Mobile Graphics Adapters Declined Most in Q3 - Mercury Research

From X-bit Labs: The third quarter of 2010 was not good for shipments of graphics adapters at all. The only category that got a boost was desktop discrete graphics cards, whereas mobile adapters and all integrated solutions declined in terms of unit shipments, according to numbers...

Intel’s China Fab Starts Operations

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.’s first manufacturing plant in China this week started operations. Initially the fab will produce affordable core-logic sets using not really advanced process technology, but eventually the situation may change.

“For 25 years now, Intel has been...

Intel joins bid to halve the cost of data centers

From InfoWorld: Intel is working with a group of Taiwanese companies and a government research center on a project that aims to slash the cost of a data center by nearly half.

The company is contributing chips, motherboards, and software to the project, as well as other engineering...

Oracle Takes Stake in Infiniband Vendor Mellanox

From PC World: Oracle announced late Wednesday that it has taken a 10.2 percent stake in Mellanox Technologies, maker of Infiniband interconnects for servers and storage systems.

Mellanox's InfiniBand technologies were already being used in Oracle's growing line of high-performance...

Firefox 4 release slips to 2011

From CNET News.com: Mozilla has pushed back the planned Firefox 4 release to 2011, a delay that's no surprise given the difficulties in releasing the first full-featured beta of the open-source browser--but that also gives breathing room for several competitors.

Mozilla had hoped...

Android pushes Motorola into black

From CNET News.com: The U.S.-based cell phone maker reported today that its mobile device business posted an operating profit for the first time since 2006. The company had not expected this unit to turn a profit until 2011.The company, which announced third quarter earnings, also...

Nintendo Reports $24.7M Net Loss

From DailyTech: Since the Wii console hit the market Nintendo has been dominating sales for hardware and traditionally does very well on software sales as well. Nintendo has been hit hard by different factors over the last year that has lead the company to some disappointing earnings...

MyTouch 4G Confirmed for November 3

From DailyTech: Depending on your political leanings, T-Mobile is offering an opportunity to celebrate or forget the results of the mid-term election November 2 by releasing the MyTouch 4G the next day. The news comes via T-Mobile's Facebook page and confirms not only the launch date...

ATI Maintains Lead on Discrete GPU Market - Mercury Research

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, managed to maintain its lead on the market of discrete graphics adapters in Q3 2010, according to data recently released by Mercury Research. Even though both ATI and Nvidia Corp. enjoyed increase in sales of...

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