AP - Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in the market for microprocessors that act as the brains of personal computers, unveiled plans for new products it said would deliver improved performance and efficiency.

Reuters - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Thursday unveiled a new chip for laptop computers and said it expects to be able to supply one third of the market for computer micro-processors by 2008, signs the company hopes to challenge Intel Corp.'s dominance.

AP - The glass-encased room inside Intel Corp.'s microchip factory here, with its shiny, metallic surfaces and frigid air, is a world away from the blistering sun and brown earth outside. An army of robots suspended from the vast ceiling glide from one refrigerator-sized machine to the next. Their cargo: thousands of 12-inch silicon platters that form the raw material for Intel's most sophisticated computer microprocessor to date.

AP - Intel Corp., the world's biggest chip maker, is unique in the way it rolls out new manufacturing methods, perfecting it in a laboratory and then painstakingly duplicating it at factories around the world.

The United States and Great Britain have committed to a greater level of sharing between their armed forces, including British involvement in the Joint Strike Fighter program. U.S. President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony...