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All News for April 2008

Forget Quad, AMD Is Planning 12 Core CPUs

by Chad Weirick - Fri, Apr 18, 2008

Despite many programs still struggling to take full advantage of 2 or more cores, AMD appears to be planning on jumping past 8 cores and going straight for 12! AMD has dropped more than a few clues that something like this was coming:"The first breadcrumb comes with a new "native six-core"... Read more...

OCZ Announces Enhanced Latency DDR3-2000

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

OCZ Technology Announces Ultra-Fast, Enhanced Latency DDR3-2000 Featuring the Latest Flex II Water-Cooling Technology Sunnyvale, CA—April 17, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today unveiled a blazing fast DDR3 addition to the new Flex II memory series. These premium... Read more...

AMD Reports First Quarter Results

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

AMD Reports First Quarter Results SUNNYVALE, Calif. — April 17, 2008 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today reported first quarter 2008 revenue of $1.505 billion, a net loss of $358 million, or $0.59 per share, and an operating loss of $264 million. These results include an impact of $50 million, or $0.08 per share, from ATI acquisition-related charges. ... Read more...

Pirate Bay Suing ISP For Blocking Traffic

by Chad Weirick - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

Pirate Bay has announced plans to Danish ISP Tele2 over their court ordered block of their web site that began in February. Pirate Bay set up a sister site with trackers called The Jesper Bay to prove just how ineffectual the block was, and as a result the block was more or less an exercise... Read more...

Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Ultraportable Notebook

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

Just in case you missed it, we're writing to let you all know that we have just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and performance of Lenovo's sleek ThinkPad X300 ultra portable notebook. According to Lenovo, the ThinkPad X300 was designed to be... Read more...

Corsair Announces High-Density RAM for Mac Pros

by Michael Santo - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

CORSAIR ANNOUNCES HIGH-DENSITYMEMORY LINE FOR MAC PRO DESKTOP SYSTEMSNew Fully Buffered 2GB & 4GB DIMM Kits Added to Corsair Mac Memory LineFremont, CA, April 17, 2008 – Corsair® www.corsair.com, a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, announced... Read more...

Sony: We're Number Two! We're Number Two!

by Gregory Sullivan - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

The fight for dominance in the console videogame market has long since devolved into a race for the number two slot. The Nintendo Wii continues to outsell the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 combined. Perennial third place finisher Sony might actually find something to smile about in the sales... Read more...

The Pirate Bay Opens Uncensored Blogging Svc

by Michael Santo - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

The Pirate Bay, the popular BitTorrent tracking site, has decided to expand its services and opened its own blogging site. The site, BayWords, is uncensored, and advertised as a place for bloggers who want to write whatever they want without fear of being shut down by their blog host.The... Read more...

What's On TV? Who Cares? Turn On The Computer

by Gregory Sullivan - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

The amount of videos viewed online rose 66 percent in the US in February, compared to the same period last year. The huge goose in traffic is interesting, but what might be even more interesting is how little of that traffic is enjoyed by sites run by television networks. From the figures, the... Read more...

IBM Adopting Macs?

by Chad Weirick - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

IBM is allegedly interested in adopting OS X according to internal documents.“In line with IBM’s external strategy of offering a true ‘Open Client’ that may be Windows, Linux or a Mac,” the document noted, “Research IS is focusing on providing an IBM application stack on multiple Operating Systems, rather than be confined to one or the other.”It... Read more...

OSx86 Group Not Supporting Psystar

by Chad Weirick - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

Psystar continues to make headlines, this time because the company’s OS X Leopard-based systems are now being attacked for what seems like the most basic oversight imaginable:"The company didn't get permission from developers working on the OSx86 Project to sell their work. Netkas, who developed the EFI emulator Psystar is using, posted up... Read more...

Intel G45's HD Decode Broken?

by Chad Weirick - Thu, Apr 17, 2008

For those waiting on the G45 series of products, especially those that will find their way into the Montevina notebook platforms, we have bad news: The rumor going around is that the HD decode offload is broken, and it’s allegedly not a driver issue.Here’s the rumor direct from the source:“The problem with G45 is in the video decoders. We... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Michael Santo - Wed, Apr 16, 2008

Video:Alphacool LC-Display reviewed @ BurnOutPC.comATI 3870X2 CrossfireX Review - Part II: The DX9 Titles @ Rage3D.comFoxconn 9600 GT OC Video Card Review @ I4UNVIDIA 3-Way SLI With GeForce 9800 GTX Graphics Cards @ Legit ReviewsMSI N9600GT 512M OC @ [H]Gigabyte GV-NX96T512HP @ HardwareZoneASUS EN9600GT Top Video Card Review @ I4UECS GeForce... Read more...

Dell Offers New Quad-Core Opteron-Based Servers

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Apr 16, 2008

Dell Now Offering Five Server Platforms Based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors Qualification for VMware Virtualization now Completed; 13 Global OEM Platforms now Shipping SUNNYVALE, Calif. - April 16, 2008 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is now offering five... Read more...

S3 Graphics Announces 4300E Graphics Processor

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Apr 16, 2008

S3 Graphics Announces Ultra Energy-Efficient Embedded Multimedia Graphics Processor at ESC 2008 The S3 Graphics 4300E graphics processor combines 30% better power-efficiency with best-in-class HD video and DX10.1 / OpenGL 2.1 graphics Fremont, California, April 16, 2008 - S3 Graphics today... Read more...

ATI FireGL V8600 1GB Workstation Graphics Card

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Apr 16, 2008

As many of you know, ATI has been particularly aggressive with their FireGL workstation graphics card lineup over the past six months. While their flagship R600-architecture was the basis for the solid (but ultimately underwhelming) Radeon HD2900XT for the gaming market, our tests have shown... Read more...

The Insecurity of Chocolate

by Michael Santo - Wed, Apr 16, 2008

A report released Wednesday by Infosecurity Europe revealed that not only is chocolate good bait for getting someone's password, so is an attractive appearance.576 office workers in total were polled by the fake researchers in a bid to raise awareness about information security. Infosecurity Europe hired attractive “researchers” to hand... Read more...

Apple May Fight Psystar with Tech

by Michael Santo - Wed, Apr 16, 2008

Most people have been expecting Apple to wield the sharp stick of a lawsuit against Mac clone maker Psystar, but it may not be so easy.And while Psystar may be violating Apple's end user license agreement, or EULA, by doing this, legally there's not much Apple can do about it, says Raj Abhyanker, a patent lawyer who used to write patents for... Read more...

ASUS 8.9 Inch Eee PC 900. Oh Yeah

by Gregory Sullivan - Wed, Apr 16, 2008

ASUS has captivated the UMPC world with their nifty little Eee PCs. I can't recall a more eagerly awaited item than the followup to the original Eee. Here it is. The 900 PC is filled with all sorts of win, in more or less the same little package:8.9" 1024x600 resolution displayIntel® Mobile CPU (Celeron) running at 900 Mhz1 GB DDR memory12... Read more...

Spammers Revive The Whaling Industry

by Gregory Sullivan - Wed, Apr 16, 2008

Anybody who has e-mail knows all about phishing scams. As spam filters and firewalls become more potent, and users become more sophisticated and informed about responding to online deceptions, the spammers have had to become more sophisticated in their approach too. One approach spammers now use is to avoid mass e-mailing and tailor their... Read more...

Mac Clone Maker Fires Back

by Chad Weirick - Wed, Apr 16, 2008

We recently reported on the company Psystar who is selling machines with an option to load OS X 10.5, a.k.a. Leopard, and how threats of litigation from Apple was all but imminent. That has now come to pass, and apparently Psystar is firing back:Speaking to InformationWeek, a Psystar employee identified only as Robert said his company sees... Read more...

Seagate Plays Rough With SSD Makers

by Chad Weirick - Tue, Apr 15, 2008

The distinctly different manufacturing expertise needed for success in the mechanical and the solid state storage markets means that few companies are prepared to play both sides of the fence. As faster and cheaper SSDs loom, it isn’t surprising that major players are doing everything they can to stop or stall the march of progress long enough... Read more...