It cost £50ish from Lidl, and its major selling point was that it also played USB sticks and SD cards.

TSMC is still adding capacity, despite widespread industry concerns that the foundry industry is cutting back on capex in order to squeeze higher prices per wafer.

The process technology of graphics processors will overtake the process technology of CPUs next year, when TSMC starts making graphics processing units (GPUs) for Nvidia and ATI on a 40 nm process in the first half of next year, according to a piece in TG Daily.

FCI has expanded its line of storage interface interconnects with the development of the Micro SATA interconnect solution for 1.8in. form-factor drives and port

Linear Technology has a mosfet driver that produces gate signals for upper and lower power n-channel devices in synchronous rectified power converters

It was an excellent May for the semiconductor market, reports Future Horizons, Europe’s leading semiconductor market analyst company. “The global chip market in May 2008 was up 8.4 per cent compared with the market in May 2007 driven by 16.8 per cent growth in the Asia Pacific region and a 10.1 per cent increase in units”, said Malcolm Penn, CEO of ...

Following the success of its tiny Eee laptop, Asus has launched an equally small desktop called Eee Box. The unit is 222x178x26.9mm, a fraction over one litre, but still includes an 80Gbyte hard drive, a flash card reader, 10/100/1,000 Ethernet and 802.11n WiFi.

Everyone’s scared of Google. That’s one explanation of the Intel/HP/Yahoo move to collaborate in Cloud computing.

Today's announcement by HP, Intel, Yahoo, the University of Illinois, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany to collaborate in cloud computing resurrects the idea of Net Computing proposed by Larry Ellison of Oracle a decade ago.

A boom in the up take of wireless broadband services over the next few years could result in as many as 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers generating $784bn in service revenues by 2015