Motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology have announced revenue results for August 2009, with Asustek seeing an on-month increase of 14%, while MSI saw a drop of 1%, and Gigabyte a drop of 16.46%.

Asustek posted revenues of NT$22.99 billion (US$704.26 million) for August, an increase of 14% on month, but a drop of 11.2% on year. Some market watchers expect the company's third-quarter revenues to grow 30-40% sequentially. Asustek is expected to see its motherboard, notebook and netbook shipments in the third quarter rise to 5.5-6 million units, 1.8 million units and 1.5 million units, respectively, from around five million units, 1.2 million units and 1.1 million units in the second, according to market watchers.

AMD will unleash its next wave of high-end graphics products in under two weeks. AMD is expected to launch two new products in the form of the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Radeon HD 5850 on September 22nd in the U.S. and September 23rd in Europe. Legit Reviews is in California right now for the AMD Evergreen Vision launch event, but so far the only cool picture is this one from dinner last night.Later today we will be getting to see the actual hardware in public for the very second time here shortly. Legit Reviews brought you some of the very first pictures of Evergreen back last month during Quakecon 2009.

According to Fudzilla, the Radeon 5870 (codenamed RV870) will come in two versions initially — one with 2GB memory and one with 1GB. The Radeon HD 5870 1GB should sell for $399 at launch, while it's bigger sister the Radeon HD 5870 2GB should sell for $449. A slower Radeon HD 5850 with 1GB memory will sell for $299. The Radeon HD 5870 X2 is due to hit shelves about a month after the Radeon HD 5870. Other Radeon HD 5870 specifications include:

• GPU runs at 825MHz (725Mhz for the Radeon HD 5850)
• 1600 shaders
• 2.1 billion transistors
• GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.3GHz /150GB/second bandwidth.
• 180W power usage, 27W in idle

VIA Technologies today announced the availability of the new VIA eNote Turnkey Solution, a thin and light notebook that strikes the perfect balance between netbook ultra-portability and notebook performance and functionality. The snappy 11.6″ design, which incorporates both state-of-the art WiMAX and Wi-Fi connectivity, will be demo'd from September 15-18 at 4G World in Chicago in Sequans' booth, number 423. Here is a quick video with Tim Brown from VIA showing off the technology.

The VIA eNote Turnkey Solution's Mobile WiMAX chip is provided by Sequans Communications, the leading supplier of chips for the WiMAX market. Sequans technology delivers high throughput with low power consumption using Sequans mimoMAX technology, which combines a maximum likelihood decoder on the downlink with two transmitters (2Tx) on the uplink – a unique feature that can significantly improve link budget and greatly enhance coverage and capacity.

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The competition among Solid State Drive manufacturers is reminiscent of the video card wars between AMD and NVIDIA a few years ago. The invention of new controller technology has slowed somewhat, while each company races to combine high-speed NAND with custom firmware tweaks to produce the fastest SSD speeds possible. The Indilinx Barefoot controller has exploited a dominant hold over the consumer SSD market during the past several months, and 'overclocked' Solid State Drive products are beginning to replace 'new' product designs. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the fastest MLC SSD we've discovered to-date: the 256GB eXtreme-edition Corsair X256 CMFSSD-256D1.

Google has revolutionized the Voice Over IP world by providing a free phone number that allows a user of Google Voice to associate all of their various phone lines to a single number. Now besides the well known features of voice mail and free SMS text messages, there is another hidden gem with Google Voice that could revolutionize the telephony industry by providing free VoIP service to anyone!

Today, NVIDIA announced the industry's first OpenCL Visual Profiler, providing developers with insight into performance bottlenecks and opportunities for optimization. Key features include:

• Profiling of actual hardware signals, kernel efficiency, and instruction issue rate
• Timing of memory copies between system memory and GPU dedicated memory
• Customizable graphs to help developers focus in on problem areas
• Basic auto-analysis to reveal warp serialization problems
• Easy import/export to CSV for custom analysis

Leveraging the extensive performance instrumentation in NVIDIA's OpenCL drivers and hardware performance signals designed into NVIDIA GPUs, the OpenCL Visual Profiler provides developers with insight into performance bottlenecks and opportunities for optimization.

iBUYPOWER announced the Paladin E-series Gaming PC, based on the Intels latest Lynnfield processors and the new P55 chipset. The iBUYPOWER Gamer Paladin E720, E780, and E720 each feature one of Intels new Core i7 800-series or Core i5 processors and newest P55 chipset motherboards. The new Paladin E-Series Gaming PC from iBUYPOWER provides top-notch gaming power in a much more affordable package.

The Paladin E-Series Gaming Systems will also be iBUYPOWERs first to offer the companys new Power Drive Overclocking Service. iBUYPOWER will offer three levels of service up to 10%, up to 20% and up to 30% overclocking, ranging in price from free for their Level 1 Power Drive (up to 10% overclock) to $49 and $99 for level 2 and 3 overclocking. Power Drive overclocking service is an important addition to iBUYPOWERs innovative array of system improvements and specialized build options.

Apple has announced new versions of the iPod touch, Nano and the release of iTunes 9. Also mentioned is a firmware update for the iPhone (3.1.1) and potentially other surprises (stay tuned for more info or visit Apple on the web). While the iPod touch has not changed substantially, the Nano now sports a video capable camera, a radio tuner, pedometer, and microphone/speaker.

Apple today introduced iTunes 9, the latest version of the worlds most popular software application to purchase, manage and play media, packed with innovative features such as iTunes LP, Home Sharing and Genius Mixes, as well as a redesigned store and improved syncing. iTunes 9 makes it easier than ever to discover, purchase and enjoy your music, movies, TV shows, and apps for iPhone and iPod touch from Apples revolutionary App Store.

Dell has released a new teaser pic of their upcoming luxury 13″ Notebook offering. The Adamo by Dell is to be a designer laptop of sorts with a price tag of $1,499 and the new information released today is that it will be just 9.99mm thick!

9/9/09 comes only once and today Dell is offering a glimpse of its highly stylized, thin 9.99-mm Adamo By Dell concept thats as beautiful as todays date is unique. In March, Dell introduced the Adamo By Dell brand and Adamo laptop as the pinnacle of craftsmanship and design. Derived from the Latin word meaning to fall in love with, the Adamo laptop is the worlds thinnest and todays concept shows Dells commitment to taking that to the next level.

An affordable mobile PC that offers outstanding performance for basic computer tasks, whether you’re at home, at work, or enjoying multimedia entertainment while on vacation. Hurry, while it lasts!