Archive for March, 2008
THX Diggs Out Blu-Ray
Remember when I told you that THX buried Blu-Ray? Back then, I mentioned this was only a personal opinion of a THX scientist, and it seems I was right in thinking that its company may not have exactly the same opinion. How did I conclude that? Well, it’s very simple - on Friday, THX said [...]
HD DVD - Officially Buried
History is usually written by those that won, but when it comes to the IT industry, there are also losers that should be remembered. For example, think about 3dfx and their innovations in the 3D graphics field - they lost, they are gone, but they won’t ever be forgotten. Unfortunately, I don’t think the same [...]
Bendy Silicon Integrates
Who said silicon transistors are half-past dead and graphene is the alleged successor? I guess somebody likes silicon too much, and I’m not referring to lady power-ups, though that kind of silicon is going to be around for some more time, no doubt. Silicon transistors are on their way to be resurrected with the aid [...]
NVIDIA Chipsets For…VIA Processors!?
One of the factors that lead to a bad view of their microprocessors in early to mid 1990s was the fact that AMD allowed virtually anyone to manufacture mainboards for them, while chipsets were also designed and manufactured without being closely supervised by AMD engineers, and this lead to the existence on the market of [...]
AMD Phenom X3 Range Released
AMD’s Phenom X4 desktop CPU’s can’t really keep up with Intel’s Penryn quad-cores, though they aren’t far behind. I don’t understand why AMD keeps releasing CPUs that aren’t at least on par with Intel’s array. Yes, they might be a tad cheaper but, they are also a tad behind, so what’s the idea AMD?
However, [...]