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News: TRs Christmas 2011 system guide
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 With our latest system guide, we`ve attempted to weather the surge in hard-drive prices while taking advantage of some of the latest hardware releases. To spice things up, we`ve also concocted a home-theater PC build."
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An Interview With Antec’s New Power Supply Boss
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When we met Christoph Katzer way back at COMPUTEX 2010, he was just the new guy at Antec. But what he and along with a number of other new faces at Antec represented was a major change in the way the company does business. The new guy at Antec now has the responsibility of a whole new power supply business unit, but with it, all the powers he has always wanted in order to affect changes that make customers happy. He took time to sit with us during a stop in Vancouver, BC Canada, to tell us a bit more about what this shake up at the company means including more about his new role. He also drops a few hints about new products that haven’t even hit the radar yet which include…
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Flextronics R&D team recruited by Compal, Wistron
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With Electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Flextronics recently exiting the notebook manufacturing industry, the company's notebook R&D team was soon being recruited by Taiwan-based notebook maker Compal Electronics and Wistron, according to sources from notebook players.
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Gigabyte re-arranges executive positions to fix motherboard shipments
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Taiwan-based motherboard maker Gigabyte Technology saw its motherboard shipments performance in the first half rather stable compared to its competitor Asustek Computer and has recently re-arranged its executive positions to fix the issues, according to sources from retail channel vendors.
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broad strategic alignment
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Seagate and Samsung have announced a "broad strategic alignment," as part of which Seagate will take over Samsung's hard-drive operations in exchange for a cool $1.375 billion (paid half in cash, half in stock). The deal also involves a NAND flash memory supply agreement as well as "expanded cooperation" on enterprise storage.
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Taiwan motherboard makers not affected by Nippon Chem-Con production stoppage
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Japan-based Nippon Chem-Con, a main supplier of solid aluminum electrolytic capacitors for Taiwan-based motherboard makers, has temporarily stopped production due to the earthquake hitting northeastern Japan, but the makers will not be negatively influenced because they have 1- to 2-month inventories, plus one or more alternative supply sources in Japan, according to sources from motherboard players.
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Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments flat on year in 4Q10
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Worldwide PC microprocessor shipment growth in the fourth calendar quarter of 2010 slowed notably, compared to both the third quarter of 2010, a drop of 0.04% on quarter, and to the fourth quarter of 2009, a drop of 0.21% on year, according to the latest PC microprocessor study from IDC. For the full year 2010, however, worldwide PC microprocessor shipments grew 17.1%, while revenues increased 26.7% to US$36.3 billion.
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Makers raise motherboard prices
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Taiwan-based motherboard makers including Micro-Star International (MSI), Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology have all raised their motherboard prices to reflect the rising cost from labor and key components such as print circuited boards (PCB), according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
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Intel to unveil 22nm Ivy Bridge CPUs at Computex 2011
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Intel reportedly has completed the design of its 22nm Ivy Bridge processors and will showcase the new CPUs at Computex Taipei 2011 in June, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
Meanwhile, AMD has also accelerated the production of its Llano APUs and is expected to begin shipping the APUs to ODM/OEM makers in May at the earliest instead of the original schedule set in the third quarter, the paper noted.
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Taiwan IC design houses land windfall orders on Intel support chip design issue,
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Taiwan-based motherboard and ODM/OEM PC makers are placing more short lead-time orders for related PC support chips with local IC design houses after Intel disclosed a design issue of its recently released support chip, the Intel 6 series, codenamed Cougar Point, which in some cases will potentially impact the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Time report.
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Newegg pulls Sandy Bridge CPUs and P67 Motherboards
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"Before the previous generation of Intel processor was
released, Lynnfield, remember that NVIDIA initially WANTED to have
chipset options on the market as well. Instead, Intel put legal
pressure on NVIDIA to the point that the entire division was dropped.
The death of the nForce line was with a whimper, not a bang, but the
fact that today you can't make a Sandy Bridge processor purchase
because of failures with Intel's own chipset, the ONLY chipset that
exists for SNB-base CPUs, should help NVIDIA's top brass sleep better
at night."
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Telus Mobility - Charging you $2 a month, to bill you
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Bare with me for a moment dear PCSTATS readers as your friendly Editor-in-Chief
rants about a new and galling FEE being levied by Telus Mobility that you might not be aware of.
Only a cellphone company would have the nerve to charge its customers
an extra $2 a month, just to send its customers the phone bill.
In November 2010 Telus Mobility began charging Canadian customers a
$2/month "Summary Paper Bill Fee". Talk about nickel and dime service fees... on
top of this new paper bill fee there's the so called 'CRTC fee' which is
now legally called "System Access Fee" at $6.95/month, and then there is the
"Enhanced 911 Access Charge" at $0.50/month. These extra fees are in addition to
the regular service plan, data and messaging costs.
It's enough to make one seriously consider cancelling phone services with Telus Mobility and switching over to Virgin, Bell, Wind, Rogers or maybe even carrier pigeon. Have you been fleeced by your cellphone provider? Let PCSTATS know.
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ASRock mulls giving up notebook business
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ASRock is planning to gradually phase out from the notebook segment, while concentrating on its core motherboard and small-form-factor PC business, according to industry sources.
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HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks Webcast
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In this episode of Two and A Half Geeks, we take a look at the new LSI WarpDrive PCI Express SSD, discuss HotHardware’s overclocked AMD Radeon HD 6870/6850 round-up, talk about why the CEO of AMD was just sent out behind the woodshed for a whacking and how the HTC HD2 Windows Mobile 6.x-based smartphone was recently hacked to run Windows Phone 7...
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