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Intel retains lead in PC graphics, but ATI rising

Intel may still be the king of the jungle in the PC graphics world for now, but where will they be in say, six months? With ATI pushing onward, it’s truly anyone’s ball game at this point.

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Hard Drive Sales Spiral Upward

The reason for hard drives sales climbing is pretty obvious - new forms of media to download! Yup, so long as there is new and exciting creative content to check out, there will continue to be a surge in hard drive sales. Speaking for business on the other hand; well, that’s another story better explained […]

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NEC, Sony and Toshiba Announce Joint-Development of 45nm Process Technology

Boy, if all goes well it looks like 2007 could hold some promise on the hardware front. Then again, this could just prove to be little more than smoke and mirrors, too.

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Virtual cash buys computer hardware?

Man, this Second Life stuff is going crazy! Now we have people selling virtual PC hardware for bogus cash? (Scratches head)

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Intel scraps once-crucial Itanium feature

Apparently Intel has tossed one Itanium feature that they once had some confidence in. Care to guess which feature it was?

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PC World: Apple both a ‘winner’ and a ‘loser’ in 2005

All and all, I would agree with the consensus in the article below. Still, I believe that Apple is an untapped giant waiting to shock us all.

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ElementCXI Selects ASIC Architect for PCI Express and DDRII Controller Cores

Finding the best company to provide the a PCI Express Core can be critical under the best of circumstances. From what I am gathering from this press release, it would appear that ElementCXI has done just that.

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PS3 will be $300 to $400 at launch, according to Sony CEO

Ouch! This seems a little pricey to me, personally. And with the Xbox already out, we have to wonder if Sony is going to be able to survive this one…

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Microsoft to charge Xbox 360 hardware licensing fees

Come on guys! As if DRM was not enough already, my God. So now vendors who want to do business with you and your Xbox will have to pay fees in order to do so. Um, ya. You do not have the clout in the gaming world with anyone enough yet to start making those […]

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AMD Carves Turion, Athlon 64 X2 Prices For Holidays

Is that someone burning chestnuts on an open fire? Perhaps it is Joe from down the street overclocking his CPU? Actually, the smell is the result of AMD lowering the prices on their Turion notebook processors. Who said that savings smells badly?

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Intel Shifts Plans for Server Chips

OK, so know Intel is shifting gears again? Yes, thanks to some strong competition from AMD on the server front, Intel is going to be working to have some new server CPUs by 2007.

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Optware takes it international

“Holographic Versatile Disc, Card?” What in the heck…? Well, whatever it is, it sounds like a format to watch…even if we are not going to see it here in the West. Oh wait! It will be over here after all!

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AMD delivers strong profits

Yes, my favorite CPU underdog has it coming. AMD is showing some strong profits and to be honest, I am shocked what with Intel dominating so much of the marketplace these days.

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Apple planning launch of video iPod

So the video iPod is supposed to be coming just around the corner. Will it make the splash that we saw with the iPod mini? Or will it instead, just be another nano type impact?

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Mirra Sold to Seagate

You know, I have to admit that I am a little surprised. That’s right, I am surprised that we are even seeing Seagate in the news at all…where the heck have they been, anyway?

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Intel’s manufacturing cost: $40 per chip

Wow, I hope Intel is making rent and expenses! Take a look at the insane numbers below and tell me where they are being fair…yikes!

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AMD-Based Servers Strongly Considered as an Intel Alternative, According to In-Depth Interviews with Fortune 1000 Server Professionals Conducted by TheInfoPro (TIP)

Ah ha, I see that AMD might be making a comeback to the server market after all! This is great news and I hope to see more AMD advances in the future.

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LG. Philips to build LCD factory in Poland

While I am glad to see them being given some new job opportunities to Poland, I wish this could of been a new employment opportunity in the US as our job market is likely to start shrinking again here pretty soon. Oh well, at least LCDs with be a-plenty I guess.

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The Microsoft-Toshiba HD-DVD Alliance Changes Xbox 360

Well now, at least we have that cleared up! It seems that Xbox 360 will in fact, be going with HD-DVD.

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Linksys to buy consumer electronics start-up

And why not? While I am not really a fan of some of their Linksys products, I think that all and all Cisco does OK. So with this in mind, I think that they might have a fair shot in the world of consumer electronics.