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Intel"s has decided to extent the original naming scheme for its mobile CPUs and will add a P segment to CPUs targeting notebooks and an S class for small form factor PC CPUs to its upcoming Montevina range, which is scheduled to launch in June this year, according to sources at PC makers. Intel originally had four segments to separate the TDP levels of its notebook CPUs: X for the extreme segment, CPUs that have a TDP over 40W, T for mobile high-performance at 20-39W, L for mobile high energy efficient at 12-19W, and U for mobile ultra-high energy efficient with a TDP less or equal to 11.9W.
Global demand for DVD burners, thanks to continued drops in prices, will rise to 120 million units this year, growing by 50% from 2005, according to general manager Michael Gong for the Optical Disc Drive Business Unit of Lite-On IT.
Stamford (CT) - A continued series of online and offline security breaches is showing its impact on Internet buying patterns among US adults, Gartner reports. According to the market research firm, almost $2 billion will not be spent online this year because of security concerns that keeps shoppers from certain sites or from shopping online entirely.
The large-size LCD panel market once danced to its own tune, unaffected by seasonal factors that impacted other segments of the consumer-electronics market. However, because of the rising demand and increasing dominance of LCD TVs, the large-size LCD panel market now is following a seasonal pattern similar to that seen by TV manufacturers, it was revealed yesterday at iSuppli"s Flat Information Displays (FID) 2007 conference.
Think gaming consoles are mere toys? Online content and services tied to Microsoftò€™s Xbox, Sonyò€™s PlayStation, and Nintendoò€™s Wii will generate more than $8 billion in revenue for those companies by 2013, according to a projection by industry analyst Michael Cai of Parks Associates.
In order to defend its entry-level notebook market, Intel is planning to launch two 65nm Merom-based processors for its Centrino 2 platform (Montevina), according to sources at motherboard makers.The CPUs include the Celeron 585 with a core frequency of 2.16 GHz priced at $107 in thousand-unit tray quantities, and Celeron 575 at 2 GHz and $86.
Intelò€™s next generation Centrino 2 notebook platform is still not ready, but at least we have received word that OCZ has put the finishing touches on enthusiast DDR3 SO-DIMMs for the new platform.
Prices for 32" panels may fall below $300 to $290 in the third quarter of 2007, with quotes for 40" panels to also drop to nearly $500 during the period, according to Displaybank. With the sharp drop in panel prices, second-tier panel makers may swing to a loss in 2007, Displaybank indicated.
Computer users tired of spyware and viruses should consider switching to Macintosh computers, says Sophos in its new "Security Threat Management Report." The report ranks the top ten malware threats of the past six months along with outline current and future security threats. Hacker primarily target Windows machines and the report claims the Macintosh will continue to be a "safer place," at least for a while.
Asus this week unveiled its Xonar Essence STX, which is a sound card the company claims is squarely for high-end audiophiles. The new card will be available on store shelves roughly a month from today and come in the form of a PCI-express 1X slot.
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Microsoft"s MSN search engine stopped working for about four hours Thursday morning, and the company couldn"t immediately say what caused the problem.
Intel today announced a new research program that aims to develop "future platforms that will develop capabilities well beyond those of today"s computers." The program, named "tera scale computing research" involves about 80 projects and "hundreds of researchers" around the globe, Intel said. Within 10 years, the company hopes, the initiative will create processors with "10"s or even 100"s of cores."
Now here"s a nifty little device for those old hard drives stacking up and collecting dust like old nudie magazines. USB peripheral manufacturer Brando has devised of a way to connect those SATA HDDs by way of USB 3.0. via its new Unitek USB 3.0 to SATA adapter (Y-1034). The device can even be used with older IDE-based drives using an extra IDE to SATA docking converter.
Virtualization software, the kind that lets you run multiple operating systems at the same time, is getting a big boost from Microsoft. The company is allowing developers to use its Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) specification for free and without any licenses. The terms are quite simple with Microsoft saying, "The specification(s) could be used for free, easily, now and forever."
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Samsung and Marvell said the companies will be first to offer harddrives supporting native 3.0 Gbit I/O transaction capabilities in addition to SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ).
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We all know the procedure, right? You need to update your mobile graphics driver, but when you get to the downloads section of the notebook manufacturers site, the driver is 3, 4, 5 or more revisions behind.
Researchers at Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara are expected to announce the development of a chip that can transfer data using photons instead of wires. The chip is based on a technology that allows Intel to amplify lasers in silicon and is said to now use an Indium Phosphide-based laser, which can endure higher tempartures than initial test lasers.
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The global solar inverter market is projected to grow by more than 40% in 2008 driven primarily by continued strong demand from both Germany and Spain. IMS Research anticipates that growth will slow slightly in 2009 as feed-in tariffs are cut in these two countries; however, revenues from solar inverters are forecast to exceed $2 billion by 2010.
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Scotttrade, a brokerage firm known for their $7 commission for online orders, has been hacked. Company officials say that someone illegally gained access to the company"s E-secure system which contains names, addresses and social security numbers as well as bank account information. While the breach happened on October 25, customers are only being informed now.
Microsoft has unveiled a community technology preview (CTP) of a new Windows-based operating system designed to power robots.
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While introducing several new fabrication tools at the ongoing SEMICON West, Applied Materials indicated that the first ICs manufactured on a 45nm process should be available in 2007, while chips produced at the 32nm node would only be seen after 2007, according to company president and CEO Michael Splinter.
Las Vegas (NV) - Take it from somebody who voluntarily covered the Atari ST computer for four years: When your job is to promote an "alternative platform," even your own monumental victories can get covered up by the majority platform"s everyday mediocrities. For example, yesterday in a gala announcement, the nine founding members of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, including Intel, announced they would collectively contribute $10 billion toward research, marketing, capital expenditures, and software development, all with the goal of furthering Itanium as a viable technical computing platform.
Chicago (IL) - According to Internet security monitor Websense, an increasing trend is growing on Myspace, the social networking site that has an audience of millions of daily viewers, which involves tricking users into clicking on fake YouTube videos that could eventually lead to unknowingly installing damaging adware files.
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Hannover (Germany) - Samsung will unveil a new LCD that can be connected to a PC via an integrated USB port, according to an article published at heise.de. When connected to a PC via USB, the 19" Syncmaster 940UX appears as a removable storage device in Windows, which contains a setup routine that installs a virtual graphics card as well as a USB display driver, Heise reports.
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ProcessPro, developers of ProcessPro Premier ERPsoftware, is expanding its sales force to meet current market demands. ProcessPro has recently added four new members to its sales team: two Business Development Representatives and two Regional Sales Managers.
Barcelona (Spain) - Nvidia today unveiled its first CPU. The APX 2500 is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) product that is aiming for Windows Mobile handhelds. Despite the fact that it is not scheduled to hit the market until late this year, the chip is bound to raise more than just one eyebrow.
Kopin, a US manufacturer of microdisplays for mobile consumer and military applications, recently announced what it claims is the smallest color SVGA display (800ç—600 resolution) in the LCD industry. The CyberDisplay SVGA LVS microdisplay has the same size (0.44" diagonal) as Kopin"s current CyberDisplay VGA display (640ç—480 resolution), allowing it to utilize the same optics and housing developed for the VGA display.
An extensive review by the German Web site 3DCenter.org, recently translated into English, appears to lend credence to some complaints by users of graphics cards using NVIDIA"s 7800 GTX graphics processor, that textures appear to shimmer even at highest quality. The reviewer believes a lower standard for anisotropic filtering in newer models, may be to blame.
Intel provided a few more code-names of future processors during a briefing with financial analysts in New York. President and soon-to-be CEO Paul Otellini promised the desktop processor "Conroe" for the end of 2006. Conroe will succeed "Presler", which will debut as Intel"s first 65 nm desktop dual-core in early 2006.
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Toshiba surprised IFA attendees with its new touch-screen tablet.
In addition to pushing the 945-series as the mainstream chipset solutions for entry-level PC systems in the first half of 2007, Intel has decided not to accept orders for 910- and 915-series chipsets starting from March of next year, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. However, the motherboard makers commented that with dual-core Pentium D 805 CPUs (2.66 GHz, 1 MB L2x2 cache memory and 533 MHz FSB) priced below $100 (in lots of one thousand), inventory levels of 910- and 915-series chipsets are already hard to clear.
Hannover (Germany) - AMD is ramping its 45 nm processors and visitors at the CeBIT tradeshow have a chance to see samples of 45 nm Opteron with Shanghai core and the 45 Phenom with Teneb at their first public demonstration.
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The ASP (average selling price) of 60" and above microdisplay-based (MD-based) rear-projection TVs (RPTVs) fell below $3500 for the first time and was almost three times less expensive than that of similar-sized PDP (plasma display panel) TVs in the US, according to market research firm Quixel Research. Consequently, both the unit and revenue share for the 60" and above segments in the US grew in the first quarter 2006.
Notebooks are expected to almost completely migrate to dual-core processors in 2007, as Intel and leading makers jointly push up the proportion of dual-core models shipped starting in the second half of this year, according to industry sources. Intel plans to boost the proportion of dual-core notebooks to 90% of the total by the fourth quarter of this year and to 95% in the first quarter of next year, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers, who have seen Intel"s latest roadmap.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced the unveiling of the foundry"s first 40nm manufacturing process technology with first wafers expected in the second quarter of 2008. The new node supports a performance-driven general purpose (40G) technology and a power-efficient low power (40LP) technology.
It has taken a while for baseball stadiums to catch up with modern technologies, but Motorola today said that it will "ushering" Major League Baseball into the wireless age with the league"s first wireless bullpen phone system. The technology was introduced at the Cubs" home Wrigley Field during a 13 June game against the Houston Astros.
Round Rock (TX) - Dell has updated its blade server portfolio and claims that its latest M-series eclipses its competition in power consumption and power efficiency.
Santa Clara (CA) - Owners of a GeForce 8-series or higher graphics card can squeeze more eye candy out of their hardware as Nvidia has released a demo pack consisting of a full game, acceleration demos and Stanfordò€™s Folding@Home distributed computing client that showcase the physics and floating point horsepower of the companyò€™s graphics cards. Analysts expect a steep decline in revenue to overshadow the companyò€™s technology later today.
Kingmax Semiconductor, ranked as the world"s eighth-largest third-party DRAM-module supplier by iSuppli for the last two years, is hoping to increase the proportion of DDR2 products in its unit shipments to, at least, 20 percent by the end of this year. Last week, the company launched its new DDR2-667 modules targeting new generation of the Intel platforms based on i945 and i955 chipsets.
Kingmax Semiconductor will introduce its latest series of DDR2 memory modules, "Mars"; and "Venus"; at this year"s Computex Taipei show. These two memory modules are fully compliant with the EU"s RoHS standards and demonstrate Kingmax"s commitment to environmental protection.
Ritek, the second largest Taiwan-based producer of optical discs, has signed a Qflix technology and IP licensing agreement with US-based Sonic Solutions, a global provider of digital media software, according to press materials released by the companies. The Qflix technology offers a means for content owners to release titles with CSS (Content Scramble System) encryption for custom production and sale over the Internet.
Gateway announced its updated retail notebook and desktop PC offering for the back-to-school season with prices ranging from $549.99 to $1,149.99 MSRP. The notebooks cover screen sizes of 14.1-inch, 15.4-inch and 17-inch and come in various colors such as red, blue, silver and grey, depending on the retailer. Prices are hovering around the $800 mark for mainstream models.
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We think that today"s top of the line SSDs are very fast relative to what we"re accustomed to using from years with magnetic storage. But if for some reason that"s still not fast enough for you, there"s Fusion-io"s SSD technology that"s able to reach a blistering 1 TB per second transfer rate.
WM Capture is a new screen capture program that uses a high-speed MPEG-2 codec to create high-quality videos from any images playing on the Windows PC screen.
Market research firm DisplayBank is reporting that LG.Philips LCD has fixed the size of its eighth-generation (8G) glass substrate to 2200x2500mm, a size referred to by Taiwan LCD panel makers as "unfamiliar". The reported 8G substrate could be cut into eight 47" panels or six 55" panels and would be larger than the 8G substrates planned by Sharp, which plans to move into mass production at the world"s first 8G line in the second half of this year.
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Los Angeles (CA) - The neuropsychiatric hospital at UCLA has banned all laptops and cellphones. The head of the facility, Dr. Thomas Strouse, says this is to ensure patient privacy after a nurse"s family member saw group photos containing several patients. Those pictures were posted up to a popular social networking website.
Googleò€™s Eric Schmidt has no intentions of resigning from Apple board.
While Royal Philips Electronics is still negotiating renewals of its Veeza patent licensing with leading Taiwan-based makers of blank CD-R discs, the makers have become more reluctant to accept the licensing terms due to decreasing global demand for CD-R discs, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Leading makers include CMC Magnetics, Ritek and Prodisc Technology, the sources noted.
ATI plans to enter the 2D graphics card market for workstations and focus on customers including retailers and financial analysts. The company aims to grab 20% of the 2D professional graphic card market in the next few months, said Drew Singh, director of workstation sales at ATI Technologies.
Hollywood (CA) - Despite mass hysteria in the movie industry of piracy and declining movie sales, box office ticket sales reached nearly $10 billion last year, a new record.
Bangkok (Thailand) - At TG Daily we strive to bring you the very best coverage of events around the world. Sometimes that means lugging a heavy digital camera, hi-def camcorder and a laptop around to steamy parts of the world like Thailand, but we do it for you, our loyal readers. For those of you who aren"t lucky enough to attend the 29th International Motor Show here are some videos to show you what you"re missing.
Yokosuka (Japan) - The USS Kitty Hawk and the Nimitz are headed to Taiwan for training exercises. According to Reuters, the carriers will be "responsibly positioned" off the coast just in case something happens (cough Chinese invasion cough) during this weekend"s elections.
GeCube recently announced its GeCube X1900GT product line, further strengthening its offerings featuring ATI"s graphics platform. The RoH-compliant X1900GT product line is based on Shader Model 3.0 with the best frame rates in the industry, claims the company.
A major change in the methods used by hackers to break into computers has been revealed in a report issued by an influential research institute on Tuesday.
Passports and other ID cards incorporating radio chips can be remotely spied on, jammed and even copied, computer experts revealed at a major conference that ended on Sunday.
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Santa Clara (CA) - Current and future owners of Nvidia"s nForce 790i Ultra SLI and SLI chipsets own a piece of history: Nvidia confirmed to TG Daily that it is now focusing on delivering chipsets with integrated graphics.
SanDisk today announced that it expects to soon launch 56nm multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory chips with Toshiba at Toshiba"s 12" fab (Fab 3) at Yokkaichi, Nagoya, Japan. By spring 2007, SanDisk intends to ship the highest available density of single-chip MLC NAND flash memory.
Seoul (Korea) - Samsung engineers managed to squeeze a fully functional CMOS module providing 8 megapixels of image resolution or cellphone cameras in an area measuring just 28 x 15.3 x 8.5mm. Samsung said cellphones using this chip may surface by the end of the year, but we are not holding our breath, especially not for U.S. availability.
Asustek Computer, in light of fast growing global demand for digital photo frames, is planning to offer digital photo frames as early as the end of June 2008, according to industry sources. Asustek"s digital photo frames may be equipped with Bluetooth connectivity, simple wireless access to the Internet and even receive DVB-T (digital video broadcasting-terrestrial) or DVB-H (DVB-handheld) signals, the sources pointed out.
Microsoft"s Windows Team blogs.. a netbook buyer"s guide?
AMD appears to be re-thinking its attitude to sockets when it introduces desktop dual core chips - which might not come until the very end of next year or perhaps even 2006, according to reliable sources.
First-tier motherboard makers, including Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI), have revealed their latest graphics cards adopting AMD"s Radeon HD 3000 series GPUs. Among the offerings are Asustek"s EAH3870X2/G/3DHTI/1G and EAH3870X2/G/HTDI/1G graphics cards.
CMC Magnetics, in light of a tight global supply for CD-R discs, plans to raise its OEM quotes for CD-R discs by 5-10% in June, according to company chairman Robert Wong. As second-tier makers in Taiwan and smaller makers in China have given up production of CD-R discs due to intense competition and leading Taiwanese makers switch CD-R production capacity to making DVD discs, the global supply of CD-R discs is 20% short of demand this quarter, Wong indicated.
Textronics has received patent approval for "stretchy" textile electronics that can be integrated into clothing to monitor certain body functions.
Agere Systems today announced a new highly integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) for miniature hard disk drives (HDDs) used in portable consumer electronics (CE) devices. The low-power chip provides complete support for perpendicular recording and new interface standards that enable small-form-factor (SFF) system makers to offer three times the capacity of flash-based storage with lower cost, claims the company.
An exotic form of silicon that can be stuck together and then peeled apart has been developed by German researchers.
Solid state drives (SSDs) are the latest in hot tech upgrades these days, and rightly so. SSDs add huge boosts in performance to a system that is HDD bound, and the storage subsystem of a computer is the weakest link in its performance.
Sources told TG Daily that Intel will begin shipments of its Woodcrest server and workstation processor at the end of June of this year. Woodcrest is the server derivate of the firm"s next-generation micro architecture, which has the mobile processor Merom at its core.
Seven large radio conglomerates said on Tuesday that they had forged a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of HD Digital Radio. Called the HD Digital Radio Alliance, the charter members will include Bonneville, Citadel, Clear Channel, Cumulus, Emmis, Entercom, Greater Media and Infinity.
Intelledox supports seamless integration with SharePoint
San Francisco (CA) - In a public session of a mobile communications industry trade show, a group of leading engineers led by representatives of Nokia and VeriSign announced an initiative to produce standards for digital rights management and secure platform for mobile devices, such as cell phones.
There has been some talk about Nvidia not releasing any new GPUs any time soon, but ELSAò€™s presentation slip could offer a peek at whatò€™s next.
Chicago (IL) - Average retail prices of the entry-level HD DVD player price saw a big drop on Thursday: First stores are selling the HD-A3 for less than $60. Data collected from Pricegrabber.com also suggests that inventories are declining quickly, with less stores carrying HD DVD players every day.
Santa Clara (CA) - Nvidia will be launching its next-gen 9-series graphics cards tomorrow, February 21. Reviews of the sub-$200 cards are scheduled to surface at 8 am EDT and we will get a better idea why we should care about Nvidia"s new volume enthusiast card.
Eidos Interactive today officially announced the new name and release window for the game formerly titled Roll Call. The game has been redubbed Zero Tolerance - City Under Fire and is scheduled to be released sometime in during the second quarter of 2006 in Europe.
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Graphics card maker XGI demonstrated its first PCI Express graphics card at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei. Code-named XG47, the new graphics chip is built in 130 nm, will target the entry-level segment, support DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 2.0 and integrate a 64-bit DRAM interface.
R580, ATI"s new high-end graphics processor based on the X1000 architecture has not been quite what one would call a secret for quite some time. The question really was when ATI would ship the boards carrying the chip. However, ATI"s CEO David Orton, recently told investors that the company would launch the processor during the second fiscal quarter, which ends on February 28.
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Following the construction of the main building for its thin-film solar cell plant, Green Energy Technology delivers a rosy prospect. While the company projects a positive sequential sales growth in the first quarter of 2008, considerable capacity jump in ingot production is also anticipated.
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Chicago (IL) - After launching its 3D1 graphics card last December, Gigabyte will announce a second dual-GPU board next week, Tom"s Hardware Guide has learned. The card will be based on two GeForce 6600 processors and be priced around $400.
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Epox announced two new SLI-capable mainboards. The EP-9NPA+ SLI aims at Socket 939 AMD processors, while the EP-5NVA+SLI will accommodate Socket 775 Intel CPUs (FSB 800 and 1066). The devices support up to four GByte dual-channel DDR memory, integrate a Realtek sound solution with up to eight audio channels. Other standard equipment includes ten USB 2.0 connects, two P-ATA and four SATA II ports.
Nvidia"s nForce platform for Intel-based systems was was shown for the first time at the Intel Developer Forum. The company did not say when actual systems would be shipping, but after receiving PCI Express certification it is certainly just a matter of a few weeks until the Intel nForce will appear on the market.
Leading research provider now offers an online guide for market opportunity assessment to help companies accurately forecast growth opportunities.
San Francisco (CA) - Intel is trying to convince entry-level gamers to accept integrated graphics with a new hardware vertex shader for its G965 graphics chip. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the company showed off some demos of popular first person shooters on the chip and also challenged journalists to pick out the integrated graphics-powered computer against a computer running a discrete card.
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Diamond Flower Electric Instrument (DFI) plans to add AMD embedded processors in its product lineup later in the year, according to sources at the company. Aside from Advantech and ICP Electronics, which already include AMD processors in their lineup, DFI also plans to use AMD processors in its IPC products starting from the third quarter of this year with a focus on the Micro ATX platform.
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XGI Technology expects to start mass production of its first native PCI Express-compatible graphics chip for the entry- to middle-level desktop VGA market, the XG47, early next year, according to the company"s newly appointed president Jonathon Shyi, who assumed his post on July 20.
With motherboard makers maintaining a conservative outlook for the second quarter, a shortage of Nvidia G71 (GeForce 7900 GTX/GT) graphics chips may have emerged in both Europe and the US market.
Here is an overview of products and news that caught our eyes at TG Daily today, but did not make into individual stories: Asus 9" EeePC details, a 256 GB SSD, Ubuntu 8.04 beta, a cellphone with a silicone surface and your very own military plane, sorta.
On Sep. 20, 2008, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will stage its prestigious annual Honors Ceremony. Most notable among the award recipients is Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.
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In a detailed briefing for analysts in New York on Friday, executives at Advanced Micro Devices painted the company as making "irreversible progress" into new architectures, specifically multicore microprocessors and 64-bit processing.
Redmond (WA) - Six "critical" updates join five more "important" vulnerability fixes in this month"s regularly scheduled security bulletin from Microsoft.
Intel reduced pricing of its Pentium 4 600 series in a move to phase out the 500 series. The biggest drop occurred for the 660 model (3.6 GHz), which fell 34 percent from $605 to $401. New prices for the remaining models are $605 for the 670 (3.8 GHz, minus 29 percent), $273 for the 650 (3.4 GHz, minus 32 percent), $218 for the 640 (3.2 GHz, minus 20 percent and $178 for the 630 (3 GHz, minus 21 percent).
Following yesterday"s lifting of the Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core NDAs, VoodooPC is now introducing a quad-core powered computer. The enthusiast PC maker is upgrading its Omen line with the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor.
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Mountain View (CA) - When you think about Silicon Valley you think about modern tech giants like Google, Yahoo and others, but did you know that this high-tech center of the Universe owes its existence to secret government cooperation dating back four decades? It certainly seems outlandish, but in a seminar given back on December 18th on the Google campus, entrepreneur and lecturer Steve Blank explained how the valley was born from billions of dollars worth of signals intelligence contracts from World War II and into the 1960s.
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BT has announced plans for a new unified communication system to reduce mobile airtime costs for small businesses
One of the cool things about the Palm Pre was that it synced seamlessly with iTunes. Well, not anymore.
Teac America, a manufacturer of optical disk drives, USB floppy drives and duplicators, announced that it would be launching its new line of external portable hard disk drives. The drives are 3.5" USB 2.0, USB2.0/Firewire Combo and 2.5" USB 2.0.
India-based Moser Baer India (MBI), a leading global manufacturer of optical discs, last week announced halting capacity expansion for CD-R and DVD+R/-R discs, a move that will avoid a potential oversupply of DVD+R/-R discs, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Chicago (IL) - Plextor today announced the availability of a new compact DVD burner to date. The PX-608CU is less than 16 millimeters thick and weighs about 0.5 pounds.
Beijing (China) - In preparation for this summer"s Olympics, China has just opened the world"s largest airport terminal in Beijing. More than 50 million people will scamper through this terminal which is nearly two miles long and has 120 gates along with 73 aircraft parking spots.
Taiwan-based DRAM makers expect the upcoming price cuts
A capsule carrying dust particles from the tail of a comet parachuted to Earth on Sunday, and elated NASA scientists were eager to examine the samples for clues about how the solar system formed.
SecurityFocus is reporting this morning that a Venezuelan native already convicted for defacing a US Air Force Web site, and who is facing deportation, may be detained in the US as NASA considers whether to press charges against him, for the possible theft of documents relating to next-generation launch vehicles:
Oakland (CA) - Ask.com, after facing a long struggle with other search engines, this week announced it will stop trying to directly compete in that market and instead create a niche search portal for married women.
S-LCD, a South Korea-based joint venture between Samsung and Sony, announced that it started shipment of amorphous TFT displays to its parent companies. S-LCD claims it has produced and delivered the world"s largest seventh generation glass substrate. LCD TVs using the panels are scheduled to enter mass production in the first half of this year.
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel today said that it has announced it is shipping the industry"s first 90 nm multi-level cell (MLC) NOR flash memory device in volume. According to the company, the memory delivers faster performance, higher density and lower power consumption than the previous 130 nm generation of the technology.
Detroit (MI) - Infiniti announced its second car that will use a 2.5" hard drive to store digital music. The firm"s refreshed SUV monster, the QX model, will offer a hard drive as storage unit for digital music as standard equipment for the 2008 model year, which will go on sale in April.
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Las Vegas (NV) - Dell has updated its XPS enthusiast PC line with a an overclocked quad-core machine and an elaborate cooling system. The H2C Edition puts the price tag of the XPS desktop series deep into Alienware territory.
Islandia (NY) - The cat and mouse chase between security software vendors and malware developers and distributors is going to continue in 2007. The bad guys have adapted to the security advancements of 2006 and crafted new strategies to attack vulnerable computers. CA has outlined a list of likely threats for this year.
ATI today confirmed that it is shipping samples of "all next generation mobile parts" to ODMs and OEMs for qualification purposes. The company indicated that more than one mobile chip is heading into the market, but did not say which actual models the product line will include. While it was unclear when notebooks will be available with processors of the X1000 family, ATI said that vendors currently are "readying for production".
Last week, AMD somewhat surprisingly confirmed that it won"t book a hotel room to host press briefings parallel to the Fall Intel Developer Forum, which will open its doors on Tuesday, 26 September.
When Intel introduces its 840 PPXE dual core processor in the second quarter of this year, it will charge its original equipment manufacturers $999, according to a story posted at the Inquirer.
VIA Technologies announced the Via CN800 digital media IGP chipset, featuring support for PCIe and integrated Via UniChrome Pro graphics with hardware MPEG-2 playback and DuoView dual monitor output. The IGP is designed as the companion chipset for the VIA C7-D processor.
Microsoft rolled out several updates today as part of its monthly patch cycle, sometimes called "Patch Tuesday." One of the patches fixes a critical flaw identified recently in the Microsoft XML Core Services components. The other five updates are designed to patch various holes in Windows, with at least one of those being rated "critical."
Yesterday, ULi Electronics officially launched its M1697 single-chip solution for the AMD K8 platform. The company started sampling this product in September, and the chip recently entered mass production, ULi associate vice president Bruce Tai said.
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Asus released two graphics cards that utilize Super ML Caps for higher GPU overclocking and 15°C cooler GPU temperatures.
Iomega said that it will acquire ExcelStor, a maker of hard disk drives, security storage and external storage. Iomega said that it will be issuing 84 million shares of common stock in exchange for all outstanding ExcelStor common shares, representing 60% of the fully diluted capitalization of Iomega. Iomega was valued at about $200 million at the time of this writing.
Taiwan"s motherboard makers have mostly exited the low-margin networking products sector that has not met their expectations for business diversification, according to industry sources. The motherboard makers entered the networking equipment sector two to three years ago, when the sector looked promising, the sources said.