Taiwan-based second-tier motherboard maker ASRock on April 27 applied for listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) with paid-in capital of NT$743.09 million (US$22.3 million). Congrats to ASRock for doing as well as they have over the years.
In 2006, the company, which was listed on the emerging stock market, recorded net profits before tax of NT$2.44 billion with earnings per share (EPS) of NT$23.94, according to the Chinese-language ETtoday. ASRock is predicted to have over 20% growth in first half 2007 year compared to 2006, says the Chinese-language Commer (more…)
Samsung Electronics has started mass producing flash memory chips that both hold more data and work at higher speeds than competing chips, it said on Sunday.
The new chips, each of which can hold 2GB of data, will likely increase competition in the already highly competitive flash market and maintain the pressure that has seen chip prices fall by more than half in the last year. The read speed has been increased from 17MBps to 30MBps for high capacity cards and the write speed is almost doubled from 4.4MBps to 8MBps, said Samsung.
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It's no secret that EVGA is the top add-in-board partner (AIB) when it comes to NVIDIA graphics card. It's tough not being the top dog, but being behind the industry leader doesn't mean that you can't nip at the heels of the guy in front of you to let him know that you are still there. XFX has recently done that and lashed out at EVGA! Read on to find out how!
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When standard air-cooling just won't cut it anymore, but you don't want to mess around with liquid-cooling options, that leaves you with one choice to get your processor into plaid speeds — the ULTRA Chill-TEC Thermoelectric Hybrid CPU Cooler! Will the Ultra ChillTec Thermoelectric cooler be able to outperform the big boy's of the air cooling world?
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Cooler Master introduces a huge dual 120mm heatpipe tower with down facing fans. Does the size and design pay off in new standards for cooling performance? The Gemini II is compared to the best tested so far in our cooling lab. (more…)
