Tech: NAND in notebooks; Pixar results

Tech industry: Intel said it would begin putting NAND flash chips into its notebook platform beginning next year in order to offer "instant on" functions to users.... After weeks of hype and speculation, Intel Tuesday offered a peek at the much-hyped Origami project: a handheld minicomputer with a touch screen designed to run on Microsoft software.... Pixar , Steve Jobs' 'other company,' today posted lower earnings of nearly $31 million, or 25 cents per share, on revenue of $55.6 million--short of earnings in the year-ago quarter but still ahead of analysts estimates.... AMD has released the first hardware specifications to get its AMD Live! consumer-electronics plan up and running, although the vision will have to wait until at least 2007 to be realized.... AOpen plans to showcase a dual-core version of its Mac Mini clone at the Intel Developer Forum this week--one that about $100 more expensive than the Apple version, which uses similar hardware. [updated]

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