<![CDATA[News Tom's Guide US - Computing - Components]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ en 10 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:47:11 +0100 <![CDATA[News Tom's Guide US - Computing - Components]]> http://img.bestofmicro.com/design/groupe/logo_toms_guide_us.jpg http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ <![CDATA[SanDisk to Layoff 15% of Workforce?]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Sandisk-Economy-Layoffs-Samsung,news-2905.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Sandisk-Economy-Layoffs-Samsung,news-2905.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:10:00 CET Soon after announcing a $155 million loss on the quarter, SanDisk looks to fire as much as 15 percent of its global workforce.]]> <![CDATA[Apple Hires IBM Chip Designer, IBM Files Lawsuit]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Apple-IBM-Lawsuit,news-2870.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Apple-IBM-Lawsuit,news-2870.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:30:00 CET Apple recently hired Mark Papermaster, IBM's former vice president of microprocessor technology development. While Mr. Papermaster was no doubt thrilled to be headed to Apple, it looks like his old employer is saying not so fast...]]> <![CDATA[Does AMD Block PhysX On Radeon Development?]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/AMD-PhysX-Havok,news-1950.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/AMD-PhysX-Havok,news-1950.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:00:00 CEST Mountain House (CA) - A few weeks ago, we learned how Nvidia is using its PhysX API to convert PhysX calculations and accelerate them on a GPU.]]> <![CDATA[IPC Industry Feels No Pressure From Atom Shortages]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Intel-Atom-shortage,news-1875.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Intel-Atom-shortage,news-1875.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:10:02 CEST <![CDATA[Do We Really Need Cinema 2.0?]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/AMD-Cinema-movie,news-1698.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/AMD-Cinema-movie,news-1698.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:10:00 CEST <![CDATA[Cutthroat DRAM Market Prompts Semiconductor Industry To Lower Revenue Forecast]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dram-ddr-memory,news-1644.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dram-ddr-memory,news-1644.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:00:00 CEST <![CDATA[AMD Reveals Ultraportables]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-ultraportable-subnotebook,news-1561.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-ultraportable-subnotebook,news-1561.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:10:00 CEST AMD looks to be entering the ultra-lightweight ring, though the arena is already crowded. On Tuesday, at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD displayed working demonstration models of at least two sub-notebook designs. Earlier in the day compet]]> <![CDATA[AMD's Sells Quad-Cores For $1]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-opteron-phenom,news-1227.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-opteron-phenom,news-1227.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:40:00 CEST Shanghai (China) - AMD is currently preparing its presentations for the company's annual stockholder meeting next week and we hear that the company will let us know that more than 1 million quad-core CPUs have been shipped.]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft's Forensic USB Key Not As Evil As First Thought]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/microsoft-usb-key,news-1203.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/microsoft-usb-key,news-1203.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:50:00 CEST <![CDATA[Micron And Nanya Sign Agreement To Create Memory Joint Venture]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/micron-nany-memory,news-1102.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/micron-nany-memory,news-1102.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:30:00 CEST <![CDATA[NAND Flash Receiving Boost From Low-cost Notebooks]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/flash-memory-prices,news-1103.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/flash-memory-prices,news-1103.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:40:00 CEST <![CDATA[Blu-ray Reaches 60% Awareness In Two Years]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/blu-ray-burner-dvd,news-923.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/blu-ray-burner-dvd,news-923.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:50:00 CEST <![CDATA[AMD Fires Managers In Europe]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-chips-jobs,news-906.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-chips-jobs,news-906.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:30:00 CEST <![CDATA[Lite-On IT Reportedly Lands Blu-ray Disc OEM Orders From Dell]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/blu-ray-dvd-drive,news-896.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/blu-ray-dvd-drive,news-896.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:30:00 CEST <![CDATA[Hynix To Cut NAND Flash Production]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/hynix-flash-memory,news-902.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/hynix-flash-memory,news-902.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:00:00 CEST <![CDATA[Outrage Over Creative's Decision To Remove User-modded Vista Driver]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/creative-audigy-xfi,news-891.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/creative-audigy-xfi,news-891.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:40:00 CEST <![CDATA[Intel, STMicro Create Phase-change Memory Company Numonyx]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/intel-stmicro-memory,news-888.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/intel-stmicro-memory,news-888.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:50:00 CEST <![CDATA[Asus And Creative Going To War Over Sound]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/asus-creative-soundcard,news-869.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/asus-creative-soundcard,news-869.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:10:03 CET <![CDATA[Rambus Wins Memory-chip Trial]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/rambus-memory-chip,news-860.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/rambus-memory-chip,news-860.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:20:00 CET <![CDATA[Western Digital Reduces Workforce By 800]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/hdd-drive-jobs,news-821.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/hdd-drive-jobs,news-821.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:30:01 CET <![CDATA[Kingston Leading The Opposition Against SanDisk Patent Lawsuit]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/kingston-sandisk-memory,news-819.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/kingston-sandisk-memory,news-819.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:50:01 CET <![CDATA[AMD Cuts 5% of Its Workforce]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-jobs-processor,news-807.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-jobs-processor,news-807.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:00:00 CET <![CDATA[Lite-On Blu-ray Shipments Rising; Quanta to Begin Shipping Slim Drives in Q2]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/blu-ray-lite-drives,news-773.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/blu-ray-lite-drives,news-773.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:20:01 CET <![CDATA[NAND Flash Makers Selling Below Cost]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nand-flash,news-725.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nand-flash,news-725.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:10:04 CET <![CDATA[Intel Ditches Itanium 2 Brand]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/intel-itanium-2,news-642.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/intel-itanium-2,news-642.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:20:01 CET <![CDATA[Intel Discontinuing Conroe-based Xeon Processors]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/intel-xeon-processor,news-513.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/intel-xeon-processor,news-513.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:10:00 CET <![CDATA[Kingston Helps Samsung Digest Excess NAND Flash Stock]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/kingston-samsung-flash,news-450.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/kingston-samsung-flash,news-450.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:30:00 CET <![CDATA[AMD Moving Up Launch Of Dual-GPU Graphics Card]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-dual-gpu,news-370.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/amd-dual-gpu,news-370.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:40:00 CET <![CDATA[Losses Of Taiwan DRAM Makers In Q1 May Exceed Sales]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/taiwan-drm-psc,news-344.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/taiwan-drm-psc,news-344.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:50:00 CET <![CDATA[DRAM Testing And Packaging Houses To Cut Quotes By 5% In Q1]]> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dram-cut-quotes,news-331.html#xtor=RSS-211212 http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dram-cut-quotes,news-331.html#xtor=RSS-211212 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:40:00 CET