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Friday, February 26, 2010


Is Infineon the Next Rambus, or a Wannabe DRAM Maker?
[6:07 pm]

Infineon Sues Elpida, Are Others Under Attack?

Intel’s Six-Core Desktop Chip Available for Pre-Order.
[1:16 pm]

Listing of Intel Core i7-980X Points to Availability Shortly

MicroStar International Faces Conflict Between Brand and OEM Businesses.
[8:16 am]

MSI Faces Conflict with OEM Customers

TSMC Pledges to Double 40nm Output by End of the Year. TSMC  Semiconductor  40nm  32nm  28nm  22nm  20nm  HKMG
[2:04 am]

TSMC Vows to Start Making 22nm Chips in 2012

 

Thursday, February 25, 2010


Wii Still Has Millions of People to Address – Nintendo.
[6:05 pm]

Nintendo Believes that Wii Is the Most Used Game Console

Intel-TSMC Atom System-on-Chip Pact on Hiatus: No Demand from Customers.
[4:35 pm]

Intel Still Has Hopes for Third-Party Atom SoCs amid Lack of Demand

ATI Closes the Gap, Launches Radeon HD 5830.
[2:10 pm]

ATI Releases New DirectX 11 Graphics Board for $239

Panasonic Licenses exFAT Technology from Microsoft.
[12:33 pm]

Panasonic Bets on Large Flash Storage, Licenses exFAT Tech

Lower-Cost Fermi Graphics Processors Due in the Middle of the Year – Nvidia. Nvidia  Fermi  Geforce  Quadro  Tesla  NV60  GF100  GF104  40nm
[6:26 am]

Nvidia Confirms Fermi-Based GeForce, Tesla Launch Shortly, New Quadro Later

 

Wednesday, February 24, 2010


Problems with TSMC’s 40nm Largely Behind, But Will Be Completely Solved by mid-2010 – Nvidia.
[10:40 pm]

Nvidia Expects TSMC’s 40nm to Become Ideal Only by Mid-Year

SGI Acquires Copan Systems to Boost Storage Porfolio.
[9:50 pm]

SGI Expands Storage Portfolio with Copan Take Over

Samsung Expands 40nm Lineup with 4Gb DDR3 Chips.
[11:16 am]

Samsung Unleashes 4Gb Memory Chip Made Using 40nm Process Technology

AMD Readies Low-Power Server Platform. AMD  Adelaide  Opteron  Lisbon  45nm  Maranello  San Marino  C32
[3:56 am]

Adelaide: The Secret Weapon of AMD

 

Tuesday, February 23, 2010


Early Technology Adopters No Longer Need Higher Income – Tech Watchers.
[5:03 pm]

Early Adopters Are No Longer Students – In-Stat

SanDisk Offers SSDs with 10 Years Warranty.
[3:50 pm]

SanDisk G3 SSD Shipping to Retailers: 7200rpm Performance, 10 Years Warranty

Intel, Partners to Invest $3.5 Billion into U.S. Tech Companies.
[1:14 pm]

Intel Vows to Rebuild the Foundations of American Growth

Microsoft Natal Set to Leave Sony Arc Behind – Analyst. Microsoft  Sony  Xbox  Playstation  Arc  Natal
[11:55 am]

Microsoft’s Natal to Be More Successful Than Sony Arc Controller

AMD: We Will Not Cut-Down Feature-Set of Opteron “Magny-Cours” Chips. AMD  Opteron  Magny-Cours  45nm  Maranello
[11:16 am]

AMD Has No Plans to Reduce Functionality of Eight-Core and Twelve-Core

Amazon and Microsoft Sign Cross-License Deal.
[6:27 am]

Amazon and Microsoft Agree on Kindle Servers

Infineon Wants to Ban Sales of Memory from Elpida in the U.S.
[6:06 am]

Infineon Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Elpida Memory

Apple to Port iPhone Operating System to New Platforms. Apple  iPhone  iPod  iPad  macbook
[5:06 am]

Apple’s Job Description Reveals Big Plans for iPhone OS

 

Monday, February 22, 2010


Business Users Do Not Need Slate PCs – Lenovo. Lenovo  ThinkPad
[11:46 pm]

Lenovo Bets on Physical Keyboards, No Slate ThinkPads

Seagate Initiates Shipments of 2TB Serial Attached SCSI Hard Drive.
[10:44 pm]

Seagate Intros 2TB SAS Hard Drive

163 Million Smartbooks Expected to Ship in 2015 – Analysts.
[12:34 pm]

Smartbooks to Get More Popular

Nvidia to Officially Reveal GeForce GTX 400 on March, 26. Nvidia  Fermi  Geforce  Quadro  Tesla  NV60  GF100  40nm
[9:59 am]

Nvidia to Unveil “The Next Generation of PC Gaming”

 

Friday, February 19, 2010


WiMAX on Track to Cover More than 800 Million People By End of 2010.
[10:53 pm]

WiMAX Set to Gain Ultimate Popularity

AMD Begins Revenue Shipments of Twelve-Core Opteron Microprocessors. AMD  Opteron  Magny-Cours  45nm  Maranello
[7:06 am]

AMD Has Shipped “Limited Number” of Production Magny-Cours Chips

Intel to Dramatically Boost Capacities of Solid-State Drives by Year End. SSD  Intel  X25-M  X25-E  X18-M  X25-V  Flash  20nm  34nm
[4:21 am]

Intel Readies 400GB SSDs for Enterprise, 600GB SSDs for Mainstream

 

Thursday, February 18, 2010


Toshiba Enters Enterprise Storage Market, Touts Industry’s Leading Areal Density.
[10:41 pm]

Toshiba Unveils Hard Drive with 10000rpm Spindle Speed

Sony: Game Developers Return to PlayStation After Wii.
[3:51 pm]

Sony Sees Game Developers Dropping Wii, Putting More Efforts into PS3 Games

Fermi Architecture GPUs Will Only “Hit the Full Stride” in Q2 – CEO of Nvidia. Nvidia  Fermi  Geforce  Quadro  Tesla  NV60  GF100  40nm
[12:44 pm]

Mass Availability of GeForce GTX 400, Other Fermi Products Delayed Till Q2

S3 Graphics Shows Off Dual-GPU Graphics Card.
[7:20 am]

S3 Offers Competitor for ATI Eyefinity: 8 Displays by One Card

Sony to Add PlayStation Network to Sony Ericsson Phones, Other Products.
[5:29 am]

CEO of Sony: PlayStation Network Coming to All Sony Products

 

Wednesday, February 17, 2010


Stereo 3D Will Be Adopted by Both Consumers and Professionals – Chief Executive Officer of Nvidia.
[11:04 pm]

Nvidia 3D Vision Coming to Quadro, Says Head of Nvidia

NEC Develops 2GB/s High-Speed Serial Communication Interface.
[9:52 pm]

NEC’s New Technology Outshines PCI Express 2.0, USB 3.0

Apple, Amazon and Google to Split the E-Book Market – Analyst.
[12:17 pm]

Analyst Expects Amazon to Lose E-Book Monopoly

ATI to Add New Features to Graphics Cards as Nvidia’s DirectX 11 Chip Nears. ATI  AMD  Radeon  eyefinity  CrossFire  Evergreen
[6:47 am]

ATI to Support Stereo 3D, Improved Multi-Monitor Technologies

 

Tuesday, February 16, 2010


GSM Association Wants SIM Cards Everywhere, Outlines Integration Guidelines.
[11:47 pm]

GSM Association Expects 50 Billion Devices with SIM Cards by 2025

Google Proposes “A Little Bit of Google for Everyone”. Google  Chrome  Android
[5:07 pm]

Google Vows Not to Steal Operators’ Talk Time

AMD Receives Grant to Develop Fusion Processors.
[2:22 pm]

Canadian Government Supports Development of AMD Fusion

Intel to Update Desktop Microprocessor Lineup Next Quarter – Sources.
[10:32 am]

New Clarkdale, Lynnfield Chips Incoming

Intel to Boost Performance of Atom SoCs Using Silicon Hive’s Technology.
[8:48 am]

Intel Collaborates with Startup to Improve Multi-Threading Tech on Atom Chips

 

Monday, February 15, 2010


AMD’s Twelve-Core Microprocessors Available for Sale. AMD  Opteron  Magny-Cours  45nm
[11:09 pm]

Company Sells AMD Opteron 6174 Processors at Ebay

Globalfoundries Promises to Boost Performance by 40%, Trim Power Consumption by 30% with 28nm Fabrication Process.
[3:23 pm]

ARM and Globalfoundries Promise Breakthrough with 28n Process Technology

Intel and Nokia Marry Moblin and Maemo: Welcome, MeeGo.
[1:57 pm]

Intel and Nokia Create Unified Linux Platform for Mobiles

Microsoft Unveils New Operating System for Mobile Phones.
[12:33 pm]

Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Phone Operating System

 

Friday, February 12, 2010


Hynix Semiconductor Creditors Fail to Sell Controlling Stake.
[9:13 am]

Nobody Wants to Acquire Hynix

 

Thursday, February 11, 2010


Windows 8 Will Change the Way People Think about PCs – Microsoft Employee. Microsoft  Windows
[10:38 pm]

Microsoft Promises Another Revolution with Next Windows Operating System

Ex-Chairman of Microsoft: Apple iPad Needs Keyboard!
[5:55 pm]

Bill Gates: Apple Should Have Introduced a Netbook

Pentium – Still Intel’s Most Popular Desktop Processor. Intel  Pentium  Nehalem  Core  45nm  32nm  65nm
[12:52 pm]

Vast Majority of Intel’s Desktop Chips Still Carry Pentium Brand

Globalfoundries: No AMD 45nm Microprocessors with HKMG Incoming.
[5:35 am]

Globalfoundries Dismisses Rumours Regarding 45nm SOI + HKMG Microprocessors

 

Wednesday, February 10, 2010


Asustek Wants to Become Another Apple with Open-Source Platforms. ASUS  Eee  Apple
[10:58 pm]

Asus Promises to Launch “Killer Product” in June 2010

Up to Twenty Five Stereo 3D Games to Hit Game Consoles This Year – Analysts.
[7:58 pm]

Stereo 3D Gets Lukewarm Welcome from Game Developers

Micron to Acquire Numonyx Memory Specialist.
[2:38 pm]

Micron Takes Over Phase-Change Memory Developer

45% of Intel’s Desktops Chips to Feature Nehalem Micro-Architecture by Year End.
[1:20 pm]

Intel to Make 35% of Desktops Processors Using 32nm Process by End of 2010

Sales of Blu-Ray Chips Leave Behind Standard DVD Chips in 2009.
[8:34 am]

Revenue for Blu-Ray Chips Exceed Sales of DVD Chips

 

Tuesday, February 9, 2010


ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Family Is Gaining Momentum.
[11:21 pm]

Nine Notebooks With ATI Radeon HD 5000 Are Available

Intel to Launch Three Six-Core “Gulftown” Processors for Desktops. Intel  Gulftown  Core  32nm
[9:55 pm]

Intel’s Six-Core Chips Will Hardly Get Mass

Intel to Release Sandy Bridge Processors, New Infrastructure in Q1 2011 – Source. Intel  Sandy Bridge  32nm  Cougar Point
[7:45 pm]

Intel’s Initial Sandy Bridge Will Not Target High-End Market

Nvidia Unleashes Optimus Graphics Technology for Notebooks. Nvidia  Optimus  GeForce  Intel  Core  40nm
[4:06 pm]

Nvidia Optimus Graphics Co-Processing Technology Saves Battery Life

ATI Launches Ultimate Solution for Home Theater Personal Computers.
[1:11 pm]

ATI Radeon HD 5570: 400 Stream Processors, Blu-Ray 3D, Low-Profile Design

AMD Discloses Peculiarities of 32nm Llano Microprocessors. AMD  Llano  32nm  Fusion  Semiconductor
[11:42 am]

AMD Confirms Dynamic Speed Boost for 32nm SOI x86 Chips

 

Monday, February 8, 2010


Barnes & Noble Nook Is Finally Available.
[11:04 pm]

B&N’s Nook Hits Online, Retail Stores

AMD: Graphics Processors to Accelerate Servers in Two Years.
[7:21 pm]

Graphics Chips to Power Servers in Two Years – AMD

Rambus’ Mobile Memory Initiative Materializes: Mobile XDR Announced.
[2:48 pm]

Rambus Launches Mobile XDR Memory, Targets Mobile Products

Micron and Nanya to Start Making DDR3 Using 42nm Process Technology.
[12:48 pm]

Micron and Nanya Unveil 43nm DRAM Process Technology

 

Sunday, February 7, 2010


IBM Demonstrates 100GHz Transistor.
[11:40 pm]

IBM’s New Transistor Previews Next-Generation Chips

Intel Wants to Be the Leader in Solid-State Drives Market.
[4:55 pm]

Intel Intends to Lead SSD Market

 

Saturday, February 6, 2010


Nvidia: External Graphics Accelerators for Notebooks Is a Big Opportunity. Nvidia  Geforce  ATI  Mobility Radeon
[11:28 pm]

Nvidia Is Keeping Its Eyes on External Graphics Adapters, But Reveals No Plans

Netbook Shipments Continue to Grow – Analysts.
[7:21 am]

Netbooks Get More and More Popular

 

Friday, February 5, 2010


Globalfoundries Aims 30% of Contract Semiconductor Market.
[10:12 pm]

Globalfoundries Targets Volume Market

AMD Phenom II X6 “Thuban” Processors to Get Dynamic Speed Boost Technology. AMD  Phenom  45nm  Thuban
[7:30 am]

AMD’s Six Core Chips to Feature Dynamic Performance Boost

 

Thursday, February 4, 2010


Stereoscopic 3D Part of HDMI 1.4 Gets Published.
[11:47 pm]

3D HDMI Spec Available for Public Download

Patriot Memory Releases 2.25GHz DDR3 Memory Modules.
[9:16 pm]

Patriot Pushes DDR3 Speeds to the Extreme

ATI Debuts First DirectX 11 Graphics Card for $60. ATI  AMD  Radeon  Cedar  40nm  Evergreen
[6:58 pm]

ATI Launches Radeon HD 5450 Product, Cedar Chip

 

Wednesday, February 3, 2010


Users of Electronic Book Readers Are Happy With Their Devices.
[11:32 pm]

Vast Majority of E-Book Readers Are Satisfied

Game Designer Reveals Brand-Name for Sony’s Motion Controller.
[10:23 pm]

THQ Names “Sony Arc” as Motion Controller

ARM Expects Netbooks to Account for 90% of PCs.
[1:02 pm]

Netbooks – Opportunity for ARM Despite Lack of Windows Support

Intel Begins to Ship Next-Generation Itanium Processors for Revenue. Intel  Itanium  Tukwila  Xeon  Beckton  65nm
[8:41 am]

Intel Initiates Revenue Shipments of Itanium Tukwila Processors

 

Tuesday, February 2, 2010


Electronic Books May Get More Expensive.
[10:59 pm]

Publishers Want E-Books to Get More Expensive

Shipments of Tablet PCs to Grow From 4 Million in 2010 to 57 Million in 2015. AMD  Intel  ARM  x86  Atom
[9:35 pm]

Analysts Predict Rapid Growth of Tablet PC Popularity

Samsung Launches Eco-Friendly 2TB Hard Drive.
[5:50 pm]

Samsung Releases 2TB HDD with 5400rpm Spindle Speed

The Vast Majority of U.S. Businesses to Use VoIP by 2013 – Analysts .
[11:56 am]

VoIP Penetration to Increase Rapidly in the USA, Researchers Say

Steve Jobs: Adobe Is Lazy, Blu-Ray Is Mess and Google Wants to Kill iPhone. Apple  Macintosh  iPod  iPhone  iPad
[4:18 am]

CEO of Apple Explains Drawbacks of Apple's Hardware and Software

 

Monday, February 1, 2010


Nvidia’s Next-Generation Graphics Cards Finally Get Official Names. Nvidia  Fermi  GF100  GT300  NV60  Geforce  40nm
[11:05 pm]

Nvidia’s Readies GeForce GTX 480, GTX 470 Graphics Boards

Panasonic to Offer Stereo 3D Video Encoding and Authoring to Studios.
[10:56 pm]

Panasonic to Help Content Owners to Create Blu-Ray 3D Movies

Intel and Micron Prep to Start Making Flash at 25nm Process Technology.
[6:13 pm]

Intel and Micro Extend Process Technology Leadership with 25nm Fabrication Tech

Sony: Emergence of Apple iPad Will Help Sales of PlayStation Portable.
[3:52 pm]

Sony Believes PSP Provides Better Gaming Experience than iPad

Samsung to Make DDR3 Memory Using 30nm Process Technology.
[1:30 pm]

Samsung Develops 30nm Process Technology for DRAM