AMD K8 users should have another chipset to pick from next month. ULi has been going full steam ahead and at a time when VIA is suffering ULi is gaining ground. ULi Electronics expects to Continue reading “ULi single-chip AMD Chipset M1697 may come in July”.
The Motorola HS-810 bluetooth was a very popular headset with a slick design and good performance. The HS-850 represents a natural evolution of the HS-810 by offering bluetooth 1.2 and even longer batter life. Today we take the Motorola HS-850 for a test drive with the Motorola RAZR V3 and Treo 650 phones.
This week Kingston Technologies will be auctioning the 3rd of 5 kits of KHX3200 memory built with Winbond BH5 memory IC’s. Proceeds from auction are going to Community Service Programs, Inc. (CSP) is comprised of Continue reading “Kingston HyperX Winbond BH5 auctioned off”.
The Inq has some details posted on the upcoming Dempsey core this morning. Seems as if the Xeon is getting a 1066FSB and 3.8GHz of 65nm dual core power. Chip firm Intel anticipates that when Continue reading “Intel Dempsey cores to clock at 3.80GHz”.
With Secure Digital media cards becoming more popular we are starting to see faster cards enter the market. Kingston was one of the first with a 133x SD memory card and we take it for a test spin to see how it performs during our daily grind. Read on to see if a high-speed SD card is something you need to invest in!
Intellectual property rights are a hot topic in court rooms lately and for good reason. Late today Rambus has ADDED Samsung to their memory technology lawsuit & terminated a license agreement with them. Big news Continue reading “Rambus files memory suit against Samsung”.
Magma Design Automation, Apache Design Solutions, and Sierra Design Automation are pitching new IC physical design technology in advance of next week’s Design Automation Conference. This is big news because it is the first time Continue reading “New breakthroughs in IC physical design!!!!”.
Get ready to say goodbye to .doc and hello to XML. The next version of Microsoft Office, due in the second half of 2006, will save files in the Extensible Markup Language by default. The Continue reading “Office Goes XML”.
Heat sinks that are used to cool your have not changed much the past few years, but that is about to change later this year. AMD has been slowly moving over to using HSF’s that Continue reading “50% of AMD’s HSF’s will use heatpipes in 2H 2005”.
Could desktops soon be a thing of the past? Okay – I doubt that is the case, but notebook sales were up big time and actually out sold PC’s in May. More notebooks than desktops Continue reading “PC milestone–notebooks outsell desktops”.
Looks like Monday will be a great day for Intel as Apple plans to announce they will start using Intel microprocessors! We first posted on this subject a couple weeks ago and everything turned out Continue reading “Apple to switch to Intel chips starting in ’06”.
News that a new memory foundry might be built is India is a big deal. The estimated cost is a tad over one billion-dollars! India is expected to be a huge market for eletronics devices Continue reading “Indian IT group plans to build new memory foundry”.
Think that your bluetooth device is secure? Think again! Cryptographers have discovered a way to hack Bluetooth-enabled devices even when security features are switched on. The discovery may make it even easier for hackers to Continue reading “New hack cracks ‘secure’ Bluetooth devices”.
Sun Microsystems is in the process of acquiring Storage Technology Corp., a vendor of data storage systems, in a deal valued at $4.1 billion, the two companies said Thursday (June 2). Sun says the acquisition Continue reading “Sun moves to buy StorageTek for $4.1 billion”.
DDR2 products are currently contributing about 5% of Kingmax’s sales, but they are going full steam ahead with DDR2-800 modules. Clearly the future of DDR2 memory is 800MHz and beyond. Ranked as the world’s eighth-largest Continue reading “Kingmax to start mass production of high-end DDR2”.
