If there has ever been a company that should be acquired, it is British chip designer ARM. AMD would be an amazing fit. When AMD announced earlier this week that it would host ARM to hold a keynote at its upcoming software developer conference, I started poking around in the industry to see how close AMD and ARM really are. AMD's PR firm called the two companies "strange bedfellows" and the opportunity that both companies have in using ...

Motherboard maker ASRock has published a guide to AM3+ motherboards that not only lets slip a few details about AMD's new AM3+ socket, but also the CPUs that will fit in it. One key concern, according to the guide, is the fact that a Socket AM3+ CPU fitted to a Socket AM3 motherboard ‘may not be stable enough to provide reliable computing.’ It seems that while Socket AM3+ processors should be backwards compatible with any Socket AM3 motherboard that has the necessary BIOS ...

Valve has confirmed that it will be releasing downloadable content for Portal 2, though it has remained vague on the details of whether the content will be free or premium. The confirmation come via Valve's Doug Lombardi, who mentioned in an interview that downloadable content for Portal 2 was planned for release this summer. 'We will be announcing some DLC for it, so folks can keep a look out for more content coming this summer,' Lombardi told FastCompany 'We'll be putting more details ...