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Wednesday 11 September 2013
IBM to invest US$1 billion to develop x86 server products over next 3 years
IBM is planning to invest US$1 billion to strengthen and improve its System x product line hoping to grab future business opportunities in the high-density server market, according...
Monday 22 July 2013
Growth for China x86 server market slows in 1Q13, says IDC
IDC has revealed that the total shipments of X86 servers in China reached nearly 286,000 units in the first quarter of 2013, indicating a mild market growth of 3.9% on year.
Wednesday 5 June 2013
Make good products and growth will come naturally: Q&A with Gigabyte notebook team
Despite being one of the market leaders in the motherboard and graphics card industries, Gigabyte Technology is relatively unknown as a notebook player. Digitimes recently sat down...
Tuesday 21 May 2013
AMD falls to 4th rank MPU supplier in 2012, says IC Insights
A slowdown in notebook and desktop PC purchases coupled with strong growth in smartphones and tablets knocked AMD down to fourth place in microprocessor (MPU) sales in 2012 from second,...
Friday 2 November 2012
China market: Over 310,000 x86 servers shipped in 2Q12, says IDC
There were 316,000 x86 servers shipped in the China market during the second quarter of 2012, increasing by 5.6% on year. Of the shipments, 26,700 were 4-way units, up 33% on-year,...
Tuesday 30 October 2012
AMD to bridge x86 and ARM processors for data centers
AMD has announced that it will design 64-bit ARM technology-based processors in addition to its x86 processors for multiple markets, starting with cloud and data center servers. AMD's...
Tuesday 18 September 2012
Supply chain estimates x86 Surface Price at US$500-700 and RT below US$399
Microsoft's own-brand Surface tablets are expected to launch at the end of October with the related supply chain players estimating that the Surface RT's hardware cost is at around...
Wednesday 11 July 2012
The mobile computing revolution
Tegra 3 - developed together by Nvidia and ARM - is a brand new multi-core mobile processor with powerful 3D graphic functions for smartphones and tablet devices. Tegra 3 in conjunction...
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Windows 8 tablet PCs expected to be launched in October, say Taiwan makers
In line with Microsoft's release of Windows 8 in September-October, first-tier vendors including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and Asustek Computer are developing x86-based...
Thursday 22 September 2011
Notebook players pessimistic about ability of Ice Cream Sandwich to defeat iOS
Notebook players, seeing that first-tier brand vendors such as RIM, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are all backing away from the tablet PC bandwagon, are turning pessimistic about...
Wednesday 14 September 2011
AMD sets to deliver next generation x86 platforms for Windows 8
AMD has announced that it has created drivers to enable support for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system on AMD-based tablets, netbooks, PCs and servers. Continuing a long history...
Tuesday 19 July 2011
ARM to have big slice of notebook market in 2015, says IHS
After more than 30 years of domination by a single microarchitecture - Intel's X86 - the PC microprocessor (MPU) market finally is set for some real competition with shipments of...
Friday 20 May 2011
NPC to ramp up CPU-use FC substrate output
Nan Ya PCB (NPC) will be able to grow its output of flip-chip (FC) substrates for Intel's x86 CPUs later in the second quarter of 2011, on the strength of improved yields, according...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Standalone application processors are wining in mobility markets, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Several years ago there was a widely accepted expectation that application mobile processors would be fully integrated with baseband processors on a single chip. However, today we...
Thursday 6 January 2011
CES 2011: Microsoft announces support of SoC architectures for next-generation Windows
Microsoft has announced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011, that the next version of Windows will support system on a chip (SoC) architectures, including ARM-based systems from...