Advanced Micro Devices Inc. may announce the spin-off of its manufacturing operations within two weeks, according to a report released today by a Wall Street securities analyst. John Lau with Jefferies & Co. Inc. wrote Continue reading “Analyst says AMD may soon announce spin-off of fabs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 3, 2008 at 11:27am
Dell Inc is poised to announce a new mini-laptop computer later this week, a source familiar with the company’s plan said on Tuesday, confirming a Wall Street Journal story. The source said the Dell “mini” Continue reading “Rumor: Dell set to unveil mini-notebook”. …more
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Sep. 3, 2008 at 8:24am
In the ongoing war for Internet users’ eyes and wallets, search giant Google on Tuesday unveiled a shiny new Web browser that it hopes will lure users away from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and bolster Google’s Continue reading “With Chrome, Google launches new browser war against Microsoft”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 3, 2008 at 8:22am
Microsoft has officially eased the restriction of the standard specification for netbooks using the Windows XP operation system by increasing the allowable hard drive capacity from 80GB to 160GB, according to sources in the channel. Continue reading “Microsoft eases hard drive capacity restriction for netbooks”. …more
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Sep. 3, 2008 at 8:21am
AMD today announced that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors exclusively power the innovation behind the worlds first blade server designed specifically to eliminate performance bottlenecks for virtual server hosting, the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade. Businesses Continue reading “HP Blade Servers Using AMD Quad-Core Opteron Processors”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 3, 2008 at 8:20am
A review of major memory module makers’ financial results for the first half of 2008 show that Transcend Information was the only profit maker to show a relative strong margin in the period, wits rivals Continue reading “Transcend only profitable major Taiwan memory module maker in 1H08”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 2, 2008 at 8:11am
Do you remember the story behind Robin Hood? He is a man known for robbing the rich to give to the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny! Well, AMD doesn’t want you to think Continue reading “AMD Doesn’t Want You To Think NVIDIA is a Robin Hood”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 28, 2008 at 4:00pm
Nvidia will authorize native SLI support on Intel X58 motherboards without the need for its nForce 200 chip, according to Tom Peterson, director of Technical Marketing for MCP products at Nvidia. Nvidia will charge motherboard Continue reading “Nvidia backtracks to authorize native SLI technology support on Intel X58 motherboards”. …more
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Aug. 28, 2008 at 10:38am
Evo-G just sent over an e-mail letting us know that the Mouse Anchor is available for purchase. The Mouse Anchor was designed to be an efficient and simple cable management system that prevents unwanted mouse Continue reading “Evo-G Announces Mouse Anchor”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 28, 2008 at 10:36am
NVIDIA has always had the strong arm when it comes to graphics performance and a sign of this dominance was them forcing companies to only enable SLI on their chipsets. For years if you have wanted to run SLI you had to run on an NVIDIA platform, but seems to be coming to an end very soon. NVIDIA just announced a new licensing program to enable SLI on Intel X58 Express chipsets!
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 28, 2008 at 2:00am
SanDisk Corporation today set a new speed record of 30 megabytes per second for SD flash memory cards with the introduction of the SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s Edition line of SDHC Cards. The new cards, Continue reading “SanDisk Extrme III SDHC Flash Card Breaks Speed Record”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 27, 2008 at 9:19am
The Taiwan government’s current budget appropriated for the development of the WiMAX industry will be completely used up in 2009, according to Chen Chao-yi, director general of the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) under the Ministry Continue reading “Taiwan government to use up current budget allocated for WiMAX industry in 2009”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 27, 2008 at 9:12am
When I say fliers about the NVIDIA chipset recall yesterday I figured that some recall activists managed to infiltrate Nvidias Nvision 08 visual computing conference to stir they pot. It wasn’t just once yesterday, but Continue reading “Contract Dispute Between ARAMARK and NVIDIA Hits Hard at NVISION 08”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 26, 2008 at 7:47pm
A number of our readers requested booth babe pictures, so here you go!! These pictures were all taken from the show floor this afternoon and all of them are posted in the forums if you Continue reading “NVISION 08 – Booth Babe Pictures From The Show”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 26, 2008 at 7:31pm
Thermaltake just got in the very first SpinQ CPU cooler in the United States and has it on display here at NVISION 08. This new CPU cooler is entirely made out of aluminum and has Continue reading “NVISION 08 – Thermaltake SpinQ CPU Cooler Pictured”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 26, 2008 at 10:00am