From X-bit Labs: Roy Taylor, a former high-ranking executive from Nvidia Corp. who now heads channel sales at Advanced Micro Devices, said in an interview that proprietary technologies like Nvidia's CUDA and PhysX were doomed. The industry has come a long way with open-standards GPU...

From X-bit Labs: Sony Corp. has sent a letter to Third Point LLC following a unanimous vote of Sony’s board of directors. The board and management team strongly believe that continuing to own 100% of the company’s entertainment businesses is fundamental to Sony’s success, and that a...

From DailyTech: Due to the Surface RT's slim profile, features like an integrated Ethernet port had to be left out for the final production model. ZDNET reports that company called Pluggable had originally provided drivers to enable the use of USB Ethernet adapters on Surface RT, but...

From DailyTech: NVIDIA has announced that it has opened a new Ann Arbor Tech Center, following years of investment in Michigan. The new NVIDIA Tech Center comes as major automotive manufacturers such as GM, Ford, and others have begun hiring huge numbers of software developers...

From X-bit Labs: eASIC Corp., a provider of ASIC devices, has announced a strategic investment by Seagate Technology. In addition to the equity investment, eASIC and Seagate also are exploring opportunities to jointly develop custom silicon solutions for Seagate’s portfolio of solid...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first three-dimensional (3D) vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory, which breaks through the current scaling limit for existing NAND...

From CNET News.com: Watch out, Web site owners: all of that blinking might need to go away soon.

Mozilla announced on Tuesday that Firefox 23, the latest version of its browser, will not support the HTML tag blink. The blink HTML tag allows Web site owners to make text start...

From CNET News.com: Owners of Sony's PS Vita will find at least one cool new feature in the console's latest update.

Released on Tuesday, the Vita software update version 2.60 lets you play games and other content from a PS3 console or a computer without having to copy those items...

From DailyTech: MSI has introduced a new thinner and lighter gaming laptop that was made to rival the Razer Blade Pro.

MSI has unveiled the new GS70, which is a light and portable gaming laptop entry following MSI's GE40. It sports a large, 17.3-inch screen with 1920x1080...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Friday confirmed the beginning of construction of the fab D1X module 2. The new facility will be the world’s first semiconductor manufacturing factory processing 450mm wafers, which will be used primarily for development purposes and which will lead...