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July 31
- Facebook To Deploy "thousands" Of Intel Servers
- Intel to Lose its Lead in Chip Manufacturing Tech in 2009, Sort Of
- Electronic Arts to Sell Crysis-branded PCs
July 30
- Carmack: iPhone Powerful as PS2, Xbox
- Apple Rumored to be Ignoring Centrino 2 Chipset
- Nvidia Brings New GPUs To Notebooks
- Nvidia To Launch 55 Nm GeForce 9500 GT GPU In Q4
- Lenovo To Launch Netbook By The End Of September
- Asustek, MSI And Synnex To Enter Nettop War In August
- HP, Intel And Yahoo Build A Cloud Computing Playground
- Alienware Offers Workstation Graphics In M15x Notebook
- 13 Years of Nvidia Graphics Cards
July 29
- IEEE Approves 3.2 Gb/s IEEE 1394 High-speed Serial Bus Specification
- Grandma Can Text Faster Than You Can
- Dell's Studio Hybrid Reignites The Passion For The Desktop PC
- Prediction: Ncomputing Is The Next Google
- $100 Notebook Is At Least Three Years Away, Says Gartner
July 28
- Dell Releases BIOS Updates for Failing Nvidia GPUs
- Voodoo's Envy 133: More Beautiful Than MacBook Air
- TI Warns Of Discount Mini-tender Offers
- Samsung Goes Compact With SP-P400 Mobile Projector
- Overclocking: Tom's Sets World Record
July 25
- Large-size Panel Shipments Increase 6.7% In 2Q, Says WitsView
- Japan And South Korea-based Vendors Cut Prices For Entry-level Blu-ray Players In US Market
- Channel Vendors Demand Card Makers Recall Faulty Nvidia Products
- More Graphics Card Makers To Start Selling IGP Motherboards
- Asustek To Extend Battery Life And Storage Capacity For Eee PCs In 2H08
- 16 GB USB Flash Drives Now Middling
- HP Absorbs Voodoo Into Consumer Line
July 24
- Intel's 'Nehalem' To Launch Sooner
- Semiconductor Outsourcing Services To Grow 11% In 2008, Says Gartner
- LCD Panel Revenues Drop 11% In June, Samsung Remains Number One, Says DisplaySearch
- Major DRAM Makers Pessimistic About Q3 Outlook
- Hynix To Close U.S. Fab
- Shrinking The CPU Platform: Intel Goes After SoC Opportunity
- Nvidia To Bring WHQL-certified PhysX Drivers On August 5th
July 23
- Solar-cell Power Conversion Requirements Keep Growing
- Hard Drive Industry Shrugs Off Economic Concerns, Post Double Digit Growth Rates
- Albatron's 'Retrotechnology' Video Cards Hit A Snag
- Microsoft Envisions The Next-generation LCD
July 22
- New Mac Clones From Offshore
- Cree Expects LED Lighting Production Costs To Drop Fast
- Taiwan DRAM Makers To Completely Phase Out Production At 8" Fabs By 2009
- Polysilicon Spot Price Posts Mild Drop
- Making Motherboards The Gigabyte Way
- NAND Flash Controller Makers See Demand Warming Up
- Kinesis Offers Keyboard Jockeys New Angles
- Smartlet Charging Stations An Idea To Recharge Your Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle
- Intel Fine Tunes Processor Pricing, Increases Pressure On AMD
- New AMD/ATI Catalyst Drivers Promise Higher Benchmark Scores, Smoother Gameplay
July 21
- Biohazard Announces Phase-change Cooled Enthusiast PC
- TFT LCD Equipment Sales To Go Up 58% To US$13 Billion In 2008, DisplaySearch Says
- Greener Than An Apple: Cherrypal's $250 PC
- YouTube Coming To Tivo
- General Motors Researching HUD Windshields For The Elderly
- A 1-2-3-4 Plan For AMD To Beat Intel
July 19
- Nvidia to Launch Intel-based MCP7A IGP Chipset in August
July 18
- Notebook Platform Transition To Be Faster This Year
- Intel 'Bloomfield' CPU Pricing Reveals Pleasant Surprise
- Dell Serious About Ubuntu: Launches First Consumer Linux PCs
- LED Lighting May Soon Be Available For Mainstream Use
- AMD's Hector Ruiz Jumps Sinking Ship
July 17
- Intel Phases Out Most Clovertown And Woodcrest Processors
- Iomega Ties Up With Siblings For More Complete Backup Solution
- Asia-Pacific Region Viewed As Most Exciting Place For WiMax Take-up
- Global PC Market Grew 16% In Q2 - Gartner
- LCD Monitor Industry Players Believe Demand May Recover In Q4
- Samsung, Sun Develop 'ultra-endurance' SSD
- IC Design Houses And Distributors Talk Up Olympic Demand
- Nvidia Joins SOI Party
- 200 GB Per Disk: Toshiba Leads 2.5" Hard Drive Storage Density
- Falling WiMax Chipset Prices Spell Good News For Adoption Rates
July 16
- Apple Sues Psystar
- Intel To Ship 100 Millionth 45 Nm CPU Before Year End
- Acer Dishes Out Atom-based Notebook
- Strong Mobile Processor Demand Improves Intel Profit By 25%
- Undersea Volcanic Rocks Offer Storage For Greenhouse Gases
- Is GPU Stacking The Answer To All Your Performance Concerns?
- Look, Mom: No Letters On The Keys!
- E3 2008 Exposed!
July 15
- Intel Invents A New Calendar, Replaces Christ With Centrino
- Nvidia Reportedly Scores QPI License While Intel Gets SLI For X58 Motherboards
- Green Art: Designers Create PhotoBioReactor Sculpture
- Elpida Develops Power-efficient 2 Gb/s High-speed DDR3
- DRAM Contract Price To Remain Flat In July
- Solar Inverter Market To Grow By 40% In 2008
- ATI R700 Previews On The Web, Card To Hit Stores On 08/13
- Intel Announces Centrino 2
- AMD Takes $880 Million Charge Related To ATI Acquisition
July 14
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Prices Crashing
July 11
- Rambus Is Back In Court, Sues Nvidia
- 50 Megapixels, 150 MB Image Files: Kodak's New Flagship CCD Sensor
- Researchers Dive Into Invisible Light And The Origins Of The Universe
- Albatron Unveils GeForce 8-series Graphics Cards For PCI Slots
- Seagate Boosts Hard Drive Storage Capacity To 1.5 TB
July 10
- Hitachi Fires Up Second-generation Terabyte Hard Drives
July 9
- 'Nehalem' 2.93 GHz Benches Revealed
- LCD Panel Makers Cutting Small- To Medium-size Output Amid Weakening Demand
- Philips To Transfer PC Monitor Brand To TPV
- Samsung Puts 128 SSDs Into Mass-production
- Stretching The Limits Of Lithography: MIT Creates 25 Nm Structures
- Acer Announces (cheap) Compact Desktop PC
July 8
- The Return of Intel's Pentium MMX
- DreamWorks To Creates 3D Movies With Intel's 'Larrabee'
- Nvidia Supports ATI Radeon PhysX Efforts
- First-tier Notebook Makers Expect Sequential Shipments Boost Of 15-20% In Q3
- OCZ Releases Memory For Montevina Notebooks
- DRAM Module Makers Expect Demand To Recover
- Lackluster Small- To Medium-size Panel Demand Affects June Revenues For Makers
- Internet Tops 172 Million Websites
- Georgia Tech Student Advertises For Kissing Lessons On Craigslist
- Teenagers Attacked After Mocking Town On YouTube
July 7
- UK Surfers Most Likely To Get Scammed, US Most Likely To Get Spammed
- Apple Cuts Price Of SSD-based MacBook Air
- Pioneer Creates 16-layer Disc With 400 GB Capacity
- LED Penetration To Reach 8% Of LCD TV Market By 2011, Says Displaybank
- DRAM Bit Growth Limited In Q3
- Nvidia Contract Makers In Taiwan Low-key Over Defective Chip Reports
- Exclusive: 'Nehalem' at 2.9GHz and X58
July 4
- AMD Shows Ray-tracing Tech on YouTube
- Nvidia Expected To Offer DirectX 10.1 GPU In Q'1, 2009
- Scientist Warns Plasma And LCD Televisions Could Be Destroying Our Environment
July 3
- Radeon Forces Nvidia GTX2XX Price Cuts
- WWF Slaps U.S. Government Over Lack Of Energy Efficiency Progress
- Atom Shortage May Affect Low-cost Notebook Panel Shipments In July
- AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 Ready By August
- Solar System A Bit Squashed, Not Nicely Round
- Study Claims Windows Usage Market Share Could Soon Fall Below 90%
- Teenager Jailed After Posting YouTube Vid Of Airborne Baby
- Nvidia's Stock Bloodbath - Company Admits Faulty Chips
July 2
- AMD Improves CPU Market Share - With Little Impact On Intel
- Gigabyte Goes Extreme Cold Overclocking
- Transition To 16:9 Aspect Ratio Unstoppable, Says DisplaySearch
- PDP Module Shipments Increase 10% To 1.39 Million Units In May, Says Displaybank
- Blue LEDs With Red And Green Phosphors May Become Mainstream For TV-use BLUs In 2009
- PS3 Expected To Remain The Main Force Behind Blu-ray Sales
- Safari, Firefox Post Market Share Gains Against Internet Explorer
July 1
- Gainward To Launch AMD Radeon Products
- BLU Makers To Feel Pressure To Reduce Prices In Q3
- Worldwide TV Chip Market Expected To Be US$1.33 Billion In 2008, Says DisplaySearch
- AMD Introduces New Phenom Flagship Processor
- First Product Launched By Green Plastics Startup Novomer
- ATI Readies OEM Special: Super RV770 To Challenge GeForce GTX 260, 280
- Gateway Upgrades Retail PCs To Up To 6 GB Of Memory