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CORRECTION APPENDED SAN FRANCISCO -- As the computer industry makes a radical shift to new modes of computing -- in the cloud and on tablets and smartphones -- Hewlett-Packard, a stalwart of the previous era, finds it hard to keep up. It is not alone in that struggle. H.P., along with well-established tech companies like Dell and Cisco Systems, is contending with a faster-than-expected move by consumers and businesses from personal computers and small racks of computer servers toward mobile phones and tablets that are connected to millions of servers, all lashed together in remote supercomputing ''clouds.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the dispute between Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to claim the advantage in creating a new generation of chips with four processing cores. Paul S. Otellini, chief executive of Intel, said that the company would be shipping quad-core processors for both high-end PCs and servers in November 2006.