The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative for the developing world is gaining ground in Africa, with Nigeria announcing the acquisition of one million laptops. I’m not to sure how smart of an idea these Continue reading “Nigeria buys into $100 laptops”.
Which technology has had the most impact in the last 25 years? An IBM software developer and blogger says mobile phone takes prize for most influential technology in past 25 years. I would argue with Continue reading “Does cell phone’s impact outweigh PC’s?”.
DRAMeXchange expects the ease of Intel?s 865 chipset should edge out DDR as mainstream memory in 4Q, thus weakening the present price fluctuation. If you are an enthusiast that is holding onto a stash of Continue reading “Intel?s 865 chipset will edge out DDR as mainstream memory in 4Q”.
If you own shares of ATI Technologies then get up and do a little happy dance right night before reading the rest. Shares of ATI are up this morning $2.77 (16.73%) trading at $19.33. Not Continue reading “Shares Of ATI (ATYT) Jump Nearly 20% This Morning”.
AMD and ATI today announced plans to join forces in a transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion. The combination will create a processing powerhouse by bringing AMD?s technology leadership in microprocessors together with ATI?s strengths Continue reading “The Rumors Are True AMD Acquires ATI”.
After a series of heavy testing programs, ABIT’s Quality Control test department has found that a small number of units from the early manufacturing of the AN9 32X product line has a hardware issue that Continue reading “ABIT Universal Cancels AN9 32X and Fatal1ty Motherboards”.
ntel is reassigning five top executives to new positions as part of a corporate restructuring designed to simplify the company’s management, according to a memorandum circulated to employees late Wednesday. The moves, which are effective Continue reading “Intel shuffles top executives in game of musical chairs”.
With AMD and ATI merger rumors going around for nearly a month now it wouldn’t be shocking if it was true, but who knows. Today The Inq. posted up a news story saying that it Continue reading “Rumor: AMD and ATI To Ask Shareholders For Merger Approval”.
Toshiba will begin mass-production of microSD memory cards, the world’s smallest, in September, aiming to take market share amid strong demand for smaller cards, the Nihon Keizai business daily said on Friday. The paper said Continue reading “Toshiba to mass-produce microSD memory cards”.
For the second time in two months, the personal computer maker took a knife to earnings estimates Friday, predicting net income of 21 cents to 23 cents a share on sales of $14 billion in Continue reading “Dell Sinks 13 Percent on Lower Guidance”.
PC market growth slowed during the second quarter compared to the first three months of the year as the World Cup soccer tournament distracted Europeans, leading to a steep slow down in shipment growth on Continue reading “World Cup slows PC sales in Q2”.
According to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN), sources at channel motherboard makers are indicating that AMD has decided to widen its originally-planned price cuts for its Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors, on July 24, Continue reading “AMD to widen price cuts for Athlon 64 X2”.
We just published an article today showing how top end gaming systems are often GPU limited and happened to use the ATI X1900XTX as the graphics card. Today Fudo is reporting that ATI is coming Continue reading “ATI’s X1950 XTX Shows 7 Percent Gains Over X1900XTX’s”.
Intel plans to raise the proportion of Merom to over 50% of its notebook processor shipments of in the first quarter of 2007, making 64-bit dual-core models the mainstream in the notebook market, according to Continue reading “Intel Merom CPU to top 50% of Intel notebook processors in 1Q 2007”.
With AMD getting ready to slash prices we figured that now was a great time to jump the gun and take a look at gaming performance on two soon to be $300 processors. With enthusiasts and gamers waiting to see realistic gaming performance numbers we tested six games at resolutions of 1280×1024 and 1600×1200 to show you what’s up.
