ARM and TSMC Tape-Out First Working 20nm Processor

From X-bit Labs: ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Tuesday said that they had taped out the first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The two companies completed the implementation from RTL to tape out in six months using TSMC’s open innovation platform (OIP)...

AMD Wants Fusion APUs to Be Compelling Option for Gaming Purposes

From X-bit Labs: For many years ATI Technologies and Advanced Micro Devices did not help game designers to specifically optimize their titles for integrated graphics adapters to ensure truly high performance. But the times are changing and AMD confirmed in a recent interview that it...

Intel CEO Still Loves PCs, Pushes Ultrabooks

From PC World: Intel CEO Paul Otellini came to the defense of PCs at an industry conference Friday, while outlining his belief that the so-called ultrabook will do more to meet consumer and business needs.

"Intel loves PCs," Otellini said at Dell World , although he added that PCs...

Apple sells 4 million iPhone 4S units in first weekend

From CNET News.com: Apple said that it sold 4 million iPhone 4S units worldwide between Friday and Sunday. According to Apple senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller, that figure is "more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days."

That...

RIM Offers Premium Apps to Compensate for Four-Day Outage

From DailyTech: Last week, a four-day outage of BlackBerry services left millions of users with email, browsing and instant messaging troubles, but Research In Motion (RIM) is sending an apology in the form of free apps to make up for the disruption.

On October 10, BlackBerry...

Apple Loses Australian Injunction Bid

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. seemed on a roll over the last month in the worldwide patent war it initiated last year against Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. Its blitzkrieg earned crushing victories in Australia and Germany. But much like the German blitzkrieg in World War II was...

AMD Expects Windows 8 to Boost Performance of AMD FX Chips

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices hopes that Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Windows 8 operating system will work with multi-core central processing units (CPUs) more efficiently than Windows 7. As a result, the company's FX-series chips with up to eight cores will show...

Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G2 32GB Review (Page 1 of 8)

Nations rise and nations fall, and from this, patriotism and war arises. Survival is key in conflicts between nations, which reminds me of a saying from a famous US General George S. Patton. He said, "War is not meant to be you dying for your country -- it is by making the [enemy] die for his." In the world of technology, companies rival against each other as well. Some claim patents on newly invented technology, while others...

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