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Thursday 16 December 2010
x86-based digital media players to see rise in IPTV market
As demand for digital media player devices from hotels and shopping malls in China is rising quickly plus x86-based digital media players are gradually replacing system-on-a-chip-based...
Sunday 31 October 2010
Netbook shipments of Taiwan-based vendors from 2007-2010
Netbooks are low-cost notebooks with screen sizes below 10-inch mainly designed for Internet usage. Devices adopt either a solid state drive (SSD) or traditional hard drive and typically...
Friday 29 October 2010
Adoption by Intel makes digital controllers mainstream technology, says Petrov Group
The next generation of Intel's power architecture, VR12, to be introduced in the third quarter of 2011 represents a watershed industry event, according to Boris Petrov, managing director...
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Intel takes central role in embedded space: Q&A with Michael Chen, managing director, Intel Microelectronics Asia
With the PC market reaching a mature stage, Intel is giving more attention to new market segments to help drive growth. One area the chip giant and its partners see as having strong...
Wednesday 11 August 2010
VIA expects to benefit from Intel lawsuit, says paper
VIA Technologies recently noted that Intel's settlement with the US fair trade commission (FTC) will allow the company's x86 patent contract with Intel to be extended for another...
Friday 22 January 2010
ARM-based CPUs will overtake x86 in ultra-mobiles in 2013, says ABI Research
While an estimated 90% of ultra-mobile Devices (UMDs) shipped in 2009 were based on an x86 processor architecture, the introduction of ARM-based systems introduces greater choice...
Friday 30 October 2009
Asustek aims to increase revenues by about 30% in 2010
Asustek Computer expects that its 2010 revenues will have a chance to approach NT$300 billion (US$9.23 billion), which would represent on-year growth of about 30%. The company is...
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.