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Monday, March 31, 2008


Asustek Readies Dual-Chip ATI Radeon HD 3850 Graphics Card.
[11:09 pm]

Asustek Wants to Address Performance-Mainstream Market with ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Creative Technology Threatens SoundBlaster Driver Developer.
[10:19 pm]

Creative Labs: The Lack of Functionality Under Windows Vista Is Business Decision

Intel, STMicroelectronics Create Flash, Phase-Change Memory Manufacturer.
[4:39 pm]

Intel and STM Close Transaction to Create Numonyx

AMD Unveils New-Generation Professional Graphics Card with DisplayPort.
[4:09 pm]

ATI Releases New FireGL V7700 with DisplayPort Connection

Nvidia Rumoured to Introduce New Breed of Graphics Cards in July.
[1:31 pm]

Nvidia May Update Graphics Processor Lineup in July

 

Sunday, March 30, 2008


Intel Plans to Delay New Chipset Shipments Because of Compatibility Issues.
[10:40 pm]

Intel P45 to Emerge on the Market Later than Expected

 

Friday, March 28, 2008


THX Believes in Blu-Ray, Clarifies Comments by Scientist.
[3:00 pm]

Blue Skies for Blu-Ray, Says THX

HD DVD Promotional Group Dissolves Itself.
[1:27 pm]

HD DVD Format Backers Dissovle Promo Group

 

Thursday, March 27, 2008


Nvidia Set to Develop Chipsets for Via Microprocessors - Reports.
[11:21 pm]

Nvidia to Concentrate on Core-Logic Sets for Via Chips, Rumours Claim

THX: No Chances for Blu-Ray Disc Format.
[6:03 pm]

Too Late For Blu-Ray, Says THX

Asustek Computer Claims that Its Audio Cards Do Support Latest Environmental Audio Extensions.
[1:56 pm]

Asustek Defends Its Software-Based Support of EAX Technologies

AMD Intros New Quad-Core Processors with Higher Performance.
[12:26 pm]

AMD Boosts Performance of Quad-Core AMD Phenom Microprocessors

 

Wednesday, March 26, 2008


Rambus Obtained Patents Completely Legally, Court Finds.
[11:04 pm]

Court Finds Rambus’ Memory Patents Completely Valid

Advanced Micro Devices Formally Unveils World’s First Triple-Core x86 Microprocessors.
[10:33 pm]

AMD Officially Releases AMD Phenom X3 8000-Series Microprocessors

Via Technologies Expects Systems Based on New-Gen Chips in May or June.
[2:01 pm]

Via Isaiah Processors May Emerge Commercially in Two Months

When One Becomes Two: Motorola Splits into Two Independent Companies.
[6:45 am]

Motorola Separates Into Two Independent Publicly Traded Companies

Creative Technology Accuses Asustek of False Advertising of EAX Support.
[5:55 am]

Creative Technology Claims That Asus Audio Cards Do Not Support EAX

 

Tuesday, March 25, 2008


Intel to Offer Six-Core Microprocessors for Desktops in 2010.
[11:43 pm]

Intel’s Westmere Chips to Feature Six Cores

Intel Adds Two New Low-Voltage Quad-Core Processors into Lineup.
[10:13 pm]

Intel’s New Quad-Core Xeon Processors Run at 2.50GHz, Demand 50W of Power

Seagate Claims Solid-State Drive Makers May Infringe Seagate’s Patents.
[3:50 pm]

Seagate Says It Has “Secret Weapon” Against SSDs – Patents

Asustek Readies Graphics Card with Three Graphics Processing Units.
[2:21 pm]

Asus Prepares “Trinity” Graphics Board with Three ATI Radeon HD 3850 Chips

 

Monday, March 24, 2008


Western Digital to Cease Supplying Hard Drive Platters to Competitors.
[10:19 pm]

WD Media to Stop Selling Platters to Hitachi, Seagate

TSMC to Make Chips Using 40nm Fabrication Process.
[9:50 pm]

TSMC Unveils 40nm Process Technology

Acer to Introduce Rival for Asustek's Eee PC.
[8:59 am]

Acer's Low-Cost Notebook to Be More Affordable than Asus Eee PC

 

Friday, March 21, 2008


AMD Readies New ATI Radeon HD Graphics Card for Mainstream Market.
[10:21 pm]

AMD Preps to Release ATI Radeon HD 3830 Graphics Adapter

Best Buy Lets Customers to Get Rid of HD DVD or Receive $50 Gift Cards.
[12:59 pm]

Best Buy to Provide Gift Cards to HD DVD Onwers and Buy Back HD DVD Players from Customers

64-Core Desktop Processors to Emerge in 2012, But Software Makers Should Get Ready.
[12:11 pm]

Software Developers Must Prepare for Multi-Core Microprocessors

Several Blu-Ray Disc Players Now Can Playback DivX Content.
[7:54 am]

BD Players by Denon, Panasonic and Philips Get DivX Certificate

 

Thursday, March 20, 2008


Blu-Ray Disc's BD+ Copyright Protection Technology Defeated Completely.
[11:24 pm]

Software Can Disable BD+ Copyright Protection on All Blu-Ray Discs

S3 Graphics Begins to Sell Latest Graphics Cards in the USA.
[5:10 pm]

S3 Graphics Initiates Selling Chrome 4 Graphics Boards in the U.S.

Elitegroup Announces Intel Atom-Based Rival for Asustek’s Eee PC.
[3:41 pm]

Elitegroup Computer Systems Unveils ECS G10 Netbook

Amazon Kindle Faces Unexpected Demand – Company.
[1:48 pm]

Amazon Apologizes for Low Availability of Kindle

HTC Develops “Dream” Phone Powered by Google’s Android.
[11:50 am]

HTC Plans to Release Google Android Phone in 2008

Apple May Be Preparing iPod and iPhone Devices with Unlimited Music Downloads.
[8:37 am]

Apple Negotiates with Music Labels about iPod and iPhone with Lifetime iTunes Subscription

 

Wednesday, March 19, 2008


Sony Readies New Firmware to Enable New-Generation Blu-Ray Capabilities on PlayStation 3.
[10:58 pm]

Sony to Make PlayStation 3 the World's First Blu-Ray Profile 2.0 Player in Days

ATI Radeon Graphics Cards Receive DisplayPort Certification.
[10:07 pm]

VESA Certifies DisplayPort Implementation of AMD's Graphics Product Group

Intel Wants Partners to Sell Affordable Notebooks in Europe, USA.
[5:49 pm]

Intel Plans to Start Selling $250 - $350 Laptops on Developed Markets

Intel Discloses Details about “Sandy Bridge” Microprocessors Due in 2010.
[4:13 pm]

Intel Unwraps Post-Nehalem Central Processing Units’ Details

Western Digital Reveals High-Capacity Hard Drive with Quiet Operation, High-Performance.
[3:55 pm]

Western Digital Launches World’s Highest Capacity Dual-Platter Drive

 

Tuesday, March 18, 2008


Nvidia Unveils New Dual-Chip Graphics Card for Enthusiasts.
[11:38 pm]

Nvidia Quietly Announces GeForce 9800 GX2

Intel and Microsoft to Assist Software Developers in Taking Advantage of Multi-Core Chips.
[10:47 pm]

Intel and Microsoft Launch Parallel Computing Research Centers

Intel Promises TeraFLOPS Performance with Larrabee Chips.
[1:33 pm]

Intel Discusses Larrabee, Visual Computing Architecture

Nvidia Reportedly Seeks to Take Over Via Technologies.
[11:03 am]

Nvidia Interested in Via’s x86 Microprocessors, I/O Chips

Acer Plans to Develop “Open-Standard” Game Console.
[8:07 am]

Acer Wants to Challenge Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony

 

Monday, March 17, 2008


IBM Develops Nanophotonic Switch to Transfer Data Inside Future Chips.
[11:58 pm]

IBM Creates Critical Element of On-Chip Optical Network

Sales of Game Console Up in February – NPD.
[11:18 pm]

Video Game Console Sales Surprise in February

Intel Unveils More Details about Nehalem Microprocessors.
[10:19 pm]

Intel Unwraps More Information Regarding Nehalem Chips

AMD Set to Introduce Higher-Performance Phenom Chips in Weeks.
[11:43 am]

AMD Phenom 9850 to Be Unveiled in April

 

Friday, March 14, 2008


Microsoft and Yahoo! Met to Discuss Potential Merger – Sources.
[10:49 pm]

Microsoft and Yahoo in Talks about Merger

DVD Forum’s Work Group 12 Set to Communicate with Blu-Ray Disc Association.
[10:07 pm]

DVD Forum to Detail Network Connectivity Specifications for DVD

Intel’s Quad-Core Chips for Notebooks Emerges on Horizon.
[9:20 pm]

Intel Plans to Release Core 2 Extreme QX9300 Chip in Q3 2008

 

Thursday, March 13, 2008


GeForce 9800 GTX Specs Confirmed: Leaked Slides.
[6:59 pm]

MSRP to Start at $300

Gaming Desktop from MAINGEAR for $9,000.
[6:47 pm]

Quad CrossfireX and Skulltrail under Same Roof

AMD Begins to Ship Triple-Core Microprocessors to Personal Computer Makers.
[12:50 pm]

AMD Initiates Shipments of AMD Phenom 8000-Series Microprocessors

Mainboard Makers Begin Shipments of Intel X48 Mainboards.
[11:08 am]

Intel X48-Based Platforms to Show Up Shortly

 

Wednesday, March 12, 2008


OCZ Introduces New Solid State Drives with Leading-Edge Performance.
[11:56 pm]

OCZ Unveils SSDs with Exceptional Speed

Atom Based Notebooks to Be Priced at $250-$300.
[5:47 pm]

Intel Expects “Netbook” Market Boom

AMD’s Central Processing Units to Get More Affordable, New Models Imminent.
[2:15 pm]

Advanced Micro Devices Plans to Slash Microprocessor Pricing in April

Intel Plans to Speed Up Introduction of Nehalem Microprocessors – Slides.
[11:59 am]

Intel Intends to Introduce First “Bloomfield” Chips in Q3 2008

Asustek Unveils High-Definition Display with Web-Conferencing Capabilities.
[10:01 am]

Asus Releases 24” Display with Built-In Webcam, Microphone, Speakers

Microsoft Downplays Blu-Ray Player for Xbox 360 Possibility.
[7:19 am]

Microsoft Has to Support Blu-Ray, But Not with Xbox 360, For Now

 

Tuesday, March 11, 2008


OCZ Technology Launches Vendetta 2 CPU Cooler.
[4:05 pm]

Vendetta Grew Up

New Dual-Chip Flagship Solution from NVIDIA to Launch Next Week.
[3:21 pm]

GeForce 8800 Family to Be Refreshed

XFX Slashes Nvidia Based Graphics Card Prices.
[1:16 pm]

Great Deals on GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS and GeForce 9600 GT

Intel to Launch 160GB Solid-State Drives for Notebooks.
[12:34 pm]

Competitors to Face Hard Times

AMD to Regain Their Share in Graphics Market.
[10:43 am]

RV700 GPU and Hybrid Swift Processors Being Prepared

 

Monday, March 10, 2008


Imation Entered Solid State Drives Market.
[2:55 pm]

Based on Mtron’s Mobi Performance Products

Microsoft Lowers Price of Xbox 360 in Europe.
[2:01 pm]

No Info on the USA Yet

ASUS Reveals Future Eee PC Details.
[10:21 am]

Intel Atom to Be the Best Bet

IBM and Hitachi Unite to Research Future Transistors.
[8:55 am]

Joint Research to Accelerate Semiconductor Innovations

 

Friday, March 7, 2008


Microsoft to Equip Xbox 360 with Blu-Ray Drive - Rumor.
[4:14 pm]

Sony Mentions Negotiations with Microsoft and Apple

ASUS Launches Eee PC with Microsoft Windows.
[3:30 pm]

ASUS to Prepare New Modifications with Advanced Features

HP Retains Its Leading Position in PC Sales.
[3:25 pm]

Continuous Growth of the PC Market

Apple to Update iPhone Software in June.
[3:14 pm]

Apple Opens iPhone SDK and Adds Enterprise Features

Yorkfield Processors to Start Selling Next Week.
[10:50 am]

Intel Battling 45nm Chips Shortages

 

Thursday, March 6, 2008


Mushkin Joins DDR3 Manufacturers.
[7:17 pm]

New DDR3-1600 and DDR3-1800 for Overclocking Fans

Graphics Card Manufacturers Use More Video Memory.
[6:00 pm]

GeForce 9600 GT with 2GB of Memory from Jetway

Intel Prepares Its Own Mini-ITX Platform.
[12:06 pm]

Centrino Atom Launch Poses Problems for VIA and SiS

Alienware Announces Quad-Graphics Desktop.
[12:01 pm]

Thanks to ATI Catalyst 8.3

 

Wednesday, March 5, 2008


AMD Reveals Upcoming Plans.
[6:39 pm]

Perseus, Cartwheel and Puma to Launch Before Mid 2008

Intel to Be More Active in the Graphics Market.
[5:10 pm]

Raytracing and 10x Performance Improvement by 2010

Samsung Ships Half-Terabyte Mobile Hard Drive.
[2:46 pm]

New Drive Smaller Than Competitors

Matrox Moves the Monitor Away from PC.
[2:25 pm]

New System to Connect Monitors Hundreds of Meters Away from PCs

MSI Moving Towards “Green Computing”.
[12:15 pm]

MSI Presents the Air Power Chipset Cooler with ECO Design

 

Tuesday, March 4, 2008


AMD Delivers DirectX 10 Motherboard GPU.
[4:33 pm]

AMD Announced Integrated 780 Series Chipsets

Last days of AGP Bus.
[4:15 pm]

NVIDIA Will Not Support Outdated Bus Standard

PowerColor Accelerates ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2.
[2:53 pm]

Top AMD Graphics Card Acquires GDDR4 Memory

AMD Demos 45nm Native Quad-Core Processors.
[12:16 pm]

45nm Products to Be Available in the Second Half of 2008

 

Monday, March 3, 2008


ASUS Launches New Lamborghini Notebooks.
[4:49 pm]

Luxury Laptops Go Compact

OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator In Production.
[4:33 pm]

Gaming Innovation Converts Electroencephalograph Signals into Keystrokes

AMD Ready to Launch Refreshed Barcelona?
[4:27 pm]

AMD Partners Receive Quad-Core Processor Samples with B3 Core Stepping

Intel Unveils Atom Processor for Mobile Internet Devices.
[3:06 pm]

Intel Releases Low-Power Chip for Low-Cost Mobile Systems