Throughout most of the 1990s, Diamond Multimedia was one of the major players in the graphics card world.  Their well made cards with solid performance resulted in some of the most well known brand names of the time including the Speedstar, Stealth, and Viper.  After merging with S3 Incorporated in 1999, the resounding failure of their joint contribution: the Diamond Viper II Z200 based on S3’s Savage 2000, eventually led to the combined Diamond/S3 company backing away from third-party graphics cards.In

Unless you’ve just come out of a coma, you probably know that the iPhone 3G goes on sale in the U.S. starting tomorrow at 8 a.m. There has been plenty of coverage, banter, speculation, criticism, and praise about the second coming iteration of the iPhone, as a can be evidenced by a Google search for iPhone 3G, which garnered 93,600,000 results when we first searched for it. Chances are if you run the same search now, you will see even more results. And we admit it… HotHardware is contributing to the hubbub.In

Rumors have been circulating of a possible $50 price cut for the Xbox 360 Pro, the 20 GB model. While still a rumor, more evidence has arisen which seems to not just point to a $50 price cut, but also to the day: this coming Sunday.Below is an image scanned from a Target flier. Not only is the price cut by $50, Target is throwing in a $25 gift card as well.To the right, you can see a scanned image from a Best Buy flier. They’re not throwing in a gift card, so Target has the better deal, for those of you who

NVIDIA today announced that NVISION 08 attendees are in for a special experience: an exclusive screening of Fly Me to the Moon, a brand-new digital 3D animated feature that will open in August in the U.S. In addition, NVIDIA is delighted to welcome the second man to walk on the moon, former Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, in a special guest appearance, addressing the NVISION audience at the beginning of the film screening. Legit Reviews managed to get our hands on a couple movie frames, so take a look at them if you are interested. The NVIDIA event is looking like it will draw a fair number of people to it as they are getting some big names to show up!

Buzz Aldrin commented: Being involved in this film was a lot of fun. I expect it to bring the historic Apollo 11 story alive to a new generation of children and their parents. I look forward to the opportunity to greet the audience at NVISION 08, young and old alike.

Kingston Technology just announced that they are shipping HyperX 800MHz low-latency DDR2 SO-DIMM notebook memory kits in 2- and 4GB capacities. The latest offering provides mobile computer users an even greater performance and flexibility option as the SO-DIMMs are pre-programmed with three serial presence detect (SPD) profiles, allowing the memory to work in 800MHz-CL5, 667MHZ-CL4 and 533MHz-CL3 low-latency configurations.

The Kingston 3GB Kit HyperX 667MHz (Part Number KHX5300S2LLK2/3G) has memory timings of 4-4-4-12 at 1.8V and has an MSRP of just $102.50. The Kingston 3GB Kit HyperX 800MHz Low Latency (Part Number KHX6400S2LLK2/3G) has memory timings of 5-5-5-18 at 1.8V and has an MSRP of just $106.25.

Intel was showing off some of their next-gen hardware today at a posh NYC hotel on the east side of Manhattan.  There aren’t many specifics we can talk about just yet, but we were allowed to snap off a few pictures of a system that we’re sure many of you are eager to check out.  What you see pictured here is a complete Nehalem-based rig, built around an Intel X58 chipset motherboard.  Unfortunately, we can’t disclose any benchmark scores or frequencies, nonetheless, there is still some interesting

Kingston Technology Releases HyperX High-Performance DDR2 SO-DIMMs in 3GB Kits Fountain Valley, CA – July 9, 2008 – Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is shippingHyperXR 667MHz and 800MHz low-latency DDR2 SO-DIMM notebook memory in 3GB kits. The 3GB SO-DIMM kits are an excellent way to take advantage of the Microsoft Windows VistaR 32-bit operating system and for notebook users running mid- to high-performance applications. Kingston’s 3GB kits

Ever wonder why Microsoft releases these sorts of major updates via manual update first? Well, if you’ve been reading along, you know why (and we’ve seen more than one example of why). However, Windows XP SP3, after its initial fits and starts, is nearly ready to hit automatic distribution via Windows Update.This was revealed in an MSDN blog post by Nick MacKechnie, senior technical account manager at Microsoft New Zealand:Hi All,Microsoft is committed to providing quality products to customers. As part of this

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., maker of the “Shrek” movies and “Kung Fu Panda,” announced Tuesday it will switch from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. computer chips to Intel Corp.'s as it moves toward making all 3-D movies. DreamWorks will use Intel's visual computing products for 3-D animated feature films starting with its “Monsters vs. Aliens” movie, set for domestic release on March 27, 2009, it said.

“The impact of these new chipsets is that it will go from overnight to hours to minutes,” he said. “Within a handful of years — or less, actually — we may achieve the Holy Grail of our business, which is to actually work in real time. So it's actually, literally in the moment of creation, you can see your work.” Some 1,000 workstations and 1,500 server units at DreamWorks Animation will make the switch to Intel chips over the next 18 months, and a team of Intel engineers will fine-tune DreamWorks' proprietary software for use on the new equipment.

Acer has decided to sell off all of its 34.4% holding in memory module subsidiary Apacer Technology, with Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), A-Data Technology, and Apacer's current management team set to take up the released shares, according to industry sources. The memory market has been tough this year and an insider tipped us off this that OCZ Technology and Corsair Memory cut sales and marketing jobs in recent weeks. With companies cutting jobs and selling off memory holdings it is a sign of how tough the market really is right now.

PSC is expected to take a thin slice of the Acer holdings, which will nevertheless make it the biggest shareholder of Apacer with an almost 25% stake, the sources said. Apacer's management team will increase its stake to 20% to become the second largest shareholder, followed by A-Data, who will have 5-10%, the sources said. PSC and A-Data declined to comment, but Apacer said its management team is taking over most of the shares released by the parent company in order to demonstrate its confidence in Apacer.