A Key Deal, Corsair Acquires DROP
It would seem that Corsair are looking to expand their peripheral business and have done so in a quite impressive manner. They have purchased DROP for an undisclosed amount of...
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NVIDIA Was DisARMed, Now SK Hynix Is Considering Going Out On A Limb
The deal between NVIDIA and ARM may have fallen through but that doesn't mean no one else is interested, as SK Hynix vice chairman and co-CEO Park Jung-ho has revealed. SK Hynix…
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The UK Takes A Second Look At NVIDIA’s Purchase Of ARM
It has been a year since NVIDIA made a $40 billion offer to purchase ARM and some time since we have seen an update on the challenges NVIDIA's purchase of ARM is…
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Microsoft Buys ZeniMax Media; Cortana To Soon Feature Bethesda Conversation Bugs
Microsoft grabbed some spare change and popped over to Zenimax to make a $7.5 billion deal that they couldn't refuse, taking ownership of the company and all it's assets. That means Bethesda…
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NVIDIA To Buy ARM For $40 Billion; The Next Step In Their Love Affair With Cambridge
ARM has been very popular with venture capitalists recently, barely four years ago SoftBank purchased it for $32 billion, before splitting off a quarter of it to a different investment group;
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NVIDIA Is Looking To ARM Itself Against The Competition
According to separate reports from Bloomberg and the Financial Times, linked to by Slashdot but buried behind a paywall, NVIDIA is in talks with SoftBank to purchase ARM. SoftBank...
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Toshiba Raids LITE-ON’s SSD Business
LITE-ON might not have been your go to company when grabbing a new SSD for your system, but they have been a player in the market for a decade now. They specialized…
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Git outta here! Microsoft just bought the largest open source repository hosting service?
It is true, barring any legal challenges to the purchase, Microsoft will soon own GitHub, everyone's favourite source for open source software projects. This might not come as a complete surprise to…
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OCZ’s new controller; Toshiba
It is hard to say just how much per gigabyte Toshiba paid but for $35 million US they now own all of OCZ's storage, both consumer and enterprise. In the statement released…
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Microsoft buys Nokia, the second largest maker of cell phones
At a mere $7.2 billion, Microsoft just picked up all of Nokia's devices and some of their software in an attempt to streamline production and win market share from Apple and Android…
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McAfee picks up Stonesoft, Intel continues to focus on network security
A small security firm called Stonesoft was acquired by Intel, or rather McAfee, for just under $400m. They provide not only software and services but actual network appliances which utilize their proprietary…
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Lenovo still might have a taste for Blackberrys
As we have heard before there are rumours that Lenovo is interested in possibly buying Blackberry, or at least trying. The hurdle they face is not economic, not only do they have…
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Won’t sell Surface? You won’t have a choice if we buy you!
It is a bit of an exaggeration to entertain the thought that Microsoft is involved in buying Dell so that they will finally have a supplier that will have to sell Surface…
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Lenovo to buy RIM? That’s a little hard to swallow.
“We are looking at all opportunities -- RIM and many others” is the actual quote from Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming that spurred the speculation that Lenovo is going...
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Motherboard manufacturer merger mayhem
The news from DigiTimes yesterday that Haswell will take even more features away from the motherboard and place them on the CPU signalled a problem for second and third tier manufacturers…
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Remember VIA Technologies?
There was a time when VIA was a common name in computers for motherboard chipsets and low power processors, but it has been quite a while since they've been in the news. …
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Micron goes on a spending spree, picks up Elpida and a big majority of Rexchip shares
Micron has been very busy lately, spending $2.5 billion USD to purchase Elpida and another $334 million USD to purchase another 24% of DRAM maker Rexchip from Powerchip. The latter of those…
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Intel’s interconnect business grows after buying Cray’s technolgy
Anyone who follows the supercomputer business has had quite a bit of excitement recently, with major shifts in the market becoming quite frequent. Intel started it off by purchasing QLogic's...
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