U.S. President George W. Bush is hoping Congress won’t pass any bills that would see taxes tacked onto broadband internet services like those found on cable and telephone bills according to Yahoo News. Taxes could put a damper on his…
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X-bit labs has news of work by a VIA Technologies partner in creating a totally lead free mainboard based on the EDEN platform. This is some fine work by the engineers and although the EDEN idea isn’t all that popular…
Read more VIA and Friend Make Greener PCs
EPIA Center took a look at an interesting home theater PC setup from the fine folks at pc-designshop called the half cube. The system isn’t a screamer performance wise but it is incredibly small and comes with some acrylic addons…
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Large chip manufacturers have been adopting new tools and processes to create smaller, faster running chips but bugs in the creation process are hindering output according to CNET News. New equipment, bugs to work out, not all that surprising but…
BBC News writes of a survey carried out by Jupiter Research that finds the majority of digital music users, such as MP3, store 1,000 or fewer songs on their PCs. So small 4GB players could make sense to a large…
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Infineon Technologies is spending $1 billion to expand its Richmond, Virginia memory manufacturing plant according to CNET News. The expansion will give it the capability to handle 300mm wafers which will increase output. Good thing as current memory trends, ie….
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AMD CEO Hector Ruiz believes Dell will begin selling AMD based machines due to market demands according to eWeek. Many companies are embracing AMD’s 64-bit CPUs but it might be wishful thinking on Hector’s part unless Dell’s competitors see huge…
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MegaGames makes some interesting observations when it comes to Pixel Shader 3.0 support in ATI and NVIDIA’s upcoming high end video chips. PS3 is a part of the DirectX which enables developers to add a bit more realism to textured…
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X-bit labs has the news of Intel’s short-term closure of its “Fab 12” chip manufacturing plant located in Chandler, Arizona in order to upgrade equipment. The plant will move up to handling 300mm wafers and will be able to create…
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Sun is receiving quite a bit of OEM attention for its Java Desktop System OS, which is built around Linux, according to PC World. It’s doubtful that it will hit any large market share numbers but its low pricing compared…
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Researchers at the Ventana Research Corporation have come up with a compound used in polishing the read-write heads of hard drives according to e4. What’s so special about this compound? Well the compound is biodegradeable and there may be uses…
Read more Eco-Friendly Fluid for Hard Drive Heads
