Latest reports suggest that the HP UMPC 2133 will feature VIA Inside, not Intel’s Penryn as previous reports were saying. If this is true, than it’s incredible news for VIA because this is the first time they could succeed with one of the big companies. The good news don’t stop here. It seems like the ultra portable could get an upgrade consisting of Isaiah 2.0Ghz/DX-10 performance. The HP 2133 has been a very popular device but more is expected from the device. We hope to get back to this soon and give you more information as promised a couple of days ago because I know that many of you are fans of the UMPC.

Sony is preparing to sell it’s chip production facilities from Japan to Toshiba in order to focus on their core business, as they’ve stated. Toshiba has paid $835 million and is going to make high performance Cell chips and TSX graphic chips, that are both used in Sony Playstation 3.

We already knew since October that Sony is going to sell it’s chip production facilities to Toshiba, but the price wasn’t specified. Now they are only going to focus on image sensor chips for digital cameras and aren’t going to invest any more in chip production equipments.

After this announcement, Sony’s shares went up 2.8 percent, while Toshiba’s went the same, but down.

via Reuters