AMD has reduced the price of its quad-core Phenom II X4 940 and 920 CPUs from US$275 and US$235 to US$225 and US$195 in thousand-unit tray quantities, respectively. Right now Newegg is one of the Continue reading “AMD drops quad-core Phenom processor pricing”.
On Sunday, Intel instituted broad price cuts on processors, spanning the Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium dual-core, Celeron, and Xeon product lines. Cuts were concentrated on quad-core chips like the Q9650 (3.00GHz), reduced Continue reading “Intel cuts prices on some chips up to 48 percent”.
Advanced Micro Devices plans to cut 1,100 jobs, 9 percent of its global staff, and slash the remaining employees’ pay as the chip maker hopes its third round of layoffs in a year can help Continue reading “AMD to cut 1,100 workers, 9 percent of staff”.
Intel plans to push a new consumer ultra-low voltage (CULV) platform into the market for ultra-portable notebooks priced between US$699-899 in the second quarter of 2009. The move is believed to be targeting AMD’s new Continue reading “Intel to target ultra-portable notebook market with CULV platform”.
I just posted up an article about running 12GB of Corsair DDR3 memory and I think it is one of the most interesting articles we have posted up in a long time. I love trying Continue reading “Running 12GB of Corsair DDR3 Triple Channel Memory on Intel Core i7 Platforms”.
Enthusiasts have been talking about running 12GB of memory on an Intel Core i7 platform since the day the platform came out. With many enthusiasts getting into photo editing using CS4 or other memory intensive applications we take a look at running 12GB of system memory. Read on to see how tight we can get the timings and how far they can be overclocked.
Bankrupt electronics retailer Circuit City Inc. said Friday it has asked for court approval to close its remaining 567 U.S. stores and sell all its merchandise. The company said it has 30,000 employees. Circuit City Continue reading “Circuit City to shut down all remaining stores”.
Democrats in the House of Representatives proposed $650 million to continue the coupon program for the transition to digital television, according to a summary of the economic stimulus legislation released by Democrats on the House Continue reading “$650 million more sought for digital TV transition”.
Intel has recently decided to postpone its next-generation mainstream CPU Lynnfield along with the P55 chipset to the end of August or the beginning of September this year, and may postpone them to an even Continue reading “Intel postpones the launch schedule of Lynnfield CPUs and P55 chipset”.
Very few desktops and even fewer laptops have eSATA ports, but for those lucky enough to have a system with one you can embrace the OCZ Throttle eSATA drive. The OCZ Throttle eSATA drive is one of the very first eSATA Flash drives available. The OCZ Throttle’s eSATA interface offers an incredible performance speeds of up to 90MB/second read and 30MB/sec write.
Intel Corporation today reported fourth-quarter revenue of $8.2 billion, operating income of $1.5 billion, net income of $234 million and earnings per share (EPS) of 4 cents. The results included a billion-dollar negative impact from Continue reading “Intel Reports Fourth-Quarter and Annual 2008 Results”.
Emergency officials are responding to a downed plane in the Hudson River in New York City, according to the city fire and police departments. The FAA confirmed US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 headed Continue reading “US Airways flight down in New York’s Hudson River”.
China has become the world’s third-largest economy, surpassing Germany and closing rapidly on Japan, according to government and World Bank figures. The Chinese government revised its growth figures for 2007 from 11.9 percent to 13 Continue reading “China passes Germany – now world’s 3rd largest economy”.
In a series of separate posts on various official Google blogs Wednesday evening, the company announced that it is terminating, stopping development on, or restricting access to six products that clearly haven’t been adding much Continue reading “Google killing Jaiku, Dodgeball, Notebook, other projects”.
A broad U.S. economic stimulus package cannot be the major vehicle for achieving the high-speed Internet goals of the incoming administration, a top technology adviser to President-elect Barack Obama said on Wednesday. Blair Levin, a Continue reading “High-speed Web can’t rely on stimulus”.
