ARCTIC COOLING’S CLAIM to fame was its at the time fantastic Freezer 7 series of CPU coolers and the company also had some good success with its graphics cards coolers that most low noise graphics cards still rely on. However, now the company has decided to expand its product line, although we’re not sure we quite follow the logic here.

ONE OF THE more interesting conferences of the year is AMD's TFE, or Technical Forum and Exposition. If you have never heard of TFE, that is likely because this conference on near future thermal and power management technology is by invitation only.

PEOPLE WATCHING TSMC'S process development might have noticed a radical change in messaging a few months ago. The foundry not only changed its high-K/metal gate (HKMG) strategy, but it also pulled in the timetables at the same time.

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BIRDIES CHIRPING IN the warm Cambridge sunshine just told SemiAccurate that ARM is about to launch the new Cortex A5 core. The smallest member of the A series will likely debut at ARM's Techcon3 next week.

INTEL'S LAST KEYNOTE of IDF focused on TVs and how PCs could integrate with them. All it managed to do is convince me that the future is darker than I had feared, the wrong forces are in control, and Intel doesn't understand this market.

FROM THE GUYS who brought us the iPhone nudie pics and who made the unremovable MacBook battery removable, now comes the PS3 Slim tear-down.

INTEL LEFT THE most impressive parts of their Computex messaging for last, the so called ultra-mobility segment. This category encompasses handheld widgets, micro-laptops, phones and other gadgets.

INTEL JUST DROPPED a bombshell on the embedded world, they bought Wind River Systems today. This means Intel now owns one of the better embedded Linux development platforms and VxWorks as well.

INTEL CANMORE TV chips were announced a long time ago, but given their embedded nature, they are hard to find in the wild. Today, Gigabyte changed that with the introduction of the GN-MD300L.