Month: December 2006

There’s been a great deal of concern that AMD’s chips won’t be too terribly fast in 2007, mostly because AMD has said so so far. Well, there’s some reason for optimism on this front. IBM will announce in February that

Microsoft joins Yahoo and others in implementing “behavioral targeting.”. What’s that? It’s a way by which someone sends you ads based on your Web-surfing habits. This may be good news for some, maybe most, but definitely not for all, especially

AMD’s 65nm processors aren’t capable of running too fast yet. They aren’t the only ones with a problem. TGDaily reports that plans to shift the XBox360 from 90nm to 65nm SOI chips have been pushed back at least a quarter.

Computing Event of the Year The Year of The Shortage: From Opterons and XBox360s at the beginning of the year to PS3 fights at the end, the year was typlified by supply not meeting demand, and tech companies not much

No, not today, not tomorrow, not next year. But next decade? People are beginning to ponder, and maybe stew a bit, too, over what all this Fusion/Torrenza stuff means. Here’s one example of that. That article concludes with the unsettled

HKEPC has a list of Intel price cuts effective sometime in Q2 2007 sometime in Q2 2007. By then, the E4300 we’ve been talking about will go down from $163 to $113, but frankly, anything on the lower half of