AMD's New Neo
Intel's Atom processor dominates the netbook category, but now AMD has unveiled a dual-core challenger. The timing's right, with shoppers looking to bridge the gap between netbooks and notebooks; is the technology right too?

[August 6, 2010] HardwareCentral's CPU Price Watch for August 6, 2010
Alas, the lone triple-digit drop we saw last time wasn't the start of a downward trend -- there are some scattered savings, but desktop processor prices this week proved to be about as steady as we've seen them in recent months.

[July 23, 2010] HardwareCentral's CPU Price Watch for July 23, 2010
Our now-biweekly (alternating with memory prices) guide has only a handful of processor price drops to report, but one of them is by hundreds of dollars. Here's hoping that's a sign of savings yet to come.

[June 29, 2010] AMD's Opteron 4100: A CPU for the Cloud
IT managers looking for raw performance can check out AMD's existing eight- and 12-core server processors. The company's new four- and six-cores are all about energy efficiency -- as low as 5.3 watts per core -- and scalability for the cloud computing data center.

[June 15, 2010] Chipmakers Push Laptop PC Limits
Will Apple's iPad pour cold water on conventional notebook sales? Not if notebook component suppliers can help it. From battery-thrifty new CPUs to USB 3.0, Vince Freeman checks out how laptop technology is changing for the battle ahead.