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Friday, February 29, 2008


New Medium Enterprises Hopes to Crash Blu-Ray Disc.
[5:56 pm]

NME Says HD VMD Now Has Chances to Get Market Share

 

Thursday, February 28, 2008


Sony Unveils New Version of PlayStation 3 in the U.S.
[11:24 pm]

Sony Launches PS3 80GB with New Bundle

Kingston Achieves Unprecedented Memory Speeds with DDR3, Nvidia’s New Core-Logic.
[6:08 pm]

Kingston Overclocks DDR3 Memory Modules to 2.13GHz

AMD Quietly Unveils Dual-Core Sempron Processors.
[2:25 pm]

AMD Releases Dual-Core AMD Sempron in China

Intel Ships New Xeon Processors for Embedded Applications.
[12:47 pm]

Intel Extends Life-Circle of Embedded Products to 7 Years

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2008


Dreamworks Animation Confirms: Payoffs Pressured Format War.
[7:59 pm]

Blu-Ray Has No Clearamce to Take off with Dreamworks

Asus Eee PC Is Race to Bottom, Says Sony Executive.
[6:47 pm]

Sony Condemns Asustek Computer's Asus Eee PC

Microsoft Drops Price of Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive to $49.
[3:27 pm]

Microsoft Sales Last HD DVD Drives for Xbox 360

European Commission Approves Acquisition of Packard Bell by Acer.
[1:53 pm]

Europe Agrees with Acer and Packard Bell Merge

 

Tuesday, February 26, 2008


AMD Tests First Chips Made Utilizing Extreme Ultra-Violet Lithography.
[11:16 pm]

AMD Announces Chip Manufacturing Tech Breakthrough, Gets Close to 22nm Process Tech

Sharp and Sony to Jointly Produce LCD Panels.
[2:46 pm]

Sharp and Sony sign Memorandum of Intent to create Joint Venture

Nvidia Wants to Power Top Five Supercomputers in Four Years.
[12:14 pm]

Nvidia Proclaims “Democratization of Supercomputing”

 

Monday, February 25, 2008


Fujitsu Unveils Mobile Hard Disk Drive with 500GB Capacity.
[11:11 pm]

Fujitsu Follows Hitachi with 500GB 2.5” Hard Drive

Microsoft to Discontinue HD DVD Add-On Drive for Xbox 360.
[1:17 pm]

Microsoft Drops Support of HD DVD Format

 

Sunday, February 24, 2008


Havok to Distribute CPU Physics Engine for Free.
[11:33 pm]

Havok Offers Core Physics free for PC Game Developers

Nvidia Plans to “Improve” High Definition Video with New Driver Feature.
[3:59 pm]

Nvidia Intros Technology to Boost Quality of High-Definition Movies

 

Saturday, February 23, 2008


Intel Plans to Launch Six-Core Microprocessors Later This Year.
[5:11 pm]

Intel Readies Six-Core Central Processing Units for 2H 2008

 

Friday, February 22, 2008


Asustek Computer Reportedly Orders Unprecedented Amount of Low-Cost AMD Chips.
[11:37 pm]

Asustek Shows Interest Towards Low-Cost AMD Systems

Nvidia’s SLI May Disappear, or SLI Policy May Be Changed If Nvidia Fails to License Intel’s Next-Gen Processor Bus.
[1:20 pm]

Nvidia May Have to Drop or Open SLI Due to Issues with Processor Bus License

 

Thursday, February 21, 2008


Art Lebedev Starts to Ship Final Optimus Maximus Keyboards.
[8:43 pm]

Optimus Maximus Shipments Initiated

Nvidia Launches New Performance-Mainstream Graphics Processor.
[7:14 pm]

Nvidia Intros GeForce 9 Family with New Sub-$200 Graphics Card

Sony Stops Selling Backwards Compatible PlayStation 3 in USA, UK Stores.
[9:21 am]

Sony PlayStation 3 80GB No Longer Available from Sony Style

Microsoft Promises Casual Games from Independent Developers via Xbox Live.
[6:41 am]

Microsoft Xbox Live to Feature Free, Inexpensive Casual Games

Paramount, Dreamworks Jump on Blu-Ray Bandwagon.
[5:11 am]

Paramount and Dreamworks to Release Movies on Blu-Ray

 

Wednesday, February 20, 2008


ATI Quietly Slashes Pricing of Latest Performance-Mainstream Graphics Cards.
[11:25 pm]

AMD’s Graphics Product Group Makes ATI Radeon HD 3850, 3870 More Affordable

Sony and Toshiba Officially Form Semiconductor Joint-Venture.
[7:37 pm]

Toshiba Gets Control over Sony’s Semiconductor Manufacturing for $832 million

Corsair Readies New Ultra High-Speed Memory Modules.
[7:06 pm]

Corsair to Release 2.0GHz Memory Modules for Enthusiasts

Universal Studios Home Entertainment Plans to Release Movies on Blu-Ray Format.
[6:31 pm]

Universal Announces Plans to Make Blu-Ray Movies

Game Developers and Hardware Makers to Advance PC Games.
[3:47 pm]

Game Developers, Hardware Makers Form PC Gaming Alliance

Blu-Ray’s Real Battle Is Still Ahead – Analyst Firm.
[10:10 am]

Blu-Ray Has to Fight DVD Before It Becomes Industry Standard, Says Analyst

Analyst Retracts Claims of AMD’s Mobile Platform Issues, But Says Notebook Makers are “Cautious”.
[10:09 am]

American Technology Research Continues to Expect “Slower Puma Launch”

 

Tuesday, February 19, 2008


LG Electronics Does Not Intend to Drop HD DVD.
[10:18 pm]

LG’s Universal High-Definition Players Set to Remain on the Market

Toshiba Has No Plans to Make Blu-Ray Players.
[2:43 pm]

Toshiba Says “No” to Blu-Ray Disc

Intel Unleashes Extreme Computing Platform for Performance-Starving Customers.
[1:39 pm]

Intel Starts to Ship Components for Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform

Toshiba Set to Stop Making, Selling HD DVD Products.
[10:34 am]

Toshiba Abandons Its HD DVD Business

 

Monday, February 18, 2008


Warranty Costs Triple for Microsoft, Xbox 360 Failure Rates Revealed.
[10:46 pm]

Microsoft Xbox Failure Rates May Be As High As 16%

Intel Mulls Centrino 2 Brand-Name for Next-Gen Mobile Platform.
[3:23 pm]

Intel’s Next-Generation Mobile Platform May Receive “Intel Centrino 2” Name

Toshiba Set to Drop Manufacturing of HD DVD, DVD Players – TV Report.
[10:54 am]

Toshiba Plans to Close Its Japanese Fabs, Reconsider HD DVD Strategy

 

Friday, February 15, 2008


Sony PlayStation 3 Outsells Predecessor, Xbox 360 for the First Time in the USA – NPD.
[11:42 pm]

Video Game Console Unit Sales Down Year-over-Year in January

S3 Graphics Unveils DirectX 10.1 Graphics Chip.
[10:24 pm]

S3 Releases New Graphics Processor for Low-End Market

 

Thursday, February 14, 2008


Warner Bros. Talks About HD DVD Releases After Mid-2008.
[12:50 pm]

Warner Bros. Plans to Release HD DVD Titles According to Demand

Analyst Expects Nvidia to Acquire AMD Despite of Chances to Lose x86 License.
[10:58 am]

AMD May Be Immune Against Third-Party Takeover Thanks to Agreement with Intel

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2008


Taiwan Makers of Optical Drives Do Not Expect Dual-Format High-Def Drives to Go Mainstream.
[11:27 pm]

Taiwan Makers Blame High Royalty Costs of Blu-ray, HD DVD for Lack of Hybrid Drives

Head of Nvidia Criticizes Dual-GPU Approach as Dual-GPU GeForce 9800 GX2 Looms.
[10:53 pm]

Single GPU Configuration – The Best Approach for High-End Graphics Systems: Nvidia Chief Executive

AMD Denies Any Problems with “Puma” as Analyst Predicts Issues with AMD’s Next-Generation Mobile Platform.
[9:15 pm]

AMD’s “Puma” Mobile Platform May Face Problems, Delays – Analyst

HD DVD Is Still Standing, The Format War Not Over Yet – Says HD DVD Promo Group.
[2:52 pm]

HD DVD European Promotional Group Claims HD DVD Has Bright Future

 

Tuesday, February 12, 2008


Nvidia Announces System-on-Chip for Handhelds.
[6:16 pm]

Nvidia Unveils APX 2500 Processor

 

Monday, February 11, 2008


Apple May Be Aiming at Video Game Market.
[10:52 pm]

Apple Brand Now Covers Video Game Devices

Yahoo! Finds Microsoft’s Bid Considerably Below Its Value.
[3:24 pm]

Yahoo! Decides Not to Accept Microsoft’s Takeover Proposal

 

Sunday, February 10, 2008


Dell Reduces Offerings of AMD-Based Systems.
[10:47 pm]

Dell Excludes Certain AMD-Based PCs from Online Store

 

Friday, February 8, 2008


Microsoft Expects “Very Long” Life Span for Xbox 360 Game Console.
[11:04 pm]

Microsoft’s Vice President Denies New Xbox in 2009 - 2010

AMD Plans to Introduce New AMD Phenom Chips in April – Source.
[6:31 pm]

AMD Wants to Speed Up Introduction of AMD Phenom "B3" 9750, 9650, 9550

 

Thursday, February 7, 2008


Apple Cuts Production of Music Players, Personal Computers.
[11:30 pm]

Apple Reduces Production of iPod, iPhone

IBM Touts New-Generation Cell Processors.
[1:52 pm]

IBM Describes 45nm Cell Processors

 

Wednesday, February 6, 2008


Intel, STMicroelectronics Start Sampling Phase Change Memory.
[11:43 pm]

Intel and STM Reach “Key Milestone” with Phase Change Memory

Plextor Chooses Unified High-Definition with new Blu-ray HD DVD Drives.
[10:27 pm]

Plextor Unveils Two Hybrid Blu-ray HD DVD Drives

Nvidia May Continue with Dedicated Physics Processors – Ageia.
[4:36 pm]

Ageia PhysX May Survive, For Some Time...

Microsoft May Be Preparing Another Price-Cut for Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive.
[12:48 pm]

Microsoft May Lower Xbox 360 HD DVD Drive Pricing to $79

 

Tuesday, February 5, 2008


Microsoft Attacks Japanese Video Game Market with More Affordable Xbox 360.
[11:20 pm]

Microsoft Readies More Affordable Xbox 360 for Japan

Apple Adds Memory to iPhone, iPod Touch.
[10:50 pm]

Apple Boosts Capacity of Latest iPhone, iPod Devices

 

Monday, February 4, 2008


Freescale Semiconductor Wants to Take Over Multimedia Chip Specialist.
[11:01 pm]

Freescale Semiconductor to Acquire SigmaTel, May Offer Highly-Integrated Multimedia Platforms

Google Condemns Microsoft Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!
[6:19 pm]

Microsoft – Yahoo! Alliance Threatens the Internet, Thinks Google

Nvidia Purchases Developer of Dedicated Physics Processors.
[3:14 pm]

Ageia Gets Acquired by Nvidia Corp.

Microsoft Offers to Acquire Yahoo! For $44 Billion.
[12:06 pm]

Microsoft Proposes to Take Over Yahoo! Again

Intel and Micron Proclaim “World’s Fastest” NAND Flash Memory Chips.
[9:06 am]

Intel and Micro Create New NAND Flash Memory Technology

AMD’s High-Performance Phenom Microprocessors Slip into Third Quarter – Rumours.
[8:32 am]

AMD Cancels Certain High-Performance Quad-Core Chips, New Products Only Due in Q3