Theo Valich

Taipei (Taiwan) - AMD has pulled a rabbit out of its hat to increase the performance of its existing Phenom triple-core (8000-series) and quad-core (9000-series) processors.

Taipei (Taiwan) - In the latest round of rumors from Computex 2008, we learned that AMD managed to upset the majority of its partners by delaying the Radeon 4850 512MB GDDR3, code-named Makedon.

Taipei (Taiwan) - Thermaltake says a new metal alloy will improve the performance of its upcoming generation of compressor coolers.

Taipei (Taiwan) - You knew it was coming.

Taipei (Taiwan) - In very simple terms, all chip manufacturers have the same business goal: To sell more chips every year.

Santa Clara (CA) - Taking annual mammograms is generally recommended for women with an age of 35 years and above.

Mountain House (CA) - Computex Taipei 2008 is just around the corner and news of what we can expect to see at the conference is already trickling in.

San Francisco (CA) - Intel is currently preparing the launch of its final Core-architecture processor design, the six-core server CPU Dunnington.

Zagreb (Croatia) - While travelling in Europe we stumbled across more details about Nvidia's upcoming graphics card, which surely looks more and more like a processing monster to us.

We look at DisplayLink, a USB-based multi-monitor solution.

  It took some time, but Creative Labs has finally introduced decent sound cards for PCI Express interface.

Santa Clara (CA) - Nvidia has begun beating the drums for their first NDF (Nvidia Developer Forum), which is turning into a three-day Woodstock for the IT industry.

The new GPUs, also knows as NV60 graphics processors will be called the GTX 260 / 280, according to an article.

Chicago (IL) - News that AMD has taken a big step to outsource its manufacturing to TSMC and that wafer testing for SOI mass production has begun mad waves yesterday.

You may not have heard about this small manufacturer of VFX workstations, but there is a good chance that you saw a movie or a TV show with special effects done on one of these machines.

Zagreb (Croatia) - Two screenshots posted to a popular Internet forum claim to show two upcoming Nvidia graphics cards: The 9900GTX and 9900 GTS, based on the GT200 chip.

Taipei (Taiwan) - News about refreshed Xbox 360 consoles are trickling, which is about time given the fact that the console will celebrate its third birthday later this year.

Taipei (Taiwan) - The vision of upgradeable graphic cards goes back to the late 1990s, when Micron Technology was experimenting with removable sockets.

London (United Kingdom) - When Jake Gordon from UK bought his new Dell Vostro 1310, he had no idea that his $1289 purchase will actually rebound in a spectacular way.