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AMD 6- and 12-core processors on the horizon
PUBLISHED: Thursday, May 08, 2008
AMD announced a new roadmap that shows 45nm 6- and 12-core processors on the horizon.
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Businesses looking to skip over Windows Vista
Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Business Week is reporting that a number of large businesses are considering skipping Vista entirely, staying with XP until Windows 7 arrives in less than three years.
ATI Radeon 4800 launch details emerge
Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008
More details about the upcoming ATI Radeon 4800 series graphics cards have emerged.
PC Club/Club IT files for bankruptcy
Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
PC Club/Club IT as of today is out of business and filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Nvidia completes Ageia acquisition
Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Ageia, makers of the PhysX physics processing units.
Dell XPS brand and Alienware to co-exist
Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
In a statement on its blog today, Dell said the XPS brand is not going away and that it will co-exist with Alienware.
Intel X58, Nehalem information uncovered through leaked slides
Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Leaked Intel slides show details about the upcoming X58 chipset, which has Nehalem support
Alienware to introduce low-priced AMD-based gaming desktop
Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Alienware is planning to launch a low-priced AMD-based gaming desktop within the next two weeks.
Creative introduces X-Fi 5.1 USB sound adapter
Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Creative introduced its latest Sound Blaster product, the X-Fi Surround 5.1
ASUS and Gigabyte ready for Intel P45 launch
Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
ASUS and Gigabyte have already unveiled new motherboards based on the Intel P45 chipset, which is expected to be announced at Computex 2008.
AMD introduces low-power Opteron HE quad-core processors
Published: Monday, May 12, 2008
AMD today introduced the industry's first energy-efficient server x86 processors with 55W TDP envelopes.
Qimonda begins GDDR5 production
Published: Sunday, May 11, 2008
Qimonda has announced that next-generation GDDR5 memory for graphics cards is now in production.
ASUS introduces upgradeable MXM graphics cards
Published: Friday, May 09, 2008
ASUS has created desktop graphics cards with slots for MXM graphics card module(s), making them easy to upgrade