Intel appeals European Commission fine
When you get fined $1.45 billion and end up posting your first quarterly loss in over two decades as a result, you don't just take it on the chin. Indeed, as San Jose Mercury News reports, Intel has filed an appeal with the European Union's Court of...
Read More ...
Report: Clarkdale pushed to early 2010 again
Will we see Intel launch 32nm desktop processors this year or not? Intel isn't saying either way—at least, not yet—and the rumor mill definitely seems split. Less than a month ago, DigiTimes said Intel had pulled Clarkdale's launch forward into the fourth quarter of this year. Today, the same...
Read More ...
AMD ships 500 millionth x86 CPU, gives away laptops
Through thick and thin, and after over 40 years in business, AMD has managed to ship half a billion x86 microprocessors. Not something you do everyday. The chipmaker has decided to celebrate the occasion by giving away four HP Pavilion dv2z notebooks as part of a Twitter-based contest. Participating in...
Read More ...
Thursday Shortbread
Thursday Ars Technica reports Intel tells EU court antitrust fine violated its human rights C|Net reports Apple cuts $500 million flash memory deal Yahoo outlook misses, shares slip Engadget reports Core i5 750 reportedly...
Read More ...
It's official: Windows 7 has gone gold
The rumor mill was off, but not by much. According to Brandon LeBlanc from the official Windows Blog, Microsoft released Windows 7 to manufacturing earlier today. Here's how LeBlanc describes the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) process: What happens is a build gets designated as a RTM contender after going through significant...
Read More ...
Chinese worker kills himself over missing iPhone
Apple's penchant for secrecy has led to a number of lawsuits and legal threats, but this might be the first time someone has actually died because of it. As the Associated Press reports, a worker in Shenzhen, China committed suicide last week after one of the iPhone prototypes he...
Read More ...
NZXT intros $60 gaming enclosure
Value is the name of the game these days, and that holds true even for enthusiast hardware. Case in point: NZXT has introduced the M59, a "gaming chassis" that delivers a surprising number of features for its $59.99 price tag. The M59 has a flipped internal layout with the power supply...
Read More ...
AMD rounds out budget lineup with three sub-$70 CPUs
The K8 era is drawing to a close. This morning, AMD rolled out three new budget processors based on its 45nm K10 architecture, and it quietly removed previous-generation Athlon and Sempron products from its price list. (Only business-class variants now remain.) AMD says these new CPUs "round out" the Athlon II...
Read More ...
id Software reveals details about Rage gameplay
Rage is sounding increasingly like a radical departure from id Software's previous work. Not only is it a brand-new franchise designed for both consoles and PCs from the start, but according to the latest issue of Game Informer magazine, id has also trodden some new ground on the gameplay front. Shacknews...
Read More ...
40nm DDR3 memory chips hit production at Samsung
Cheaper and faster DDR3 RAM may be just around the corner. Samsung says it has started mass-producing a new 2Gb DDR3 memory chip based on 40nm process technology—supposedly the first of its kind in the industry. This chip should find its way into desktop DIMMs and laptop SO-DIMMs with capacities as...
Read More ...
Apple still too cool for recession, posts best non-holiday quarter
PC sales were down, major firms posted bleak results, and the recession was still in full swing last quarter. How did Apple do? Oh, not too bad: it only posted its best non-holiday fiscal quarter ever. Here's how numbers for Apple's third fiscal quarter, which ended on June 27, compare...
Read More ...
Stylish Dell Adamo laptop falls to $1,499
Life ain't easy for super-premium ultraportables, especially when CULV laptops are selling for peanuts and even Apple is cutting prices. As Engadget reports, Dell has followed in the iPhone maker's footsteps and slashed the price of its Adamo notebook. The Adamo launched at $1,999 four months ago, and...
Read More ...
Wednesday Shortbread
Wednesday Apple smashes profit forecasts, iPhone shines Apple's profit tops forecast, Mac sales strong TG Daily reports Seagate ships 40.6 million HDDs in Q2, loses $81 million DigiTimes reports PC players start recruiting, while AMD denies plans to cut staff by 3 - 5% in 2H09 Why is Obama's...
Read More ...
AMD posts flat revenue, continued losses
Another quarter, another few hundred million dollars down the drain for AMD. The company has posted its financial results for the second quarter of this year, and not so surprisingly, it remained in the red: net losses totaled $330 million on revenue of $1.184 billion. (Without accounting for GlobalFoundries,...
Read More ...
32nm Clarkdale sample overclocked to 4GHz
If the latest Internet rumors are correct, Intel plans to ship its 32nm Clarkdale processors next quarter, ahead of schedule. That would certainly explain why famed Taiwanese overclocker Coolaler has already gotten hold of and overclocked a Clarkdale sample—or so he claims. Apparently, Intel designed the sample in question...
Read More ...
No comments:
Post a Comment