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• Sandisk, Pretec unveil speedy 4 GB and 8 GB CF cards
  Monday 27 February 2006 – 07:55
  Sandisk has added an 8 GB version to its Extreme III line of Compact Flash (CF) cards.
• Foxconn showing off their own motheboards and graphics cards at Cebit
  Friday 16 March 2007 – 06:23
  Foxconn is branching out more into motherboards and graphics cards markets by showing off several new models at the Cebit trade show in Hannover Germany. Foxconn is known for their component level products, but could see higher profit margins from more integrated solutions. The company is debuting several Windows Vista-compatible motherboards at the show.
• Demand for DirectX 10-compliant graphics cards may not pick up until Vista launch
  Monday 13 November 2006 – 04:09
  Despite Nvidia's launch of its DirectX 10-compliant GeForce 8800 GPU last week, demand for high-end graphics cards supporting DirectX 10 may not pick up until Microsoft's Vista operating system (OS) hits the market, according to industry sources.
• Kingston packs data recovery software on Compact Flash cards
  Tuesday 15 August 2006 – 08:19
  Kingston today said that will be upgrading its "ultimate" line of Compact Flash (CF) cards by preloading Ontrack's Easy Recovery Professional software 6.1 onto the devices.
• Samsung starts supplying SD cards from December
  Tuesday 19 December 2006 – 04:45
  Being a major advocate of the MultiMediaCard (MMC) format, Samsung Electronics started supplying SecureDigital (SD) cards in finished goods form to memory module makers from December and is not requiring downstream customers to pay the 6% SD licensing fee, according to sources at memory module makers.
• Gift cards blamed for post-Christmas slowdown of iTunes
  Thursday 28 December 2006 – 05:08
  Music fans eager to use their new iTunes gift cards on Christmas or shortly thereafter were met with disappointment, as Apple's digital music store greeted customers with error messages and exceptionally long download times.
• Intel prices Gigabit network cards below 10/100Mbps Ethernet cards
  Tuesday 18 June 2002 – 06:22
  The lack of "killer" applications and still-limited development of network switches supporting the Gigabit environment could pose obstacles for Gigabit Ethernet cards becoming fully commercialized, even as their prices have fallen to an attractive low, network equipment company sources said.
• Graphics cards sales down more than 12%
  Thursday 28 December 2006 – 06:12
  Just a few days before the official release of Windows Vista, which many consider an important factor to convince PC users to upgrade to better graphics hardware, a market research firm says that graphics cards sales have slowed significantly in the first three quarters of the year.
• Foxconn to begin shipping own-brand graphics cards
  Tuesday 14 March 2006 – 05:03
  Taiwan EMS giant Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) launched its first own-brand graphics card (PX7900GTX), which is based on the Nvidia GeForce 7900 GT/GTX (G71) graphics processing unit (GPU), at the ongoing CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany.
• 512 MB microSD cards to become mainstream in Q2, says SanDisk
  Friday 3 March 2006 – 04:36
  With rising demand from multimedia-enabled handsets, 512MB microSD cards will become mainstream in the SD memory card market in the second quarter of this year, according to sources at SanDisk Taiwan.
• Transcend and TwinMos launch 4 GB and 8 GB SDHC cards
  Wednesday 11 October 2006 – 04:13
  Transcend Information and TwinMos Technologies have separately launched 4 GB and 8 GB secure digital high-capacity (SDHC) cards.
• XGI's graphics cards en route to US resellers, system builders
  Friday 4 February 2005 – 06:44
  XGI's Volari graphics cards could become available on a broader base in the US as a result of a distribution agreement the manufacturer signed with US distributor D&H.
• Nvidia said to sell NV30 cards, NV31 and NV34 chips to downstream clients
  Monday 13 January 2003 – 03:25
  Nvidia is said to have decided to handle all the design and production of new GeForce FX (NV30) graphics cards to ensure product stability and quality.
• Toshiba adds new SD memory cards
  Wednesday 28 June 2006 – 05:35
  Toshiba announced new SD memory cards that will extend both the ultra-small and the ultra high-capacity segments of its comprehensive product line-up.
• Graphic cards to get water cooling, test price points up to $1200
  Saturday 2 July 2005 – 05:01
  We recently met with the founders of one of the few major graphic card manufacturers in the US and chatted about upcoming trends in the graphic card industry. BFG expects heat dissipation to become one of the focus areas for the development of future high-end cards, some of which could sell for more than $1000.