September
Mergers and acquisitions were the order of the day in September as tech companies looked to cash in on under-priced stocks while they still could.
ATIC, the company behind GlobalFoundries, splashed-out once more to buy Singapore foundry Chartered Semi. Dell decided its shareholder would be better served by a stronger presence in the IT services sector and snapped-up Perot Systems.
Meanwhile, mobile phone operators Orange and T-Mobile announced plans to merge their UK operations and Europe continued to poke its nose into the activities of US tech giants by investigating Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
The battle between ARM and Intel continued, with ARM making its strongest move yet into Intel territory. However, we spoke to the embedded graphics company Intel increased its investment in earlier in the year and found Intel still had plenty of tricks up its sleeve.
The UK mobile phone market got even more competitive with Orange announcing it was going to break O2's stranglehold on the iPhone and future partner T-Mobile bringing Motorola's first Android phone to the UK. Additionally, the broadband market looked set for a price war as UK regulators relaxed restrictions on BT's pricing options.
On the PC side, AMD unveiled its new notebook brand - Vision - and decided it was time to rub some salt in Intel's legal wounds.
