Apr 05

Texas Instruments to acquire National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion in cash money

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As the saying goes, everything’s bigger in Texas, and that includes Texas Instruments’ (TI) share of the semiconductor market. The Dallas-based firm announced today that it will pay $6.5 billion for National Semiconductor. With the acquisition complete, National will become a branch of TI’s analog segment, which is now positioned to make up 50 percent of the company’s revenue. According to a joint press release, TI held the biggest chunk of the analog semiconductor market in 2010 at 14 percent, and with the new addition that number’s bound to get even bigger. Full PR after the break.

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Apr 05

Radeon HD 6790 sneaks in at under $150, leaves reviewers wanting more for the money

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As sure as snow in winter or sun in summer, AMD has yet another refresh to its graphics card portfolio this spring. The Radeon HD 6790 is only a couple of misplaced digits away from the far more illustrious HD 6970, but you should be able to tell the two apart by another, altogether more significant spec: the new mid-tier card retails at $149. Predictably, its performance offers no threat to AMD’s single-GPU flagship, but the 6790’s 840MHz graphics and shader clock speeds plus 1GB of GDDR5 running at an effective 4.2GHz data rate don’t seem like anything to sniff at either. Reviewers agreed that it’s AMD’s slightly delayed answer to NVIDIA’s GTX 460, and with the latter card exiting retail availability to make room for the (oddly enough) less powerful GTX 550 Ti, AMD’s new solution looks set to be the better choice at the shared $149 price point. Alas, being limited to 800 Stream processors and 16 ROPs does expose the HD 6790 to being cannibalized by AMD’s own Radeon HD 6850 (which can be had for sub-$150 if you’re tolerant of rebates) and that turns out to be exactly what happens. A solid card, then, but one that would require an even lower price dip to make economic sense. Benchmarks await below.

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Radeon HD 6790 sneaks in at under $150, leaves reviewers wanting more for the money originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 05

AMD ships 32nm quad-core Llano APU, expects systems ‘later this quarter’

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Whoa, Nelly! AMD, a company that has struggled to nail its ship dates in years past, has just pulled the ultimate 180. If you’ll recall, we heard last month that its quad-core Llano APU was on track for a Q3 2011 release, but now, we’ve word straight from the equine’s mouth that the action will be going down far sooner. In fact, AMD’s Singapore plant just celebrated the first shipment of the company’s 32nm Llano A-series APUs, complete with discrete-level graphics and a promise to change the way we think about netbook / nettop / ultraportable performance. Of course, just because these chips are headed out to OEM partners doesn’t mean that they’ll be gracing the pages of your favorite PC maker tomorrow; Chief Financial Officer and Interim CEO Thomas Seifert notes that AMD is looking forward to seeing Llano-based machines during this quarter, but given that Q2 just got going, we may be waiting awhile still. Nothing like a little Zacate to tide you over in the meantime, right?

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Apr 04

Flickr Gets Their Tubes Clogged

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This article was written on July 20, 2006 by CyberNet.

Flickr Gets Their Tubes Clogged
 

Flickr had some unexpected downtime yesterday and the screenshot above is from their maintenance page they posted. They had to transfer 20 terabytes of photos between two data centers that were located thousands of miles apart. The site was shutdown to ensure that the transition went smoothly but they still kept people busy by having them enter the contest above!

All you have to do was print out the maintenance page (a copy of the page can be found here) and do something funny with the two circles. Then you are supposed to upload your artwork to Flickr and tag it as flickrcolourcontest. There are already more than 700 submissions so you better get on it if you want to win the Flickr Pro account. Who would have thought that some downtime could be made so fun?

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Apr 04

The Governator trailer spins Schwarzenegger as a superhero

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, fresh off an eight-year term as California’s governor, has no plans to retire from kicking bad guy butt.

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Apr 04

Cisco goes minimalistic with new Linksys E-Series routers and switches

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If you dig the stylish look on the Linksys E4200 802.11n router but prefer something more wallet-friendly, then Cisco’s latest range of home routers and switches will likely suit your taste. Gone are the curved grooves and blinking LEDs on the top, but these routers — ranging from $59.99 to $159.99 — still go about their usual wireless business at up to 300Mbps, with additional simultaneous dual-band support on the pricier E2500 and E3200. Like their predecessors, you’ll also find a refreshed, feature-packed Cisco Connect software suite in the box, which promises to make installation and management a whole lot easier.

Also notable is the upcoming virtual USB feature that connects printers and storage devices to the network — the E3200 and E4200 are expected to receive this update in the summer. As for the switches, you have a choice of three new models going from $29.99 for five 10/100Mbps ports, all the way up to $74.99 for eight gigabit connections. All these good-looking fellas are up for grabs starting today, and you can check out the spec sheets after the break for all the nitty-gritty.

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Apr 04

Here’s the First iPad 2 Commercial

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Are you ready to believe? Then take a look at the very first iPad 2 commercial to grace the TV airwaves.

Okay, so you never get to see what the device looks like when a normal person holds it in normal lighting conditions, and the apps you get to see are pretty standard, and the same Apple voice-over guy who is starting to sound kind of annoying by now is here as expected.

And…yeah, that’s about it. Check out the video for yourself below:

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Apr 04

Nokia T7-00 surfaces again, looks like N8 redux

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This isn’t our first encounter with the Nokia T7-00, but this time around we’re getting a whole bunch more info thanks to some detailed pics leaked by PCPop. In a nutshell, the T7-00 appears to be a downgraded version of Nokia’s N8 imaging flagship for the Chinese market. The phone is identical to the N8 in appearance, except for the missing camera pod in the back. Gone is the phenomenal 12 megapixel autofocus Zeiss shooter with xenon flash — instead, you’ll find an 8 megapixel camera (likely EDoF, like its E7 and C7 cousins) with dual-LED flash mounted flush with the body. In addition, the micro-USB connector finds a new home behind the plastic door that normally conceals the mini-HDMI port on the N8. Under the hood, the existing pentaband 3G radio gives way to China’s proprietary TD-SCDMA standard, and the ARM 11 processor gets a 20MHz speed bump to 700MHz. Considering the vast numbers of mobile subscribers in China, the T7-00 is sure to help Nokia reach its goal of selling 150 million Symbian devices in the next few years. Follow the source link below for the complete set of pictures.

Nokia T7-00 surfaces again, looks like N8 redux originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 04

Nikon announces D5100

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The replacement for the D5000 features a 16-megapixel sensor and upgrade to 1080/30p video, among other things.

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Apr 04

Cisco refreshes wireless-N Linksys E series routers

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Cisco announces new wireless-N routers in the Linksys E series family.

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