Microsoft’s long-awaited launch of the Windows 8 OS may not change the fortunes of PC makers, BMO analysts said, lowering their price targets on the stocks of Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc. more

Japan’s biggest chip maker, Toshiba Corp, said on Thursday its annual operating profit is likely to reach 450 billion yen ($5.60 billion) by the business year ending in March 2015. more

PC chipmaker AMD’s chief executive is betting that its larger rival Intel has overestimated consumers’ willingness to pay top dollar for a new category of premium laptops. more

Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp are in talks to jointly produce large OEL (organic electroluminescence) televisions more

Nvidia Crop and Intellectual Ventures said they have jointly acquired a portfolio of 500 wireless communications patents from IPWireless. more

Nvidia Corp posted first-quarter revenue of $924.9 million on Friday that was better than Wall Street estimates and said revenue would rise faster than expected in the current quarter. more

Intel Corp Chief Executive Paul Otellini said he is not seeing unexpected weakness in enterprise technology spending that Cisco CEO John Chambers cited when he forecast quarterly earnings below estimates. more

EMC Corp bought privately held flash-memory storage products maker XtremIO in a cash deal, which will complement EMC’s flash-based systems and software products. more

Unlike many beleaguered constituents of Japan Inc, Toshiba Corp, has reason to feel cheerful about ballooning sales at Apple Inc – millions of the iPhones it sells are loaded with NAND flash memory made by Japan’s last big chip maker. more