Tag archive: Gigabyte

Although Apple's iPad 2 is by for the dominant player in the tablet market, there's no mistaking that competition is heating up as a growing number of companies enter the fray. Although most consumer attention has focused on Android tablets from the likes of Samsung and Motorola—as well as RIM's forthcoming PlayBook—Taiwanese motherbaord manufacturer Gigabyte is hoping to get into the game with a new twist:… Read More

Intel introduced a new processor architecture at this year's Consumer Electronics Show dubbed Sandy Bridge, the second generation of the company's Core-i series CPUs. The new chips sport an integrated graphics processor that is powerful enough to compete with mid-range video cards, eliminating the need for consumers to also invest in a pricey display adapter for their new computers. Unfortunately for Intel, a design flaw has led to a… Read More

Taiwan's Gigabyte has officially announced its M912V tablet PC, which takes the whole idea of a touchscreen-based, swivel-display notebook computer and crams it into a form factor more closely associated with a sub-notebook or the new flavor of Atom-powered “netbook” PCs. The M912V sports an 8.9-inch, 1,280 by 768-pixel LCD touchscreen display (with LED backlighting) that can rotate 180 degrees to transform from a… Read More

“Gigabyte Communications, established last June, said it plans to launch its first mobile phone under the Gigabyte brand in the July-September period. The handset will be targeted at the high-endsegment, which accounts for about one-fifth of the nation's NT$42 billion (US$1.35) market. The company is also seeking opportunities to make phones for international brands outside the Asian market, Jesse Lee  a vice president of… Read More

“The colorful 4-gigabyte iPod mini and the 20-gigabyte iPod are sold out at Amazon.com. Supplies at Circuit City stores are running out as soon as new shipments arrive every few days. Shoppers at Best Buy's online store are also out of luck on most iPod models, but that's because Best Buy is giving priority of the inventory they do have for shoppers at retail stores, said Brian Lucas, a spokesman for the nation's… Read More

From Elpida's press release: Elpida Memory, Inc (Elpida), Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it has shipped the first 1 Gigabyte DDR2 small-outline dual in-line memory module (SO-DIMM) that brings low-power, high-density, high-performance and small form-factor benefits to notebook PC applications. Separately, Elpida has also shipped samples of its 256 Megabit DDR2 SDRAM… Read More

From Elpida's news release: The 2 Gigabyte modules are the highest density available for the server market, and they offer high-speed performance with a data transfer rate of 4.3 Gigabytes per second (PC2-4300). Elpida's newly developed stacked BGA (sBGA) technology creates a slim module (4.8 millimeter thickness) that increases air flow space between modules, thus improving thermal performance and reliability for server… Read More