Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed in a conference that the company is experiencing declining gross margins due to several factors that includes the lower than expected yields of its 28nm Kepler GPUs which are exclusively being manufactured by TSMC.

Toshiba has launched in Singapore the REGZA AT200 tablet which is now the thinnest 10.1-inch tablet in the market running the Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. Weighing just 535g and measuring only 7.7mm at its thickest point, the REGZA AT200 not only looks good but is also easy to carry around.

Intel has now notified its partners about its plan to delay the mass shipments of its Ivy Bridge CPUs. The move is not because of manufacturing problems or low yields of the new CPUs but rather, to help the company’s partners exhaust their remaining Sandy Bridge CPU inventories which until now are seeing slow movement because of the overall low demand due to the weak global economy.

According to Taiwan-based supply chains, Google is planning to release Android 5.0 codenamed ‘Jelly Bean’ in the second quarter of this year. Jelly Bean is the the successor to the Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ operating system that seemed to have fallen short of Google’s expectations, with only 1 percent of Android devices running the OS as of February 1, 2012.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced a new DLC for its MMO, DC Universe Online. The new content is called ‘The Battle for Earth' and pits players against Braniac as well as with a new threat to the universe.

Intel’s Haswell CPUs are not due until the midpoint of 2013 but as early as now details about it are starting to surface indicating the Santa Clara based chip giant is already deep into developing them. The latest bit of information we have now is about the 8-series chipset codenamed “Lynx Point” which will pair with the CPUs for the new platform.

Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs are nearing the predicted April launch that is why more information about the chips is also starting to surface. On our previous reports we already detailed the Core i7 and Core i5 chips which apparently will bear similar prices with their Sandy Bridge counterpart in time of those chips’ launch.

Aerocool now adds to its portfolio of high-performance PC cases the Vs-3 and Vs-3 Advance mid-tower PC cases which both feature an all-black interior/exterior them and can both accommodate micro-ATX and ATX motherboards.

If you liked last year’s announced Eee Pad Transformer TF101 then you’ll definitely like the model that will launch this February as Asus decided to add a built-in WiMax feature to the tablet.

Ubisoft has now launched the official trailer for Far Cry 3 and along with it is a predicted launch date for the game.

AMD’s Trinity APUs that are scheduled to arrive in the second quarter are expected to bring significant performance increase compared to the previous generation Llano APUs. We already know that they will be based on AMD’s Piledriver CPU architecture and will be manufactured using the 32nm fab process. What we don’t know are their technical specifications but luckily, reliable sources were able to share with Turkish website DonanimHaber those missing bits of information.

Samsung has announced its Galaxy Tab 2 which is officially the first tablet from Samsung that comes preinstalled with Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”. The 7-inch tablet is powered by a 1GHz dual core processor (model still unkown) and features a screen resolution of 1024x600.

AMD’s Radeon HD 7700 graphics cards are now official. The series is based on the Cape Verde GPU that is made using the 28nm fab process and uses the Graphics CoreNext GPU architecture. Fully enabled, it features 10 GCN compute units resulting to a total of 640 stream processors accompanied by 40 TMUs, 16 ROPs, and a 128-bit wide GGDR5 memory interface.

THQ has confirmed the release date for its big title, Darksiders 2 which now focuses on the second horseman, Death.

Ubisoft has officially confirmed Assassin’s Creed 3 which is now slated for an October 30 release. The announcement was made by Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot in a conference call with investors just yesterday.

Origin PC proudly announces the availability of its EON17-X laptop that aims to be a replacement for a desktop system. This fully feature packed laptop is based on Intel’s X79 chipset and is powered by an Intel Sandy Bridge-E six core processor with the option of opting for a dual overclocked Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M graphics cards in SLI setup.

Gigabyte has announced the S1081 Slate PC that is powered by the latest dual-core Intel Atom N2800 Cedar Trail CPU running at 1.86GHz and comes with an integrated GMA 3600 graphics. The S1081 features a 10.1-inch capacitive multi-touch panel 1024x600 with LED backlight and runs Windows 7 Home Premium/Professional.

PowerColor announced the launch of its Radeon HD 7970 graphics solution equipped with a custom cooler that features two 92mm fans and unique SSU-shape heat pipe design. The cooler can lower the card’s temperature by 10% and reduce operating noise by up to 15% compared to AMD’s reference cooler design.

Rumors and talks about Nvidia’s Kepler GPUs are becoming hotter and hotter as the predicted April launch is now nearing. The latest bit of information now comes from EVGA, Gearbox Software and Nvidia itself who will all be attending the PDXLan event this coming Friday, February 17 in Portland, Oregon.

Samsung almost became the first manufacturer to have officially put up the product page for its first Ivy Bridge powered notebook if the deed wasn’t an accident. The product page put up was for Samsung’s NP700G7C-S01US notebook – a 17.3-inch Ivy Bridge powered gaming notebook that is graciously loaded with features.

Thermalright announced its upcoming tower type CPU cooler for Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E. Based on the Silver Arrow model released in 2010, the Silver Arrow SB-E features two large aluminum fin stacks, eight 6mm copper heatpipes and a 140mm and 150mm fans.

At the height of the launch of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores graphics card, EVGA went on and released two custom designed models – the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Classified and the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores FTW. Now a third model, the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Classified Ultra comes out bearing higher factory OCed specs.

VTX3D has launched its custom-cooled and factory overclocked Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 graphics cards. The cards feature two 92mm fans and SSU-shape heat pipes that provide better cooling performance compared to the reference design cooler while maintaining silent operation.

Blizzard and Valve, two of the biggest names in the PC gaming industry have now come face to face in a battle to determine who has the rights to use the title DOTA (Defence of the Ancients).

Throughout this year, AMD is scheduled to release its second generation APUs codenamed “Trinity” and at the same time, also the second generation FX-series CPUs. All these new chips will feature AMD’s new Piledriver CPU architecture that promises to bring better IPC performance compared to Bulldozer.