ARM consolidates its market rise
While Intel and its customers reliant on PC sales have all been hurting as sales have fallen in the last year, it appears that British design company ARM continues to make waves in the market.Take...
View ArticleNvidia’s CEO approached by Intel headhunters
It’s an unlikely thing, we know, but we don’t do April Fool’s jokes. Sources at Intel Santa Clara have assured us that the CEO of Nvidia, Jen-Hsen Huang was approached by headhunters seeking for a...
View ArticleDell sees the writing on the wall
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Might, and despair!”Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far...
View ArticleWindows XP users face an upgrade conundrum
News that Microsoft will discontinue support for Windows XP in a year from now is bound to cause some dismay for quite a few people.The estimate is that some 37 percent of people are happy with using...
View ArticleUnholy Trinity face a rude awakening
It was Jerry Sanders III who first coined the phrase that, together with Intel and Microsoft, AMD and the other two were the “Holy Trinity”.Perhaps that was somewhat blasphemous but then Isaac Newton,...
View ArticleIntel loses its reason to live
In his departing notes to shareholders last night, Intel CEO Paul Otellini was remarkably upbeat about a boat that is increasingly beginning to resemble the now famous Itanic.Delivering its financial...
View ArticleApple graphics man returns to AMD fold
Our old friend Raja Koduri, who was poached by Apple four years ago to head up its graphic stuff, has been re-poached by AMD, it has been confirmed.The story, first revealed on Cnet, has been...
View ArticleAntarctica beats Iraq, Jamaica, Cuba on internet front
The CIA World Factbook is a really useful resource for discovering information about places you’ve never been.We found ourselves on a page there that compares countries’ internet hosts, and were...
View ArticleIntel’s Otellini clears his desk
It is Paul Otellini’s last day at work today, as he steps down from the role of CEO to spend more time with his family and quite possibly growing tulips in his garden.Otellini (62) has worked for Intel...
View ArticleGoogle is a country, not a company
Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Go Ogle, was in Oxford yesterday, speaking at the Sheldonian about goodness knows what. It was probably attended by arse lickers, big time.We couldn’t be bothered to tip...
View ArticleIntel may Haswell not have bothered
Chip giant Intel is using the Computex show, here in Old Taipei, to launch its Haswell platform in a desperate attempt to continue having a bash at the old mobile and tablet market.One question is why...
View ArticleARM is better than Intel – says ARM
At a press conference here at Computex 2013 this morning, a senior ARM executive claimed his company’s designs outperformed Intel designs.And, he added, as ARM moved to 20nm and 16nm/14nm sizes, it...
View ArticleAsus goes tablet crazy, launches Haswell
At a very loud and very packed press conference here in Le Meridien, Taipei, Asus decided to make transformation the theme.The transformation theme opened up with Asus chairman Johnny Shih saying he...
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Intel: Now your PC is a zombie
Tom Kilroy, an executive VP of Intel said that netbooks ushered in tablets, which is an interesting re-invention of history. Kilroy, speaking in a vast auditorium here at Computex Taipei, was pushing...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Return of the Start button
A trio of Microsoft executives demonstrated Windows 8.1 at Computex today and sure enough, enterprises can have their start button back. Nick Parker, corporate VP in charge of OEM sales; Tami Reller,...
View ArticleARM will make chips
At ARM's press conference on Monday we were struck by how the company was talking about itself. Almost like a manufacturer. Well guess what? A very reliable source tells me that pretty soon now the...
View ArticleChinese tablets are the tiny elephants in the room
OK, I am going to give this a go. Anything Walt Mossberg can do, I can give it a bash. I am writing this on an iPad 3 because i amtiredoflugging 'round my crap Asus with rubbish power performance. Word...
View ArticleAcer's Computex party takes the P out of VIP
Major OEMs - such as Acer - throw lavish parties for VIPs and spend a fortune on booze and disc jockeys, hoping that people will tip up. But, apparently, despite the lavish hospitality, few enjoyed it...
View ArticleInternational buyers want Computex improvements
Facilities for international buyers at the Nangang exhibition centre are inadequate, some of those people have claimed. An Indian visitor told TechEye he had spent considerable time and money attending...
View ArticleEd Iacobucci: 1953-2013
It was with a profound sense of shock and loss that I learned that my friend Ed Iacobucci died on the 21st of June last.Ed possessed an acute and inquiring mind, along with great compassion and humour,...
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