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Tuesday 8 September 2009
Motherboard makers pessimistic about new CPU force from Japan
Taiwan-based motherboard makers hold a pessimistic attitude toward recent news that several Japan-based semiconductor players plan to form alliance to develop a new CPU architecture...
Wednesday 19 August 2009
Competition for high-growth mobile chip market escalating in 2009, says In-Stat
The battle for the fast-growing mobile semiconductor market will intensify in late 2009 with the introduction of new processors from each camp - ARM and x86, reports In-Stat. Intel...
Monday 10 August 2009
Intel x86 CPU market share rose to 80% in 2Q09
Intel's share of the x86 CPU market rose to 80.5% in the second quarter of 2009, up from 78.2% in the first, thanks to price cuts for its desktop CPUs and the recovery of some CPU...
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Nvidia's 5-year plan coming to fruition as GPU compute goes mainstream, Q&A with Ujesh Desai, vice president of product marketing
Nvidia built its name around satisfying PC gamers' desire for better graphics, higher resolutions, and higher frame rates, from one GPU generation to the next. But around five years...
Thursday 23 April 2009
AMD introduces new quad-core server processors
AMD has introduced the 45nm quad-core AMD Opteron EE processor, a 40W average CPU power (ACP) processor designed for dense data center environments such as those built for cloud computing...
Thursday 2 April 2009
Taiwan market: Enterprise spending on servers drops 20% in 2008, says IDC
Enterprise spending on servers dropped 4.9% on year in the Asia Pacific market excluding Japan during 2008, of which, Taiwan dropped 20%, according to IDC.
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Intel notifies AMD of cross-license breach
Intel has disclosed that the company has notified AMD that it believes AMD has breached a 2001 patent cross-license agreement with Intel. Intel believes that Global Foundries is not...
Wednesday 4 March 2009
Worldwide server shipments and revenues suffer declines in 4Q08, says Gartner
Worldwide server shipments in the fourth quarter of 2008 declined 11.7% from the fourth quarter of 2007, while server revenue decreased 15.1%, according to Gartner.
Tuesday 28 October 2008
Taiwan market: x86 server shipments up, but revenues down in 2Q08, says IDC
Although x86 server shipments to Taiwan in the second quarter of 2008 increased compared to the first quarter, revenues have dropped, according to sources at server vendors citing...
Tuesday 10 June 2008
ARM doubtful Intel can leverage its PC strategy to conquerer the MID market
With Intel pushing its low-power x86-based Atom Z500 processor family to challenge ARM-based processors in the mobile device market, ARM believes it still has the advantage.