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Rambus signs patent deal with Toshiba
ZDNet - Jul 05 1:08 PM
Chip designer says Toshiba licensed technology related to computer memory devices, plus several interface designs.Save to My Web

Gateway gears up for back to school
ZDNet - Jul 06 4:59 PM
Twelve new models released to PC retailers as the company embraces AMD's dual-core notebook chips and low prices.Save to My Web

Infocus: Basic journey of a packet
SecurityFocus - Jul 06 9:13 AM
Basic journey of a packetSave to My Web

The Quick INQ guide to designing chips
The Inquirer - Jul 07 3:09 AM
THIS IS not meant to be an in depth article covering every minute aspect of chip design, but it is meant to take away some of the mystery of what happens between a thought entering an engineers head to a design being produced in silicon for the first time.Save to My Web

Report: Enron's Ken Lay dead of heart attack
ZDNet - Jul 05 7:50 AM
Company founder, convicted of fraud and conspiracy in Enron collapse, dies in his vacation home.Save to My Web

HyperTransport Consortium Announces New HTX OEM Reference Design Kit
LinuxElectrons - Jul 06 2:05 PM
Sunnyvale , Calif. The HyperTransport Technology Consortium has said that researchers at the University of Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany) have developed a highly programmable HTX OEM reference design kit.Save to My Web

Review: Spire VertiCool II CPU Cooler
Overclockers Club - Jul 07 5:25 PM
ThinkComputers.org - Spire is known for making really great CPU coolers. Almost every cooler that I have seen performs well. Today I have a new cooler from Spire, it is the VertiCool II, it looks really cool and performs very well.Save to My Web

AMD's new software tool ( News )
EuroGamer - Jul 06 3:58 AM
AMD has released a new piece of software that's designed to enhance the video performance of games running on the Athlon 64 FX processor. Snappily titled the AMD Dual-Core Optimizer, it's designed for use with games that ignore Windows' time-stamp counter, which can have an effect on frame rates.Save to My Web

PnpNetwork Licenses Diamond Standard 330HiFi and 212GP for Mobile Phone TV Chip Designs
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Jul 06 5:30 AM
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----July 6, 2006--Tensilica , Inc. today announced that PnpNetwork Technologies, Inc., of Seoul, Korea, has licensed two Diamond Standard processor cores for their digital mobile broadcasting chip designs for mobile consumer broadcast TV applications and video-enabled handset designs.Save to My Web