The No. 1 chipmaker comes out swinging with a dozen new product offerings; meanwhile, rival AMD uses Comdex to demonstrate systems based on its forthcoming Opteron and Athlon chips.

Sun Microsystems took steps to consolidate and strengthen its iForce Partner Program, a Sun ONE initiative that promotes Sun products through established customers.

Gartner Dataquest research points to a 10 percent decline in Latin America server shipments and revenue.