Fremont (CA) - CPU wars, graphics wars and now we also have sound wars. Read more

Rambus scored a key victory Wednesday in its nearly decade-old fight with memory chip makers when a jury found the company did not engage in monopolistic behavior by patenting technologies that eventually became standard in memory chips. Read more

Western Digital (WD) said that it will cutting about 800 employees from its global workforce of 42,500. Read more

Three major camps have formed out of the 25 companies sued by SanDisk over NAND flash-related patent infringement, with Kingston Technology's camp taking the lead in fighting against SanDisk, according to sources at Taiwan memory makers. Read more

Sunnyvale (CA) - Business news from AMD rarely have been good news from AMD lately. Read more

Lite-On IT, the largest Taiwan-based maker of half-height (H/H) optical disc drives (ODDs), witnessed its monthly shipment volume of Blu-ray Disc (BD)-ROM drives increase from less than 10,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2007 to an expected 40,000-50,000 units in March 2008, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Read more

In contrast to the huge procurement of NAND flash the company made in 2007, Apple seems to not have started making big procurements in 2008. Read more

Intel is rebranding its mainframe processor, TG Daily has learned. Read more

Intel informed vendors that it will begin cleaning up its dual-core Xeon 3000-series portfolio. The 3000-series version 3040, 3050, 3060 and 3070, all based on the 65 nm Conroe core, are entered into the firm’s product discontinuance program and are go Read more

As Apple is expected to critically trim its NAND flash procurement from Samsung Electronics, the Korean chipmaker approached leading memory module makers to purchase its excess stock in an attempt to stabilize pricing with Kingston Technology being a m Read more

Sunnyvale (CA) - Industry sources are telling us that AMD will be releasing its dual-processor R680 graphics card one week early. The NDA on all the technical specs was due to lift on January 28th, but our source tells us this has been moved up to the Read more

Some of Taiwan’s DRAM makers may for the first time ever incur quarterly losses that are higher than their sales for the first quarter of this year, as prices will remain at low levels amid an oversupply that will only be worsened by continued increase Read more

Despite contract prices for DRAM showed signs of stabilizing in the first half of January, the stiff cost pressure that DRAM makers are still exposed to has pressured back-end houses to cut their quotes by an average of 5% in the first quarter of 2008, Read more

Las Vegas (NV) - We took a swing by the Lexar booth at CES to check out its Solid State Drive collection and a new color in its line of computer gaming memory. Lexar last week announced its first line of Solid State Drives, released under the brand "C Read more

The Audiobyte speaker rig includes two small loudspeakers and a separate audio amplifier that delivers 55W per speaker to create gorgeous sound and music for computers users of all kinds. The amplifier may be attached to any device that includes a mini-h Read more