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As hard as it might be to believe, Apple came within inches of revamping its MacBook Air line with AMD's Llano platform.

In fact, it was all set to go into production, but was abruptly cancelled last spring mainly because Apple lacked confidence in AMD's ability to supply enough parts.

Intel, as it turns out, was Plan B. That's according to...

AMD announced today a new desktop APU (Accelerated Processing Unit). The A6-3500 processor combines three x86 CPU cores with 320 Radeon GPU cores.

Does the amount of noise a component makes affect your willingness to buy it? And should it? AMD's and Nvidia's new top-end video cards made us wonder.

Phoronix: "While Nokia has effectively abandoned the MeeGo Linux operating system, Intel is still supporting MeeGo along with AMD and other vendors, including SplashTop.

SplashTop has today announced the release of their MeeGo-based operating system."

Lilliputing: "We already knew that Zacate chips would provide more processing power and significantly better graphics performance than Intel's Atom chips… now we have a better idea of just how much more."

One word aptly describes AMD's latest Radeon HD 6800 series GPUs: refinement. AMD's goal was to drive cost and power consumption out of their architecture, along with enhancing its capabilities, features and image quality in next-generation DX11 gaming engines.

To that end we'd say the company has succeeded masterfully.

The AMD Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 will be released on Friday, October 22.

The latest rumor pins down a release date for AMD's newest cards, although we may not see a real jump in performance until a few months later.

Intel, AMD, ARM, and more have some exciting plans in store for the server market in the years to come.

Intel, AMD, ARM, and more have some exciting plans in store for the server market in the years to come.