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Western Digital announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), the disk drive arm of Hitachi Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the leading supplier of hard disk drive...

THE INQUIRER PATCHER OF INSECURE SOFTWARE Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has hit the release to manufacturing (RTM) stage. Link Removed

Service pack already given to manufacturers Microsoft has announced that it had wrapped up work on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), and would start delivering the major upgrade on February 22 through Windows Update. The company said it had reached the "release to manufacturing", or RTM milestone...

Here is the AMD tl-56: Link Removed - Invalid URL and the tk-57: Link Removed - Invalid URL I would like to know which one is better for a laptop and if the manufacturing process will make a difference in the heat? my laptop is: Link Removed due to 404 Error

Apple has threatened a Dutch tablet manufacturer with a lawsuit about the name nPad. The Dutch Windows 7 tablet is no longer available, and is looking for a new name. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Want a white iPhone 4? Then find yourself a buddy at Apple's Cupertino campus. That's how one - probably the only - lucky US punter got his. The unnamed gent was spotted waving his white one around at an event in New York last night. A flabberghasted Link Removed where the heck he got it...

Viking Modular's SATADIMM jacks an SSD into your memory slot -- Engadget Viking Modular Solutions, a division of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, and leading manufacturer of innovative DRAM modules and flash solutions, today announced that its SATADIMM is available for immediate customer...

AMD tapes out its Bulldozer CPU architecture Mass production to begin in 1H 2011 On Friday, AMD announced that it has successfully taped out its much delayed Bulldozer architecture and hopes to begin sampling working chips with customers shortly. The company's new high-end architecture...

One and a half million square metres of net. One detail we somehow missed from our story yesterday about how Foxconn is prepared to increase wages at its factories by 20 per cent, in a bid to address the high rate of suicide attempts among its workers was a stunning statement by factory boss...

Human and Robots: Visions of the Future The future is not written yet and who knows weather robots are dangerous or not. What is for sure is that humans, being the curious beings, will develop new advanced generations of robots. Robots and other high-performance inventions have always been...

AMD CPU+GPU Fusion by 2010 end Intel has been trying to do it since years, but they have failed in a an ugly fashion with poor graphics performance of Core i3, Core i5. Not just that, Intel has failed at even creating a decent dedicated Graphics processor. Now AMD, with years of strong...

Microsoft Office 2010 RTM Stage Reached Starting April 27, Volume Licence Partners will be able to download the final version of Microsoft Office 2010. The reason for this is that it’s reached the RTM stage, ie, release to manufacturing. The order of which Microsoft [MSFT] will launch the...

UK firm announces battery breakthrough Silicon anode boosts Li-ion capacity By Link Removed - Invalid URL Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 12:18 A LITTLE-KNOWN BRITISH COMPANY has developed a silicon anode that it says can increase the capacity of a Lithium-ion battery by up to 30 per cent...

Not content with the American domination of the CPU industry, seven of Japan's dominant processor designers and manufacturers have teamed up to create a revolutionary new microprocessor. The coalition is led by the NEC and Renesas merger, which makes them world's third largest chipmaker. Joining...

Intel have produced an idiots guide to chip manufacture. It's interesting though.... PRESS KIT - From Sand to Silicon: the Making of a Chip

Hey all, As I look through the boards I'm noticing alot (too many) of new threads that ultimately are all talking about the exact same things.. These things include: RTM release date, GA release date, RC Expiration, etc.. I just wanted to take a minute and try to sort some of these things...

Microsoft has a pull date for the Win7 release candidate August 15, 2009 > Have you been putting off that Win7 RC download? Get on the stick, because the end is nearing. Microsoft expects to release Windows 7 to manufacturing in July, and the company announced on Tuesday that it will pull the...

Many of us use either ATI or Nvidia to provide a solution to our graphical needs but have you ever considered what actually goes into making one of these chips? This article provides an insight into the highs and lows that engineers go through and some of the tough decisions that they have to...