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1. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... process" in the new OS. 
"We are optimizing many operations and running everything possible in parallel. This means you can go from turning on the computer to surfing the web in a few seconds. Our obsession ...

2. Nvidia remains "committed" to gaming industry

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... we showcased our new Fermi-based Tesla GPUs." However, Del Rizzo admitted that Nvidia hasn't released "a lot" of details about its Geforce line of Fermi-based products. "Look, I understand that some ...

3. AMD to use Intel cash to pay off debt

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... notes' due in 2012 and all outstanding 7.75 percent senior notes due at the same time. The company also plans to offer $500m worth of new senior notes to finance its recovery plan. $1.25 billion is a ...

4. Nvidia and Asus tout 3D Vision notebook

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... into notebook platforms. The new displays reportedly provide "stellar" 2D capability with crystal clear images, while delivering flicker-free 3D support for HD playback of 3D games, movies and photographs. ...

5. Adobe upgrades Flash player with improved HD support

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... browsing of expressive applications, content and high definition (HD) videos across the desktop and devices. "Flash Player 10.1 takes advantage of new media delivery options using HTTP streaming coupled ...

6. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... settlement was the dawn of a new era of sweetness and light where it and Intel will work together to create a brave new X86 world. Intel talked as though what it would really like to do is to jump over ...

7. Intel claims it's driving supercomputers. Not AMD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   And announces Nehalem-EX Chip firm AMD is blowing its own trumpet by saying its Jaguar system is the world's supreme supercomputer. But AMD's new friend Intel is not going to take that lying down. It ...

8. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... be capable of delivering up to a 100 percent increase in compute core density and multi-threading capability. In addition, the processors will feature four channels of DDR-3 memory, as well as new power ...

9. Nvidia CEO says he is "all" Apple

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... Burke told TG Daily. "Their reputation for providing quality products people love is well-earned and we are proud to be a part of their platforms." See Also Apple plans 50 new stores Microsoft: Windows ...

10. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... a set of ground rules, we've agreed to a new patent cross license agreements using multiple foundries, and Global Foundries has agreed to terms to continue as a foundry. Intel has agreed to pay AMD $1.25 ...

11. Intel settles antitrust dispute with AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... innovation and development." The two firms get patent rights from a new five year cross license agreement. AMD will give up any claims of breach from the previous agreement. Intel will pay AMD  $1.25 ...

12. Bill Gates says people get paid too much

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... it was somewhat unwise of him to tell folks attending a charity gig in New York yesterday that Wall Street compensation is "often too high". According to Bloomberg, Bill Gates said that this is a "tough ...

13. How TG Daily is put together

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... are free! I like nothing better on my Macbook than finding out new apps in the appstore, obviously using the Safari browser [10:20:44] Evil Spinola: Ah. New meds? [10:21:04] Good Spinola: Meds? [10:22:14] ...

14. Microsoft: Windows 7 "looks and feels" like Mac OS X

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    True confessions from Redmond A Microsoft official has finally admitted that Windows 7 was heavily influenced by Mac OS X. "One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that ...

15. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... for the future. He said some interesting things.  He said: “We went to multicore because we knew we could exploit that area. But with GPUs we needed to run things in parallel.  We’re at three teraFLOPS ...

16. Marvell employee accused of profiting in Galleon case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... not been charged, and declined to comment on Far's allegations. See Also Wall Street Journal (subscription needed) Ruiz quits Global Foundries Otellini: Intel knew nothing about Galleon insider trading ...

17. 55 inch B&O TV a snip at $18,700

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... as 120 Hz, with motion compensation and progressive scanning backlight significantly reduces the inherent blur typical of LCD screens, we are assured. The BeoVision 7-55 is based on a new direct-type ...

18. Nvidia: Fermi production schedule remains on track

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    Manufacturing process to kick off in the "next couple of months" The DigiTimes recently speculated that Nvidia could experience a "waning" market share if the company delayed the launch of its Fermi ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

20. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    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 ...

21. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

23. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... 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, ...

24. AMD culls Phenoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

25. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

26. The NSA's Latest Listening Post

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

28. TSMC yield problem to affect Nvidia, ATI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    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 ...

29. Intel sues news service over Intel name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    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 ...

30. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... 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. ...

31. Graphics market shows signs of recovery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

32. 10 reasons why analog is better than digital

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

34. Control your enthusiasm

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

36. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... 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    ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    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 ...

38. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

39. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

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

40. The future of 4G is murky

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

41. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

42. Geeks Are Losers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

43. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

44. Disney's Keychest unlocks movies for any platform

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    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 ...

45. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    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 ...

48. AMD optimizes Athlon II processors for Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

50. Intel thinks it has a sense of humor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

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