Philips Electronics does not currently plan to lower its DVD+R/+RW disc royalty charge of $0.06 and the company stated that neither Ricoh nor the DVD+RW Alliance has the right to negotiate prices on its behalf, according to James Li, general manager of Philips Intellectual Property & Standards in Taiwan. Read more
With rumors indicating that Intel has recently adjusted its capacity strategies by putting more effort on producing high-profit mobile chips and phasing out some lower-end desktop PC-use chipsets, Taiwan chipset makers including Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) have been pushing to ramp up their production to fill the gap in supply. Read more
Vista has rather an illogical performance rating tool. It tests some of your computer subsystems and gives you a total score that can give you an indication whether or not your machine is fit for Vista. Read more
For the last several weeks, Nvidia has been at war with Intel over a statement one of Intel's engineers made at IDF suggesting that GPUs could soon be obsolete. Read more
Nvidia's Ion for the do-it-yourselfer launched last month in the form of Zotac's mini-ITX motherboard. Though sexy in principle, the platform had some teething pains right out of the gate. Chris Angelini revisits those issues and uses Ion as a real HTPC. Read more
Do you want a quick Core i7 system, but don’t feel confident sticking to Intel's spec and using the DDR3-1066 memory supported by the processor? We benchmark the most relevant memory speed and timing combinations to check the benefit of going faster. Read more
Dead Space is an excellent sci-fi survival horror title, and one of the few games that Nvidia supports with its new driver's ambient occlusion feature. We put the game through our usual image-quality and performance tests to see what we could learn. Read more
Intel's fastest Core 2 Duo, the E8600, runs at 3.33 GHz. But if you're a performance-hungry power user, we found that you can actually increase the chip's efficiency by overclocking it, thanks to 45 nm manufacturing and plenty of built-in headroom. Read more