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Article | 23/11/2010 Woman helped sell fake chips to US military

A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to charges that she helped her employer sell counterfeit computer chips for use by the U.S. military

Article | 24/11/2010 Open Source Driver Debuts for AMD Fusion Chip

Chip maker AMD on Monday reportedly released an open source driver for the first chip in its new Fusion line, giving Linux users a new, open source-fr...

Article | 23/11/2010 Intel, Altera make a programmable Atom

Intel will integrate configurable processors from Altera in a new family of Atom chips, the E600C series, for embedded uses such as industrial, milita...

Article | 20/11/2010 Intel: 1,000-core processor possible

An experimental Intel chip shows the feasibility of building processors with 1,000 cores, an Intel researcher has asserted.

Article | 19/11/2010 Making sense of laptop specifications

If someone on your gift list wants a laptop, the first thing you need to do is figure out which category of laptop best suits the recipient's needs. O...

Article | 19/11/2010 PCI Express 3.0 products could reach stores next year

The standards-setting PCI Special Interest Group on Thursday released the final PCI Express 3.0 specification to members, and products based on the sp...

Article | 18/11/2010 How to build a budget desktop PC

In this video we’ll show you how to build a budget desktop that has enough power to do typical computing tasks as well as play HD videos and most game...

Article | 18/11/2010 Nvidia chief scientist: CPUs slowed by legacy design

When it comes to power-efficient computing, CPUs are weighed down by too many legacy features to outperform GPUs (graphics processing units) in execut...

Article | 16/11/2010 Intel sued by University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico's patent arm, STC, filed a lawsuit against Intel on Monday alleging the infringement of a patent related to advanced chip...

Article | 17/11/2010 AMD to ship first Bulldozer server chips in Q3

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it will start shipping next-generation Opteron server chips based on the new Bulldozer architecture starting in...

Article | 11/11/2010 Women more likely to fall for Internet fraud

Women are significantly more likely than men to fall for Internet scams, a new piece of research has claimed after conducting an online test.

Article | 13/11/2010 U.S. building next wave of supercomputers

The U.S. is building two 20-petaflop supercomputers, many times more powerful than anything operating today, including China's new supercomputer, the ...

Article | 10/11/2010 AMD ships first Fusion chips for laptops, netbooks

Advanced Micro Devices has started shipping units of the first low-power Fusion chips for use in consumer laptops and netbooks, a company official sai...

Article | 10/11/2010 Nvidia announces its fastest graphics card to date

Nvidia on Tuesday announced its next-generation graphics processing unit, the GeForce GTX 580, which the company said is its fastest-performing GPU to...

Article | 10/11/2010 NAND flash sales up, prices down

The sale of new tablet PCs and smartphones with solid state storage technology is compensating for weak demand for memory cards and USB flash drives a...

Article | 10/11/2010 AMD eyes tablets with upcoming Fusion chips

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it was developing a range of new mobile processors, including processors for tablets and quad-core chips for ne...

Article | 9/11/2010 Arm faces uphill battle in server market

Arm has entered the server market with Marvell Semiconductor announcing a chip based on its processor architecture, but customer acceptance and design...

Article | 9/11/2010 Marvell nudges Arm into server market

Marvell on Monday announced a quad-core chip designed for use in servers that could help Arm break into a server market currently dominated by Intel a...

Article | 4/11/2010 Intel to release Core VPro processors in Q1

Intel on Wednesday said it would release in the first quarter next year Core VPro processors for business desktops and laptops that incorporate a host...

Article | 3/11/2010 Intel opens door to contract chip manufacturing

Intel on Tuesday said the company would begin contract manufacturing of chips, a change from the company's policy of serving only itself through its f...