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Tuesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on May 6, 2008

Tuesday

1. Intel, Samsung, and TSMC reach agreement for 450mm wafer manufacturing transition in 2012
2. Financial Times reports Intel casts eye on consumer electronics
3. DailyTech reports Yahoo CEO seeks to reassure employees
4. Trial court finds for Nvidia in 3dfx bankruptcy trial
5. APC reports AMD Puma pads softly into 100+ notebooks
6. GeCube intros the first 2GB HD 3870 ultra-high-end HD gaming accelerator
7. Fudzilla reports Asus preps an OCed 9600 GSO
8. Register Hardware on how to destroy 60 hard drives in an hour
9. DigiTimes reports distributors say GDDR price about to rise
10. TV prices may go up, too
11. FiringSquad's spring 2008 PC build guide
12. PCMech on building your own Mac—Apple's key to the future?
13. eCoustics analyzes C|Net ratings
14. DailyTech reports UCLA researchers create programmable stem cells

Software

1. TG Daily plays 10 questions with Futuremark's Tero Sarkkinen
2. NY Times reports if you use Outlook e-mail, meet Xobni
3. Ars Technica goes from Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X—part II
4. InformationWeek's Linux shootout: 7 desktop distros compared
5. Ars Technica first look at openSUSE 11 beta 2
6. TechConnect Magazine has Nvidia GeForce 175.63 beta drivers

Gaming

1. GamePro reports Microsoft has "no plans" for Xbox 360 Blu-ray Disc drive
2. The Inquirer speculates on a possible Xbox 360 overhaul come August
3. TG Daily reports E3 in trouble—major game publishers skip show and drop out of organization
4. New Scientist reports eye-tracking interface means gamers' looks can kill
5. nZone game browser
6. bit-tech reviews Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut (PC)
7. GameSpot UK has new Battlefield Heroes footage
8. Portal: The Flash Version mappack

Systems and multimedia

1. MSI P45 Diamond ES laid bare
2. TechwareLabs review 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 PC2-9200 dual channel kit
3. [H] Enthusiast pits 9800 GTX vs. SLI vs. 3-way SLI. vs. quad SLI
4. HardwareZone reviews Zotac GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB AMP! Edition
5. Björn3D reviews Foxconn GeForce 9800 GTX Extreme OC
6. TweakTown reviews MSI GeForce 9600 GT 1GB OC
7. HotHardware tests Diamond's Viper Radeon HD 3650 1GB
8. PC Perspective reviews EVGA UV Plus+ external USB VGA adapter
9. X-bit labs review Samsung SyncMaster 2263DX 22" LCD monitor
10. AnandTech reviews Canon XSi: 12.2MP, image-stabilized lens, and double live view

Power, case, and cooling

1. Virtual-Hideout reviews 950W Tuniq Miniplant PSU
2. techPowerUp! reviews Cooler Master Real Power M850 PSU
3. JonnyGuru reviews 550W GlacialPower GP-PS550BP PSU
4. CowcotLand reviews Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 case (in French)
5. FrostyTech reviews Thermolab Micro Silencer TLI-S
   and akasa AK-TT12-80 thermal adhesive tape
6. CPU3D reviews Xigmatek HDT-D1284 CPU cooler
7. DragonSteelMods, Overclock3D, and TechwareLabs review Noctua NH-C12P CPU cooler

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