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Seagate demonstrates next gen SATA

10 March 2009, 10:27

Hard drive maker teams up with AMD for first public demonstration of the new 6Gb/s interface.

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AMD launches a new FirePro card

9 March 2009, 10:29

New professional graphics accelerator puts the emphasis on power efficiency.

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Intel confirms TSMC Atom collaboration

2 March 2009, 17:14

As we predicted, Intel has confimed TSMC will manufacture Atom processors.

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Intel and TSMC to make ‘strategic announcement’

2 March 2009, 10:52

Later today Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company will reveal the details of a new collaboration.

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NVIDIA unveils $99 MID platform

16 February 2009, 09:29

At Mobile World Congress the graphics maker has presented a Tegra based platform designed for MIDs.

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Target bringing Biostar AM3 boards to market from March

13 February 2009, 14:07

Sole Biostar distributor in the UK expects AM3 boards soon, but will there be many takers?

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Intel spending additional $7 bn on US 32nm manufacturing

10 February 2009, 14:00

Chip giant building manufacturing facilities in the US to make the next generation of its processors.

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AMD to launch high-end AM3 CPUs in Q2

9 February 2009, 11:22

As AMD fills out its mid-range and launches its DDR3 platform, we ask why it didn’t aim higher.

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Intel Atom N280 now shipping

6 February 2009, 09:57

The successor to the ubiquitous N270 netbook CPU looks set to be released into the wild early. Worth waiting?

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Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

5 February 2009, 15:46

X25 solid state drives for notebooks and for enterprise are given a big price cut, is it enough?

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AMD reveals new low-power server CPUs

26 January 2009, 09:12

Opteron HE processors target data centre market, with HP once more pioneering adoption.

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AMD drops Phenom II prices

20 January 2009, 09:38

As expected AMD has responded to Intel’s wide-ranging price cuts with some cuts of its own.

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Seagate reveals firmware bug in some hard drives

19 January 2009, 11:04

Some Barracuda and DiamondMax drives manufactured in December 2008 are failing.

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Intel drops prices of quad core CPUs by up to 40%

19 January 2009, 08:28

As predicted the chip giant responds to AMD’s launch of the Phenom II. No movement on Core i7, however.

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Counterfeit GECUBE HD4000 cards appear

7 January 2009, 12:23

GECUBE issues a statement acknowledging the problem and advising how to identify the genuine article.

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AMD officially launches Yukon platform

6 January 2009, 14:01

Platform for ultra-thin notebooks debuts in the form of the HP Pavilion dv2 Entertainment Notebook PC.

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Intel launches much lower priced quad-core mobile CPU

30 December 2008, 10:43

The Q9000 is $500 cheaper than Intel’s current quad-core mobile processor. Four new dual-cores launched too.

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Price of DDR2 shoots up

23 December 2008, 12:53

A major reduction in output is reversing the downward pressure on DDR2 price caused by oversupply.

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Patriot raises the bar for high-end SSDs

18 December 2008, 10:31

Memory specialist releases version three of its Warp SSD, with improved performance and capacity.

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XFX makes ATI (AMD) deal official

16 December 2008, 14:58

As predicted by HEXUS last week, XFX is to start producing graphics cards based on ATI technology in early 2009.

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Seagate cuts warranties on bare drives

12 December 2008, 15:42

Internal hard drives sold through the channel now have a three rather than five year warranty.

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Intel says it’s on track for 32nm

10 December 2008, 16:53

Chip giant announces it has completed the development phase of move to 32 nanometre manufacturing.

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OCZ and Super Talent both announce new high-end SSDs

10 December 2008, 10:28

Two memory specialists look to raise the bar in the growing competition between SSDs and hard disk drives.

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NVIDIA adds OpenCL support to CUDA

9 December 2008, 10:26

The graphics company’s own GPGPU toolkit will now support the new, completely open API.

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Intel launches Celeron dual-core CPUs for notebooks

8 December 2008, 12:49

Chip giant adds two new lower-end notebook processors to its portfolio.

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Intel and Hitachi collaborate on SSDs

2 December 2008, 10:04

Joint development agreement targets enterprise usage models for solid state drives.

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AMD announces another round of desktop CPU price cuts

26 November 2008, 16:01

First price cuts for three months point to aggressive mid-market desktop CPU move by AMD.

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Intel unveils healthcare offering

10 November 2008, 16:27

First Home Medical Device announced by chip giant, designed to enable remote access between patients and healthcare professionals.

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SanDisk claims SSD innovation improves performance and reliability

5 November 2008, 14:02

New technology called ExtremeFFS improves SSD speed and endurance according to Sandisk’s new metrics.

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Leaked memo reveals AMD bullish about Shanghai

4 November 2008, 17:17

AMD Senior VP Randy Allen has written an internal memo in anticipation of the “Shanghai” launch and it’s escaped.

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Palit scraps Xpertvision brand

3 November 2008, 12:49

UK distributor VIP announces rebranding of XpertVision graphics cards to Palit, expects increase in marketing resources.

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Crucial unleashes netbook upgrade market

28 October 2008, 17:14

Impending launch of SSDs designed for netbooks will create a whole new market for component upgrades.

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ARM reports record revenues on back of healthy smartphone market

28 October 2008, 11:02

Growth in revenues from smartphone chip royalties drives good performance from UK chip outfit.

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