AFTER ESCAPING THE FTC lawsuit with just a small dent in its cash position, Intel is back to the acquisition market and their next target is the wireless division of the German company Infineon. This division is responsible for the design of 3G modems and RF transmitters.
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THERE HAVE BEEN a lot of rumours about what Apple will do with its Apple TV product, as the current model is hopelessly out-dated with its defunct 1GHz Intel Pentium M processor and GeForce Go 7300 graphics card. An ARM based device was suggested some time ago, but it now looks like AMD might be set to replace Intel in Apple’s next generation Apple TV product.
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HYNIX HAS FOLLOWED in Samsung’s footsteps by starting mass production of “20nm class” NAND Flash memory. However, it seems like Hynix is first with 64Gbit NAND Flash using sub 32nm manufacturing technology.
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HTC, the “quietly brilliant” company from Taoyuan City Taiwan has briefly cast aside its purported persona to let the world know just how awesome it is. Between pointed bursts of Tarzan noises and chest thumping we were informed of HTC’s four-month hot streak of successive sales records, as well as gross-profits-after-tax amounting to a cool NT$ 8.64B (approx. $273M USD) for their most recent quarter.
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ASUS HAS ANNOUNCED its second board in the TUF series, the Sabertooth X58 which according to the press release is an extra reliable board that can handle heavy duty tasks. We won’t read too much into that, but the previous TUF board, the Sabertooth 55i had some interesting features that have been rolled over to the Sabertooth X58.
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WE’RE NOT QUITE sure we’re following Zotac’s strategy here, but the company has announced a new H55 based mini-ITX board with USB 3.0 connectivity, in China. The H55U3 WiFi as the board is known as builds upon the H55-ITX WiFi, although some changes to the board design have been made alongside some other minor updates.
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THE LAST PART of SemiAccurate’s look at the Intel/FTC settlement examines some of the worst accusations against Intel. Compiler tricks, technical openness, and a watchdog. Intel could be seriously hamstrung by some of these remedies, and worse yet, they could be the ones hamstringing themselves.
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ASUS’ R.O.G. SERIES of motherboards have always been out of reach in terms of cost for your average consumer, but have been hugely popular with the enthusiast and high-end gamer market. The latest addition to the series has just made an appearance online and it’s yet another X58 model, although this time a somewhat more affordable board than Asus’ Rampage III Extreme which is a $380 board.
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ALTHOUGH ACER SHOWED off what was expected to be the first netbook running Android as early as last year’s Computex, it’s taken until now for the company to actually get product to the market. Acer launched its new Aspire One earlier today at a consumer retail show in Taipei, Taiwan which goes under the name of D255.
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PART TWO OF SemiAccurate’s look at the Intel/FTC settlement looks at sales, rebates, MCMs, bumps and cracking open an Apple. There is a lot of dirt in this one, and some business practices that will make your head hurt.
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Brethren, the CPU cooling gods are smiling down upon us today. For it is so written that he who crameth many GHz into small spaces must surely encounter heat dissipation problems. Enter our merciful savior CoolIT Systems, whose compassion for the cooling challenged ends at 100 people… on August 18th.
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THE FTC HAS spoken, and the words came down on Intel with a force that is harder and more nuanced than almost anyone realizes. The settlement over a lot of alleged ills is brutal to Chipzilla, and both Nvidia and Via come out big big winners.
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ZOTAC IS A COMPANY that makes its own rules when it comes to making products that no-one else have really thought about. It now looks like the company is about to launch a custom dual GPU GTS250 card which looks like no other dual GPU card we’ve ever seen before.
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CORSAIR IS ONE of many companies that have tried to make water cooling more accessible to the mainstream and its Hydro Series H50 sealed loop water cooler gained some rather favourable reviews, especially with regards to the reasonable ease of installation and reliability. Now Corsair has gone and upped the game with the introduction of the Hydro Series H70 which is set to improve upon the performance of the H50.
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IS NVIDIA UP to it’s old renaming games, or is it about to launch the second hottest GPU in the world? In any case, the Nvidia GT 425M GPU is turning up all over the place.
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