• Intel profits fall by 57%

    By on July 20, 2006 2:28 am

    CHIP FIRM Intel said it had turned in net income of $ 1.1 billion on revenues of $ 8 billion for its fiducial second quarter. That represents a drop of 13 per cent in revenues compared to the same quarter last year, but net income fell by 57 per...

  • ATI set to launch X1650 Pro and X1950 XTX Series

    By on July 19, 2006 5:33 pm

    Theinquirer has gotten wind from various sources regarding ATI’s upcoming graphic chip solutions, the X1950 XTX and X1650 Pro. The X1950 XTX running the R580+ core will still be slower than the doubled-up GX2 but we are sure that two X1950 XTXes will beat the single 7950 GX2. The...

  • AMD to Close Geode Facility, Hints at Embedded Opterons

    By on July 19, 2006 5:28 pm

    According to several reports, AMD announced that it will be closing down its embedded microprocessor design facility in Longmont, Colorado. Back in 2003, AMD purchased the facility from National Semiconductor that was working on a system-on-chip processor families. These original Geode embedded processors were x86 compatible processors that were...

  • First WiFi Hard Disk in Singapore!

    By on July 19, 2006 9:35 am

  • Samsung Announces 8Gb 60nm Flash Memory

    By on July 19, 2006 9:32 am

    Samsung continues its advancements in the area of flash memory development with today’s announcement of 8Gb NAND flash memory devices. The new high density multi-level-cell (MLC) memory is based on a 60nm manufacturing process and allows a 25% increase in production output compared to 70nm designs.

  • Merom to top 50% of Intel notebook processors in 1Q 2007

    By on July 19, 2006 9:23 am

    Intel plans to raise the proportion of Merom to over 50% of its notebook processor shipments in the first quarter of 2007, making 64-bit dual-core models the mainstream in the notebook market, according to industry sources. Intel’s latest plan will reduce production of its Yonah processors in the fourth...

  • New record of SuperPI 1M @Coolaler.com!

    By on July 19, 2006 12:04 am

    Our dear friends at Coolaler has done it one again, attaining a very nice score of 9.64s, overclocking the Conroe 6800XE on SuperPi 1M!

  • Intel Adds 3G to ‘Santa Rosa’ Mobile platform, in talks of WWAN

    By on July 18, 2006 11:54 pm

    Intel’s Santa Rosa platform is shaping up to be quite a technology tour de force. We already know that Santa Rosa will feature Robson technology which incorporates flash memory into the motherboard to increase application performance and decrease boot/resume times. Santa Rosa will also feature a new network chip...

  • Microsoft offers cut-down Windows for old PCs

    By on July 18, 2006 11:51 pm

    After officially cutting support for Windows 98 and Windows ME last week, Microsoft has unveiled a trimmed-down version of its flagship operating system dubbed Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs. Windows Fundamentals is based on the Service Pack 2 release of Windows XP Embedded, a spin-off of Windows XP Professional...

  • Intel unveils dual-core Itanium 2 processor

    By on July 18, 2006 11:49 pm

    After being delayed and seeing its front side bus and power management features cut down, Intel’s dual-core Itanium 2 processor has finally been released into the wild. Code-named Montecito, the new Itanium 2 is launching in six denominations as follows: Speed Cache Cores FSB Price Itanium 2 9050 1.6Ghz...

  • Daewoo Lucoms releases Solo M1 UMPC

    By on July 18, 2006 11:38 pm

    Korean manufacturer Daewoo Lucoms — a spin-off of Daewoo Electronics — has released its own version called the Solo M1. Specs on this one are almost identical to the Samsung Q1, as the two devices share the same low voltage 900MHz Intel Celeron processor, 7-inch touchscreen, 512MB of RAM,...

  • Sony unveils BWU-100A Blu-ray burner

    By on July 18, 2006 11:33 pm

    The BWU-100A Blu-ray burner doesn’t have a whole lot of surprises — other than that purple faceplate which will most likely totally clash with your PC case — but the $ 750 pricetag is a nice move. It also manages all three lasers types, allowing it to read and...

  • Samsung finally ships their HL-S5679W LED DLP

    By on July 18, 2006 6:52 pm

    We’ve been waiting on this one for a good long while, but we’re pleased to say that if your chosen flavor of TV happens to be a 1080p, LED-based DLP set with 56-inches of screen real estate and a hard to remember model number, Samsung has just the display...

  • Intel adds one more ultra-low voltage ‘Yonah’

    By on July 18, 2006 6:30 pm

    Intel’s U2500 Core Duo Yonah processor was released just a few weeks ago. The chip marked Intel’s first attempt at a dual-core ultra low-wattage CPU, and has thus far made quite a splash in the x86 world. So much so that Intel has decided to release an even lower...

  • Intel readies HDMI, ICH9 and picoBTX on latest ‘Bearlake’ Motherboard Lineup

    By on July 18, 2006 6:18 pm

    DailyTech previously reported on Intel’s upcoming Bearlake, the successor to the current Broadwater 965 chipset lineup. Intel’s latest Desktop Board roadmap reveals nearly a dozen upcoming motherboards based on the upcoming Bearlake chipset. The boards are still in early development stages but do reveal quite a bit of information...

  • Vendors gear up for Sonoma notebook inventory clearance

    By on July 18, 2006 6:06 pm

    Notebook vendors, including Acer, Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP), with each receiving hundreds of thousands of Dothan processors from Intel, expect to completely clear their inventory of Sonoma notebooks by the end of the third quarter, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers. As reported on June 29, notebook makers...

  • SanDisk to slash NAND flash finished goods prices by up to 15% this week

    By on July 18, 2006 6:03 pm

    Sources at the Taiwan distributor of SanDisk have indicated that the chipmaker has cut its NAND flash prices 10-15% this week. SanDisk’s price adjustment for its NAND-based finished goods will be applied globally, rather than just in specific regions, the sources noted. This will be the fourth price reduction...

  • Gigabyte DS4 and DQ6 spotted in Bell!

    By on July 18, 2006 2:34 pm

    We’ve spotted some new Gigabyte boards available in Bell Electronics, the Gigabyte DS4 and DQ6.

  • HP reveals tiny, tiny wireless chip

    By on July 18, 2006 2:07 am

    Some of HP¡¯s biggest brains have created what the company claims is the world¡¯s tiniest wireless data chip. The vendor¡¯s Memory Spot technology, developed at its labs in Bristol, currently squeezes 256Kb to 4Mb of memory and an antenna into a device between 2mm and 4mm square. Or, as...

  • Microsoft ‘Zune’ DMP info leaked

    By on July 18, 2006 2:02 am

    For a product that Microsoft hasn’t even officially confirmed, there sure is a whole lot of Zune info to be getting on with. The latest leaks are from Digital Music News, who has been reviewing some of the presentation material that Microsoft shared with top-level execs of partner companies....