State leaders and semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Devices are in discussions to build a $3.5 billion chip manufacturing plant that could bring 2,000 permanent jobs to upstate New York, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Tuesday. Continue reading “Rumor: AMD considering plant site in upstate New York”.
Resellers selling H-P systems will be happy to learn that H-P is going to increase their compensation on select systems by up to 50%. This is a huge increase and hopefully the systems will be Continue reading “H-P Resellers will get a 50 percent jump in compensation”.
Is everyone watching the World Cup? It seems that the World Cup and the fact that Intel is cutting processor prices in July has put the hurting on NAND Flash pricing. With sufficient inventory already Continue reading “Intel Price Cuts and World Cup Soccer Slow NAND Flash Sales”.
Electronic Arts is expanding its realm, agreeing on Tuesday to purchase Mythic Entertainment, developer of Dark Age of Camelot, an online multiplayer game. The move is only the latest in an ongoing effort by EA, Continue reading “Electronics Arts Buys Mythic”.
Opera Software today released Opera 9, its newest Web browser for PCs. You can download it free in more than 25 languages for Windows, Mac, Linux and other platforms from www.opera.com. Opera 9 enhances the Continue reading “Opera 9 Released with Widgets and BitTorrent Support”.
Gates will be remembered as a visionary and PC industry leader. But even Microsoft’s Chairman hasn’t been right in all of his bets. Microsoft-Watch has a top 10 list of his flops that is well Continue reading “Bill Gates’ Legacy: Microsoft’s Top 10 Flops”.
In the months ahead, the Los Angeles County Sheriff?s Department will test an unmanned, remote-controlled surveillance plane. The next time you think that you are being watched look up and search the sky for a Continue reading “L.A. to use surveillance drones”.
A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was attained at extremely cold temperatures, Continue reading “Georgia Tech/IBM Demonstrate 500 GHz Silicon-Germanium Transistor”.
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. today announced it is launching a special portal within the Flash products area of the Kingston Web site to support the usage and promote the benefits surrounding expansion memory for feature-rich Continue reading “Kingston Launches Mobile Phone Village Web Community”.
A Dutch music website which links to MP3 files had to stop promoting the infringement of artist rights and copyrights, the Dutch court of appeal said in a ruling that overturned an earlier one in Continue reading “Dutch site linking to MP3 files loses court case”.
Headcount reductions and improving microprocessor unit sales should help Intel raise margins over the next two years, UBS argued in upgrading the shares to buy from hold Monday. UBS also raised its Intel price target Continue reading “UBS Slaps a Buy on Intel Stock”.
In addition to scheduling 80nm production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for September, ATI Technologies will begin producing its graphics processor (GPU) on an 80nm manufacturing process at United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) in the Continue reading “ATI to begin 80nm production at UMC later this year”.
If you’re into the electrical engineering side of the equation, the slides should make your mouth mater with anticipation. For the rest of us, we rely on the numbers, and there’s certainly no shortage of Continue reading “Core 2 Extreme benchmarks hit the scene. Should AMD worry?”.
Edward Chou, marketing director of ATI Technologies Asia-Pacific division, responded to earlier reports that its 80-nanometer (80nm) production has been delayed by saying that ATI has succeeded in completing trial production of its 80nm graphics Continue reading “ATI’s R600 80nm Core Still on Track According to ATI”.
Blu-ray format finally set to launch next week–with seven movie titles! The first batch of seven Blu-ray titles, all from Sony Pictures Home ntertainment, are scheduled to arrive in stores Tuesday. The first Blu-ray player, Continue reading “Blu-ray Disc ready to hit play next Tuesday”.