AMD today officially opened the Shanghai Research and Development Center (SRDC), a multi-million dollar research and development facility driving next-generation AMD processor-powered platform innovation through increased technology partner and customer collaboration. Initially, the SRDC’s engineering Continue reading “AMD Opens New R&D Center In Shanghai, China”.
With heightened security at airports across the nation many believe that laptops are destined to being on the no fly list. While if this even happens it is sometime away it’s still something to think Continue reading “Laptops and Planes still go together, for now”.
Fudo believs that Intel quietly acquired most of the 3Dlabs graphics team. Back on the 24th February this year, 3Dlabs and its mother company Creative Labs announced plans to “refocus” 3Dlabs’ interests on mobile and Continue reading “Rumor: Intel now has many 3Dlabs employees that created Open GL 2.0”.
Two AOL employees were fired and its chief technology officer has left the company in the aftermath of a privacy breach that involved the release of more than 650,000 subscribers’ Internet search terms. I still Continue reading “3 leave AOL over privacy goof”.
A recent visit by CNET News.com to Synaptics’ headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., turned up several notable concept designs that might make their way into future PCs. CNET has a bunch of pictures of new Continue reading “Reinventing the scroll wheel”.
Samsung Electronics has developed a music-player cell phone with 8GB of built-in flash memory — that’s double the amount of memory in Apple Computer’s hit-iPod nano. The SCH-B570 can store about 1,600 MP3 music files Continue reading “Damn That’s Big — Samsung debuts 8GB music phone”.
The Core 2 Duo T5500 and the Core 2 Duo T5600, entry-level offerings in Intel’s upcoming Merom notebook CPU line, will respectively be priced at US$209 and US$241, according to sources at Taiwan-based notebook makers. Continue reading “Intel Merom prices start at $209 — transitional platform”.
No matter what segment of the market you are in, there is an AM2 offering that will suit your needs. Today, MSI and Asrock take on the challenge of a new socket in the form of AM2, and do it from completely opposite ends of the market – from budget to enthusiast! Read on as we take a look at the Asrock AM2V890-VSTA and MSI K9A Platinum motherboards to see which one of these boards will work for you?
Last Thursday Apple issued a firmware update for its entry-level MacBook notebooks to adjust “fan behavior.” The firmware update, which can be downloaded Apple support site, is in response to ongoing customer complaints about overheated Continue reading “Apple Runs Fans Nonstop To Cool MacBooks”.
A secret wiretapping scheme brought in as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror is unconstitutional and must stop, a federal judge has ruled. The programme, approved by President Bush in 2001, allows for Continue reading “US judge rules wiretaps illegal”.
A spike in PC demand has created a new shortage of Intel chip sets, potentially reviving an issue blamed for causing the company to lose market share to rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) last year. Continue reading “Intel has another chip set shortage”.
Lite-On IT, the largest maker of optical disc drives in Taiwan, on August 18 announced it is developing half-height (H/H) HD-DVD burners, with a volume production target set for March 2007. lthough the company has Continue reading “Lite-On IT to produce HD-DVD burners in March 2007”.
We recently had a chance to sit down with Tom Petersen, the technical marketing manager of the NVIDIA MCP group and find out what’s new and have him answer some of the questions that our Continue reading “Interview with Tom Petersen – technical marketing manager NVIDIA MCP Group”.
Introduction Due to the intense competition in the flash drive market, prices have fallen and what was once only for the tech-elite, now is for the everyday consumer. No longer are we content with the Continue reading “Supertalent Fireball 512MB Flash Drive Review”.
ATI just minutes ago released Catalyst 6.8 drivers on www.ati.com for both Windows and Linux platforms. THe drivers greatly improve Direct3D performance numbers with Futuremarks 3DMark06 scores increasing an amazing 22% and Call of Duty Continue reading “ATI Releases CATALYST 6.8 Drivers For Download”.
