A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was attained at extremely cold temperatures, Continue reading “Georgia Tech/IBM Demonstrate 500 GHz Silicon-Germanium Transistor”.
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. today announced it is launching a special portal within the Flash products area of the Kingston Web site to support the usage and promote the benefits surrounding expansion memory for feature-rich Continue reading “Kingston Launches Mobile Phone Village Web Community”.
A Dutch music website which links to MP3 files had to stop promoting the infringement of artist rights and copyrights, the Dutch court of appeal said in a ruling that overturned an earlier one in Continue reading “Dutch site linking to MP3 files loses court case”.
Headcount reductions and improving microprocessor unit sales should help Intel raise margins over the next two years, UBS argued in upgrading the shares to buy from hold Monday. UBS also raised its Intel price target Continue reading “UBS Slaps a Buy on Intel Stock”.
In addition to scheduling 80nm production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for September, ATI Technologies will begin producing its graphics processor (GPU) on an 80nm manufacturing process at United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) in the Continue reading “ATI to begin 80nm production at UMC later this year”.
Edward Chou, marketing director of ATI Technologies Asia-Pacific division, responded to earlier reports that its 80-nanometer (80nm) production has been delayed by saying that ATI has succeeded in completing trial production of its 80nm graphics Continue reading “ATI’s R600 80nm Core Still on Track According to ATI”.
Blu-ray format finally set to launch next week–with seven movie titles! The first batch of seven Blu-ray titles, all from Sony Pictures Home ntertainment, are scheduled to arrive in stores Tuesday. The first Blu-ray player, Continue reading “Blu-ray Disc ready to hit play next Tuesday”.
While entering in the doors of The World Series of Video Games we walked right into the booth of ATI and saw some Conroe systems up and running with Intel E6700 processors. We sat down with the builder of one of those systems and see what All American Computer has to say about their PureXS Conroe PC systems.
Intel is ready to attain leadership in performance and energy efficiency over rival Advanced Micro Devices during the coming months, with processors that continue to be built differently than those of other companies, according to Continue reading “Intel Moves to Beat AMD in Quad-core Race”.
A group of the world’s mobile operators and handset makers said on Thursday they are to join together to develop an open-source Linux-based operating system that could to be used in phones by the end Continue reading “Mobile players form Linux platform pact to open-source code”.
U.S. console video game software sales fell 10.2 percent in May to $286.1 million as the industry continues to work through a transition to new console technology that has kept many consumers to the sidelines, Continue reading “U.S. console game sales fell 10 percent in May”.
According to various news posts around the web it seems that AMD is up to something with their larger cache AM2 processors. No word on to exactly what is going on, but I’m sure things Continue reading “AMD Slows Down AM2 2x1MB Cache Desktop CPU Marketing”.
IBM, which makes AGP bridge chips for NVIDIA, informed NVIDIA Corporation that they will no longer going to produce the bridge chip needed for NVIDIA to have any AGP cards. This leaves Nvidia rushing to Continue reading “NVIDIA Told That Their AGP Bridge Chip Is No Longer Being Produced”.
Ken Kutaragi, Sony Computer Entertainment President, revealed today in an interview with Japan’s Impress Watch that the PS3’s Cell processor will make the switch to a 65nm manufacturing process in 2007. The move to a Continue reading “The Sony PS3 Cell Processor Will Go 65nm in 2007”.
EBay Inc. said Tuesday that it would add a “Skype Me” button to certain categories of listings, allowing prospective buyers to contact sellers directly through the Internet phone service it acquired last year for $2.6 Continue reading “EBay to add ‘Skype me’ button”.
