Flash memory and hard-disk drives could face a challenge from a new chip technology, dubbed phase-change memory, being developed by a group of companies led by IBM Corp.

Gamers love Sony Corp.'s new PlayStation 3 for its graphic capabilities and firepower, but the advanced Blu-ray DVD drive is annoying some by raising the cost, slowing production and forcing them to buy into a format they've not yet aligned with.

Via Technologies Inc. announced that two of its PC chipsets have passed Microsoft Corp. Windows Vista Basic certification tests, ensuring trouble-free installation and driver upgrades.

Japan's Kenwood Corp. will soon begin selling what it claims is the smallest portable music player based on a hard-disk drive.

On Tuesday Toshiba Corp. will unveil the first slim-type HD DVD writer drive suitable for use in laptop computers.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Wednesday announced it has developed a new device driver to make handheld-device screens brighter, even in broad daylight.

The soaring popularity of MP3 music players is driving demand for NAND flash memory chips faster than suppliers can keep up.

The images produced by Nvidia Corp.'s Quad SLI graphics technology are stunning, but you will not see them displayed on the show floor at Computex.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will next month launch two portable computers that use flash memory in place of a hard-disk drive for data storage, the company said Tuesday.

Sony Corp. will begin selling its first personal computers with Blu-ray Disc drives in Japan in June, the company said Tuesday. Both laptop and desktop computers will be available.

Nokia Corp. and ATI Technologies Inc. are partnering to try to simplify and drive the development of multimedia capabilities for Nokia phones, the companies said on Thursday.

We now have 750GB to play with on the desktop, and multi-terrabyte drives aren't too far off. How are we supposed to archive all that data? We could use 80-plus dual-layer DVDs, or try 30-plus blue laser DVDs. InPhase Technologies Inc. and Hitachi Maxell Ltd. (Maxell) have another answer: holographic storage technology.

A focus on higher-margin products and strong sales in middleware and microelectronics helped fuel IBM Corp. first quarter profit, the company said Tuesday.

Strong results from Fujitsu Ltd.'s hard-disk drive and mobile phone divisions should push the company's profits for the year just ended higher than expected, it said Tuesday.

Fujitsu Ltd. hasn't taken sides in the next-generation DVD format battle, and as such it plans to launch in late June a desktop PC with a Blu-ray Disc drive and a laptop PC with an HD-DVD drive, the company said Tuesday.

Toshiba Corp. plans to put on sale in Japan in May its first laptop computer with a built-in HD-DVD drive, the company said Monday. The Qosmio G30 is expected to be the first computer available from any vendor with an HD-DVD drive.

Fujitsu Ltd. expects to begin shipping a 200G-byte hard-disk drive suitable for use in laptop computers in the third quarter of this year, it said Monday.

Hamarosan nagy változások várhatóak a háttértárolók területén, ha a Samsung által kínált flash alapú memóriák megkezdik hódító hadjáratukat ebben a szegmensben is. Az első 32 gigabájtos egységek máris fellelhetők egyes hordozható számítógépekben.

A Samsung Electronics kifejlesztett egy nagyobb kapacitású változatot flash memória alapú SSD-jéből (solid state disk), amely arra hivatott, hogy leváltsa a merevlemezeket. Vajon az új technológia megrázhatja a merevlemezes noteszgépek piacát?

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk (SSD), a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives, and is showing it at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, this week.