The launch of second-phase Intel Nehalem-based CPUs (scheduled for the third quarter of 2009) is expected to have a corresponding impact on substrate demand, according to industry sources. Although the number of IC substrates will decrease, flip-chip (FC) substrates will increase in terms of their number of layers, while substrate area will also be larger due to the integration of several ICs.

For Intel's Lynnfield products, each chip will integrate several IC including CPU, memory controller, and GPU using a multi-chip-package (MCP) design. Additionally, corresponding platform control hub (PCH) chips will become more complex due to the combining of northbridge and southbridge functions into a single chip. The relocation of the GPU from the northbridge IC to the CPU package will require a change from using BGA (ball grid array) to FC packaging. Intel's major substrate suppliers NTK, Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC), Ibiden and Shinko are currently all in the process of certifying their products with Intel. Validation is expected to be completed by the end of this year and small volume shipments will start in the first quarter of 2009. Mass shipments will start in the second quarter.

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Who will be the Champion of the GO OC 2008-Visit the GO OC website to make your prediction, and get the chance to win some GO OC loot of your own- Taipei, Taiwan, September 19, 2008 – GIGABYTE’s first annual overclocking competition, the GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC 2008) is set to begin. A total of 50 of the world?s top overclockers will fly to Taiwan to join the competition and fight for the title of GIGABYTE GO OC Overclocking Champion.The GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC 2008)

Nvidia said late Thursday afternoon that it will eliminate roughly 360 jobs, or 6.5% of the company's workforce. In a statement, Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang described the cuts as “difficult, but necessary.” The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it will incur charges of roughly $7 millon to $10 million in severance and related expenses in the third quarter of fiscal 2009.

Part of the problem: Nvidia is a so-called fabless semiconductor manufacturer, relying on foundries such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to create its chips. That means it doesn't have to spend billions building chip fabs, an expense that has weighed heavily on Nvidia rival AMD. But because AMD and Intel spend billions on their own factories, investors fret that the companies will be able to more easily crank out chips that are faster and use less power.

Habey USA, leading manufacturer of embedded and server storage products, today announces BIS-7750, the first Intel SoC based fanless NAS/Network Appliance embedded platform. BIS-7750 is based on Intel’s latest EP80579 Tolapai Integrated Processor with Intel QuickAssist Technology. It offers five PCIe Gigabit Ethernet ports, Ethernet bypass segment, PCIe 4x slot, mini-PCIe slot for expansion, dual SATA II channel and supports up to 2GB of system memory. It is designed for small-to-medium business (SMB) and enterprise

It’s about time.  If you own a Motorola Q9c, head over to the Motorola web site and download the Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard updater.

This update also adds treaded SMS and various updates and fixes.

Averatec Announces 10.2 Inch Netbook PC to US MarketAveratec’s Buddy adds a new dimension to the companion PC Market SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 19 — Announced today, Trigem USA and its Averatec brand has formally entered the netbook personal computer market. Aptly named the Averatec Buddy, this new companion notebook is the best solution to fulfill the growing need for an ultra portable, daily use computer. The Averatec Buddy is the second offering based on the Intel Atom processor family. Featuring a generous

The third ad in Microsoft’s massive ad campaign designed to enhance the image of the company and Windows has hit the web. If you remember, the first ad featured Jerry Seinfeld stumbling upon Bill Gates shopping in a Shoe Circus store for some discount shoes. The second ad also featured Bill and Jerry, but this time as houseguests trying to connect with an ordinary family.The first couple of ads didn’t resonate well with the general populace, however, and Seinfeld has been nixed–at least for now… This latest

A couple of days ago the great and powerful forces over at NVIDIA launched a new graphics card called the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. This new graphics card was launched to fill the gap between the GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 280. What gap might this be? It would be the gap where the ATI Radeon HD 4870 would be performing. Read on to see how this new graphics card does in the benchmarks and we also overclock it and run F@H on it to top things off!

TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft has retired a bizarre 2-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

Bloggers and online media have suggested that the Redmond, Wash., company yanked the Seinfeld ads after they were poorly received. The ads show Gates and Seinfeld trading banter at a mall shoe store and while living with a suburban family, trying to get in touch with regular people. Seinfeld asks Gates nonsensical questions about the future of computing, and Gates responds with “signs” that he's on the right track, including “adjusting his shorts,” as Seinfeld called the awkward hip shake, and doing “the robot,” a dance move.