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Microsoft Delays WinHEC

Microsoft has delayed WinHEC until the fall of 2008, in response to “industry feedback.” The conference will be supplemented throughout 2008 by “a series of technology-specific events that are designed to keep hardware engineers and Windows driver developers up-to-date,” Microsoft said on the WinHEC Web site. /zimages/1/28571.gifClick here to read about the triple WinHEC debut […]

AMD Outlines Plan to Pay for ATI Acquisition

Advanced Micro Devices said on April 23 that it will offer $1.8 billion worth of debt to banks and other financial institutions, as a way of funding its acquisition of ATI Technologies. The terms of the debt arent fixed; AMD said it would negotiate with the individual purchasers of the notes to set the interest […]

Intel Chops Dual, Quad-core Prices Almost 40%

In the midst of a price war with AMD, Intel announced its own substantive price cuts for its high-end Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad microprocessors over the weekend. Intel also took the axe to the prices of its Xeon processors. /zimages/7/28571.gifA report shows Intel gaining back market share from Advanced Micro Devices. Click […]

IBM Announces 160-Gbits/s Optical Transceiver

IBM has developed a prototype optical transceiver capable of 160 Gbits/s, the company is expected to announce this week. The optical transceiver is eventually expected to form the heart of an optical chipset that will route data around the system using photons, rather than electrons, to communicate. IBM scientists will announce the prototype at the […]

IBM Shrinks Cell Chip to 65 nm

IBM has begun manufacturing a smaller, 65-nm version of the Cell microprocessor, the company said March 12. /zimages/6/28571.gifClick here to read more about IBMs 65-nanometer manufacturing. The Cell is the heart of the Sony PlayStation3, which has been criticized for its high price. /zimages/6/28571.gifRead the full story on ExtremeTech: IBM Shrinks Cell Chip to 65-nm […]

AMD Begins Chip Production at Second Fab

Advanced Micro Devices said April 4 that it has begun shipping its first microprocessors from its second fab, Fab 36 in Dresden, Germany. The announcement, originally released from Germany, said that AMD plans to also shift the fab from 90-nanometer wafers to 65-nm chip production at the fab later this year, matching Intel in process […]

SGIs Future Could Include Bankruptcy, Sale

Silicon Valley pioneer Silicon Graphics may face bankruptcy or even a sale of the company if it fails in its 2006 restructuring plans, the company said this week. In a 10Q regulatory document filed Feb. 8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the graphics pioneer said that it may run out of cash by the […]

Hybrid Hard Disks and Beyond

Last Tuesday, IDEMA hosted a symposium in entitled “HDD Dynamics: Interfaces, Electronics, Architecture, and Reliability.” IDEMA, which stands for International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association, is a trade association representing 340 companies from the $30 billion disk drive industry. At the event we attended, representatives from Adaptec Inc., Agere Systems Inc., Broadcom Corp., Hitachi […]

Maxtors External Drives Hit 1TB

Maxtor has announced a new storage solution for PCs that can be purchased with capacities up to a terabyte. The company said Wednesday that the new Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition will ship in either a 600GB or 1TB capacity point, at $549.95 and $899.95, respectively, beginning in December. There is a small catch, however; […]

Maxtor Breaks 500-GB Barrier

Maxtor Corp. said Monday that it too had entered the half-terabyte storage market, announcing drives for the PC, CE and enterprise markets. Seagate also recently announced its own 500-GB drives, which are currently shipping. Maxtor said only that its drives would ship during the current fourth quarter. In the PC, Maxtors new 500-GB drives will […]