In a short interview to Digitimes, AMD CEO spoke a little about the company’s plan to counteract rival Intel’s Atom chip. Revealing nothing but a vague date, Meyer said that the company will begin sampling to partners in the beginning of 2010, while not attempting to break into the Netbook form-factor. Let’s read a little into this. In the ultraportable notebook segment, AMD already has the AMD Neo (single- and dual-core), which will do nicely when it comes to powering tiny notebooks, so where exactly does

Man, talk about depressing. Some students aren’t even out for summer break yet, and already Hewlett-Packard is issuing systems for next school year. For whatever reason, the HP Pavilion dv2z and the Pavilion dv6t notebooks are ushering in what we can only imagine to be the summer leg of year-round school, with the former checking in at least than 1-inch thick and boasting a 12.1″ LED panel. Furthermore, it packs an optional Blu-ray drive, 500GB HDD, a dual-core AMD CPU, discrete graphics and a starting tag of

QNAP, purveyor of Network Attached Storage devices large and small, has just recently introduced what it’s calling the world’s most affordable NAS server with iSCSI. The device they speak of is the single-bay TS-119 Turbo Pro, which we’ve taken into our labs and scoped out across the pages to come. The device itself is just marginally larger than a typical external hard drive, and at first glance, that’s exactly what it looks like. The array of LED-backlit words down the front panel and the port selection around

Averatec just got done introducing an all-in-one PC back in March, but just in case that alien-inspired machine doesn’t float your boat, the company is debuting a slightly more mainstream unit in the D1200. Described as a PC / TV combo, this rig is ready to play back 1080p material while tuning OTA TV signals (analog and digital) and checking your email.The machine looks more like an iMac than anything else, though the 25.5-inch LCD makes it suitable for use as a bedroom television. Inside, you’ll find a respectable

For PC lovers, it’s October 22nd that’s circled in your calendar. But that’s not the only major OS that’s launching this fall. This week at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference in California, the company announced that its long awaited OS X Snow Leopard operating system would be shipping in September, undercutting Microsoft’s own debut by a solid month. Apple already told us that Snow Leopard was less about being a completely new OS and more about refining the innovations in OS X Leopard, but we never imagined

New iPhone 3GS or no, Palm’s new device, the Palm Pre, set sales records for Sprint last weekend. By late Sunday, the Palm Pre had broken previous sales records (first day and first weekend) for a Sprint device. Here’s what Dan Hesse, Sprint President and CEO trumpeted (I’m sure happily) in a press release: “Sprint is a very different company than it was 12 months ago. Palm Pre is the coming out party for the new Sprint. It is the perfect device that highlights all of the positive changes in our company, including

Last week, Intel released a pair of new additions to the Core i7 line of processors that will eventually replace two of the three current Core i7 series processors as the months roll by. Read on to see how the Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition processor does against 30 other desktop processors.

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As part of the WWDC keynote on Monday, a few iPhone OS 3.0 features were announced that made people go “huh?” Why? Because AT&T wasn’t going to support them, at least at the start. In terms of new features, that would be MMS and tethering. AT&T spokesperson Seth Bloom told Ars Technica: “We absolutely will offer MMS on iPhone 3G S in the late summer, once we complete some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience with MMS. These upgrades are unrelated to our 3G network.”Now

NVIDIA today announced that Rambus has asked an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission (ITC) to terminate the investigation of NVIDIA relating to four patents stemming from a complaint filed in November 2008. Rambus has conceded that NVIDIA products do not infringe on its four patents before the ITC, and has also asked for termination of several claims from a fifth patent in the ITC action.

We are pleased Rambus has recognized the weakness of these patents and claims, stated David Shannon, NVIDIA executive vice president and general counsel. These withdrawals represent essentially half of the patents and one third of the claims asserted against us, and we look forward to addressing the remainder of the case.