Mass production of the new 50-inch PDP using single scan technology is scheduled to begin in the next month.

In the competitive x86 microprocessor market, there are always swings and shifts based on the latest introductions from the two main protagonists: Intel and AMD. The next anticipated shift is coming in 2008-9 when Intel will finally replace their front side bus (FSB)architecture. This report details Intel's next generation system interconnect and the associated cache coherency protocol, likely deployment plans across the desktop, notebook and server market as well as the economic implications.

The Gemini 3 features a pair of Radeon HD 2600 XT GPUs and they're clocked at 800MHz. Each GPU is paired with 256MB of 500MHz DDR2 memory. This might not sound like anything all too remarkable so far, but it seems like Gecube will beat all the other AMD partners that are working on dual GPU cards, by simply being the first to market. Gecube is expecting the Gemini 3 to be available in retail some time in September.

LGE is promoting an aggressive premier marketing campaign from mobile phones to LCD TVs in Europe in a way to intensify its brand image.

Maxell recently introduced improvements in its line of primary lithium manganese dioxide (LiMnO2) batteries which boast an improvement in capacity of 8-9%. Now compare the 10% improvement of batteries to that seen in semiconductor computing power in the past couple of years. Just another reason why battery and system manufacturers are so hard-pressed to keep up with the demands for higher power density in laptops, consumer electronics, automotive applications, and the like.

Japanese fabless chip maker Genusion has fabricated what the company claims is a novel 4-megabit flash memory technology. Today's flash programming speeds range from 1- to 10Mbit/sec –or about one-tenth the pace of hard drives. The B4-HE mechanism has a potential to achieve 100Mbit/sec programming performance, according to the firm, based in the city of Amagasaki in the Hyogo Prefecture.

The plant employs presently about 900 persons after heavy job cuts over the past years. Launched about 10 years ago as the then most modern cellphone manufacturing plant in Europe, during its most busy period the factory employed up to 3000 persons. Motorola at that time received public subsidies in the million dollar range. After having dislocated manufacturing processes to China, the plant now functions as a logistics and administration center.

...Antoine Barre, who replaced Jos Brenkel as EMEA vice president, Solution Partners Organisation at HP earlier this year, said the vendor will have invested US$170m (£85.5m) in its global channel by the end of its financial year...

Anadigics announced a family of three front-end ICs (FEICs) in low profile standard packages targeting next-generation, Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones and consumer electronics products.

Motorola said it filed a federal patent infringement lawsuit against Aruba Networks over wireless local area network technology for which two Motorola subsidiaries hold patents.

A teenage hacker who managed to unlock his iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T will be trading his reworked gadget for a new sports car.

Yahoo Mail now includes the ability to send text messages to mobile phones. It also now allows users to send instant messages to both Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger users.

Dell recently introdued its Optiplex 755 PC, which the company calls the World's most manageable and energy efficient commercial desktop ever.

Although DDR3 is still fresh to the computing industry, there are surprisingly many different kits available right now. For our first DDR3 review, we are taking a fresh look at one of the first kits made available back in May, OCZ's DDR3-1333 CL7.

Today's article will cover one of Cooler Master's more high-end power supplies, the Real Power Pro M1000. With a rapidly expanding list of choices in this realm of power supplies, we are going to look at both performance and features, helping you to decide whether you should make this unit a consideration for your hard earned upgrading dollars."

Extricom announced the formation of the Uni-Fi Alliance, a program that furthers the collaboration of the Wi-Fi ecosystem and maximizes business value through validated product combinations.

Qualcomm, a chipmaker for cell phones, said Monday it bought back or retired about 29 million shares, or US$1.1 billion, in common stock during July and August.

"...A Sanyo spokesman confirmed Friday that the company is considering various options to turn around its semiconductor operations but said nothing had been decided..."