by Richard Martin, May 5, 2008
Now that Steve Ballmer has taken his ball and gone home, three things have become clear about the failed Microsoft bid for Yahoo: 1) This deal is not dead yet; 2) Yahoo's future as an independent company is at any rate limited; and 3) Microsoft is playing in the wrong arena. Taking those in order: the blogosphere's minute examination of the collapsed $40 billion-plus offer has reached the level of close Shakespearean analysis, as in Henry Blodgett's Silicon Alley Insider column sifting through the dueling weekend announcements and blog postings from either side. The cries of wounded innocence from CEO Jerry Yang – "Gee, we had no idea they really meant 33 bucks a share!" -- Blodgett notes, "might lend credence to the theory that this is just another negotiating tactic by Microsoft -- a card played in the hopes that Yahoo's enraged shareholders will force the company into a deal."
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Monday, May 5, 2008
AMD's Puma ready to pounce
Give Intel a taste of the cat
By Nick Farrell Monday, 05 May 2008
AMD claims that more than 100 different laptops will be shipped with its brand-new Puma chipset. While AMD is supposed to be telling the world plus dog about Puma in a couple of weeks, it seems that John Taylor, of AMD's Graphics division, is so excited he cannot contain himself. Speaking at a technology update event in Singapore he said that PC makers had been falling over themselves to jack the chip under the bonnet of their latest laptops. The key selling point is apparently AMD’s “hybrid graphics” which basically lets an integrated GPU does the low-powered 2D and 3D work while a discrete GPU chip does the donkey work. This means that you will get longer battery life and a reasonable amount of power for gaming.
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By Nick Farrell Monday, 05 May 2008
AMD claims that more than 100 different laptops will be shipped with its brand-new Puma chipset. While AMD is supposed to be telling the world plus dog about Puma in a couple of weeks, it seems that John Taylor, of AMD's Graphics division, is so excited he cannot contain himself. Speaking at a technology update event in Singapore he said that PC makers had been falling over themselves to jack the chip under the bonnet of their latest laptops. The key selling point is apparently AMD’s “hybrid graphics” which basically lets an integrated GPU does the low-powered 2D and 3D work while a discrete GPU chip does the donkey work. This means that you will get longer battery life and a reasonable amount of power for gaming.
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Intel Atom to boost mini-ITX chassis
By Monica Chen, Joseph Tsai Monday 5 May 2008
With Intel restricting its Atom processor to only be used with mini-ITX-based motherboards, mini-ITX chassis are expected to see a surge in demand in June, according to sources in the channel. In order to make a clear separation between nettop products and traditional entry-level PCs, Intel only allows Atom processors to be used with mini-ITX motherboards, limiting the platform with a lack of PCI Express and only a single DIMM slot for up to 2GB DDR2 memory. Since demand for mini-ITX motherboards is likely to increase with Intel's push of nettop products, the sources expect mini-ITX motherboard pricing toe a significant drop, as will those for corresponding chassis.
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With Intel restricting its Atom processor to only be used with mini-ITX-based motherboards, mini-ITX chassis are expected to see a surge in demand in June, according to sources in the channel. In order to make a clear separation between nettop products and traditional entry-level PCs, Intel only allows Atom processors to be used with mini-ITX motherboards, limiting the platform with a lack of PCI Express and only a single DIMM slot for up to 2GB DDR2 memory. Since demand for mini-ITX motherboards is likely to increase with Intel's push of nettop products, the sources expect mini-ITX motherboard pricing toe a significant drop, as will those for corresponding chassis.
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