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Ivan Todorovic
Sunday, 18 April 2010 23:12
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 Fabless chip designer AMD has ended a 12-quarter loss streak in Q1 when it managed to post a profit of $257 million (EPS $0.35). Revenue this passed quarter was $1.57 billion, down from the $1.65 billion of Q4 2009, but this can be blamed and explained through the seasonal trend. AMD's cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities were at $1.93 billion, up sequentially from $1.77 billion.
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Written by
Ivan Todorovic
Monday, 12 April 2010 16:06
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 General Electric has launched a new lightbulb, one that uses LED technology instead of compact fluorescents and that has a life expectancy of 17 years. The catch? The bulb costs $50 USD. The new bulb uses only 9 watts and "provides a 77% energy savings" while lasting up to 25 times longer than a current 40-watt CFL (compact fluorescent).
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Ivan Todorovic
Friday, 12 March 2010 10:50
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 Bill Gates has lost his crown as the richest man in the world. Forbes, which calculates who is worth what and publishes its “World’s Richest People” list, has decided that Gates is not worth as much as he used to be.
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Hideo
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 22:47
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 Worldwide semiconductor revenue is on pace to total $226 billion in 2009, an 11.4 percent decline from 2008 revenue of $255 billion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner. It’s somewhat better from the latest Gartner’s forecast that semiconductor revenue to decline 17 percent in 2009. The good news is, according to Gartner, that Semiconductor revenue in 2010 is expected to bounce back to the same revenue level as 2008 at $255 billion, a 13 percent increase from 2009.
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Hideo
Monday, 16 November 2009 20:58
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 The Six-Core AMD Opteron processor-based Cray system “Jaguar” is the world’s supreme supercomputer according to the TOP500 Organization, which today released its bi-annual list of the highest performing systems in the world. This mission-critical Cray XT5 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was recently upgraded from quad- to Six-Core AMD Opteron processors and delivers 2.3 petaflop/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop/s performance on the Linpack benchmark.
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Hideo
Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:38
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 The stethoscope is older than the x-ray, the ballpoint pen, Popular Science and pretty much everything else in your doctor’s office. Now, 190 years after its invention, the go-to diagnostic tool hanging around every doc’s neck has earned a modern makeover. The 3M Littmann Electronic Stethoscope Model 3200 with Zargis Cardioscan beams a patient's heartbeat sounds via Bluetooth to a doctor's PC, which uses software to scan them for abnormalities—and might eliminate the need for over 8 million echocardiograms and cardiologist visits a year.
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Hideo
Sunday, 15 November 2009 11:32
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 NVIDIA itself has kick started the scene of ION-based case mods a case mod design contest, and we have a winner. Built by Bill Owen of Mnpctech.com, the so-called ION Cube draws on a few fairly obvious influences, and makes use of a combination of CNC milled sheets of aluminum and laser cut pieces of acrylic which, combined with the rest of the build, apparently took over a hundred hours to complete.
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Written by
Hideo
Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:24
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 Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices today announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes. In a joint statement the two companies commented, “While the relationship between the two companies has been difficult in the past, this agreement ends the legal disputes and enables the companies to focus all of our efforts on product innovation and development.” Under terms of the agreement, AMD and Intel obtain patent rights from a new 5-year cross license agreement, Intel and AMD will give up any claims of breach from the previous license agreement, and Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion.
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Hideo
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:05
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 The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today issued its Mini-Display Port (mDP) Connector Standard, defining the new, small connector that supports the full range of power, signaling and protocol capabilities defined in the DisplayPort Standard Version 1, Revision 1a. Mini-DisplayPort meets the need for a smaller form factor connector for devices such as thin portable computers and add-in cards with multiple display interfaces. The mDP connector can be used as an alternative to the standard DisplayPort.
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Hideo
Saturday, 07 November 2009 18:52
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 IDC published new figures about smartphone market, and appears that RIM BlackBerry has once again surpassed Apple for smartphone market share. Prior to that Apple with iPhone 3GS looked like a clear winner for the second place on the smartphone market, but with impressive 30 percent increase for the quarter and climbing to 19 percent, RIM is again above Apple's 17.1 percent.
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