I guess we will need a FreeBIOS eventually before DRM totally stops us from even booting our PCs. =BB Stallman's new campaign to free the BIOS | Open Source | ZDNet.com http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=3D179 Yousuf Khan

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/13/HNprescott_1.html So what's all expected for Q3 now? - 64-bit extensions - 1066 MHz Bus - 3.73 MHz Prescott/Dothan? - Grantsdale/Alderwood chipset with PCI Express How about on-board Firewire 800 and SATA-II?

Hello all, I've been pulling my hair for 3 hours over this problem, so I thought I'd ask in here, and see if people have had a similar problem. I have an oldish (bought 08/2001) Socket A motherboard (ASUS A7V133-C). The chipset fan was starting to whine after collecting dust for 6 months (since I...

bigtime. http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=paxville&page=1

Seems that for one week this past month, there were more AMD-based desktops sold than Intel-based. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/33636.html For the week ending April 24th, 52% of retail desktops were AMD, and only 47% were Intel. Minor, temporary victory? Absolutely. Just a victory...

I'm planning to add some memory to a PC. The motherboard supports "DDR up to 333 MHz (enhanced) memory bus." 333 MHz (PC2700) or slower DDR SDRAM isn't easy to find on today's market, and when you do find it, it's considerably more expensive than the DDR which runs at 400 MHz (PC3200). What...

Intel pays AMD $1.25 billion, renews their cross-license agreement for another 5 years, and drops any breach-of-contract lawsuits against AMD (for spinning off its manufacturing arm into Global Foundaries). AMD is now free to become completely fab-less. Some sort of private dispute arbitrating...

It's possibly time to upgrade my power supply. Haven't shopped around for one in ages. What's the new features that I have to look for these days? My last PS was a 450W ATX from maybe 5 years ago. I expect my new one would have to be at least 500W now. I'm thinking I should get one with the...

http://www.newsblog2005.blogspot.com Great News Blog!

It's actually €1.06 billion, or US$1.45 billion. Techworld.com - Intel hit by record EU fine "Here's one record that Intel won't want: the chip maker has just been hit by the European Union's biggest fine for anti-competitive...

***Big News*** Intel's Itanium chips have hit the $14 billion in revenue mark!! However there was a small one-time over-optimism charge of $13.4bn. BUT THIS STUFF IS INCREDIBLE, IT'S EXACTLY AS IDC HAD PREDICTED ALL ALONG!! That's an amazing 5,665 server units, this past quarter!!! PS- Oh, and...

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/24/technology/nvidia_intel/index.htm AMD-ATI deal boosts shares of Nvidia Speculation about a possible partnership between Nvidia and Intel has driven the shares up nearly 10%. By Amanda Cantrell, CNNMoney.com staff writer July 24 2006: 3:23 PM EDT

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:52:57 -0600, Ed wrote: http://www.1up.com/article2/0,4364,1370760,00.asp Hmm, that is rather interesting. Microsoft switching from Intel chips to IBM (presumably PowerPC chips) for the XBox (the article is somewhat unclear as to whether they are...

Franklin ) wrote... Hi guys, after several years I have run out of power on my old 700 MHz Duron system and now want something new. I don't play games, I am not a power user, I don't do video or audio editing. I just surf and do some small office activities. So what...

http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33230 Intel in the crosshairs, as execs explain themselves By Paul Hales: Monday 24 July 2006, 14:31 BEST MATES AMD and ATI held a conference call today in which the companies' biggest cheeses sought justify their new cohabitation. The 'excited'...

Flash splash, from iPod Nano - Technology - International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/30/business/ptflash01.php It looks like certain older capacity landmarks for hard disks are becoming the domain of flash. For example, 4GB flash would be cheaper than 4GB HD, except for the...

It sounds like a desperate attempt by a competitor to discredit a successful campaign. However, looking at the details they are indicating that only people who travel in airports regularly know about Centrino, and obviously ... techies. But the rest of Mr. or Ms. Joe or Jane Average? Nada. Yousuf...

The Rambus horde must be doing backflips over this one. http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Business&storyId=1151885

There has been some discussion here lately as to how much PC market share is divided between Dell, HPaq, and white boxes. Now both Dell and HPaq are in the business of selling white boxes: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12637 Can someone tell me if a Dell white box sale (or HPaq) is...

The actual title of the article is "Intel playing catch-up to AMD business" http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050905-intel-amd.html quote Intel's top server executive recently acknowledged the disparity between his company's server processor road maps and Advanced Micro Devices, but said...