Looks like Monday will be a great day for Intel as Apple plans to announce they will start using Intel microprocessors! We first posted on this subject a couple weeks ago and everything turned out Continue reading “Apple to switch to Intel chips starting in ’06”.
News that a new memory foundry might be built is India is a big deal. The estimated cost is a tad over one billion-dollars! India is expected to be a huge market for eletronics devices Continue reading “Indian IT group plans to build new memory foundry”.
Think that your bluetooth device is secure? Think again! Cryptographers have discovered a way to hack Bluetooth-enabled devices even when security features are switched on. The discovery may make it even easier for hackers to Continue reading “New hack cracks ‘secure’ Bluetooth devices”.
Sun Microsystems is in the process of acquiring Storage Technology Corp., a vendor of data storage systems, in a deal valued at $4.1 billion, the two companies said Thursday (June 2). Sun says the acquisition Continue reading “Sun moves to buy StorageTek for $4.1 billion”.
DDR2 products are currently contributing about 5% of Kingmax’s sales, but they are going full steam ahead with DDR2-800 modules. Clearly the future of DDR2 memory is 800MHz and beyond. Ranked as the world’s eighth-largest Continue reading “Kingmax to start mass production of high-end DDR2”.
Here is another virus that, once activated, sends itself out to all the e-mail addresses it finds on the computer’s hard drive. Norton and other virus scanners have an update to the virus definitions that Continue reading “Bagle virus spreads in empty e-mails”.
Henri Richard over at AMD took a jab at Intel saying that their dual core solution doesn’t count and that AMD has the first real dual core. It isn’t too often you get one of Continue reading “AMD executive casts doubt on Intel?s dual-core claim”.
For all you Mozilla fans out there you have something new to download and test out! Deer Park is the codename for Mozilla Firefox 1.1 and Deer Park Alpha 1 is a preview of 1.1 Continue reading “Mozilla Firefox Deer Park Alpha 1”.
Packed with enterprise features and performance, the new single-chip NetLink controller enables extremely low power consumption (required for today’s consumer and SMB markets) and unmatched reliability and product stability. Based on seven generations of field-proven Continue reading “Broadcom’s New NetLink Gigabit Ethernet Controllers Based on PCI-e Platforms”.
Jess Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate General, said that big companies such as IBM, HP and Sun are just using the open source community as subcontractors Continue reading “IT giants accused of exploiting open source”.
“There may be WiMAX PC cards on the market earlier than many observers have expected,” Solis said. “You will not have full mobility as you will with 802.16e, but you will have some portability.” Solis Continue reading “Mobile WiMAX Coming Sooner Than Expected: Analyst”.
Taking another crack at the living room, Intel is again showing off a concept PC that closely resembles Apple Computer’s Mac Mini. The chipmaker unveiled the prototype with AOpen on Tuesday at the Computex trade Continue reading “Will Intel open Pandora’s box with Mac Mini twin?”.
Graphics processor firm nVidia has teamed up with UK-based chip company ARM to pool technology in a bid to accelerate the development of next-generation consumer devices. Under the terms of the deal nVidia has licensed Continue reading “NVidia and ARM target next-gen devices”.
Advanced Micro Devices was second in coming to market with a dual-core desktop chip, but it’s first in benchmark scores, according to sites that test the chip. Both Anandtech and Tom’s Hardware–two hardware benchmarking sites–have Continue reading “AMD edges Intel in early dual-core benchmarks”.
Microsoft and Intel have teamed up by trying to police copyright regulations through hardware and not software. Intel has now included digital rights management (DRM) within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying Continue reading “Intel adds DRM to new chips (i945 & Dual-Core)”.