From X-bit Labs: Marvell, a leading designer of various controllers and system-on-chips, has developed a controller that can combine benefits of solid-state drive and hard disk drive in one system. The 88SE9130 controller uses intelligent algorithms to automatically pin hot data...

From InfoWorld: DRAM chip prices reached a one-year low on Tuesday and approached their cheapest ever due to a post-holiday oversupply. The cheap memory chips are pushing PC prices lower too, a Taiwan-based trading platform said.

Prices for commodity 1Gb DDR3 DRAM chips dropped to...

From InfoWorld: Dell announced Tuesday it is purchasing security services vendor SecureWorks, expanding its range of IT management offerings. Terms were not disclosed.

SecureWorks handles more than 13 billion "security events" and spots some 30,000 varieties of malware each day...

From PC World: Garmin on Tuesday announced StreetPilot, its first turn-by-turn navigation app for the iPhone. StreetPilot offers voice-prompted directions-with text-to-speech capability for reading aloud street names-along with a variety of more advanced GPS features.

As with Garmin...

From CNET News.com: With CES fast-approaching, the rumor mill is at full bore, and one of the latest items to come out of it is that Microsoft will be rolling out a "stripped-down version of Windows" that will run on set-top boxes and upcoming TV sets.

The report comes courtesy of...

From CNET News.com: Graphics chipmaker Nvidia, eager to hasten the arrival of the 3D graphics era and spur demand for new 3D hardware, today unveiled a site for content called 3DVisionLive.

At the site, people can share their own 3D photos and see more from professional...

From DailyTech: Intel thundered into the week of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, with its official announcement of its second-generation Core i-Series lineup, based on the company's new architecture Sandy Bridge. Today, AMD has is countering with a new processor family aimed at...

From DailyTech: HP has tossed a truckload of new computers onto the market for CES. The machines include offerings in the consumer desktop and notebook line as well as a few new machines for the enterprise and business users. Some of the machines get new HP CoolSense tech and Beats...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest supplier of x86 microprocessors, reportedly wants to return the FX moniker to its microprocessors aimed at performance-minded consumers. If the rumour is true, it may indicate that AMD expects its next-generation...

From DailyTech: Way back at the Intel Developers Forum 2009, Intel Corp. was talking about Sandy Bridge, the code-named architecture successor to Nehalem. Nehalem had already seen a die shrink from 45 nm to 32 nm; shrunken Nehalem chips (which featured lower power usage and a few...