IBM is buying Solid Information Technology, a maker of high-performance databases and a close partner of IBM rival MySQL. Solid makes an embedded database with in-memory database engine, which means it can store and retrieve Continue reading “IBM buys in-memory database company Solid”.
n less than one quarter, accumulated worldwide shipments of Asustek Computer’s Eee PC have reached nearly 350,000 units, exceeding the estimated 300,000 units made by industry watchers, according to the company. The ASUS Eee PC Continue reading “Asustek Eee PC shipments beat expectations”.
When AMD was briefing the media about Phenom at their launch event they mentioned that a fix was in the works for one of the hundreds of erratums that the Phenom processor has. All processors have glitches and they are documented and given a erratum number. Read on to see why erratum 298 made the news and if it is anything to worry about!
The research group says concerns about the U.S. economy will reduce market revenues in the first half of 2008. While the global semiconductor market is expected to grow in 2008, concerns about the U.S. economyespecially Continue reading “iSuppli Trims 2008 Semiconductor Forecast”.
Intel has received an license to support CrossFireX on its upcoming P45 chipsets, according to sources at motherboard makers. This is good news as support was actually up in the air. The cooperation between the Continue reading “AMD CrossFireX Graphics still a go on Intel P45 chipsets”.
GIGABYTE today has proudly announced its highly anticipated online overclocking contest kick off at http://oc.gigabyte.us/, from December 19, 2007 to January 20, 2008. Winners will be awarded with $12,000 in cash and prizes not to Continue reading “GIGABYTE Online Overclocking Contest Announced With $12,000 in Prizes!”.
Not much has been going right for AMD in recent weeks, but I’m happy to say one of the most popular benchmarks used in testing processors wasn’t ready for Phenom when the media hacked apart the poor processor apart on launch day. It seems SiSoftware Sandra XII was not correctly optimized for the Phenom processors! The latest update of Sisoftware Sandra has the right optimization set and ready to go. See what the difference makes for the memory bandwidth score!
AMD has released a new AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition quad-core processor with Clock Multiplier Control and tunable performance. Priced the same as the recently launched AMD Phenom 9600 quad-core processor, the new Black Edition Continue reading “AMD Releases Phenom 9600 Black Edition Unlocked Processors”.
Microsoft Corp. and Viacom Inc. formed an advertising and content partnership to provide about $500 million in services to each other over five years. Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, will license television shows and Continue reading “Microsoft, Viacom Form $500 Million Partnership for Advertising and Content”.
Intel has released source code for a server software project that lets Fibre Channel communications run on a more ordinary Ethernet network. To further the project, Intel on Tuesday announced the Open-FCoE.org to house the Continue reading “Intel uses open-source effort to boost networking plan”.
A venture led by Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has applied to bid in an upcoming U.S. auction of coveted wireless airwaves, according to auction documents released late on Tuesday. Allen was listed with an Continue reading “Paul Allen applies to bid in U.S. wireless auction”.
Digitimes is reporting that Intel is going to delay the launch of three 45nm quad-core processors because there is no threat on the performance from from AMD. The three CPUs that Intel plans to delay Continue reading “AMD Phenom Processors Too Slow – Intel Holds Off New Processors”.
This week NVIDIA introduced the company’s next-generation NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI media and communications processor (MCP), designed specifically for 1333FSB Intel QX9650 (Yorkfield) processors. The new nForce 780i SLI MCP brings support for 45nm quad-core processors, PCI Express Gen 2.0. 1200MHz DDR2 memory and more. Read on to see how the board performs with the latest in hardware technology!
Corsair Memory is jumping on the video clip band wagon and have added a cinema section to their corporate website. When you visit the Corsair Cinema you can watch and enjoy the latest videos from Continue reading “Corsair Cinema – Watch Corsair Do What They Do Best”.
ASUS yesterday released the ASUS P5N-T Deluxe motherboard. This cutting-edge motherboard takes full advantage of the NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI MCP (media communication processor) and supports the new ESA (Enthusiast System Architecture). To deliver the Continue reading “ASUS Releases The P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard – 780i SLI”.
