July 14, 2010 - Industry News
Velocity Micro Takes on Apple With $299 Android Tablet
PC maker Velocity Micro announced the US$299 Cruz Tablet computer, a handheld device that is priced significantly lower than Apple's popular ...
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July 7, 2010 - Industry News
10 Reasons Why the PC Is Here to Stay
The PC as you know it is obsolete. So sayeth Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who took the stage at the Wall Street Journal's D8 conference in June to talk ...
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June 22, 2010 - Industry News
Intel's Westmere-EX Chip to Include 10 Cores
Intel's next-generation server processor code-named Westmere-EX will pack in 10 cores, an industry source said on Monday. The upcoming ...
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June 4, 2010 - Industry News
Strong PC Shipments to Boost Semiconductor Revenue
Gartner said worldwide semiconductor revenue this year will be stronger than previously projected as shipments of PCs and smartphones grow ...
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May 25, 2010 - Industry News
Intel Offers Low-power Chips for Thin, Light Laptops
With the aim of bringing down the price of laptops, Intel launched a family of low-power processors for thin and light machines that could be ...
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May 24, 2010 - Technology News
Silicon Replacement: Gallium Arsenide?
Gallium arsenide (GaAs), an expensive but highly efficient semiconductor, is being studied by researchers at the University of Illinois at ...
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May 21, 2010 - Industry News
IDC: Tablet Shipments to Reach 46M in 2014
Apple's iPad will drive the burgeoning tablet computer market and shipments could grow sixfold by 2014, IDC said. IDC projected tablet shipments ...
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May 6, 2010 - Industry News
Shipments of DDR3 Memory Growing Fast
Shipments of the speedy DDR3 memory are growing at a fast pace as implementations of its predecessor, DDR2 memory, slow down, research ...
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April 21, 2010 - Industry News
Why Aren't SSDs Getting Cheaper?
Solid-state drives (SSD) have been among the hottest hardware products for more than two years, with a good deal of uptake within the consumer PC, ...
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April 8, 2010 - Industry News
Apple iPad Costs $260 to Build, iSuppli Finds
Depending upon your perspective, Apple's iPad may be priceless or it may be pointless. On a less subjective scale, however, we're getting a better ...
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April 7, 2010 - Industry News
Tablets Could Slow Netbook Shipments in 2010
Worldwide netbook shipments are expected to grow in the first quarter of 2010, but could be affected as handheld tablets like the iPad gain in ...
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March 22, 2010 - Industry News
'iPad Killer' May be Palm's Last Hope
The Apple iPad has captured the imagination--and a fair share of the news headlines for the past few months. Palm has been in the headlines as ...
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March 17, 2010 - Industry News
Five Reasons to Embrace Intel Xeon 5600 Processors
Intel unveiled an array of new Xeon 5600 server processors. Like the Core i7 980x desktop processors, the Xeon 5600 chips deliver up to six CPU ...
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March 17, 2010 - Industry News
HP, IBM, Dell Launch Servers With New Intel Chips
Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM rolled-out new servers based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and ...
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March 5, 2010 - Technology News
IBM Aims to Replace Copper Chip Interconnects With Light
IBM researchers are a step closer to developing chips that use pulses of light instead of electrical signals to carry information between them. ...
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March 1, 2010 - Industry News
Intel to Release Atom N470 Processor
Intel will officially release the latest Atom N470 processor, which should bring faster performance and longer battery life to netbooks, a ...
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February 17, 2010 - Industry News
Intel and Nokia's MeeGo Join a Brewing OS War
Nokia and Intel have become allies in a new clash of the operating systems with the joint creation of MeeGo. MeeGo is an operating system that ...
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February 16, 2010 - Industry News
Chip Vendors Hope to Turn Phones Into HD Media Players
Both Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson are demonstrating at Mobile World Congress concept smartphones that can connect to and play HD content on TVs. ...
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February 10, 2010 - Industry News
Intel Atom Netbooks Get Whole-disk Encryption
Netbook users worried about storing sensitive data on their portables are being offered the world's first whole-disk encryption that will run ...
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January 27, 2010 - Industry News
Graphics Chip Shipments Driven by Netbooks, Windows 7
Shipments of graphics chips worldwide went up in 2009 and could rise again this year as the PC industry emerges from the recession and consumers ...
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December 21, 2009 - Top Story News
Tough Times for Chip Makers
The worldwide semiconductor industry hit such a slump in 2009 that it will likely go down as one of its steepest sales declines since 1985 ...
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December 18, 2009 - Industry News
Intel Introduces Next-generation Laptop, Desktop Chips
Intel introduced its next-generation of PC chips that could make laptops and desktops faster and more power efficient. New chips, including Core ...
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November 17, 2009 - Industry News
Does It Make Sense for Nokia to Buy Palm?
Should one company that has trouble selling smartphones buy another? A rumor that Nokia might purchase Palm shot the troubled smartphone company's ...
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October 19, 2009 - Industry News
Consumers Won't Pay $120 for Windows 7 Upgrade
I've just upgraded my main notebook computer to Windows 7. The process took four hours, windows 7 microsoft upgradeand despites a few minor ...
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October 16, 2009 - Industry News
PC Shipments on the Rise, But at What Cost?
The third quarter sales figures brought great news for the PC industry-- sales are up! Following declines in the first and second quarters, ...
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