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1. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   Phenom II overclocking and Fermi Tesla GPUs We covered a number of hardware-related topics this past week at TG Daily, including Lucid's Hydra SoC, shattering the Phenom II 7GHz barrier, the debut of ...

2. ATI reveals Radeon 5970 overlocking details

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   Hybrid approach wins out ATI has revealed a critical engineering decision that led to the successful production of its Radeon HD 5970 graphics card. "When we were first designing the 5970, we came to ...

3. Microsoft: No backdoor in Windows 7

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... into Windows," a company spokesperson told Computerworld. Microsoft's official denial was prompted by the recent testimony of National Security Agency (NSA) official Richard Schaeffer, who confirmed ...

4. Nvidia auctions "ultimate" gaming system on eBay

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   2x GTX 295 SLI, Core i7 975 Extreme and 12GB DDR3 Nvidia is auctioning off a custom-built "ultimate" gaming system on eBay. 

Company spokesperson Brian Burke told TG Daily that the machine was "hand ...

5. Auto roti maker wins Intel prize

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   And the biodegradable bone The Intel+Berkeley cooperative attempt to promote fresh ideas has announced the three winners of its entrepreneurial push. But we'll start with the third prizewinner as that ...

6. Dell disappoints despite chip up-tick

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   Is its strategy right? Hardware giant Dell delivered its quarterly results showing a profit of $577 million on revenues of $12.9 billion - a drop in profit of 54 percent. But in the face of other major ...

7. China has free reign over US computers

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   Committee warns Congress Chinese spies have much better access to US government and defense industry computer networks,  according to a congressional advisory panel report. The US-China Economic ...

8. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Eliminates all "unnecessary" processes Google has released the source code of its long-awaited Chrome OS. According to the Mountain View-based company, the alternative operating system is optimized for ...

9. Nvidia remains "committed" to gaming industry

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   HPC market is not its primary focus Nvidia has reiterated its strong commitment to the gaming industry. Company spokesperson Bryan Del Rizzo told TG Daily that rumors of Nvidia abandoning gaming for the ...

10. Intel throws millions of Euro into Exascale center

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    Supercomputers a thousand times more powerful Semiconductor company Intel said it will invest many millions of Euro into the Exascale Computing Research Center, in collaboration with the French Commissariat ...

11. Chinese court halts Microsoft OS sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ...  The dispute centers around some Chinese fonts that Microsoft licensed from Zhongyi Electronic for use in Windows 95. However, Zhongyi alleged that Microsoft continued to use its fonts in subsequent versions ...

12. AMD to use Intel cash to pay off debt

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    $1.25 billion should keep the wolf from the door for a bit AMD says it plans to reduce its level of debt by $1.4 billion, using a large wedge of the $1.25 billion it received from Intel in exchange for ...

13. Nvidia and Asus tout 3D Vision notebook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    A stereoscopic experience at 120Hz Nvidia and Asus have announced plans to launch a high-definition 3D Vision notebook in December.  

 The G51J 3D - which is expected to feature an advanced 120Hz 3D ...

14. IBM simulates cat, maps human brain to improve chip tech

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    A cat can look at a queen Scientists at IBM said they'd made progress towards creating a computer system that will simulate and emulate the human brain for sensation, perception, action, interaction and ...

15. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    'Procedural maladministration' The European Ombudsman has found maladministration in the way the European Commission handled its antitrust investigation into Intel on the grounds that the Commission failed ...

16. Tiny brain is no bar to intelligence, say scientists

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    There's hope for us yet Insects could be as bright as much bigger animals, despite their teeny-tiny brains, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. Insects can show some pretty intelligent ...

17. Six rules are laid down for Intel to obey

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    AMD files Settlement Agreement The terms of the agreement between AMD and Intel were published as an SEC 8K filing last night. Apart from the patent cross license agreement, lasting five years, licenses ...

18. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    Unlocked and overclocked AMD has introduced its long-awaited ATI Radeon HD 5970 (Hemlock) GPU. According to company spokesperson Devon Nekechuk, the 5970 features advanced Overdrive technology that allows ...

19. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    2.5 TFlops of raw compute power Nvidia has debuted an advanced line of Fermi-based Tesla GPUs for the high performance computing (HPC) market. An Nvidia spokesperson told TG Daily that the Tesla 20 ...

20. Adobe upgrades Flash player with improved HD support

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    Uncompromised Web browsing Adobe has upgraded its popular Flash player with improved support for HD video playback. The latest beta version of the application reportedly facilitates "uncompromised" Web ...

21. Otellini, Barrett others sued by shareholder over antitrust

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    Alleges fiduciary failures A case started in a Delaware district court alleging that senior executives at the Intel Corporation failed in their fiduciary duties to review policy on antitrust activities. ...

22. Phenom II overclockers shatter 7GHz barrier

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Heroes of the HPC world AMD has released an HD video chronicling the exploits of Phenom II overclockers who managed to shatter the infamous 7GHz clock barrier. "This video depicts the herculean efforts ...

23. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Opinion Nothing's really changed When AMD and Intel held their journalist conference calls last week, the contrast between the two companies could not be greater. AMD talked as though the $1.25 billion ...

24. 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 ...

25. Michael Arrington resurrects enigmatic CrunchPad tablet

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Atom-powered device "steamrolls" along Michael Arrington has told the Gillmor Gang podcast that his enigmatic CrunchPad tablet is "steamrolling along" and remains on schedule. According to Arrington, ...

26. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    2.3 petaflops of peak performance The AMD-powered "Jaguar" system has been dubbed the world's "supreme supercomputer" by the TOP500 organization.  The upgraded Cray XT5 - which is based in the Oak Ridge ...

27. Weekly hardware roundup

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    Analog joystick mouse and crashing Hackintoshes This past week was a busy one at TG Daily. We covered a number of hardware-related topics, including the very first OpenOffice joystick mouse, crashing ...

28. Nvidia CEO says he is "all" Apple

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    The "best" technology Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has claimed that Apple uses the "best" technology to manufacture its Mac product line. "Apple says to their customers: if you buy a computer from us you ...

29. Intel maintains innocence despite $1.25 billion cash payoff

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    Convictions have not "wavered" Intel has agreed to pay AMD $1.25 billion to settle a number of anti-trust and patent cross-licensing disputes. However, the Santa Clara-based company continues to insist ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    Analysis: Broad agreement to establish industry ground rules Updated: God alone knows how much lawyers have benefited from the latest spat between AMD and Intel. Today the two companies announced a settlement ...

31. Intel settles antitrust dispute with AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    Breaking Intel pays AMD $1.25 billion Intel said that it and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have settled all outstanding legal disputes between them - including litigation and patent disputes. A joint ...

32. Bill Gates says people get paid too much

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    Richest man in the world in jawdropping statement Bill Gates is only worth $40 billion this year, according to the latest Forbes report - down $18 billion but once again the world's richest man. So perhaps ...

33. How TG Daily is put together

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    Shocking truth of editorial chat revealed The good Dr Spinola is a godfearing tee totaller who loves his iPhone, his Macbook and the Linux operating system for servers. He eats sardines and beans on toast. ...

34. 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    The graphics bone connected to the CPU zone At a reviewers’ day at the Lone Star facility in Austin TX last week, AMD chief technology officer Joe Macri waxed large on Fusion and the potential it has ...

36. Marvell employee accused of profiting in Galleon case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    Far cry of insider trading The chief witness testifying in the Galleon insider trading case has alleged that a Marvell executive took money to provide him with insider information. According to the Wall ...

37. 55 inch B&O TV a snip at $18,700

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    Shame the shows will still be crap Apple will no doubt be reaching for its lawyers as upstart Danish purveyor of overpriced, aspirational gadgets Bang & Olufsen beats them at their own game by launching ...

38. Intel Reader gizmo will read text to you

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    Using the Atom Semiconductor giant Intel said it has created a Reader that will convert printed text to digital text and read it out aloud. The Reader is aimed at helping around 55 million people in the ...

39. Atom Hackintosh netbooks crash and burn

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    Snow Leopard infinity loop
 Apple has apparently struck a deadly blow against the burgeoning Hackintosh community by disabling support for Intel's Atom processor in the latest version of Snow Leopard.  ...

40. 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 ...

41. Microprocessor sales aided by Atom smasher

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    All time record quarter A report from market research organization IDC said that unit shipments of microprocessors jumped by 23 percent in the third quarter, compared to Q2 2009. Notebook processors led ...

42. Nvidia taunts Intel with cartoon parody site

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    Quick. Draw! Graphics firm Nvidia appears to have decided to develop a sense of humor and mock the mighty Intel with a web site it appears to sponsor called intelsinsides. If it is an Nvidia site, that ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    Strides'r'us The chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has claimed that the spun-off division that makes its microprocessors will outpace Intel in the foreseeable future. Joe Macri ...

44. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    GPU accelerates profits Nvidia has reported revenue of $903.2 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2010. According to CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, revenue increased 16 percent from the previous quarter and ...

45. Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    Microsoft finally gets it right Initial sales of Microsoft Windows 7 have reportedly "surpassed" those of Vista by 234 percent. According to the NPD Group, a combination of pre-sale discounts and a lack ...

46. 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 ...

47. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    Lone Star Briefings Death to SysMark, terminate 3DmarkAMD is pushing its Vision concept for all that it’s worth and has concluded that in an age when notebooks are all pervasive, the metrics used in the ...

48. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    Tel Aviv University researchers have successfully connected a prosthetic hand to existing nerve endings, allowing the user to actually feel it. Tel Aviv University researchers have successfully connected ...

49. 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 ...

50. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... program using staff from Transmeta. AmTech analyst Doug Freedman said the only explanation for its vigorous headhunting is that it is considering a move into the x86 CPU market. Freedman thinks that the ...