Anand Chandrasekher: Intel is ready for MID challenge

Digitimes took the opportunity to talk to Anand Chandrasekher, manager of Intel’s ultra mobility group to discuss Intel’s views on the new development. Nvidia was recently revealing its Tegra processor for mobile computer products to challenge Intel’s Atom platform on MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices).
Read the full interview

A Call to Paul*

by Barry Young, Senior Advisor and Consultant – Intel introduced the 2W+ Atom, its latest low cost, low power microprocessor, which is yet another attempt to expand their market by creating a product family, falling between the Smart Phone and the notebook. This “middy” device which in previous incarnations has failed miserably has been called [...]

Iphone Countdown: Why Apple Could Kill The Nintendo DS

Brian Caulfield, wrote on Forbes.com an interesting article speculating that iPod and iPhone – and the software – delivering App Store – could bring trouble to Nintendo’s dominace of the handheld market.
There’s only one company on earth that has come back from behind to wrest a multibillion-dollar market away from Sony, beat back a grasping [...]

The Highly Anticipated Eee PC 901/1000 To Be Revealed

Yes, yes and yes – BUT – Even more interesting: Da Babes and Girls . Welcome to Computex 2008 – And, please AVING, MORE GIRLS, please

AUO unveils convex curved display

Digitimes reports AU Optronics (AUO) having announced what is called by AUO as the world’s first convex curved display – after showcasing its concave curved display at SID 2008 in May. The TFT-LCD glass substrate has a curve radius of 100mm, AUO detailed, which it says requires a special thinning technology to achieve. Also a [...]

Computex 2008: AMD announces the XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform)

AMD has unveiled XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) technology which uses the same concept as the XG Station from ASUSTeK, or in other words, an external docking station for graphic cards relayed to the laptop in PCI Express.
There is a difference in size with the solution from the Taiwanese manufacturer. This time there is a PCI-E [...]

Displayblog: KTF SHOW with QMT mirasol

Jin posted an interesting article about a freaky new gadget on his displayblog: ‘Qualcomm MEMS Technology (QMT) was showcasing a funky-looking device at the SID show currently being held in Los Angeles. The funky-looking device, called SHOW, as it turns out is part of a wireless and mobile security monitoring solution that uses QMT’s mirasol [...]