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Price war: Bargain ATI graphics card serves notice to Nvidia

ATI Technologies Inc.'s new Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor launched earlier this week, receiving plaudits for incorporating cutting-edge technology at a ground-breaking price.

Win 7, Snow Leopard could give graphics chip a spark

Graphics chip shipments fell during the first quarter this year, but could stabilize later this year as people look to upgrade PCs with new operating systems, a research firm said in a study released on Tuesday.

Intel releases new low-power motherboards

Intel has launched two new motherboards for small form factor notebooks and desktops.

AMD pulls dual-core server processors, cuts prices

Advanced Micro Devices has pulled dual-core server processors from its product lineup, also cutting prices of some Opteron chips by close to 43 percent.

With six-core chips, AMD preps for stimulus money fight

The U.S. government is beginning to spend billions of dollars quickly to stimulate the economy. And that may be why Advance Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) said this week it is releasing its <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=vi...

AMD and XFX Announce Technology Partnership

AMD announced that XFX is now an official AMD technology partner, joining the group of AMD add-in-board (AIB) partners. XFX plans to provide new products based on the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4000 series GPUs to consumers, beginning in 2009.

Texas Memory Systems shows less expensive, faster flash

Texas Memory Systems has added a less expensive, faster and smaller form-factor flash storage array to its line of solid-state products.

AMD to Ship Six-Core Chip in June, Plans 16 Cores by 2011

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last week said it will release a six-core Opteron processor in June, five months ahead of schedule. And it detailed plans to add chips supporting up to 12 cores next year and 16 in 2011.

NEC in talks with Renesas to create third-largest chip maker

Japanese chip makers NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology have entered merger discussions, they said Monday.

HP still getting heat on Nvidia graphics chips

Months after the issue first surfaced, Hewlett-Packard notebook owners continue to complain about defective Nvidia graphics cards that could cause laptops to fail.

Toshiba to ship higher capacity flash chips from July

Toshiba plans to begin shipping from the middle of this year flash memory chips that are more tightly packed than current models and will make possible even smaller gadgets.

DRAM maker Hynix reports sixth straight loss

Hynix Semiconductor on Friday reported its sixth straight quarterly loss in the first quarter.

AMD overclocks new Phenom II X4 to 7GHz

AMD on Thursday introduced the latest member of its Phenom II X4 family of high-performance quad-core CPUs, which the No. 2 chip maker said it had run as fast as 7 GHz in extreme overclocking tests.

AMD plans 16-core server chip

Advanced Micro Devices is designing a server chip with up to 16 cores, quadrupling the count of its current quad-core server chips, the company said Wednesday.

New Intel chips prompt rise in demand for DDR3 memory

A new series of Intel microprocessors aimed at the computer server market has caused a spike in demand for DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) DRAM chips, according to Samsung Electronics.