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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Electronic Arts to Market Personal Computers in Conjunction with New Crysis Warhead.

[11:10 pm]

Game Publisher Wants to Make PC Purchase Easier

HP, Intel and Yahoo! to Jointly Explore Cloud Computing.

[9:53 pm]

HP, Intel and Yahoo! Create Global Cloud Computing Research

Asustek to Release Eee PC Notebooks for High-End Markets – President.

[9:36 pm]

Asustek Confirms Eee PCs for Premium Market Segments

Corsair Claims Another DDR3 Memory World’s Speed Record.

[8:55 pm]

Corsair Overclocks DDR3 Memory Module to 2580MHz

Portugal Plans to Acquire Half a Million of Classmate PCs.

[8:41 pm]

Portugal to Buy Classmate PCs for Use in Schools

Lenovo May Be Planning to Launch Netbook Later This Year.

[1:37 pm]

Lenovo Eyes Market of Inexpensive Netbooks

AMD to Sell Consumer Electronics DTV Business Unit to Broadcom – Analyst.

[1:03 pm]

AMD to Get Rid of DTV Business Unit

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Game Developer Dumps PlayStation 3 Version of Forthcoming Title.

[10:14 pm]

Electronic Arts: No Red Alert 3 for Sony PlayStation 3

FireWire Interface to Get Speed Boost.

[9:48 pm]

1394 Trade Association Ratifies 1394-2008 Spec

ATI Mobility Radeon Graphics Processors’ Packaging Is Solid, Says Company.

[6:29 am]

AMD: Do Not Expect ATI Mobility Radeon to Suffer from Faulty Packaging Like Nvidia’s GeForce

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Asustek Computer Readies Tens of Eee PC Models – Leaked Slides.

[11:43 pm]

Asustek Preps 23 Asus Eee PC Devices

Dell, HP Release New Firmware for Notebooks to Fix Issues with Nvidia Graphics Chips.

[4:14 pm]

Dell and HP Attempt to Fix Nvidia GeForce Issues with New Firmware

Video Game Developers Expect Current-Generation Consoles to Last for Four to Ten Years from Now.

[12:49 pm]

Current-Generation Video Game Consoles Set to Have a Long Life

Intel’s Recent Price-Cut Drops Price of Quad-Core Chips to Below $200.

[10:03 am]

Intel Makes Select Chips More Affordable

Monday, July 28, 2008

Apple Plans to Stop Using Intel’s Chipsets – Rumours.

[9:52 pm]

Apple May Return Proprietary Chipsets to Its Systems

No $100 Laptops for the Next Three Years – Analysts.

[9:29 pm]

Gartner Doubts that $100 Laptops will Emerge in Three Years

DisplayPort to Skyrocket, But HDMI to Stay as Consumer Electronics Standard – iSuppli.

[8:33 am]

DisplayPort and HDMI to Share the Markets

Friday, July 25, 2008

Western Digital Quietly Acquires Developer of Hard Disk Drive Controllers.

[6:28 pm]

Western Digital Takes Over ST Microelectronics’ Hard Drive Controller IP, Team

Channel Vendors Demand Graphics Cards Suppliers to Recall Potentially Faulty Nvidia GeForce Graphics Cards.

[12:31 pm]

Resellers Want to Return Potentially Faulty Nvidia GeForce Graphics Boards to Makers

AMD Denies Manufacturing Operations Spin Off Plan.

[9:00 am]

AMD: Only Real Men Have Fabs

Thursday, July 24, 2008

HP Set to Make Voodoo-Branded Systems Available Worldwide.

[11:59 pm]

HP’s Voodoo Computers to Be Available Through HP Sales Network

Intel Rumoured to Speed Up Nehalem Launch on Desktop.

[11:06 pm]

Intel’s Bloomfield Processor to Emerge in September – Rumours

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Western Digital Releases VelociRaptor for Enterprises.

[9:58 pm]

WD Launches Enterprise Version of VelociRaptor

Game Developers Unlikely to Take Advantage of Improved Nintendo Wii Controller Soon.

[5:42 pm]

Nintendo Wii MotionPlus – A Surprise for Game Developers

Hynix Semiconductor to Shut Down Fab in the U.S.

[4:26 pm]

Hynix Semiconductor to Close its Eugene Fabrication Facility

AMD to Discuss Rival for Intel Atom Towards Year End.

[3:35 pm]

AMD’s Competitor for Intel Atom in the Works, Says Company

SanDisk Blames Windows Vista for Low Performance of Solid State Drives.

[12:29 pm]

SanDisk: Vista Is Not Optimized for Flash Memory Solid State Disk

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Tens of Companies Support Sony’s TransferJet Close Proximity Wireless Transfer Tech.

[11:55 pm]

Consortium Formed to Develop TransferJet Technology

Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, NEC Seem to Get Interested in Low-Cost Notebooks.

[11:23 pm]

Foxconn May Manufacture Low-End Laptops for Sony – Rumours

Art Lebedev Announces Optimus Pultius Keypad.

[10:55 pm]

Optimus Pultius to Fight Optimus Mini Three

AMD Chief Executive: Major Restructuring Will Spin Off Manufacturing in Months.

[10:24 pm]

AMD Prepares to Spin Off Manufacturing Operations

Monday, July 21, 2008

Sony Plans to Sell 150 Million PlayStation 3 Game Consoles.

[9:59 pm]

Sony Wants to Outsell PlayStation 2 with PlayStation 3

OCZ Technology Unveils First “Fatal1ty” Memory Modules.

[2:13 pm]

OCZ Announces Breed of “Fatal1ty” Memory Modules

AMD Initiates Pilot Production of 45nm Chips.

[8:46 am]

AMD to Bring 45nm Products in Early Q4 2008

Friday, July 18, 2008

Nintendo Wii on Top Again Despite of PlayStation 3 Sales Skyrocket – NPD.

[8:21 pm]

Market of Video Games and Consoles Continues to Grow in the USA

Sony Has No Plans to Cut PlayStation 3 Pricing – Company.

[12:13 pm]

Sony Aims at Profitability, Not Unit Sales with PlayStation 3, Says Chief Financial Officer

Intel Denies Accusations of Illegal Business Practices.

[6:49 am]

Intel: CPU Market Is Highly Competitive, AMD’s EC’s Allegations are Unfounded

Micron and Seagate to Lead Solid State Drive Standardization Efforts at JEDEC.

[6:03 am]

JEDEC Announces Dedicated Subcommittee to Set Standards for SSDs

Thursday, July 17, 2008

European Commission Accuses Intel of More Elements of Anti-Competitive Behaviour.

[11:12 pm]

European Commission Finds More Examples of Intel’s Illegal Business Practices

Samsung and Sun Claim that Newly Developed Flash Memory for Servers Will Live Longer than Data Processing Servers.

[8:00 pm]

Samsung and Sun Develop Ultra Durable Memory for Server Solid State Drives

AMD’s Chief Executive Officer Hector Ruiz Steps Down.

[2:36 pm]

Dirk Meyer Becomes New Chief Exec of AMD

Intel: Atom Will Not Substitute Celeron Processors.

[12:15 pm]

Intel Denies Possibility to Change Celeron for Atom

Sony Cuts Price on PlayStation 3, Axes Backwards Compatibility Too.

[10:07 am]

Sony PlayStation 3 80GB to Cost $399, Backwards Compatibility Lost

Microsoft Preps to Unveil DirectX 11 Features in Several Days.

[5:48 am]

ATI, Nvidia, Microsoft to Discuss DirectX 11 Techniques at XNA, Siggraph

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Intel Promises to Ship 100 Million 45nm Microprocessors This Year.

[11:55 pm]

Intel Says 45nm Process Technology Ramp Better than Ever

Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Model, Cuts Price on Another.

[11:21 pm]

Microsoft Releases Xbox 360 Pro 60GB Model

Nvidia to Explore SOI Manufacturing Technology.

[7:45 pm]

Nvidia Joins SOI Industry Consortium

Intel to Launch Another Offence with Nehalem Microprocessors Later This Year.

[7:06 pm]

Intel to Aggressively Push Nehalem Micro-Architecture into High-End Desktops

New Generation ATI Radeon for Mainstream, Mobile Markets are Ready.

[12:30 pm]

PCI-SIG Approves ATI RV730, M98-L, M96 Graphics Chips

EVGA and XFX Reimburse Price Difference on GeForce GTX 200 after Price Collapse.

[7:22 am]

EVGA and XFX to Return Money to GeForce GTX 200 Purchasers

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Nintendo Improves Precision of Wiimote Game Controller.

[10:33 pm]

Nintendo Unveils Wii MotionPlus Accessory

Market of TV Tuners for Personal Computers to Expand in Coming Years – Research Firm.

[7:50 pm]

PC TV Tuner Market to Get Boost from Shift to Digital Broadcasting

Fujitsu Siemens Computers May Cease to Exist.

[7:29 pm]

Fujitsu and Siemens to Decide FSC’s Future by Year End

Startup Promises to Revolutionize Multi-GPU Technology Early Next Year.

[4:23 pm]

LucidLogix Unveils Hydra Distributed Processing Engine

Nvidia Lowers Pricing of Latest Graphics Cards.

[2:43 pm]

Nvidia Slashes Pricing of GeForce GTX 200

Monday, July 14, 2008

Sony: Wii Is Not a Competitor for PlayStation 3.

[10:43 pm]

Sony Dismisses Nintendo Wii as a Rival for PlayStation 3

Nvidia to Enable SLI on Next-Gen Intel Platform, Fails to Get License to Make Chipsets.

[4:18 pm]

Nvidia to Sell Separate Chips to Enable SLI on Intel Nehalem Platforms

Friday, July 11, 2008

AMD Writes Down $880 Million Following Inability to Execute in Consumer Electronics Business.

[11:20 pm]

AMD Admits Failures in Consumer Electronics Businesses

AMD Plans to Launch Two Dual-Chip ATI Radeon HD 4800 Graphics Cards.

[10:26 pm]

ATI Touts 8-Way ATI CrossFireX Multi-GPU Technology

Seagate Unleashes World's First 1.5TB Hard Disk Drives.

[9:50 pm]

Seagate Increases Hard Drive Capacity to 1500GB

Rambus Accuses Nvidia of Patent Infringement.

[9:20 pm]

Rambus Sues Nvidia of Patent Infringement

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Intel Receives Clearance on In-Home Medical Device.

[5:21 pm]

Intel Set to Sell Personal Health System

OCZ Enters Alchemy Brand for Gaming Peripherals.

[3:55 pm]

OCZ Unveils “Elixir” Keyboards

Samsung Starts Volume Production of 128GB Solid State Drives.

[2:03 pm]

Samsung Initiates Mass Production of Relatively Affordable 128GB SSDs

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

DreamWorks and Intel Sign Pact: Larrabee, Xeon Set to Be Used.

[11:01 pm]

DreamWorks Switches from AMD to Intel

AMD Loses Microprocessor Revenue Share to Intel – iSuppli.

[6:07 pm]

AMD, Intel Continue to Gain CPU Revenue Share

Nvidia Interested in Intel Atom Platforms, May Drop Support of Via’s Processors.

[4:12 pm]

Nvidia May Trade Via Support for Intel Atom License

Gigabyte Unveils Affordable Tablet PC Featuring Intel Atom.

[1:57 pm]

Gigabyte Jumps on Netbook Bandwagon with M912V Tablet

Monday, July 7, 2008

PC Makers Not Optimistic about Mobile Internet Devices.

[10:22 pm]

Hardware Makers Also Pessimistic Regarding MIDs

Intel Does Not Believe into General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors.

[6:45 pm]

Intel: Nvidia’s CUDA, AMD’s CTM are “Interesting Footnote” of History

AMD Quietly Adds New Quad-Core Microprocessor into Lineup.

[2:24 pm]

AMD Unveils Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition Chip

Pioneer Develops 400GB Optical Disc.

[8:23 am]

Pioneer Creates 400GB Blu-Ray Disc

Friday, July 4, 2008

Nvidia Plans Further Price-Cuts for Latest Graphics Cards.

[3:08 pm]

Nvidia Intends to Drop Price of GeForce GTX 200-Series Graphics Cards

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Via Nano Processors Set to Arrive in August or September.

[11:50 pm]

Via Technologies’ Nano Chips Delayed Again

Sony Wants to Make Blu-Ray More Interactive.

[10:35 pm]

Sony Touts New Blu-Ray Disc Features

Transition to 16:9 PC Monitor Panels Inevitable – Research Firm.

[9:27 pm]

16:9 Panels to Replace 16:10 Panels, Says Research Firm

Nvidia Lowers Sales Guidance amid Chipset Flaws and Decreasing Prices of Graphics Chips.

[4:07 pm]

Nvidia Issues Warning Following Issues with Chipsets, Graphics Processors

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Nintendo Still Unwilling to Add DVD Playback to Wii.

[2:59 pm]

Nintendo Wii Still Cannot Get DVD Playback

Diamond Multimedia Preps Über-Overclocked ATI Radeon HD 4870 Graphics Card.

[1:46 pm]

ATI, Diamond Bid on Overclocked ATI Radeon HD 4870 to Crash Nvidia’s GeForce 200 GTX

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