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1. Atom microarchitecture buoys Intel revenue

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 13 October 2009

   ... traditional notebook market remained one of Intel's "primary" drivers of revenue growth and emphasized that notebooks currently "enjoyed" a higher share than desktops. Otellini also commented on his expectations ...

2. TSMC ramps production to build Intel Atoms

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 25 September 2009

   ... of applications and compete against ARM in the mobile arena. At the time the agreement was announced, Intel stressed it would not be offloading all Atom production to TSMC. Analysts reckon that some ...

3. Exclusive: First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 RC1

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 15 December 2008

   ... Browsing mode have been added for administrative purposes. According to the IE8 developer blog, accessibility has been improved as well for those with limited vision or mobility. We will spend more time ...

4. AMD goes fabless, targets Intel

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Tuesday, 07 October 2008

   ... This massive drop in competitors put AMD on a very ugly list and created a situation where it seemed that only one vendor could be driving the market in future and limit the amount innovation in a quickly ...

5. Wind farms could provide 25% of California's power

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Wednesday, 12 December 2007

   ... capable of supplying significant amounts of off-shore wind energy for California, two are not feasible.  The water depth those two sites inhabit would require that they be created with floating ...

6. ESRB reportedly ramps up game trailer monitoring

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 26 June 2007

   ... Manhunt 2 game, the ESRB now appears to be taking bigger steps to restrict game trailers. According to media reports, publisher D3 was asked by the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) to immediately ...

7. ATI loses bus license from Intel

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 24 July 2006

   Following the rumors about a possible merger between AMD an ATI, Intel apparently pulled ATI's bus license. According to a brief article posted by the Inquirer just before the AMD/ATI news was announced, ...

8. Freescale ramps orders at TSMC, verifies 65nm at UMC

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Thursday, 06 July 2006

     While it has decided to place some of its communication and mixed signal-IC foundry orders with its long established partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Freescale has also ...

9. Woodcrest outperforms Opteron in speed and power consumption - analyst

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 23 June 2006

   An analyst from Thomas Weisel Partners today issued a research brief that included a first evaluation of Intel's claim to achieve market leadership in terms of power consumption and application performance ...

10. 'Net neutrality' provision to block Internet fast lane defeated in US House

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 09 June 2006

    A provision that would have amended legislation under consideration in the US House of Representatives, making it illegal for Internet service providers to offer different tiers of service to selected ...

11. Samsung ramps up its hard drive capacity to 400 GB

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 June 2006

    Demonstrating that conventional parallel recording technology isn't quite dead yet, Samsung today announced it has increased the storage capability for its new best-in-class hard disk drive from 100 to ...

12. Triple-play services to supercharge cable firms' revenue streams

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 30 May 2006

    ... that consumers will spend substantially more money on services provided by their cable company in the next years. Quickly increasing subscriber fees may be one part of the equation, but Kagan expects that ...

13. HomePlug Powerline Alliance ramps up certification, interoperability efforts

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Monday, 06 March 2006

    ... Alliance announced a new compliance, interoperability and coexistence program aimed at improving consumers' experience with HomePlug powerline networking products. The new program includes a certification ...

14. Second-tier panel makers increasing LCD TV panel shipments

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Thursday, 22 December 2005

      With continued capacity ramps at their respective sixth-generation (6G) plants, Taiwan-based Chunghwa Picture Tubes and Quanta Display are seeing their TV panel shipments significantly increase ...

15. ATI recovering from delayed X1000 chip series

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 December 2005

    ATI today reported revenues of $591 million and net profit of $7.6 Million for its first fiscal 2006 quarter. The company showed substantial financial improvement over the preceding quarter as the new ...

16. Intel's 65 nm yields already at 90 nm level

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 16 December 2005

    ... lots of resources at improving its CPU manufacturing long before mass-production ramps. The upcoming 65 nm generation already has reached yields of a mature chip, the company claims. Hillsboro (OR) ...

17. 65 nm transition to save Intel $2 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 01 December 2005

    ... week invited a few dozen financial analysts and journalists at its largest semiconductor production campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, to provide one more confirmation that its switch from the current 90 nm ...

18. ATI ramps Xpress 200 chipset for Intel platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 18 October 2005

      ATI today said that it is in the midst of a "massive" ramp for the Intel version of its Xpress 200 PCI Express chipset. The company expects that there will be at least 20 platforms with the chipset ...

19. Pentium D, Athlon X2 systems to arrive this month

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 23 May 2005

    ... overall production of the chips represents a relatively small share of the total market, which approaches 200 million PCs this year. Analysts estimate that only five to 10 percent of all PCs sold this ...

20. Large-size panel prices to fall throughout 2005

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 11 April 2005

    ... aggressive capacity ramps at panel makers, warned Ben Lee, head of Taiwan equity research, Nomura International. Despite large-size panel prices recently starting to show signs of stabilizing, prices ...

21. Gateway ramps up two-way scalability

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Monday, 07 February 2005

      Gateway is refreshing its line of two-way servers, consolidating four systems into three and making the new servers more scalable. Gateway is refreshing its line of two-way servers, consolidating ...

22. Samsung ramps up 1Gb DDR chip output

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 15 July 2003

    ... kind to receive Intel validation. "The 1Gb chips are fabbed at 100nm (0.1 micron) and punched out on 300mm wafers. Available in 266MHz and 333MHz speeds - for PC2100 and PC2700 memory, respectively - the ...

23. Samsung Ramps Up Mass Production of NexMod Technology

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 17 June 2003

      Samsung today announced that its NexMod technology is now available in mass production in memory configurations ranging from 128MB to 256MB using 288Mb-based RDRAM . Samsung today announced that ...

24. IBM Ramps Up Custom-Chip Delivery

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 17 June 2003

      Hoping to grow its market share in the lucrative custom chip market, IBM has launched a chipmaking service that will streamline the design and manufacture of custom chips. Hoping to grow its market ...

25. TI and PCTEL Deliver Tiny Embedded V.90 Modem

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 25 September 2001

    ... communications modules. The company says the ISL6160 controls the flow of power to the InfiniBand communications module by providing protection from surges and allowing hot swapping of InfiniBand modules ...

26. Nvidia ramps Xbox chips next month

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 03 April 2001

    ... installation problem. The patch for the hole in Internet Explorer Versions 5 and 5.5 delivered a message to users, during the install, that the patch was not needed. Microsoft officials are urging those ...

27. Samsung ramps 0.17-micron Rambus DRAMs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 15 November 2000

    ... companies in twice the floor space used last year. Attendance is expected to surpass the 60,000 attendees at the recent Toronto expo and a wide range of Linux applications, ranging from embedded systems ...