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Article | 2/07/2009 HP puts six-core chips in workstation
Hewlett-Packard is offering six-core processors in a new workstation series, the company said Wednesday.
Article | 1/07/2009 Small PC makers throw support behind Windows 7
Some small PC makers are paying a price for Windows 7 upgrades, but they have given a vote of confidence to the OS as it could deliver more profits by...
Article | 26/06/2009 New chips don't deliver, Facebook says
The latest generations of server processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices don't deliver the promised gains in performance, according to the he...
Article | 19/06/2009 DRAM's inventor, 76, still going strong at IBM
Dennard's Law? It doesn't have quite the ring of Moore's Law, mostly because IBM researcher Robert H. Dennard remains unknown to the general public.
Article | 20/06/2009 Sparkle graphics card has pillars traversed cooling fins
The Calibre X265/X265HM Graphics Cards feature the 2nd generation of Calibre Dual Fly Cooling System that was designed by Sparkle. Sparkle claims this...
Article | 19/06/2009 Nvidia's Tegra is the muscle behind Microsoft's Zune HD
Microsoft's upcoming Zune HD media player is powered by Nvidia's Tegra computing platform, a source familiar with the device's specifications confirme...
Article | 19/06/2009 Intel's chip renaming strategy meets resistance
Intel's strategy to rename its chips and platforms has seen some opposition from chip enthusiasts, who say the new naming conventions are even more co...
Article | 18/06/2009 Sun reportedly cancels 16-core Rock processors
Sun is reportedly canceling its long-awaited Rock project, a 16-core server chip that was expected to be delivered later this year.
Article | 17/06/2009 EU, US push computers, printers to be greener
Computers, copiers and printers sold the European Union and the U.S. will have to become more energy-efficient from next month in order to gain Energy...
Article | 18/06/2009 Nvidia: Ion will outperform next-gen Intel Pineview Atoms
Intel Corp. may not have officially released the specs of its upcoming Pineview family of Atom CPUs, but that hasn't stopped Nvidia Inc. from claiming...
Article | 17/06/2009 Media 100 adds AJA card support
Media 100 has released Media 100 Version 13.0.3. The update to the video editing software adds support for AJA's KONA LHi video card, taking advantage...
Article | 17/06/2009 ASUS launches Ask More Forum for technical support
ASUS today launched an online forum, Ask More to provide technical support for its motherboards, graphics cards and LCD monitors. Users can post queri...
Article | 17/06/2009 Iran using U.S. chip technology in rocket research
An Iranian research institute claims it used Advance Micro Devices Inc. Opteron microprocessors to build a high computing performance system. The clai...
Article | 17/06/2009 Nvidia: Future chips will enhance video on mobile devices
Nvidia hopes to develop chips that enable applications such as image recognition and video search on mobile devices like smartphones and low-cost lapt...
Article | 15/06/2009 nVidia 200M GPUs
Twice the power, half the battery drain of last year's GPU--a pretty bold claim, and one that nVidia makes about its new 200M series laptop GPUs. Toda...
Article | 15/06/2009 Intel 'breaks' Moore's Law with new Atom chips
It seems Moore's Law doesn't apply to the next generation of Intel's Atom chips. The low-cost, power-sipping chips, codenamed "Pineview," will greatly...
Article | 13/06/2009 Gigabyte extends dual BIOS to entire motherboard range
Gigabyte recently announced at Computex that its proprietary Dual BIOS technology will be extended to every GIGABYTE motherboard with immediate effect...
Article | 12/06/2009 PC desktop market will continue in the long term, Intel says
Even as it is pushing mobile computing, Intel expects desktop computers to continue to be in demand in the long term, an Intel executive said on Thurs...
Article | 11/06/2009 New AMD Neo chips surface on HP's Web site
Two new low-power Neo processors from Advanced Micro Devices have surfaced on the Web site of PC maker Hewlett-Packard, which is offering the chips in...
Article | 9/06/2009 Rambus pulls some infringement claims against Nvidia
Nvidia on Monday said that Rambus had filed motions with the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate an investigation relating to Nvidia's al...

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