F4 Third Album - Waiting For You

Today mark the new excitement for F4 fans. The third album titled "Zai Zhe Li Deng Ni" or "Waiting For You" has been released for Taiwan and Hong Kong. This year the Taiwan Tourism Bureau invited the four of them to be ambassadors to Japan and Korea, a huge amount of money was spent for the promotional activities. It attracted fans from Japan and Korea to follow their stars. But this brand new album could be their last album together, the music company has taken advantage of this favorable circumstance and has presented two versions of the same album (Feel Your Heart Edition & Await Your Love Edition). It includes two songs by the four of them and two solo songs each, making it a collector's item for the fans.

F4 - Zai Zhe Li Deng Ni (Waiting For You) MV - OT:Goodbye



F4 - Ti Yan (Experience) MV - OT:No Escape



Vic - Can Nian (Should Not) MV



Official website on Sony BMG : http://www.sonybmg.com.tw/pop/f4/index.php

At the press conference for Asia, the 4 of them took swords to place into the defense board. It was like all 4 were stronger when placed together. There were lots of different flower baskets from fans from all over the world. The most "attracting" flower basket was of course from Da S and Xiao S. On it, it was written, "Taiwan's Forever Strong Group, May you all be loving forever". And it was signed off as ASOS, which was Taiwan strongest group.

Merry Christmas!

More New MVs of Vic

New MVs from Wo Bu Shi F4 appeared on YouTube...

Ai Shang Zhe Shi Jie (Love This World)



Yi Jia Yi (One Plus One)



Missing You



Wan Mei Ou Xiang (Perfect Idol)

AMD Launches Phenom Black Edition

AMD's Phenom has been given new life today as a Black Edition. The Phenom Black Edition 9600 operates at a frequency of 2.3 GHz and makes use of 2MB of level two cache. Differentiating itself from the vanilla 9600, the Black Edition sports a fully unlocked multiplier. It might be assumed that these chips are binned better, allowing for higher clock speeds.

The Black Edition 9600 fills in the price point left vacant due to AMD's recent price cuts of the 9500 and 9600 Phenom processors. According to a statement by AMD, the AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition central processing unit has the same price as previously introduced AMD Phenom 9600, or $283 in 1000-unit quantities.

News:
X-bit labs

AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition Overclocking

Article from X-bit labs : Phenom CPU: Christmas Gift from AMD

AMD Analyst Day Coverage

Yesterday (Dec 13, 2007), AMD held an analyst conference in New York City.
Here I enclose the updated platform roadmap for Consumer Mainstream and Consumer Enthusiast.




ZDNet shows slides of AMD's presentation in New York City.

AMD COO (Chief Operating Officer) Dirk Meyer acknowledged Thursday that the launch of its quad-core Opteron chips, formerly known as Barcelona, has been a disappointment. But he also urged customers and investors not to overlook AMD’s promise and accomplishments. Meyer, speaking at its annual financial analyst conference in New York, was up front about the Barcelona problems, which have been widely reported. SPEC invalidated CPU results for Barcelona today. “We haven’t delivered our quad core product according to plan,” said Meyer. “We’ll make good on our promise to deliver hundreds of thousands of quad core processors, but we’re disappointed.”

Tech Report has a comprehensive coverage here.
Conclusion quoted from Tech Report:

Based on what we heard today, we can expect disappointing financial results for the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of 2008. However, AMD is right about one thing: it has a fair amount of momentum, and if it manages to execute as planned, 2008 may very well turn out to be a good year.

On the microprocessor front, AMD should have 45nm tri- and quad-core chips ready in time to meet Intel's 45nm Nehalem processors. Even if it doesn't manage to keep up with Nehalem, AMD's plethora of platforms should help keep large PC vendors interested. AMD looks set to regain much-needed market share in the mobile graphics market, although how well the AMD graphics division will do on the desktop remains to be seen. The Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon HD 3850 are certainly encouraging efforts, though.

While it's probably still a little early to make any forecasts pertaining to 2009 and beyond, AMD's outlook and confidence suggest the company still has at least a few more rounds to go—even with naysayers predicting its imminent demise.