Creative Technology, the parent company of 3DLabs has announced that the company is withdrawing from the workstation graphics market and will be focusing more on mobile graphics. It should be no small wonder though, what Continue reading “3DLabs going mobile”.
Dejavu. More claims of Dell going AMD, but this time, from Voodoo PC’s Rahul Sood. Charlie Demerjian at The Inquirer would beg to differ, and there is now a friendly wager going on. The loser Continue reading “Inquirer Bunny or Voodoo Bunny?”.
The Chinese Empire that is. The desktop PC, after being all but abandoned by IBM and then its entire division sold to Chinese based Lenovo, appeared to be on its last legs, but it was Continue reading “The Empire Strikes Back”.
It seems there is another security “flaw” in Apple’s OSX operating system according to the BBC. The new security bug can be exploited via a malicious website. Initially it was thought that the flaw only Continue reading “More security problems bite Apple”.
Hynix and ST Microelectronics will be openning a new FAB in China according to Digitimes. They are looking to start their pilot run in March, with a view to increasing their monthly production to 30,000 Continue reading “Hynix to start pilot run at 8-inch China fab in March”.
No, not the credit card, ATi’s master cards. Quoting internal ATi memos and roadmaps, the guys at AT have found that the next generation 80nm RV570 and RV560 GPUs will have CrossFire capability built-in. The Continue reading “Bye bye master cards, you will not be missed.”.
nVidia partners have confirmed that they have just ordered their last batches of nVidia’s G70 chip and are moving on to the newer G71. The G70 7800 line of products have been incredibly successful and Continue reading “nVidia bids 7800 adieu”.
In recent years, unlocking of disabled shaders via special software or BIOS modding of graphics cards has become quite common among tech communities. With more recent cards such as the X800GTO^2 and 6800GS AGP being Continue reading “Fire up your floppies! The X1800GTO is coming to town!”.
While not quite 700mhz, nVidia’s 7900GTX which will be clocked at 650mhz will be a considerable adversary to ATi’s X1900XT. While it’s speculated that the 7900GTX will not be able to beat the X1900XT in Continue reading “7900GTX numbers revealed”.
Google Desktop 3, the latest iteration of Google’s all-in-one search and utility suite offers a new feature that may compromise your sensitive data. While Google has tried to include warnings in their privacy policy as Continue reading “Are you letting the government Google through your files?”.
So you’ve finally had it with your loud obnoxious beige monster and just want some peace and quiet. Pentium Ms have been around for quite some time and you’ve heard wonderful things and read raving Continue reading “Turion Inside”.
Intels Itanium processor is getting momentum. According to the IDC Itanium servers will grow by ~$6.6 Billion by 2009. The reports sites that “high customer satisfaction and solid intent-to-purchase ratings for Itanium-based servers” are the Continue reading “Report: Itanium servers to grow 35 percent a year”.
It’s official, Halo 2 for the PC has finally been announced, but there’s a catch: You’ll need to upgrade to Vista to run it. At best, this means a Holiday 2006 release. The question remains Continue reading “Reasons to upgrade to Vista: Halo 2?”.
Gateway CEO Wayne Inouye, of former eMachines fame has announced his departure from the company. In the two short years since Gateway acquired eMachines and made Inouye the company CEO he completely turned around the Continue reading “Gateway CEO resigns, future uncertain”.
WidowPC, a maker of custom built gaming computers has today announced plans for an SLi laptop with the latest 7800 series GPUs. People who ogled at the proof-of-concept MXM SLi card MSI showed at CES Continue reading “Forget the leg warmers, get one of these:”.