The Inquirer reports that AMD (AMD) is licensing some of its ATI technology to other firms including ST Micro (STM)

The Inquirer also reports that Sony (SNE) will cut spending on its chips, outsourcing some of the work and costs.

According to The Inquirer, HP (HPQ) has made a dumbed down version of its handheld for talk, WiFi access and VoIP.

According to TechCrunch, Veoh has launched a powerful video sharing service The service will track views at YouTube and MySpace and has its own embedded viewer.

Gizmodo writes that Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Search Live is not running on the Cingular 8525 handheld.

Engadget writes that AMD (AMD) has launched a quad-core chip in which each core can run at a different clock speed independent of one another and depending on load.

Douglas A. McIntyre