Dan Nystedt - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Dan Nystedt

Article | 14/12/2007 AMD fuses GPU, core logic, CPU on new 'Swift' chip

AMD plans to combine the functions of three chips into one code-named "Swift:" the GPU (graphics processing unit ), core-logic chipset and CPU (centra...

Article | 28/11/2007 Samsung develops RFID chip for mobile handsets

Samsung Electronics has developed an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip it hopes will turn mobile phones into more useful tools to tell peopl...

Article | 23/11/2007 Google wins search share at expense of Yahoo, Microsoft

Google increased its share of the US Internet search engine market in October, taking share away from rivals Yahoo and Microsoft, according to market ...

Article | 12/11/2007 Take-Two settles "Hot Coffee" sex content case

Game developer Take-Two Interactive announced a preliminary settlement on all consumer class action lawsuits in the US related to a software modificat...

Article | 8/11/2007 Gphones cool, but may take time to catch on, says ARM CEO

Google's move into the market for smartphone operating software has hyped the idea of a "Gphone," but the new software may take a while to catch on, t...

Article | 5/11/2007 Taiwanese group sees 3D LCD TVs out within two-years

A Taiwanese research group has developed 3D (three-dimensional) television picture technology that can be used on LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs as ...

Article | 24/10/2007 Elpida, UMC team up on PRAM, DRAM

Japanese DRAM (dynamic RAM) maker Elpida Memory and Taiwanese contract chip maker United Microelectronics (UMC) plan to work together to develop phase...

Article | 24/10/2007 Samsung manufacturing leap to make cheaper, faster chips

Samsung Electronics Co. has developed a chip-manufacturing technique able to significantly increase the amount of music, pictures, videos and other da...

Article | 23/10/2007 IBM, MediaTek to develop wireless broadband technology

IBM and Taiwanese chip designer, MediaTek, announced a three-year pact to develop wireless chipsets for a new technology to transmit large volumes of ...

Article | 22/10/2007 Taiwan to sign WiMax pact with Intel, NEC, others

The Taiwan government will sign a memorandum of understanding next week to work on WiMax technology and product development with multinationals includ...

Article | 16/10/2007 IDF TAIWAN - Intel shows off UMPCs designed with Menlow

Intel showed off six new ultramobile PCs on Monday. The PCs are designed around its Menlow chips, which will debut around the middle of next year.

Article | 16/10/2007 IDF TAIWAN - Intel to unveil OLPC chips in Shanghai next April

Intel plans to unveil a new microprocessor for the One Laptop Per Child notebook and other ultra-low cost laptop PCs at the Intel Developer Forum in S...

Article | 10/10/2007 Taiwan group expects PRAM chips in three years

A government-funded Taiwanese research institute says it will have phase-change memory products out within three years, while another memory technolog...

Article | 10/10/2007 DRAM price falls 25 percent

A glut of DRAM (dynamic RAM) on the market and sluggish demand due to a holiday in China caused the price of the most widely used computer memory chip...

Article | 3/10/2007 Sony unveils latest edition of Reader Digital Book

While it may not pack the sales bang of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the latest edition of Sony Electronics' Reader Digital Book could turn s...