Mark Hachman

Top consumer electronics manufacturers are backing a technology to send wireless signals from a single set-top box to multiple devices around the home or office. Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony, together with Amimon, have formed the Wireless Home Digital Interface SIG, designed to develop products based around Amimon’s 5GHz wireless technology. Amimon uses the […]

Advanced Micro Devices has confirmed a bug that can cause its new Phenom and existing Barcelona processors to lock up. Specifically, AMD has found a bug in the translation-lookaside buffer, which can impact some of AMD’s quad-core chips. AMD will rework both chips and provide a new stepping, sources said, but in the meantime motherboard […]

TAIPEI — Intel formally launched its “3-series” chipsets on Tuesday here at Computex, adding a few surprises along the way: the addition of two new chipsets, formally scheduled for the third quarter, and a Core 2 Extreme processor thats slated for notebooks. Intels “Bearlake” chipsets, now known as the “3” series, comes in two flavors: […]

TAIPEI—Via Technology announced a “NanoBook” reference design with a partner, FIC, which uses plug-in USB modules—about the size of an iPod Nano—to add additional features. If it sounds like yet another twist on ultramobile computing, youre right. The NanoBook runs Windows XP and even Vista Basic, but allows users to use a close-to-full-size keyboard while […]

TAIPEI—Asus and Intel have teamed up to develop a $199 notebook PC, the companies announced here on June 5. In a keynote address given by Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel and chief marketing and sales officer, Jonney Shih, chairman and chief executive of Asus, was invited on stage to unveil the “Eee […]

On Wednesday, an analyst group released the market share held by laptop manufacturers during 2006 – not OEMs like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, or Toshiba, but the companies that actually make the laptops themselves. Although a Dell or Hewlett-Packard computer bears the companys logo, the manufacturing, assembly—and increasingly, the design —are carried out by a smaller number […]

A well-regarded anti-virus testing laboratory has released its latest quarterly results, and placed Microsofts OneCare anti-virus solution squarely at the bottom of the list. In each of three categories— viruses, macros, worms and scripts; backdoors, Trojans and other malware; and a third category, combining the results of the first two—OneCare received the worst score out […]

A source close to AMD has confirmed that the company plans to launch its 690G chip set later this month, potentially the first core logic chip set to integrate DVI and HDMI outputs. The 690G, an AM2 socketed chip set designed for AMD Sempron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2 and Athlon 64FX processors, was designed […]

A Microsoft representative confirmed that users may buy an OEM copy of Windows Vista at a substantial discount, provided they adhere to the terms of the license—which, incidentally, may mean providing support for family members. In addition, users should still be subject to the same familiar re-activation restrictions as users of a retail Vista license […]

In preparation for the Windows Vista launch next week, Microsoft has released a virtual Windows Vista machine that users can play with using a Web browser. Meanwhile, savvy early adopters can already purchase an OEM copy of Vista that is priced at about 50 percent less than the retail version. Microsofts WindowsVistaTestDrive.com offers users the […]