A month ago, Apple unveiled the new iMac which is a lot thinner than previous generations. That design is reportedly causing production difficulties, which could push the iMacs into 2013 More...

Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, has been targeted by an iOS game which was pulled by Apple less than an hour after it was published to the store for others to download. More...

Apparently the iPhone 5 will enter production in September of this year meaning the device will likely be on sale at the end of the year, or early next year according to a company named... More...

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization launched in 2005 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to design, manufacture and distribute affordable laptop computers to children around the world, announced that mass production of the... More...

If you've been following news of the full-sized 113-keys Optimus Maximus keyboard with colour OLED screens (10.1mm² large with a 48x48 pixel resolution) located inside each key, you are probably aware of the bad news... More...

Recent rumours, later denied by Sony Corporation, have turned out to be true. According to Reuters, Sony plans to sell its "Cell" microprocessor output facility in Nagasaki prefecture and "RSX" graphic chip production line in... More...

Samsung, the world's largest memory chip maker, was forced to partially halt production due to an electrical mishap in a factory today. According to spokewoman Lee Soo-jeong, a spark in an electrical transformer led to... More...

Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components... More...

Inkless printing company ZINK Imaging has completed its purchase of Konica Minolta's manufacturing facility in North Carolina, enabling ZINK to step-up production of paper for its Zero-Ink print process. ZINK Paper is special photo paper... More...

LG Electronics has announced plans to cut back production of plasma display panel screens as part of it efforts to improve the business performance of its display operations. The company will close the oldest of... More...

About 98-99% of SanDisk NAND flash are of multi-level cell structure. As there still is a considerable amount of low-price MLC NAND flash being sold in the market, prices are being affected. Once the inventory... More...

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has promised that production was being boosted to increase deliveries by next month: "We must do our best to fix this abnormal lack of stock. We have not been able to... More...

Wistron, the Taiwanese device manufacturer currently producing Xbox 360 units for Microsoft, is likely to halt production of the console during 2008, according to a report in the Economic Daily News. The company is likely... More...

Xbox 360 Elite systems on a Chinese production line have been caught on camera. The images not only show the sleek, black exterior of the Xbox 360 Elite, but a close-up image shows the 120GB... More...

Toshiba Corporation, one of the world's largest producers of flash memory chips, is expanding production of NAND flash memory chips faster than originally planned. Most of Toshiba's manufacturing line in its number-three chip factory can... More...

Intel Corporation announced an investment of between $1 billion to $1.5 billion in its fourth factory scheduled to use the 45nm process: the Rio Rancho Fab 11X site. The production in New Mexico is scheduled... More...

Sony executive Yutaka Nakagawa has unveiled plans to cut the costs incurred from manufacturing Cell chips for the PlayStation 3 by outsourcing their production. Over the last three years, Sony has invested US$ 3.8 billion... More...

Plextor LLC, a leading supplier of optical disk drives (ODDs) that belongs to Japanese electronics giant Shinano Kenshi, said on Tuesday that it would not exit the market of optical disk drives, despite of announcement... More...

Quanta Storage, the largest maker of slim-type optical disc drives (for use in notebook PCs) in Taiwan, is planning to start volume production of slim-type Blu-ray Disc (BD) burners in the second half of 2007... More...

It turns out that the demand for electronic dictionaries is fairly big, and growing. Enough anyways, for Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. to announce the mass production of its 5.01-inch monochrome, highly reflective, thin... More...

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hopes to begin mass production of its low-cost notebooks aimed at children in developing nations in August or September. In late 2005, when the nonprofit organization released a prototype of... More...

TSMC released details earlier this year on its 45nm process, revealing some of the challenges faced with the shrink. The 2008 timeframe set by ATI falls in-line with AMD's plans to move to 45nm for... More...

It's the technology that Canon and Toshiba have been touting as the ultimate combination of flat panel size with CRT image quality. SED (Surface-conduction Electron emitter Display) replaces the one large cathode ray tube found... More...

Intel informed its channel partners in Taiwan that it plans to stop manufacturing four desktop-use Pentium D processors (model numbers 830, 840, 930 and 940) by the end of 2006, according to channel sources. The... More...

Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced the opening of a new studio in Sofia, Bulgaria. Alexandru-Ion Radu, recently named director of recruitment and training at Ubisoft's Romania studio, has been appointed... More...

Taiwan-based small-form-factor (SFF) PC specialists AOpen and Shuttle and own-brand PC companies Acer, Gigabyte Technology, and Micro-Star International (MSI) are gearing up to introduce new desktop PCs based on the Intel Viiv platform in January... More...

Eurogamer has reported that production on the upcoming Carmageddon sequel, developed by Visual Science and published by Eidos, has been halted. At this point it is not clear if the title will be scrapped... More...

Thanks to forum member Spartan_X for posting this in Neowin's BPN Companies manufacturing components for Sony's PSP handheld were initially told by the electronics giant to expect production numbers of 18 million... More...

A consortium of manufacturers has announced its readiness to begin volume production of high definition recordable DVDs (HD DVDs). The first HD DVDR discs will go on sale next year, at around the same time... More...

Is this the end of Sony's convergence experiment - or will PS3 follow the same path? Sony Japan has stopped manufacturing both models of the PSX media centre cum game console, with... More...

Shipments of the PlayStation Portable console have reached 800,000 in Japan since the system launched last month, and Sony has now pledged to increase output by April in order to accommodate overseas launches. ... More...

At the end of 2004, US retail giant Wal-Mart talked with leading manufacturers of optical disc drives (ODDs) in Taiwan concerning OEM production of entry-level DVD recorders, according to some Taiwan-based ODD makers. Wal-Mart wants... More...

The iPod looks set to make a further step into PDA territory if claims that Apple is preparing a 60GB model equipped with a 2in colour display and iPhoto synchronisation prove correct. "Highly... More...

Sony announced yesterday that it has developed Blu-Ray (BD) disc production technology that will be enable the company to produce Blu-Ray discs at half the cost of DVDs. Instead of using glass plates for production... More...

Apple has bundled its Final Cut Pro HD, Motion, and DVD Studio Pro 3 software into a single suite for film and video called Production Suite. The integrated suite combines the latest versions of Apple's... More...

Infinium Labs has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Chicony, a manufacturer of keyboards and PC cameras, to build a custom keyboard/mouse combo peripheral that will ship with the Phantom. The peripheral,... More...

Craig Barrett, the chief executive at Intel isn't too pleased with all the problems that Intel has been experiencing. Lately Intel has been missing product deadlines, and has had to recall its Grantsdale chipset.... More...

Nantero, Inc. announced today that it is teaming with LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) to develop semiconductor process technology, expediting the effective utilization of carbon nanotubes in CMOS fabrication. The joint development project... More...

TOKYO — Sony Corp.'s Nagasaki 300-mm fab has begun test production of Cell processors, Ken Kutaragi, Sony's executive deputy president and COO, acknowledged this week. He declined to elaborate. Sony and IBM Corp. recently announced... More...

The six-week waiting list to get a popular iPod Mini digital music player from Apple Computer is likely to get shorter by the end of the year. Hitachi's hard disk drive unit said Sunday that... More...

According to Japanese weekly magazine Shukan Gendai, Sony's HDD/DVD Recorder and PlayStation 2 media system PSX stopped production in the beginning of April. In response to the magazine, Sony Electronics' public relations spokesman confirmed that... More...

Prices for 5-megapixel CMOS digital cameras are expected to drop from around US$200 currently to US$150 in the second half of the year as local companies move into mass production, according to sources. The sources... More...

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert Rivet for Advanced Micro Devices presented at the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor and Systems Conference on Monday to tell the analysts about updates in the company's microprocessor and... More...

VIA Technologies said today that its Esther-codenamed processors will be produced at IBM's 12-inch East Fishkill, New York fab using 90nm SOI CMOS, low-k dielectric manufacturing technologies. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will... More...

Industry-leading 65nm process to begin sample production in Q1 '04 Trial runs of the advanced semiconductor manufacturing process which will eventually create the much-vaunted Cell microprocessor are set to start at Toshiba's... More...

GameCube consoles are once again rolling off the production lines in Japan as global demand for the system finally outstrips the backlog of units which had built up at Nintendo's warehouses. Recent... More...

EVEN THOUGH Asus has already announced Nforce 3 motherboards that you can buy in many parts of the world, there's evidence suggesting the chipsets not so ready as Nvidia would like, at least not for... More...

The Japanese company Nintendo has temporarily halted production of its GameCube consoles until the autumn. The struggling games maker says it needs to clear its warehouses of unsold machines before it makes... More...

Thanks Steffen for this Email...The SambarServer is a Multi-threaded combined Web, HTTP, Mail, Proxy and FTP server for Windows (a Linux version is coming in 2003). Remote Administration, JavaEngine, ODBC, Webdav, Webmail and a Search... More...

IN THE HIGH PERFORMANCE graphics industry, performance must be combined with quality. It is this neverending race which will lead to initial availability of Nvidia's new Geforce FX cards this month. However, we have learned... More...