IF YOUR COMPANY invented the shoebox PC and made it famous, at a trade show, you stick with what you know, and what you are known for. At CES, shuttle showed off a lot of variants of their Shuttle box, …
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YOU PROBABLY ARE not too familiar with Giada if you live in the US, but they are starting to make some pretty interesting products. At CES this year, they had the only finished ultra-slim Brazos HTPC that we ran across. …
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AT CES, AMD partners weren’t showing any new GPUs, mainly because the only ones that came out were mobile parts. Sapphire did have a few interesting pieces to show off though, including a full HTPC. The first one is a …
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A PRINTER COMPANY called Memjet looks like they could change the way printing is done, or at the very least how fast it is done. Their technology looks like it achieves one of the holy grails of inkjet printing, full …
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SUPERTALENT WAS SHOWING off a bunch of new products at CES, some of which are on the market, others not. The lineup had something for everyone, from sub-$20 USB3 drives to high end RAID cards. The first one we saw …
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(NASDAQ: INTC) INTEL SCREWED UP the best thing about Light Peak, the name, calling it by the marketing name ‘Thunderbolt’. Other than that, the only thing that changed is they lost the optical part, leaving nothing more than an expensive …
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ACER IS JUMPING back into the server market in a big way with the launch of six separate lines of products and a comprehensive support network. This is not just a simple launch, Acer is taking the server market very seriously, intending to mirror their success in laptops and desktops.
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AT CES, HITACHI GST was showing off some unique enterprise SSDs, both in terms of form factor and interface. Like most others at CES, Hitachi also showed off a 3TB 7200RPM Deskstar, proving that magnetic drives are still alive and kicking.
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INTEL IS FINALLY starting to talk about the upcoming Poulson chip, the first real update to the Itanium architecture in years. While the chip may be huge and technically complex, it is hard to see anyone other than die-hard HP big iron shops actually caring.
Update: Die size corrected
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NVIDIA JUST FINISHED their fiscal Q4/2011 conference call, and it was mercifully short and content free. That said, there was one thing that stuck out, GPU margins.
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SEMIACCURATE’S MOLES TOLD us the dirty little secret of Windows Phone 7, no one pays for it. Yes, to compete with Google’s price for Android, free, MS is charging the same price, just not directly.
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AS SOON AS a chipmaker announces a new chip, the OEMs and ODMs come out with new products to support that part. In this case, Tyan has a new board and barebones system for the refreshed Opteron 6100 chips.
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THE BIGGEST LOSER in the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia is none other than Intel. While they may try to put a brave face on the matter, the simple fact remains that their Atom line is now without a future.
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AMD PUT OUT a speed bump for the Magny-Cours CPUs today, five new chips in all. They aren’t anything huge, just a slight speed increase for the top end Opteron 6100 line.
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AMD JUST LOST two more executives, COO Bob Rivet and VP of Corporate Strategy Marty Seyer. There is no official word as to why they left, and neither will be departing immediately.
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