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August 29
- Samsung Unveils Ultra-Light X360
- Windows XP Learns New Nag Tactic for Pirates
- Behold the five radiators, six graphics cards and 50+ fans “DayWalker” system
- Mythbusters duo launches new GeForce, codenamed Mona Lisa
- Nvidia’s Q3 shot at the desktop market: $59 graphics cards
- Universal Abit Reportedly Leaving Motherboard Market
- AMD to Strike Nvidia 9500 With HD4600
August 28
- Samsung Introduces SSDs for Low-Priced PC Market
- Phenom 9950 Cracks The 4GHz Barrier On LN2
- Pick Your Parts With OCZ's Do-it-yourself Gaming Notebook
- Nvidia To Optimize Its Software For Via Nano Processors
- PC Related IC Design Houses Turn Conservative Over Q3 Outlook
- FPCB Makers Expected To Have Double-digit Sales Growth In Q3
- Nvidia Vice President Firmly Denies CPU Rumours
- Ready For The Mainstream? Samsung Announces SSDs For Low-cost PCs
- NVISION: Nvidia's Quest For Second Place
August 27
- Dell Unveils New Vostros With Ubuntu
- Overclockers Aim For 6 GHz And Beyond At NVISION
- Nvidia GPUs Approach 1.5 PFlops In Folding@Home Project
- Badaboom's GPU-accelerated Video Encoding Promises A Lot, Not Yet Ready For Prime Time
- NVISION 08: Antec's New Case, Peripherals
- NVISION 08: Palit Makes Good on Failed EVGA GeForce Offer
- NVISION: Jen-Hsun Huang's Keynote
August 26
- Canon Unveils New Cameras, Including EOS 50D
- Gigabyte's Monstrous 6 TFlops Core i7 Prototype Motherboard Pictured
- Nvidia Launches $59 GeForce 9400 GT
- Break Dancing Jen-Hsun Huang Kicks Off NVISION With Virtual Lamborghinis And Cylon Babes
- IOGEAR Announces Wireless USB-to-VGA kit
- Nvidia GPU Failures Caused By Material Problem, Sources Claim
- SGI, Intel Claim Slice of Olympic Swimming Gold Medals
August 25
- Intel G45 Motherboards Get Quad-display Support
- OCZ Dominatrix: Your New Gaming Mouse Master
- 3DTV Coming to Blu-ray, Philips Demonstrates
- NVISION '08 - What to Expect
August 23
- Intel Will Disclose DTS Specs At IDF
August 22
- Shuttle's Stylish New X27 Makes an Appearance
- LLUON A1 Atom-Based PC Knows How to Roll
- IDF 2008: WiMAX and the Future of Wireless
- IDF: SSD Myths and Hardcore Gamers
- Heatsink Maker Jumps Into LED Lighting Biz
- IDF 2008: Intel Imagines Wireless Power For Your Laptop
- IDF 2008: New SATA Standard Expands To 600 MB/s, Enables Next Phase For SSD Performance
- Battery Cell Shortage Still Looming
- Dorm Room Tech
- IDF 2008: "SuperSpeed" USB 3.0 Demoed At IDF
- Steve Wozniak: An Engineer's Engineer
August 21
- IDF: Intel and Yahoo Team Up to Offer Internet on Television
- One Electron At A Time: Scientists Close In On Quantum Computing
- Overclocking Nehalem "almost As Good As Having A Second Graphics Card" - Intel
- IDF 2008: Taking Mobile Gaming to the Extreme
- IDF: Core i7 'Nehalem' Briefing Report
- Planning On Buying A Nehalem PC For Christmas? Plan For Christmas 2009.
- IDF: Switchable Graphics Could Give Laptops An Extra Hour Of Battery Life
- IDF: Intel Demonstrates 16 GB DDR3 MetaRAM
- IDF: Intel and DreamWorks Tackle 3D Movies
- Intel's 'Larrabee' to Shakeup AMD, Nvidia
August 20
- IDF 2008: Highlights of Day 1 Keynotes
- IDF: Full Speed Ahead for Intel SSDs
- IDF 2008: One Voice Technologies Announces Voice Control for Atom-based MIDs
- Intel Expected To Reveal Details About Dual-core Atom
- Intel Tests Mass Storage Waters With New SSDs
- IDF 2008: Gelsinger Acts Cool, Reveals Little
- Logitech Introduces New Wireless Keyboard/Mouse Combo
- VIA Announces Nano-ITX Board With VIA VX800 Chipset
- Microsoft Drops, Google and Apple Climb in Latest ACSI Satisfaction Study
- Firm Estimates 35 Percent Downgrade Vista to XP
- IDF: Core i7 Will Self Overclock
- Microsoft to Add Blu-ray Disc Support into Windows
- IDF: More 'Nehalem' Details, 6-cores
- IDF Fall 2008: Lucid Samples Graphics Parallelization Chips
August 19
- USB 3.0 Connectors On Show
- IDF 2008: NEC Promises Speed-up For Wireless USB
- IDF: Barrett Says It's Not About Money
- IDF 2008: Opening Keynote Speech Criticizes U.S. Government
- IDF 2008: Intel's Classmate PC Returns
- New HyperTransport Specification Reveals Updates For AMD's 45 Nm CPUs, Fusion's Secret
- AMD On Track To Report A Profit For Q3
- Mobile Madness at IDF 2008
- IDF 2008: What to Expect
- AMD First to 22 Nm, Challenges Intel
August 18
- HP Unveils 3 New 12-inch Notebooks
- Lenovo Introduces ThinkPad X301 With 128 GB SSD
- Can AMD Survive Another Core 2 Duo?
August 16
- Intel Prepping SSDs With Up To 160 GB Capacity
- NVIDIA Beta Drivers With OpenGL 3.0 Support
August 15
- AMD Has Four New Business Phenoms
- BitMicro Says 6.5 TB SSDs On The Way
- Ubisoft CEO Changing Focus to Consoles Due to PC Piracy
- Indilinx Speeds Up SSDs To 230 MB/s
- Leaked IDF Slides Shed Light On Nehalem's Successors
- Self-assembling Polymer Arrays The Secret Of Next-generation Hard Drives?
- New Intel Motherboards To Detect Phone Calls During Sleep Mode
August 14
- Siggraph Attendees Drool Over Nvidia's Quadro Plex
August 13
- Why a Mini-notebook is Exactly What You Will Want
- First USB 3.0 Demo Possibly at IDF Next Week
- HP Kicks Off SIGGRAPH 2008 With Lots Of New Gear
- Nvidia Takes A Big Hit In The Second Quarter
- Nvidia Touts Physics, But Financial Trouble Ahead
- Report: All Nvidia G84/G86 Chips Defective
August 12
- Russian Hackers Continue Attack On Georgia
- Windows Crashes During Olympic Ceremony
- Lenovo Unleashes the 17-inch W700
- Intel Releases New Midrange Chips
- AMD Split Rumors Accelerating
- 270 Watt For The Performance Crown: AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2
- Intel Set To Introduce Mobile Quad-core Processors
August 11
- Intel's 'Nehalem' Now Officially Core i7
- Weakening LCD Panel Industry Spreads To Backend
- Kingston Takes 10% Stake At NAND Flash Controller Designer 3S
- Seven Of The Ten Largest DRAM Manufacturers Saw Revenue Declines In Q2
- Intel Nehalem's Market Named Leaked to be Core i7
August 8
- Graphics Wars: The Big Summer Battle
- CERN Ready To Test Fire Its Time Machine On September 10
- Dell Claims Carbon Neutrality
- AMD Launches 2 New Pro Graphics Cards
- Microsoft Revises Memory Placement in Latest Xbox 360 Hardware
- Intel graphics update: Ray-tracing the way to go for game developers?
- Quick Look: Gigabyte 790GX Motherboard
- Graphics wars: The big summer battle
- CherryPal's $250 PC delayed
- Nvidia licenses Transmeta power management tech
- AMD's 790GX served with secret sauce for overclocking
August 7
- Carmack: PCs Not Important As Consoles
- AMD Ditches Close-To-Metal, Focuses On DX11 And OpenCL
- Study Finds Macs Cost 2X Windows PCs
August 6
- Playboy Online Loses To Porn Streaming
- Sony To Expand Monthly Lithium Ion Battery Production Capacity From 41 Million Cells To 74 Million C
- Numonyx And Hynix Extend NAND Flash Cooperation
- Memory Module Makers See Strong July Sales
- Elpida Ready To Launch 16 GB FB-DIMM
- Micron Preps 256 GB SSDs For Notebooks
- Larrabee, CUDA And The Quest For The Free Lunch
- Matrox Stretches TripleHead2Go To 5040x1050 Pixels
August 5
- Intel To Launch Calpella Notebook Platform In Q3 2009
- Semiconductor Market Starting To Look Interesting, Says Future Horizons
- Micron Introduces Next-generation SSD For Enterprise Servers And Notebooks
- Nanya: Heavy DRAM Downside Pressure In August
- TSMC Leads Growth Among Top 20 Semiconductor Suppliers In H1
- Dell's Cloud Computing Trademark Application Criticized
August 4
- NVIDIA Interview - "E3 Was a Disaster ... Nvision is the New E3"
- Nvidia Readies Driver 'Big Bang' September, Brings OpenGL 3.0 and SLI Multi-monitor Support
- PC Vendors Have No Incentive To Replenish DRAM Inventory
- Strong PC Demand Boosts Chip Revenues, DRAM And Flash Prices Plunge
- Nvidia Says It Is Not Quitting The Chipset Market
- Nvidia To Silently Kill Chipset Division?
- AMD Fusion Details Leaked: 40/32 Nm, Dual-core CPU, RV800 Graphics
- Intel Teases New Larrabee Details
- Higher ASPs And Stronger Growth Expected In The Semiconductor Market
August 2
- Firefox 3 Chipping Away Safari Market Share, Summer Browsing Patterns Reverse IE Decline
August 1
- IBM Gets Cloud Computer Fever