TSMC to Break Ground for New 12-inch Fab on July 16
A 12-inch (300mm) fab produces wafers of the same size. The larger the fab, the more chips can be *fab*ricated at once. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will break ground soon for the construction of Fab 15 at the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP), according to an invitation to...
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Lack of Funding May Burst China's Green Dam
Will Chinese citizens finally be able to see what lies behind the Green Dam? Only time will tell. China's controversial porn filtering software, Green Dam Youth Escort, may be at the end of the road. The Beijing Times (via China Daily...
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Intel Reports Best Quarter Ever
Intel Corporation yesterday reported second-quarter revenue of $10.8 billion, up 34 percent year-over-year. The company reported operating income of $4.0 billion, net income of $2.9 billion and EPS of 51 cents. "Strong demand from corporate customers for our most advanced microprocessors helped...
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Stanford's Folding@Home Needs You to Help Optimize the New GPU OpenCL Client
Folding@Home Project Leader Vitay Pande Has posted an update on the ongoing GPU3 beta test, with information on the new OpenCL client port progress. Currently performance issues are preventing the general test release of the OpenCL GPU Folding@Home client, and Stanford want YOU to help out! If'n...
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Support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 Comes to an End
Only Windows XP SP3 [edit: and Windows XP x64 Edition] are left standing among Microsoft's pre-Vista OSs. Today is the last day that Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 will receive support and patches from Microsoft. Starting tomorrow, Service Pack 3 will be required to receive support and...
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XP Fans Get Reprieve in Form of Downgrade Rights Extension
This will certainly be more valuable to business clients than to home users. For the latter, Windows 7 should be the way forward. Downgrade rights have been a long-standing feature of Microsoft's operating system licensing. They allow users to buy a license for the latest version of the operating...
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HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo X 1GB Review @ Viperlair
When the AMD ATI HD 5870 first appeared, it was instantly obvious that this card was something special. Many folks wanted one, but there was a little bit of a shortage of 5870's to go around, and this did slightly hinder the production of third party 5870 cards. This is of course old news now, and...
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Seven Years after AMD Introduced 64-bit CPUs, Half of Windows 7 Installs Are x64
In 2003, AMD launched the Opteron Server processor (http://www.amd.com/us/products/server/processors/Pages/server-processors.aspx), bringing 64-bit processing to the x86 server market, and followed up with the Athlon 64 for the desktop and workstation masses. Now seven years later, Microsoft...
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