AMD's Trinity pushed back to October
As Charlie Demerjian reported earlier this month, flagship AMD technology codenamed Trinity is delayed. Semiaccurate reported that the chip was delayed from an expected August launch to September, but...
View ArticleChaintech returns to motherboard sales
Taiwanese vendor Chaintech withdrew from sales of motherboards five years ago, but has returned to what it believes is a burgeoning market.Chaintech’s marketing manager, Candice Yu, told TechEye that...
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GloFo claims technology edge over Intel
With 77 percent of patents on future FinFET technology, GlobalFoundries claimed that it and its partners have the lead in the market place, with Intel having to catch up and the other foundries...
View ArticleComputex 2012 shows clear signs of worldwide econonomic storms
The sponsors of important trade show Computex said on the day before it started that exports from Taiwan had shown something of a decline and that’s been confirmed by vendors at the show.The first...
View ArticleAsustek wins Microsoft Surface tablet contract
Reliable sources near to the Dandy Hotel opposite the Daan Park have revealed that Asustek has won the deal with Microsoft to make the much vaunted Microsoft Surface tablet.Microsoft thinks that the...
View ArticleIntel starting to sweat as PC business changes
Chip goliath Intel (INTC) delivered its second quarter financial results yesterday and it is not good news, reading between the lines.Its revenues amounted to $13.5 billion, with a net profit of $2.8...
View ArticleNominet makes a statement - of sorts
TECHEYE has been phoning Nominet since the beginning of the week and talking to its PR UK spinners - Brands to Life. Nominet has been oddly reluctantly to talk to TechEye - it's almost as if it had...
View ArticleIntel sees few obstacles to five nanometer chips
Mark Bohr, Intel Senior Fellow of Logic Technology Development, talked to the press here at IDF today and said the company is confident that in the future it can produce transistors at the staggeringly...
View ArticleHP reluctant to push Windows 8 for enterprise Ultrabooks
Major PC vendor HP was showing off some snazzy Ultrabooks at the exhibition area of the Intel Development Forum. One, a high spec machine, that will come out in October and cost approximately $1,200...
View ArticleIntel shows off wi-fi digital radio
On the last day of the Intel Developer Forum, the company’s chief technology officer, Justin Rattner, chose to demonstrate a device he dubbed the “Moore’s Law Radio”.We can expect system on chip...
View ArticleWarning lights blinking for Intel’s future
There’s no doubt about it, Intel has some of the most impressive technology on the planet. Its processes and its fabs are beyond compare. When Mark Bohr spoke at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) earlier...
View ArticleSean Maloney to retire from Intel
Senior Intel executive vice president Sean Maloney will leave the company at the end of this year, ending a long career with the corporation.Maloney suffered a stroke in 2010, and battled back against...
View ArticleRetail banks “will be dead in 15 years”
An analyst at the White Bull conference here in Barcelona said that in his view, retail banks will disappear over the next 15 years. The reason for that is that quite a few of the top 100...
View ArticleVenture Capitalism “mostly sucks”
James Sperans, an executive at Morgan Stanley, told the audience here at the White Bull conference in Barcelona that venture capitalism is not quite as dead as a dodo. He said that at the same...
View ArticleEntrepreneur becomes a whistleblower for peace
Sean Carasso, of Falling Whistles, spoke about his organisation’s attempt to foster peace in Congo. The company sells whistles as a protest against children bearing arms, millions of people being...
View ArticleFlexible nanoprinting set to dwarf semiconductor costs
A startup here at the White Bull conference in Barcelona said that nanomaterial components will be released in the first quarter of next year at a “fraction of the price” of conventional...
View ArticleIntel is more interested in bags than microprocessors
It is no wonder that Intel (tick: INTC) is in trouble, and when we say trouble, we mean deep deep trouble. Marketeers at the chip Leviathan are now pushing "bags" as the solution to all of INTC's...
View ArticleFacebook co-founder describes shambolic start of business
At an event at the Said Business School in Oxford, Andrew McCallum, who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, described how the idea came to fruition in a week.Speaking at the Silicon Valley comes...
View ArticleIntel slashes marketing budgets
I noticed on Charlie Demerjian’s lovely SemiAccurate that he was having trouble getting an Ultrabook notebook to review. When I shipped myself out to IDF in September, I had already noticed that...
View ArticleHow many screens do you have?
I was in lovely San Jose a few months ago, and a charming chap saw that I had a notebook, a Samsung Galaxy SII and an Apple iPad to boot.He asked me a question which caused me to ponder: “How many...
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