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World’s largest OEM notebook maker sues AMD over hot chips
January 6th, 2012 | 
Author: Chipmaker AMD is facing a lawsuit from the largest OEM notebook manufacturer Quanta, with the notebook maker alleging that AMD sold chips that were too hot and unreliable.
It seems that the suit relates to AMD chips that featured in notebooks that Quanta built for NEC some time in 2006. The part in question is an integrated graphics chip marketed as the ATI RS600ME.
Quanta fired a legal broadside at AMD, accusing the company of civil fraud, breach of warranty and a host of other civil claims in addition to the central claim that the company sold faulty chips to Quanta.
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Kindle Fire sales have cannibalised iPad
BlackBerry PlayBook in US price plummet
RIM’s frenzied attempts to offload bags of its unpopular PlayBook tablets continues, with prices on all models in the US slashed to $299.
Lucky Americans can now buy a 16GB, 32GB or 64GB version of the fondleslab from the US BlackBerry shop website at the reduced price (obviously there’s no point opting for less memory when you can get one with the most memory for the same price – until stock starts running out, of course).
The Commodore 64 is 30
Commodore took the wraps off the Commodore 64, one of two immediate follow-ups to its popular Vic-20 home computer, 30 years ago this week.
The 64 made its public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), though it wouldn’t go into production until later in the year before going on sale in the US market in August. It didn’t make it across the Atlantic until late Autumn.
