I must have missed this story, but on Wednesday NVIDIA named the chairman of Stanford University’s computer science department as its new chief scientist, a particularly important position for the world’s largest graphics chip supplier Continue reading “NVIDIA Hires Bill Dally as new chief scientist”.
This afternoon I received an e-mail from Gilbert Fiorentino, the CEO TigerDirect, and he wanted to clear the air on the various reports regarding the reason that EVGA products are no longer being sold on Continue reading “TigerDirect CEO Says ‘We decided to discontinue the relationship [with EVGA]””.
ELSA Japan and Lucidlogix have announced an an agreement to deploy Lucids HYDRA based chip in ELSA Japan High Performance products. The companies have teamed up to transform high performance computing in the Japanese marketplace. Continue reading “ELSA Japan and LucidLogix Launch Computing Products in Japan”.
In the business world, that amorphous concept called “consumer confidence” is measured in dozens of metrics, algorithms, and white papers. In the real world, there are Super Bowl ads. So, unsurprisingly, if you look at Continue reading “Tech ads on the sidelines at this year’s Super Bowl”.
apanese electronics maker Hitachi Ltd. predicted it would post a massive net loss this fiscal year and said it will slash about 7,000 jobs as part of a global restructuring plan. Battered by plunging demand, Continue reading “Hitachi forecasts $7.7 billion loss, cutting 7,000 jobs”.
Dell Inc is plotting a foray into the cell phone arena as early as next month, making and selling smartphones to revitalize a business walloped by crumbling PC sales and pitting the firm against Apple, Continue reading “Dell Thinking About Making A Smartphone – Watch Out Applie iPhone”.
With more and more mainstream people making the move to an almost pure digital world, central storage and data backup is becoming more and more of an issue. Businesses have used Network Attached Storage or NAS boxes for some time now, but now the everyday home user is starting to look at NAS solutions for data storage and backup. Join us as we look at the N4100PRO NAS box from Thecus and see what this little box can do.
Our story yesterday about TigerDirect.com dropping EVGA products from their retail site made it all over the internet yesterday, but today we have cleared up part of the mystery. One of our contacts at EVGA Continue reading “EVGA Products Not Listed on TigerDirect.com Was a Business Decision”.
ATI has just released Catalyst 9.1 for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux platforms on http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html. This software suite includes Radeon display driver 8.573 and full OpenGL 3.0 extension support. It also fixes numerous bugs Continue reading “ATI Releases Catalyst 9.1 Video Card Drivers for Windows and Linux”.
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, St. Louis-based Energizer announced that they would be releasing Zinc Air (Zn-O2) Prismatic batteries. This morning a package arrived from Energizer, and inside the metal display case was a real Energizer PP355 Zinc Air Prismatic 1.4V battery! Read on to see what makes this battery special in one of the first hands-on looks at the Zinc Air Prismatic Battery.
An effort to delay the February 17 deadline for a nationwide switch to digital television failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday after Republicans blocked the move. The legislation is backed by President Continue reading “House fails to pass digital TV delay bill”.
Sony said net profit tumbled 95% in the third quarter, as the global slump hurt sales of its core electronics products. The Japanese electronics giant said net profit plunged to 10.4 billion yen ($115.6 million) Continue reading “Sony Profit Plummets 95%”.
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the fourth calendar quarter of 2008.GPUs are used in industrial and medical systems, point of sale terminals, kiosks, digital signs, and Continue reading “Computer Graphics Chip Shipments Dive in Q4 ’08”.
ASRock has recently been including a feature called Instant Boot on their N7AD-SLI motherboards and claims that it only takes 3 to 4 seconds to boot up to Windows. Read on as we benchmark the ASRock N7AD-SLI motherboard and overclock it to see what it can really do. We also tossed in a couple of videos to better explain the board layout and BIOS functionality.
One of our readers sent me an e-mail letting me know that TigerDirect.com has dropped EVGA products from its retail site today for reasons that are unknown. I just went over to the TigerDirect.com site Continue reading “TigerDirect.com Drops EVGA Products From Its Retail Site”.
