Introducing Microsoft Office 2010

Now you can have six cores instead of four!

AMD has stepped up their game. Not only do they have the most complete line up of DirectX 11 graphics cards with their Radeon 5000 series, but now they have another industry first. AMD is the first to bring the price of a 6 core processor down to a mainstream price point. While the "cores per dollar" story behind the AMD Phenom II X6 processor is a huge part of the excitement leading up to this launch, there are a couple of other big things that come along with it. The Phenom II X6 1055T and the 1090T Black Edition First of all, you can get a Phenom II X6 whether you're buying a new system based on an 800 series motherboard or upgrading an existing system. All you need to do is flash your motherboard BIOS and you can drop your Phenom II X6 into most existing AM2+/AM3 motherboards! Secondly, AMD has introduced a new technology to compete with Turbo Boost from Intel. AMD's Turbo Core Technology allows the processor to throttle up when you're running applications that use 1-3 cores, and then come back down to regular speed when you're running applications that take advantage of 4+ cores. Last, but definitely not least, AMD is continuing their proud tradition of offering "unlocked" or "simple to overclock" processors at only a small premium over their regular chips. The Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition is priced only $120 more than the 1055T and it delivers a 14% speed increase to go along with its "unlocked" bonus.

Western Digital's HDD Shipments Exceed Seagate's

Seagate might have managed to reach the highest revenues during the past quarter, but Western Digital is gradually reducing the gap by selling more and more storage units. In fact, even though it didn't manage to beat its rival in terms of revenue, WD somehow succeeded in selling more HDDs than the top player. This allowed the company to score not just a revenue increase of about $1 billion on-year, but also much higher profits compared with the same period during the previous year. While is revenues for the same quarter during FY 2009 were of 'only' $1.6 billion, WD, through selling no less than 51.1 million hard drives (compared with 31.6 million in 2009), increased that sum to a solid $2.6 billion. Not only that, but even the net income that Western Digital managed to make showed an 800% on-year jump, from $50 million to $400 million. Finally, the storage-unit supplier made $588 million in cash from operations, which enabled a total cash equivalent of $2.8 billion. "With market demand stronger than anticipated in the March quarter, our large-scale vertical integration, agile business model and product breadth allowed us to respond to this upside opportunity and again grow our share of the overall hard drive market," John Coyne, WD's president and chief executive officer, said. "We believe that 2010 will continue to be a strong year for digital storage," Coyne added. "We will maintain our focus on facilitating our customers' growth and making them successful while at the same time achieving sustained profitability for WD." These financial results are those of the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2010, which ended on April 2. As far as the ongoing quarter is concerned, WD expects its sales to keep growing, eventually reaching a figure between $2.475 billion and $2.575 billion.

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