Western Digital took another step to ratchet down investors’ expectations for fiscal fourth-quarter results, reminding them Monday that demand for its primary product, hard-disk drives, typically weakens in the quarter ending in June and that Continue reading “Western Digital Lowers Inverstors’ Expectations – Tough Market”.
NVIDIA Corporation today announced a stock repurchase program under which NVIDIA may purchase up to $1 billion of its common stock. Since authorizing its first stock repurchase program in August 2004, NVIDIA has spent $613.1 Continue reading “NVIDIA Announces $1 Billion Stock Repurchase Program”.
Core Duo, Core2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core, Fusion, CoreFusion. Confusion? That seems to be the mental state of consumers, based on a new report that says a dizzying array of chip brands isn’t much help Continue reading “Chip brands failing Intel, AMD”.
According to the latest market report from DRAMeXchange, DRAM spot prices last week slipped more than 10%, as the market showed no increase in demand. That is a huge drop for a market where the Continue reading “DRAM Capacity Reduction To Stabilize Prices”.
owerColor, Cooler Master and Universal ABIT are in search of a challenger in Taiwan to take on Johnathan Fatal1ty Wendel, during COMPUTEX 2007. Will people please start beating him so they stop doing these challenges? Continue reading “Win $2993 If You Can Beat FATAL1TY In Taiwan”.
Intel is expected to unveil on Tuesday research plans for chips with hundreds of cores, or electronic brains, and a new way to ease the bottleneck these more complex processors will create talking to the Continue reading “Intel To Announce Processor With Hundreds of Cores Today?”.
Advanced Micro Devices is ready to start fighting back against Intel with silicon, but Intel has an answer in the waiting. AMD demonstrated its Barcelona quad-core server chip for reporters and analysts here Monday, comparing Continue reading “AMD shows sunny side of Barcelona”.
Dell is expected to begin selling on Thursday three models of its long-awaited laptop and desktop computers loaded with Ubuntu Linux. I think this is a great move on Dell’s part and for all consumers Continue reading “Linux on Dells to debut Thursday”.
A government contractor that played a key role in the Internet’s birth will oversee efforts to redesign the network from scratch. The National Science Foundation announced Monday that BBN Technologies Inc. will get up to Continue reading “Internet pioneer to oversee its redesign – GENI Gains Ground”.
he art of trend-spotting is set to take a more scientific turn as Google Inc., the world’s top Web search company, on Tuesday unveils a service to track the fastest-rising search queries. It’s pretty interesting, Continue reading “Google offers daily updates on trends”.
Although several versions of the Intel Bearlake family of chipsets will not be released until the third quarter of 2007, motherboard makers will have sample products on show during Computex Taipei 2007, according to sources Continue reading “Motherboard makers to showcase more Intel Bearlake at Computex”.
Today’s Web Reviews “For $20, the Scout webcam is worth the purchase. It takes good still shots, decent video, and has a built in microphone. Its small size makes it ultra portable and I would Continue reading “May 18th through May 21st News from Around the Web”.
Intel plans to slash prices 40-60% for quad-core server processors in order to achieve its shipment goal and to foil competition from AMD’s upcoming launch of its Barcelona series CPUs, according to industry sources. Looks Continue reading “Intel to slash prices for quad-core server processors in July”.
IBM unveiled a new microprocessor Monday, claiming advances in performance and power consumption for the high-end servers used by many corporations. The Power6 features 790 million transistors, with circuits measuring 65 nanometers and is said Continue reading “IBM Powers Up New Power6 Processor”.
With todays launch of DDR3 memory Legit Reviews takes the time to compare DDR2 to DDR3 in terms of system performance. Armed with a 2GB kit of PC3-10600 from Corsair Memory and a 2GB kit of PC3-11000 from Kingston Technology LR takes a look at performance at stock and overclocked settings for both types of memory. If you are interested in seeing how DDR2 CL4 performance against DDR3 CL6 then read on for the most detailed independent DDR2 versus DDR3 performance article to date.
