Michael Hollick never thought his big break would come in a video game, but it did and he didn’t make millions. Mr. Hollick was paid about $100,000 over roughly 15 months between late 2006 and Continue reading “The real voice of GTA IV star Niko Bellic only made $100,000”.
Funcom recently announced that Age of Conan is one of the fastest selling PC games of all time. More than 400,000 gamers have entered Hyboria over the last few days, with almost half coming from Continue reading “Age of Conan Sells Over 400,000 Copies – One of the Fastest Selling PC Games Ever”.
Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced immediate availability of DDR3 SO-DIMMs. This 204-pin module, part number W1333SA1GS, is available now at street prices under $99. Continue reading “Super Talent Launches PC3-12800 DDR3 SO-DIMMs for Laptops”.
Top contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) said on Tuesday it may raise prices for its higher-end chips as rising costs threaten to squeeze profits. Semiconductor makers face higher costs to build Continue reading “TSMC may raise prices for high-end chips”.
Glitches at chip supplier Intersil Corp. are causing delays in the rollout of Intel Corp.’s Montevina notebook chipsets, Jefferies & Co. analyst John Lau warned Tuesday. If these glitches are true that means that the Continue reading “Analyst says Intersil causing delays for Intel Montevina notebook chipsets”.
Second-tier motherboard maker Abit is reportedly considering exiting the motherboard market after evaluating its shipment performance of Intel 4 series motherboards, according to channel sources. Abit, however, maintains it does not know anything about the Continue reading “Abit Might Exit The Motherboard Market”.
VIA Technologies today introduced the new VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design targeted at the rapidly growing global market for ultra-portable notebooks. The innovative VIA OpenBook Mini-Note Reference Design paves the way for the next generation Continue reading “VIA Unveils VIA OpenBook Mini-Note Reference Design”.
ASUS claims that Gigabyte, without a full understanding of ASUS’ engineering design and methods, has made false accusations against ASUS motherboards’ EPU features and the quality of ASUS’ motherboard components. ASUS has reported such acts Continue reading “ASUS Sues GIGABYTE for ‘Defamatory and False Accusations’”.
Geared toward the enthusiast who wants their go-anywhere notebook to be powerful, the Hypersonic Avenger AG2 Notebook series feature unparalleled performance in a sleek, colorful, and compact 12-inch size for superb mobility. The AG2 can be configured with next generation 45nm Intel Penryn processors, up to 4GB DDR2-667 memory, and a 320GB hard drive (or Solid State Drive) for maximum storage. Read on to see what we think of this new notebook!
Expecting solid state drives (SSDs) to become the mainstream notebook storage format, Intel is planning to launch SSD products by the end of the third quarter this year which it will bundle as part of Continue reading “Intel to bundle SSDs as part of Centrino 2 platform”.
It has been over a year since ATI got into the Folding@home project and it seems that the time is right for NVIDIA to join in! Mr. Vijay Pande himself was in San Jose today and we managed to catch up with him while he was giving the presentation on behalf of Stanford University on how folding is going to work on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. This is a must read if you are interested in distributed computing.
Today at the NVIDIA corporate office we had a chance to sit down and listen to NVIDIA Chief Scientist David Kirk talk about what the GPU can do beyond just gaming. NVIDIA has spent a ton of time and a fair amount of money getting their CUDA software off the ground and they have had a strong acceptance in the community. NVIDIA also announced that they are acquiring a ray tracing company called RayScale.
The gang over at Futuremark have been busy cranking out a hotfix for 3DMark Vantage and version (1.0.1) has been released for use. Futuremark has made a number of changes in the product editions to Continue reading “Futuremark 3DMark Vantage Gets a Hotfix – v1.01 Released”.
VIA Technologies today announced the VIA EPIA M700 Mini-ITX board, the first to feature the VIA VX800 chipset, for sophisticated digital signage and retail display systems. The VIA EPIA M700 is the first board to Continue reading “VIA EPIA M700 Mini-ITX Enables Dual Digital Displays”.
With panel makers pushing 16:9 ratio panels in 2008, Acer has decided to open up all its notebook product lines to be based on the ratio, while other notebook vendors are readying to push at Continue reading “16:9 ratio notebook panels to become mainstream in 2H08”.
