Despite leading memory tester vendors Advantest and Verigy both having rolled out solutions for DDR3 testing, projection of a meaningful crossover between DDR3 and DDR2 has yet to be seen. Advantest and Verigy have introduced Continue reading “DRAM tester vendors ready for DDR3, but consumer demand not ready”.
One year after the introduction of the first iPhone Apple did what we all expected them todo – they announced a 3G capable iPhone – the iPhone 3G. The new phone has a ton of Continue reading “Steve Jobs Announces Apple iPhone 3G – $199 for 8GB”.
AMD today introduced four new Quad-Core AMD Opteron SE processors to help IT managers take a new approach to ‘scaling up’ their datacenter in order to address demanding enterprise-computing environments. Rather than invest in traditionally Continue reading “AMD Launches Four New Quad-Core AMD Opteron SE Processors”.
The trial for Advanced Micro Devices’ five-year-old antitrust suit alleging that competitor Intel unfairly manipulated the chip market has been delayed until February 2010. The trial was previously scheduled for April 2009, AMD spokeswoman Hollis Continue reading “Intel, AMD antitrust suit pushed back to 2010”.
VIA Technologies held a launch party on June 5 in Taiwan to officially announce its new VIA Nano processor (Isaiah) and a new standard for small form factor motherboards, Mini-ITX 2.0. Nvidia’s general manager of Continue reading “NVIDIA To Make VIA Nano Supporting Chipsets Later This Year – MCP79”.
VIA Technologies today announced a new standard for Mini-ITX boards to ensure an optimized multimedia and computing experience in small form factor desktop PCs. Mini-ITX 2.0 is a set of minimum specifications for the next Continue reading “VIA Unveils Mini-ITX 2.0: The Mini PC Platform of the Future”.
I was just looking around the Intel site and I just saw that they have Intel Solid State Drives now shown! Looks like they have 4GB and 8GB versions right now that have an IDE Continue reading “Intel Unveils 4GB and 8GB Solid-State Drives – Z-P230 PATA”.
Toshibas Digital Products Division (DPD) today announced its support of AMDs next generation of Athlon, Turion and Turion Ultra microprocessors technology. These advanced CPUs are available throughout Toshibas lineup of Satellite laptops, and provide users Continue reading “AMD CPUs Soon To Be Available Across Entire Toshiba Satellite Lineup”.
Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu Ltd said it aims for 100 billion yen ($951 million) in sales of its WiMax-use microchips in the year starting April 2011, up from virtually none in the year ended March Continue reading “Fujitsu sees 2011/12 WiMax chip sales of $1 bln”.
Despite many industry players believing both the memory card and USB drive markets are saturated, Kingston Technology company president John Tu recently said substantial business potential still exists. Citing average monthly shipments of 20 million Continue reading “Memory card and USB drive markets not yet saturated, says Kingston”.
AMD today announced ATI XGP (External Graphics Platform) Technology, a new external PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 graphics platform, designed to deliver enthusiast-class desktop graphic performance and true multimedia upgradeability to notebooks. ATI XGP is an Continue reading “ATI XGP (External Graphics Platform) Launched – external PCI Expres 2.0 graphics platform”.
Acer today presented the Aspire one, an all-new communication device designed to make your online activities fast, simple and utterly cool. At just 24 x 17 cm and weighing less than one kilo, the Aspire Continue reading “Acer presents the Aspire One – Intel Atom Based 9″ Notebook”.
AMD today announced the availability of its next-generation notebook platform that has been talked about as ‘Puma’ since 2007. ‘Puma’ represents one of the first results of the ‘new AMD,’ designed as an optimized mobile Continue reading “AMD Launches Puma – The Next Generation AMD Laptop Platform”.
ASUS today at Computex unveiled the worlds first HDMI 1.3a compliant audio/video enhancement combo card the Xonar HDAV1.3. Capable of outputting uncompressed multichannel high definition audio from Blu-ray movies, the Xonar HDAV1.3 also enhances incoming Continue reading “ASUS Previews Worlds First HDMI-Ready Sound Card – Xonar HDAV1.3”.
Corsair announced today that 4GB of overclocked DDR3 memory is now officially ready for prime time. Using Corsairs DOMINATOR memory modules, Dells XPS 730 gaming desktop runs with rock-solid stability at the overclocked memory frequency Continue reading “Dell XPS 730 Gaming Systems Use Corsair DOMINATOR 1600MHz DDR3 Memory Kits”.
