Samsung rapidly gains market share in the lucrative Flash memory market. According to figures released by semiconductor market research firm iSuppli, the company increased its sales by more than 77 percent in 2004. Samsung now holds more than 25 percent of the worldwide Flash market. Read more
The first quarter of this year brought a historic event for the Flash memory industry. For the first time since the introduction of the technology in 1988, revenues of the more recent NAND type surpassed the original NOR Flash driven by booming demand of MP3 players and digital cameras. Read more
Worldwide semiconductor revenues posted rose to $18.4 billion in September, according to a report released by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Sales for the month were up only one percent sequentially. Third quarter results however were 27 percent higher than one year ago. Read more
Strong demand from makers of consumer-electronics products and mobile phones helped Flash memory makers to increase their sales slightly to $4.1 billion in the second quarter of this year. NAND Flash continues to grab market share and is on track to replace NOR Flash in more and more devices. Read more
Cyberpower sent us a factory-overclocked Phenom II X4 955 system wielding two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire. We pit the formidable rig against our previous System Builder Marathon Core i7 machine to see if AMD can deliver a viable gaming alternative. Read more
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships. Read more
When a new paradigm like cloud computing or a new platform like Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) comes along, it’s smart to ask tough questions. Read more
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. Read more