Siemens AG has told Fujitsu it wants to pull out of their Fujitsu Siemens Computers joint venture, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. A spokesman for Fujitsu, however, told Reuters the article was "baseless". The Japanese computer firm has been in talks with Siemens over the renewal of their contract for Fujitsu Siemens Computers, but "no solid decisions have been made", Masahiro Yamane, a spokesman for Fujitsu told Reuters.

Nvidia is admitting that some of its notebook chips are failing at "higher than normal rates" in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The chip failures will cause Nvidia to take a US$150-200 million charge this quarter to cover what it calls "warranty, repair and return and replacement" for laptops with unspecified Nvidia graphics chips and chipsets.

...the processor will also enable users to use hand gesture controls to start, pause and rewind your entertainment, upscale DVDs from standard to high-definition and find certain parts of movies with face indexing. The downside is power consumption. The SE1000 is rated at a maximum power consumption of 20 watts, which is considerable in today’s notebook world. Pricing of the F50 (a 15.4” notebook that will include a GPS module) and the G50 (18.4”) are expected to begin in the $2500 and top out and well above $3000.