gigaom.com - 1/23/2009
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The impact of declining desktop and laptop demand on the PC industry became that much clearer this morning, as Microsoft reported lower-then-expected second-quarter earnings driven, in part, by a deterioration of its client PC business (sever software sales are flat) and said it would cut 5,000 ...
bit-tech.net - 1/23/2009
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bit-tech.net —
With its unique design and blue anodised aluminium
build material, the Lian LI PC-888 is like no
other case on the market. Limited to a production run of just 500 units, it's the height of chassis exclusivity, but is it actually a good case underneath ...
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Lian Li PC-888
blog.laptopmag.com - 1/28/2009
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blog.laptopmag.com —
nvidia_sh2 Just over a month ago, we sat
down with Nvidia’s product manager, Dave Ragones, to discuss
the company’s freshly announced Ion platform , which pairs Intel’s netbook-friendly 1.6-GHz Atom processor with Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M GPU. In that ...
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Nvidia CEO Sounds Off on Netbooks, Ion Platform, Tegra, ...
appleinsider.com - 1/19/2009
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appleinsider.com —
Apple is among a dozen systems builders being
sued this month for infringing on a pair of
patents that cover system-wide software permissions for defining the range of operations that computer applications may or may not perform.
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Apple among PC makers sued over OS permissions tech
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Run for cover – the death of the desktop is upon us – again
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... Well once again the death and destruction of the desktop is being heralded by Stacey Higginbotham because Microsoft reported lower than expected second quarter earnings. Or to put it in plain English our crappy economy is kicking the snot out of the desktop PC industry and our love affair with small screens and wireless connectivity is giving mobile computing that extra boost it needed to show the PC who’s boss. ...
Netbook Is Nothing But a Cheap PC [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Intel’s partner in crime, Microsoft Corp. has been pretty vocal about the impact of net books on its business. They experienced an 8 percent decline in their client revenues because of lower-priced netbooks that used the cheaper (and older) Windows XP operating systems. ...
StatShot: Shipments of Graphics Chips Nosedive [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... has issued a report showing that total GPU shipments fell to 72.4 million in the fourth quarter — down 2 percent year-over-year and 35 percent from the third to the fourth quarter. This is the first time fourth-quarter shipments have fallen sequentially since 2000. Maybe people are buying netbooks and smartphones rather than PCs. (Check out the chart for market share by clicking on the image. Nvidia and VIA eked out some gains.) ...
Nvidia Wants To Get Your Graphics on the Go [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... The desktop computer is in decline, hurt by netbooks and a grim economy. But as demand for desktops and even notebooks falls, so do Nvidia’s revenues. To keep growing sales, Nvidia is counting on scientific computing, mobility and visual computing. It’s proven it can grow sales on the scientific side (revenue for that division grew by 31 percent from the third quarter of fiscal 2009 to third-quarter fiscal 2008 — even as sales into desktops and notebooks fell by ...
How Mobile Will Reach the Exabyte Age By 2012 [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... or Intel’s Atom, processing power has expanded while keeping power consumption low. On the communications side, ...
Intel/Nvidia Catfight Is About More Than IP [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... or netbook OEMs from using the ION platform, which might cut into higher-end Intel chip sales by creating a more notebook-like experience on the Atom chip.
Intel can’t stop Nvidia on all fronts, but it hasn’t been one to take its intellectual property or its near monopoly in x86 chips for granted — even if x86 computing is losing its ubiquity. This looks like one way Intel is circling its wagons as PC sales drop, GPUs gain prominence, and it finds itself fighting for mobile market ...
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