A number of investment banks, including Friedman Billings Ramsey (FBR), HSBC and Merrill Lynch, have issued a conservative guidance over the prospects for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the fourth quarter of this year. Continue reading “TSMC bracing for gloomy prospects in 4Q08, say investment banks”.
When the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO was originally released in April of 2008 it was priced slightly lower than the GeForce 9600 GT as it had lower clock speeds, but oddly enough it came with more shader processors. The EVGA e-GeForce 9600 GSO Dual-Slot Edition had an MSRP of $164.99 when it first came out, but is now just $49 after rebate and boy can it fold!
Following a conversation with Diamond Multimedia president Bruce Zaman, I was sent a detailed picture that shows where a Zero Ohm value resistor needs to be added to the board to resolve the problem the Continue reading “Diamond Multimedia President Shows Radeon HD 3870 Resistor Fix”.
Thecus has worked closely with AMD and now introduces the all-new M3800 Stream Box. Coming this spring, the M3800 features AMD technology and delivers a complete media and storage solution perfect for the home. The Continue reading “Thecus Announces the AMD-based M3800 Media Stream Box”.
I just got my hands on some very interesting confidential reports from some computer manufacturers that state Diamond ATI video cards have a rate of failure that is higher than the companies acceptable values of Continue reading “Diamond Multimedia ATI Radeon HD Video Cards Fail At High Rates”.
Today Adobe announced Creative Suites 4 with a lot of great new features, including native support graphics processing units (GPUs). Adobe is the latest in a trend of visual computing companies grabbing on to the Continue reading “NVIDIA and AMD Graphics Cards Set To Boost Performance in Adobe CS4”.
SanDisk today announced that it is now shipping an upgraded family of SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash (CF) memory cards to better meet the needs of professional digital photographers. The entire series of SanDisk Extreme IV Continue reading “SanDisk Announces Extreme IV CompactFlash (CF) Memory Cards”.
Graphics is more than just fast frame rates. And with the adoption of NVIDIA CUDA technology, developers can use the power of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs in ways never before possible. Only NVIDIA GeForce GPUs offer Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce Power Pack Downloaded One Million Times”.
Results from a survey recently fielded by Entertainment for All Expo indicate some surprising trends relating to women and video games. Front and center: many women would rather play video games than catch up on Continue reading “Women Choose Video Games Instead of Sleep”.
With Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s cash reserves dwindling and the chip maker’s overall financial health deteriorating to dangerous levels last year, the company was thrown a lifeline by Lehman Brothers, the investment bank now in Continue reading “Lehman lifeline was critical to chip maker AMD”.
Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its cell phone operating system. Although Microsoft has not publicly said when to expect Continue reading “Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 release delayed”.
Micron’s investigation into acquiring Qimonda has progressed and a deal is likely to happen, according to a note from analyst Doug Freedman of American Technology Research. One of the key drivers for the deal is Continue reading “Micron-Qimonda deal likely to happen, says analyst”.
The world’s largest atom smasher, which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month, is more badly damaged than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Continue reading “Large Hadron Collider down for 2 months due to hot magnets”.
Intel released its dual-core Atom 330 processor on September 21 which will mainly target the nettop market. The CPU features a core frequency of 1.6GHz, 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache and has a TDP of Continue reading “Intel launches dual-core Atom processor – Atom 330”.
GIGABYTE’s first annual overclocking competition, the GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC 2008) is set to begin. A total of 50 of the world�s top overclockers will fly to Taiwan to join the competition and Continue reading “GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship Ready To Begin”.
