Microsoft Admits Surface May Alienate Hardware Makers By Douglas Perry published 30 July 12 How much risk is in Surface?
Report: AMD Radeon HD 7990 6GB Ready To Launch By Douglas Perry published 30 July 12 There is new speculation surrounding AMD's new high-end graphics card, the HD7990.
UMC to Deliver 20 nm Chips in H2 2013 By Douglas Perry published 30 July 12 Shih-Wei Sun, CEO of United Microelectronics (UMC), believes that there is an increasing opportunity for foundries in the area of advanced process technologies.
Deepcool Announces Dual Fin Array Cooler for $60 By Douglas Perry published 30 July 12 Deepcool is extending its twin CPU cooler line with a more economic solution.
GM Developing WiFi Direct-based Pedestrian Detection By Douglas Perry published 30 July 12 P2P wireless technology is being explored to help people brake in time to avoid accidents.
Firefox Add-ons Reach 3 Billion Downloads By Douglas Perry published 29 July 12 Mozilla is celebrating the popularity of Add-ons for Firefox.
Toshiba Cuts NAND Flash Production by 30 Percent By Douglas Perry published 28 July 12 Toshiba has just announced a drastic production cut for flash memory devices.
Researchers Create World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser By Douglas Perry published 27 July 12 Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have come closer to a all-optics chip.
Did Apple Just Kill Safari for Windows? By Douglas Perry published 27 July 12 Apple may not have much incentive to continue offering Safari for Windows users.
ARM Enjoys Provoking Intel: We Lead the SoC Race By Douglas Perry published 26 July 12 Is this like teasing a sleeping giant?
Control-Alt-Hack: Can You Teach Hacking with a Card Game? By Douglas Perry published 26 July 12 Probably not, but scientists at the University of Washington (UW) say that it can be fun playing a card game with hacking content, while bringing some educational value to the table as well.
Intel Leads Green Power Ranking Again; Google Not So Much By Douglas Perry published 26 July 12 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has updated its Green Power Partnership ranking of the 50 organizations that buy the most green power.
Massive, 3-lbs Silentmaxx TwinBlock Cools PC Up to 100W By Douglas Perry published 26 July 12 A dual-heatsink design offered by Silentmaxx promises to cool CPUs with a power consumption of up to 100 watts - without the need of fans.
Super Talent Launches Green Memory for iMac, MacBook Pro By Douglas Perry published 26 July 12 Super Talent has begun offering reduced voltage DDR3 memory modules for iMac and Macbook Pro systems.
A Rough Week: AMD Gets Six F Grades From Investors By Douglas Perry published 26 July 12 I am not jealous. I would not want to be Rory Read this week.
MSI G Series Laptops Get Nvidia Kepler Graphics By Douglas Perry published 25 July 12 Following a June announcement that some of its G-series notebooks are available with Nvidia's GTX 675M graphics, MSI has now added the GTX 680M in two new flagship models.
Self-Assembling Chips Could Push Production Limits By Douglas Perry published 25 July 12 Researchers have found a way to enable the creation of circuitry with self-assembling rectangles.
Princeton: Replacing RAM with Flash Can Save Massive Power By Douglas Perry published 25 July 12 Fusion-io and Princeton University recently announced a partnership in which the company would enable customers to use Flash memory as an extension of DRAM.
Graphene Believed to be Key Toward Low-Power Telecoms By Douglas Perry published 25 July 12 Researchers at Columbia University said they have developed a hybrid graphene-silicon/photonic chip that enables ultra low-power optical information processing.
RockSalt Could Pave Way to Safe Native Apps in Browsers By Douglas Perry published 25 July 12 Researchers at Harvard University say that 80 lines of code are enough to make sure that browser can run native machine code without be exposed to hacker attacks.
Samsung Galaxy S III Sales Top 10 Million By Douglas Perry published 25 July 12 Samsung has hit a home run with its latest Android flagship phone, the Galaxy S III.
TSMC Contracted as 64-Bit ARM Foundry for Next-gen Chips By Douglas Perry published 25 July 12 ARM is preparing the production ecosystem for its first 64-bit processors.
AMD Gaming Executive Departs, Joins Nvidia By Douglas Perry published 24 July 12 It is no secret that AMD's board of directors and new executive ranks have plans to change the company into something very different that what the company once was. However, the pace at which former key staff is departing is rather surprising.
Report: Amazon Kindle Fire Could Drop as Low as $169 By Douglas Perry published 24 July 12 Amazon may be releasing a new Kindle Fire 2 this fall, but the better deal could be the original Kindle, if we believe the folks over at DealNews.
AMD's Jaguar to Support AVX By Douglas Perry published 24 July 12 A note posted by an AMD developer suggests that the Kabini processor, a 28 nm mobile chip that will integrate the Jaguar processing core, will support Intel's AVX instruction set, as well bit-manipulation instructions (BMI).