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- AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?
- AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?A healthy AMD means more innovation and lower prices for processors.Let's not forget that. And, let us not forget the anticompetitive practices which have gotten Intel into hot water in Europe. What AMD has done is nothing short of a miracle considering.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- EU files new charges against Intel
- EU files new charges against IntelGreat news!!! We need competition on the merits for x86 processors.Without that, innovation will suffer and prices will rise. Absolutely great news!!!Same old cat fightIt's amazing how a core 2 duo chip could nail AMD this bad.I suppose, but, now AMD can file suit in...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- EU files new charges against Intel
- European Union antitrust regulators say Intel paid retailers to not sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices. BRUSSELS--European Union antitrust regulators made new accusations against chipmaker Intel on Thursday, saying it paid retailers to not sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices. ...
- News items 2008-07-17
- Early look at AMD's Socket G34
- Early look at AMD's Socket G34Server or Desktop?So, should I hold off buying an AM2+ MoBo because of G34? or is this going to be a server thing instead of a Desktop?Not worth the wait.Well it's hard to say. If you hold off for said Socket/Processor then you might...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- NVIDIA: Nothing to see here, move along
- NVIDIA: Nothing to see here, move alongThe fact that Nvidia is not telling us...the whole story tells us the whole story. If it wasn't "that bad", they wouldn't be afraid to come forward with all the facts. This is typical behavior for a corporation, if the news is...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- EIC podcast: Apple-Psystar; Intel; High tech in Israel
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan remains on vacation. Luckily, News.com's always chatty Charles Cooper was around. Coop and I talk about the Apple-Psystar lawsuit, Intel's earnings and the technology landscape in Israel. This week's podcast is a spin-off of the usual banter Coop and I...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Sony's Centrino 2 laptop lineup
- Details of Sony's new laptops have been trickling out for several weeks, but Sony held off on an official announcement to coincide with Intel's Centrino 2 launch this week. Sony introduced four new VAIO lines ranging from the 3-pound Z-series ultraportable with a 13.1-inch display to the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare
- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareRE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Intel faces new antitrust charges in Europe: report
- European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel, expanding a probe into the chipmaker's marketing and sales practices, according to a report. European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel, expanding a probe into the chipmaker's marketing and sales practices, The Wall Street...
- News items 2008-07-16
- Intel's Centrino 2 + WiMAX could break the Luddite Telcos
- I was at Intel's Centrino 2 launch on Monday and I'm hoping that Centrino 2 can do the same thing Centrino 1 did for WiFi but this time for WiMAX -- make it a reality. The timing for Centrino 2 to be a change agent for WiMAX,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Intel's second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand up
- Updated: Intel on Tuesday reported second quarter earnings of $1.6 billion, or 28 cents a share, on revenue of $9.5 billion, up 9 percent from a year ago. The results topped Wall Street expectations. According to Thomson Financial, Intel was expected to report earnings of 25 cents...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- London Underground's card system fails
- London Underground's card system failsIt's not all bad...Instead of billing everybody individually for tickets from A to B, they just left the ticket barriers open, so free Tube travel for me :-)RE: London Underground's card system failsAn announced event.This will happen again and again in the future. The RFID technology...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Intel rolls out Centrino 2 processor; Earnings on tap
- Intel rolls out Centrino 2 processor; Earnings on tapCentrino 2 processor25 watts for a processor aimed at battery powered laptops??!!?? What world does Intel live in? Why not use the ARM chip which is widely used in low power devices such as mobile phones and set top boxes because it...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Intel rolls out Centrino 2 processor; Earnings on tap
- Intel on Tuesday launched its Centrino 2 processor with integrated graphics for notebooks. This chip platform, formerly known as Montevina, was delayed by a few weeks due to technical and certification problems. The news (Techmeme, statement) comes as Intel preps its second quarter earnings, which will be...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35
- The $750 ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35 is a fairly ambitious lower-midrange PC. This fixed configuration includes a lower-end quad-core chip, 4GB of memory, and a discrete graphics card. The result is solid everyday performance, and if you need a basic, capable desktop, this system will serve. Its lack of 64-bit Windows...
- Product reviews 2008-07-14
- NVIDIA slashes price of GTX 260 and 280 GPUs
- NVIDIA slashes price of GTX 260 and 280 GPUsNot Good if Companies CollapseNobody would ever accuse me of being a sycophant for big business, but your off-hand remark that who cares as long as these price cuts are good for consumers was really offensive.These price cuts don't do us consumers...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Removing the iPhone 3G main PCB EMI shields (Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 3G)
- Removing the iPhone 3G main PCB EMI shields (Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 3G)Enjoy the cracking open, but not the photographyYou need at least a moderately experienced photographer to illustrate this, one who could light it properly and provide enough depth of field that the parts would be easily visible....
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Accessing Internet at 640 Gb/s?
- University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve 'Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia's networks.' According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they're based on plain glass. As said...
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 million
- ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 millionFire HectorThat's where they need to start. This guy has a terrible, terrible track record and it's showing its colors now. AMD has some AMAZING engineers and talent. Probably some of the most talented processor engineers around but bad management =...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Security is hard, accept it
- Security is hard, accept itso...?So do you see the next decade as just more of the same? Highly motivated funded badguys continuing to find holes in the reams of code constantly being released by an ever more incompetant Microsoft? You don't see any breaktrhoughs on the horizon? ...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
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