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Notebook makers see demand pick up after CPU price cuts
Digi Times - Jul 07 4:39 AM
Compal Electronics and Wistron posted on-month revenue growth in June, following sequential slides for two consecutive months. Quanta Computer and Inventec, who have not yet released their June sales figures, are expected to also post an increase in revenues.Save to My Web

AMD's K8L quad core on schedule
The Inquirer - Jul 11 4:39 AM
DESPITE news reported by our Taiwanese colleagues, our well informed sources confirms that AMD's quad core Athlon 64 X2 successor is on schedule. As we reported before, this CPU is slated for early 2007 and if all goes well we should be able to get it in early Q1 2007.Save to My Web

Apricorn Launches Aegis -- A New Ultra Portable Hard Drive Product Line
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Jul 11 6:00 AM
POWAY, Calif.----July 11, 2006--Apricorn, the leader in personal storage, is pleased to announce its new ultra portable hard drive family product suite -- Aegis. The first available product from this suite is the Aegis Mini, a pocket sized, ultra-portable 1.8-inch external drive with USB 2.0 or FireWire connection options.Save to My Web

Asustek posts nearly NT$41 billion in June revenues despite relatively slow mobo shipment growth
Digi Times - Jul 11 2:26 AM
Motherboard shipments from Asustek Computer in the first half of 2006 grew only 13% on year, the smallest growth among leading motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan. Despite the figure, Asustek's posted NT$40.6 billion (US$1.25 billion) in revenues for June.Save to My Web

Nanya confident about DRAM prices from July onwards
Digi Times - Jul 09 9:24 PM
Nanya Technology indicated that the company will continue to grow its DRAM output in order to fulfill anticipated strong demand from July and onwards, said Pei-lin Pai, company spokesperson and vice president of global sales and marketing.Save to My Web

Affordable dual core sub-laptop reviewed
The Inquirer - Jul 09 8:09 AM
THE Thermalright XP-90c heatsink fan is tested at Techpowerup . It is an all copper model with multiple heatpipes and compatible with all recent sockets - except sockets A and AM2. It is heavy though but as a result, it will almost certainly cool your chipset and CPU better than lighter models.Save to My Web

ToutVirtual Sets New Standard for Virtualization Management with Free VirtualIQ 525
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Jul 11 6:00 AM
CARLSBAD, Calif.----July 11, 2006--ToutVirtual, an emerging leader in management software for virtual computing infrastructures, today announced VirtualIQ 525 software that supports a variety of policy-based and automated management functions for VMWare GSX Server, VMWare Server, VMWare ESX Server, VMWare Player, VMWare Workstation, and open-source Xen.Save to My Web

Bluebird to Launch Pidion BM-300 in Korea, with DMB
Pocket PC Thoughts - Jul 11 6:16 AM
"Bluebird expects to launch its new T-DMB PDA 'BM-300' in October. It features 2.8-inch TFT-LCD(QVGA), Intel Bulverde CPU(PXA270 520MHz), 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM, WLAN 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, USB, and SD slot. It has Window Mobile 5.0 for OS. It also provides car navigation as an option." There's nothing amazing about this device's stats in-and-of-itself, but the sleek formfactor and the inclusion of Save to My Web