By Priya Ganapati March 16, 2009
As the netbooks market gets more competitive, design has emerged as a big factor for companies seeking to distinguish their products. Lenovo's latest netbook photos show it may just blow its rivals out of the water when it comes to looks. The company teased Monday with pictures of a new netbook called Pocket Yoga. The photos also show a netbook with a nice almost full-sized keyboard that supports a touchscreen for a stylus. It also has a form factor that allows it to be flipped into a small tablet PC. The Pocket Yoga design ultimately is reminiscent of the Sony Vaio P netbook released earlier this year. Sony has targeted that netbook at fashion conscious consumers. The Vaio P Lifestyle Series netbook comes with a 1.33GHz processor and a 8-inch screen.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Nvidia Spent $43.6 Million to Replace Faulty Graphic Chips
By Sumner Lemon, Mar 16, 2009
Graphics chip vendor Nvidia spent US$43.6 million during its last fiscal year to cover warranty and product replacement claims related to graphics chips that were manufactured and sold with a weak packaging material, the company said on Friday. In July 2008, Nvidia took a one-time $196 million charge against its second-quarter earnings to cover additional warranty and replacement costs related to faulty graphics chips, which the company said included a "weak die/packaging material set." Nvidia's financial year ended on January 25. Based on the $43.6 million spent so far, approximately 78 percent of the original amount set aside, or $152.4 million, remains available to cover costs related to this flaw.
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Graphics chip vendor Nvidia spent US$43.6 million during its last fiscal year to cover warranty and product replacement claims related to graphics chips that were manufactured and sold with a weak packaging material, the company said on Friday. In July 2008, Nvidia took a one-time $196 million charge against its second-quarter earnings to cover additional warranty and replacement costs related to faulty graphics chips, which the company said included a "weak die/packaging material set." Nvidia's financial year ended on January 25. Based on the $43.6 million spent so far, approximately 78 percent of the original amount set aside, or $152.4 million, remains available to cover costs related to this flaw.
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Experts: Patent dispute with Intel won't choke supply of AMD chips
AMD adamant that Global Foundries subsidiary meets cross-licensing deal
By Eric Lai March 16, 2009
Intel Corp.'s threat to pull its cross-licensing deal with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is unlikely to result in a shortage of AMD processors in the market, experts said Monday. "Gosh, I'd worry more about a meteor slamming into the Earth," said Nathan Brookwood, a longtime analyst at Insight64, noting that very few patent lawsuits in Silicon Valley result in either party being forced to halt production. Even as both Intel and AMD amp up their legal posturing and rhetoric, they will also "go on their merry way making their products," he said. One reason is the terms of the 2001 deal struck by AMD and Intel, which spell out that any dispute must be settled in state court or federal court in Delaware. It would take at least three years for Intel to get a court order to force AMD to stop making processors, according to Mark Walters, a patent lawyer in the Seattle office of Darby & Darby PC.
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Also Read this --> Update! Report: AMD Says Intel is in Breach
By Eric Lai March 16, 2009
Intel Corp.'s threat to pull its cross-licensing deal with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is unlikely to result in a shortage of AMD processors in the market, experts said Monday. "Gosh, I'd worry more about a meteor slamming into the Earth," said Nathan Brookwood, a longtime analyst at Insight64, noting that very few patent lawsuits in Silicon Valley result in either party being forced to halt production. Even as both Intel and AMD amp up their legal posturing and rhetoric, they will also "go on their merry way making their products," he said. One reason is the terms of the 2001 deal struck by AMD and Intel, which spell out that any dispute must be settled in state court or federal court in Delaware. It would take at least three years for Intel to get a court order to force AMD to stop making processors, according to Mark Walters, a patent lawyer in the Seattle office of Darby & Darby PC.
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Also Read this --> Update! Report: AMD Says Intel is in Breach
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