SAN FRANCISCO—By 2015, Intel may deliver processors with tens or even hundreds of individual cores, Intel researchers said Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum here.

Intel is expected to disclose on Tuesday its launch plans surrounding its next-generation Core2 microprocessors, as well as a new low-voltage Core Duo chip that will be featured in thin-and-light notebooks from Dell and HP.

Seeking to gain a bit of cachet at the Computex trade show this week, Nvidia announced the GeForce 7950 GX2 dual-GPU graphics card on Monday.
 
 By placing two GPUs on a single card, a pair of GeForce 7950 GX2s can effectively place four GPUs within the system, a nice complement to the AMD 4x4 system the company announced last week.

Hewlett-Packard rolled out more than 100 new products for the home and office Wednesday, including six new printers, four digital cameras and the HP Photosmart A716 Compact Photo Printer, the first compact photo printer capable of storing over 4,000 photos. 
 

Duracell said Wednesday that it will begin shipping a new line of high-capacity, rechargeable AA and AAA nickel-metal hydride batteries by the end of this month.
 
 The new batteries are designed with digital cameras in mind, as well as other electronic devices. 

Windows Vista will contain a Microsoft-embedded benchmark, known as WinSAT (Windows System Assessment Tool.) WinSAT serves several purposes:

• It's a tool for OEM system providers to help enable them to meet Windows Vista logo requirements
• WinSAT runs during the Vista setup procedure, to determine if the system is capable of running the Aero 3D user interface and compositing system.

Both ATI Technologies and Nvidia announced new PC core logic chipsets Tuesday in support of Advanced Micro Devices' new AM2 socket platform. 
 
ATI announced the CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset and the ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 chipsets, while Nvidia announced a family of 500-series nForce chipsets, all with an eye toward enthusiast PCs and Microsoft's upcoming operating system, Vista.

Have you ever browsed through an Apple MacBook Pro User's guide?

Many of you MBP owners probably never did because the excitement of turning on your system is too overwhelming and somehow, later on, the manual ends up getting misplaced. 
 

On Wednesday, Advanced Micro Devices launched a dual-core version of its mobile Turion chip, bringing its brand of dual-core technology to thin-and-light notebooks.
 
In addition, the company said it had begun shipping a mobile Sempron chip, upgraded to include 64-bit capabilities.

Nvidia and Corsair Memory said Monday that they had developed an enhanced memory standard that will allow novices to overclock their systems with a high degree of confidence.

The capability will become available later this month, using the SLI-certified TWIN2X2048-6400C4 and the TWIN2X2048-8500C5 modules from Corsair as well as motherboards based on the nForce 590 SLI chipset from Nvidia.

Panasonic and Sony jointly announced a new MPEG-4 digital-video-camera/recorder format on Thursday, trying to balance the demands of high-definition video with the general trend in consumer electronics toward miniaturization. 
 
The result is the new "AVCHD" format, which will allow recording and playback of high-definition 1080i and 720p video onto 8-cm DVD media, far smaller than today's conventional 120-cm DVD discs, or even the 12-cm miniature DVDs currently used for recording.