This Week’s Web Reviews The new Foxconn N5M2AA-EKRS2H is an inexpensive solution for overclocker and all-rounder. Although the nVidia nForce 4 chipset is meanwhile somewhat outdated, Foxconn developed a good alternative to the latest Socket Continue reading “April 6th through April 14th News from around the Web”.…more
IBM will link chips together in a relatively new way that the company says will improve performance and cut power consumption. The technology, called through-silicon vias, or TSV, involves connecting different components–processors and memory, for Continue reading “IBM To Replace System Bus w/ TSV”.…more
Beyond3D revealed the future Intel discrete graphics plans with slides from the Visual Computing Group. The architecture is based on 10+ mini-cores that has 10mm2 die size and 6.25W TDP each. Each core has 16-wide Continue reading “Intel GPU Architecture Mapped Out”.…more
Web search leader Google’s market share inched up to 64 percent of all queries among U.S. Internet searchers in March, gaining further ground against Yahoo and Microsoft, a survey released on Wednesday by Hitwise found. Continue reading “Google draws 64 percent of search queries”.…more
Google hopes to woo more developers to its Web services software platform with a 27-hour-long “Developer Day” on May 31. To spark more interest in its development tools and APIs (application programming interfaces), the company Continue reading “Google plans global developer day”.…more
Following a recent report that motherboard makers Micro-Star International (MSI) and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) announced strong shipment and revenue figures for March, Asustek and Gigabyte Technology also reported rising revenue and shipment figures for Continue reading “Motherboard makers see March shipments and revenues up”.…more
Due to hit shelves in the very near future, the GeForce 8300 GT has been pictured in Taiwan. The card is physically shorter than even the venerable 6200 and has a small fan on it. Continue reading “GeForce 8300 Spotted in Taiwan”.…more
Apple Inc.s announcement Monday that it has sold 100 million of its iPod music players marks more than just a business milestone for the once-struggling computer company. Apple said Monday that it had sold 100 Continue reading “An Apple milestone: 100 million iPods sold”.…more
Advanced Micro Devices lowered sales expectations for the second time in a month and pledged to cut hundreds of millions of dollars worth of costs in the face of a brutal price war with archrival Continue reading “Price war hurting chip maker AMD”.…more