AMD today announced that it has reached a new milestone in the mobile graphics industry as the first 3D graphics technology provider to achieve OpenGL ES 2.0 conformance certification. AMD OpenGL ES 2.0 mobile graphics Continue reading “AMD Next-Generation OpenGL ES 2.0 Graphics Technology”.
ASUS today officially unveiled its first-ever gaming event in North America. Named after its successful line of gaming-focused products, the Republic of Gamers, the Republic of Gamers Convention (ROGCon) will bring gaming sizzle to Dallas, Continue reading “ASUS Announces First-Ever Republic of Gamers Convention”.
AMD originally planned to launch two 65nm dual-core Phenom processors codenamed Kuma for the desktop PC market in May or June this year, however the company has recently suspended the plans and will let its Continue reading “AMD suspends several Phenom desktop CPUs until 45nm generation”.
NZXT, a company built on realizing the dreams of gamers worldwide, is proud to announce the Khaos, a high-performance premium gaming chassis in the NZXT Classic Series. Khaos features breakthrough design in every category effectively Continue reading “NZXT Announces New Ultra-Premium Gaming Chassis – Khaos”.
It had to end sometime. The market for professional workstations had set records for unit shipments dating back to Q3’04 and extending all the way through Q4’07. But according to Jon Peddie Research’s Workstation Report, Continue reading “Workstation Market Q1 ’08 – Slowing Down According to Jon Peddie”.
SanDisk Corporation today announced it has acquired MusicGremlin, a privately-held technology company that develops advanced digital content distribution technologies. The acquisition falls under SanDisks Sansa audio/video business unit. MusicGremlin has a pretty slick wi-fi MP3 Continue reading “SanDisk Acquires MusicGremlin – Wi-Fi Player Maker Bought Up!”.
Western Digital today launched a new line of WD Caviar Black 7200 RPM 3.5-inch SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives for high-performance desktop, workstation and multi-drive systems. Available in capacities of 750 GB and 1 TB, Continue reading “Western Digital Caviar Black 750 GB and 1 TB Hard Drives Announced – Faster Than Ever!”.
To accelerate the widespread adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology and products, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel Corporation, Samsung Electronics and Sprint today announced the formation of the Open Patent Alliance (OPA). WiMAX is a 4G, Continue reading “Open Patent Alliance Formed to Advance WiMAX 4G Technology”.
Despite leading memory tester vendors Advantest and Verigy both having rolled out solutions for DDR3 testing, projection of a meaningful crossover between DDR3 and DDR2 has yet to be seen. Advantest and Verigy have introduced Continue reading “DRAM tester vendors ready for DDR3, but consumer demand not ready”.
One year after the introduction of the first iPhone Apple did what we all expected them todo – they announced a 3G capable iPhone – the iPhone 3G. The new phone has a ton of Continue reading “Steve Jobs Announces Apple iPhone 3G – $199 for 8GB”.
AMD today introduced four new Quad-Core AMD Opteron SE processors to help IT managers take a new approach to ‘scaling up’ their datacenter in order to address demanding enterprise-computing environments. Rather than invest in traditionally Continue reading “AMD Launches Four New Quad-Core AMD Opteron SE Processors”.
According to several sources close to the hard drive industry, Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor hard drive to combat the increasing pressure from SSD manufacturers. The new drive will be very Continue reading “Western Digital working on 20,000 RPM Raptor”.
The trial for Advanced Micro Devices’ five-year-old antitrust suit alleging that competitor Intel unfairly manipulated the chip market has been delayed until February 2010. The trial was previously scheduled for April 2009, AMD spokeswoman Hollis Continue reading “Intel, AMD antitrust suit pushed back to 2010”.
VIA Technologies held a launch party on June 5 in Taiwan to officially announce its new VIA Nano processor (Isaiah) and a new standard for small form factor motherboards, Mini-ITX 2.0. Nvidia’s general manager of Continue reading “NVIDIA To Make VIA Nano Supporting Chipsets Later This Year – MCP79”.
VIA Technologies today announced a new standard for Mini-ITX boards to ensure an optimized multimedia and computing experience in small form factor desktop PCs. Mini-ITX 2.0 is a set of minimum specifications for the next Continue reading “VIA Unveils Mini-ITX 2.0: The Mini PC Platform of the Future”.
