"...Among those contacted are private equity groups Blackstone, Carlyle; semiconductor makers Elpida, Renesas, Rohm, Hynix and Infineon..."

"... a gain of 697 million euros from the sale of the holding in TSMC...Philips said it made ``strong progress'' toward meeting its targets...Philips now owns 12.8 percent in Taiwan Semiconductor, the world's largest maker of custom-made chips, and said in March it plans to have sold the rest by 2010 after selling a majority stake in its chip unit to a group of buyout firms last year..."

We check out XFX's GeForce 7600GT "Fatal1ty" 650MHz edition cards in SLI mode and see if they are worth considering!

We tested our 8 core (dual quad-core) Mac Pro against the 4 core (dual dual-core) Mac Pro running at the same clock speed (3GHz). We used the same eight memory modules (total of 16GB) and identical models of hard drive. The 8 core had the Quadro FX 4500 graphics card while the 4 core had the Radeon X1900 XT, but this first round of testing is strictly CPU intensive.

Samsung's BDP-1200 is the latest Blu-ray player to hit the market. It is also the earliest second-generation machine in the format to appear, beating out Sony and other Blu-ray supporters by about three months. The BD-P1200 includes a number of performance enhancements not available in the first Samsung player or in any of its competitors. These include faster boot-up, load times, better upconversion of standard definition DVDs and with some discs, improved HD performance.

AcBel has been around for a while and this isn't their first venture into the power supply arena. As a matter of fact, they have been coming up with this type of product since the mid 90s, so they certainly have some experience in the field. But can they take a product that is in abundance and give us something that isn't on every other similar power supply on the market?