In offering up teasers for Conroe, its new family of processors due to ship in July, Intel has scored its biggest media coup in a long time. Alexander Wolfe posted his thoughts about Conroe in Continue reading “Intel Scores A Coup With Conroe”.…more
EBay Inc. said Tuesday that it would add a “Skype Me” button to certain categories of listings, allowing prospective buyers to contact sellers directly through the Internet phone service it acquired last year for $2.6 Continue reading “EBay to add ‘Skype me’ button”.…more
Kingston Technology Company, Inc., today announced it is producing larger capacity miniSD and MMCmobile Flash memory cards to support the growing storage demands of feature-rich mobile phones. The new mobile memory cards are immediately available Continue reading “Kingston Launches 2-GB miniSD and MMCmobile Cards”.…more
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design the nation’s first new nuclear bomb in two decades. I forgot Continue reading “Labs compete to make new nuclear bomb”.…more
US President George W. Bush is currently in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in his first trip to the country since November 2003. US President George W Bush has arrived in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Continue reading “Bush makes surprise trip to Iraq”.…more
Intel researchers say they have a transistor design that could someday enable faster and more power efficient chips. The company’s researchers feel that the combination of a three-dimensional or tri-gate transistor, which combines the use Continue reading “Intel Beaming About Swifter Transistor”.…more
Fudo over at The Inq. believes that the ATI R600 GPU is on track for a 2006 launch and will pack a bunch, but he is unsure how big the punch will be. R600 should Continue reading “ATI’s R600 is on track for Q4”.…more
Japan’s Toshiba and three other chipmakers said on Tuesday they have agreed to standardize technology to make advanced chips with a circuitry width of 45-nanometers or finer. The three other companies are Fujitsu, NEC Electronics Continue reading “Chipmakers to coordinate on 45-nanometer process”.…more
As a follow-up to its recent announcement of next-generation desktop chipset products targeted to hit the market in 2007, Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) stated that the SiS665, the company’s first northbridge that will support DDR3 Continue reading “SiS to begin producing DDR3 chipsets in late 2007”.…more