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1. Global Foundries will bash up Intel's process lead

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... the world's biggest pure play foundry. It has two fabs on the go right now - one in Dresden, Germany, and the other in Singapore. It will build a state of the art fab in New York State - work on that has ...

2. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

   (Software/Software Features)

   OS X on a netbook Hackintosh Apple has reportedly restored support for Intel's Atom processor in the latest Snow Leopard build. "Atom appears to have resurrected itself zombie style in 10C535," confirmed ...

3. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   The Attorney General of New York accused Intel of antitrust behavior today. The Attorney General of New York accused Intel of antitrust behavior today Andrew Cuomo alleged that the Santa Clara company ...

4. USB 3 turns into handbag fight between Intel and Nvidia

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... into its mainboards. The news got Nvidia fuming and sent out a press release insisting that Intel was stifling innovation. The graphics chip maker insists that Intel has quashed its abilities to enter ...

5. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Fusion family of products today. Bergman has a new mantra. He said: “Every year we’re going to have the best CPU in the industry. It’s our new mantra." He has a history in the industry that includes IBM, ...

6. AMD culls Phenoms

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... have been culled and AMD has plans to bring in a new CPU to fill the gap later next year. AMD has already stopped taking orders for Phenom II X4 910 (2.6GHz/95W) and 945 (3.0GHz/125W) CPUs in fourth-quarter ...

7. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... serious problems upgrading to the new OS. A poll of more than a thousand users at ubuntuforums.org shows that while 12 percent report a 'flawless' upgrade, 21 percent say the upgrade worked but with a ...

8. The NSA's Latest Listening Post

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   The National Security Agency has started work on its new $2 billion data center in Utah. The National Security Agency has started work on its new one-million square foot, $2 billion data center in ...

9. Nvidia: Our nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... e-mailed statement to TG Daily. "However, it has been widely reported that Nvidia will not be making any new chipsets for the Intel platform until our dispute with Intel is resolved." According to ...

10. TSMC yield problem to affect Nvidia, ATI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said it had problems with making chips using its 40 nanometer process and yields are not up to scratch.The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing ...

11. Intel sues news service over Intel name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Chip giant Intel filed a case in a California district court alleging that a news service specializing in news about Mexico has infringed its trademark. Chip giant Intel filed a case in a California ...

12. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... a vertically integrated memory cell - called PCMS (phase change memory and switch). PCMS is comprised of one PCM element layered with a newly used Ovonic Threshold Switch (OTS) in a true cross point array. ...

13. Graphics market shows signs of recovery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the wounds are too raw for consumers to go crazy. They're buying to go back to school, and they're buying because they really need a new computer." Vendor Q3 09 ...

14. 10 reasons why analog is better than digital

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... many people profess to be intelligent, but it's quite artificial. 8. Is God analog? Tricky one this. Newton compared God to a watchmaker, but nevertheless William Blake drew him as a naked man, bent ...

15. Intel: Windows 7 offers "improved" performance and stability

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... new operating system doesn't require a huge memory increase and can even drive back the three gig Vista footprint to ensure a $700 price point for a PC. That is why we feel confident recommending Windows ...

16. Control your enthusiasm

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... for the continuity of R&D investment, and new product development and design. This was true from chip design tools to end user consumer products and as a result,  many, maybe even most of the ...

17. Ubuntu bug subjects TG Daily hack to wrath of fanbois

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... weeks post-release.  Us bleeding edge types start running new versions and/or upgrading around alpha-6, but we also file bug reports and cope with the odd spot of breakage." Checking out bugs.launchpad.net ...

18. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and AMD have so far refused to comment further on the allegations. See AlsoWall Street Journal (sub required) Intel knew nothing about insider trading probe    ...

19. MSI plans Tegra e-book, talks up notebook shipments

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    MSI chairman Joseph Hsu let slip that the company is currently working on an Nvidia Tegra-based e-book reader, but details won't be released until sometime in the first half of next year. MSI chairman ...

20. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    ... stupid, we'll point it out. When it does something good, we might even praise them a bit. And so it is that, unlike most IT sites, we don't have a news agenda. We're not pro Intel or AMD, for Microsoft ...

21. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... expected Newegg rebate will lower the price tag to $85.  ...

22. The future of 4G is murky

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... monthly report to his clients that the range of wireless applications comes about by "improvements in silicon and the economics of silicon".He said: "New radios require increased processing power to either ...

23. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Low volume pricing will range from under $400 for the Gx36 to less than $1,000 for the Gx100. Additional Tilera TILE-Gx processor specs Next-generation 64-bit core: New three-issue 64-bit core with ...

24. Geeks Are Losers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... He knew best, after all. The result, of course, was that Microsoft was convicted as a monopoly. Both McNamara and Gates lost the epic battles of their lives because they were geeks. They could not ...

25. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... suit against Apple for allegedly breaching its patents.He said then: "You have traditional competitors like the Korean and Japanese companies and now we have new competitors like Apple and RIM. We are ...

26. Disney's Keychest unlocks movies for any platform

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Disney is readying a technology that would let viewers pay a one-off fee for permanent access to a movie or TV show across multiple devices. Disney is readying a technology that would let viewers pay ...

27. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Opinion: There's been a steady flood of news about the emergence of solid state drive (SSD) systems in mainstream products. Samsung has a 64GB miniSATA SSD about half the size of a business card; Dell ...

28. Apple refreshes iMac lineup with 21.5 and 27-inch displays

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Apple has refreshed its iMac lineup with 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays. The new iMac line - starting at $1,200 - features a wide range of Intel processors, including the Core 2 Duo, Core i5 ...

29. Otellini: Intel ‘knew nothing’ about insider trading probe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Intel CEO Paul Otellini says the company knew nothing about the insider trading investigation into Galleon Group, which implicated an Intel executive, until the Feds turned up. Intel CEO Paul Otellini ...

30. AMD optimizes Athlon II processors for Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... start than Intel does," stated Barry. He added that Windows 7, unlike Vista, would likely encourage the sale of new PCs. "Vista did not really help move PCs. But Windows 7 is the sweet spot and higher ...

31. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... Intel, with all its resources and advantages, to beyond so-so performance. Sun Microsystem's Jonathan Schwartz was supposed to be the new bright bulb to return the sparkle to a once great company. We know ...

32. Intel thinks it has a sense of humor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Chip giant Intel has a new advert. Anyone get the joke? Chip giant Intel has a new advert. Anyone get the joke? ...

33. Acer claims it will knock Dell off pole position

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... beat Dell and become the world's biggest PC manufacturer.That's according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, quoting the president of the company, Gianfranco Lanci.Lanci also told the newspaper that ...

34. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    News Analysis Microsoft's future begins next week. That's when the company ships Windows 7, its latest operating system. If Microsoft stumbles with Windows 7 as it did with Vista, people will start ...

35. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... deliver up to 25 percent "better performance" than previous processors. Sun also announced an enhanced SPARC memory controller, along with a new flash array known as the F5100. The array features up ...

36. Nvidia accuses Intel of 'improper claims,' pulls out of chipset development

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to customers and the market that we aren't licensed to the new DMI bus and its unfair business tactics, it is effectively impossible for us to market chipsets for future CPUs," an Nvidia spokesperson told ...

37. Gateway takes on Apple's iMac

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Gateway has taken on Apple's iMac with its multi-touch, all-in-one (AIO) desktop. The ZX - which resembles a sleek, flat-panel TV - is expected to offer PC users an "entirely new computing experience."Gateway ...

38. Government anti-leak document leaked

    (Security/Security Features)

    There is more embarrassment for the UK Ministry of Defence after a document about how to avoid leaks of documents was leaked onto the internet. There is more embarrassment for the UK Ministry of Defence ...

39. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... were spawning dozens of small and mid-size businesses that were pushing the economy forward. New technologies, like local area networks, were attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital. ...

40. Apple threatens Woolworths over new logo

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Woolworths, the largest supermarket chain in Australia, adopted a new logo in 2008 and on-the-ball Apple lawyers have just noticed it looks a bit like the Cupertino gadget maker’s. Woolworths, the largest ...

41. ARM changes name of the netbook game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Analysis: While GlobalFoundries and ARM are not yet ready to discuss the full deal between them, the news is significant, not just for those two companies, but for the Intel Corporation too.Analysis: ...

42. AMD talks up graphics as Nvidia kicks off GPU conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... exact opposite approach.” Pixelux will be providing a new version of its Digital Molecular Matter (DMM) System that can be licensed by anyone and that more easily integrates with other physics systems. ...

43. ARM confirms it's chatting to GlobalFoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    As we exclusively reported last week, ARM and AMD spin off GlobalFoundries are in deep congress over cooperating on semiconductor production.As we exclusively reported last week, ARM and AMD spin off GlobalFoundries ...

44. Toshiba introduces ultra-thin laptop line

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... explained company spokesperson Carl Pinto. "These new ultra-thin laptops reflect the next step in Toshiba laptop innovation, delivering the perfect balance of performance, mobility and style, and broaden ...

45. Dell Latitude Z charges wirelessly

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... want from an all-in-one mobile laptop."However, not everyone is enamored with the Latitude Z which boasts a hefty base price tag of $2,000. Indeed, PC World's Jared Newman criticized the Latitude's wireless ...

46. Ballmer: Windows 7 is a better Windows than any Windows

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Windows 7 "the new normal" which we guess is an improvement over the "innovative normal". What's different about Windows 7 is that it has an interface that's fast and doesn't have a lot of the features ...

47. Digital ants seek out security threats

    (Security/Security Features)

    ...  As new variations are discovered and updates issued, security programs gobble more resources, antivirus scans take longer and machines run more slowly. Glenn Fink, a research scientist at Pacific Northwest ...

48. Apple App Store downloads pass two million mark

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... device, and our users are clearly loving it." In related news, the iPhone was today voted the coolest consumer brand by UK market intelligence outfit CoolBrands, knocking Aston Martin off the top spot ...

49. Intel Developer Forum was a bishop’s egg

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... challenge with his new job. He will have to execute on that internal roadmap.  ...

50. Settlement looks likely in AMD-Intel civil case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The word on the chip strasse is that Intel and AMD may well reach a settlement before the long-running civil case between the companies comes to court in spring 2010.The word on the chip strasse is ...