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Intel is not the only chip maker that has decided to update its processor offer, since competitor AMD has also made some adjustments to its lineup of desktop processors. However, unlike its Santa-Clara-based competitor, AMD has not rolled out any new desktop chips, opting instead for lowering the prices for several o... |
2 September 2008
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Intel, the leading manufacturer of computer processors, has recently added a couple of new chips to its quad-core, dual-core and Celeron ranges of products. The new chips come with rather decent prices and promising specs, especially considering they’re meant for the mainstream market segment. Ultimately, these... |
2 September 2008
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According to recent rumors, AMD plans to release its first 45nm-based desktop processors in early 2009. The company will showcase its next generation CPUs, codenamed Deneb, on the 8th of January, on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show or CES. Sources close to the company state that the new chips produ... |
28 August 2008
11:31 GMT |
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Renesas Technology, one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers for mobile, automotive and PC/AV markets, has recently announced its second generation SH7786 dual-core 32-bit processor, designed with a 65nm fabrications process. The new CPU is meant to meet all requirements for car naviga... |
28 August 2008
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There are countless netbooks currently available on the market, but only a small part of them is not featured with an Intel Atom processor or a VIA nano CPU. This is the case of the eCafe Hercules or the Hercules eCafe Netbook, which has been built with an AMD Geode processor running at a top speed of 500MHz.Besides ... |
25 August 2008
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As most of us already know, Intel is currently the worldwide leading manufacturer of computer processing cores, surpassing competitor AMD in a number of market segments. Although AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, is claiming back lost ground on the market of graphics cards with the release of its latest Radeon HD ... |
25 August 2008
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If you are among those users whose high-end desktop computer systems are based on one of Intel's quad-core processors, then you should know that your high-performance CPU will soon pale in comparison to what Intel is about to release, namely the 6-core Dunnington processors. Moreover, the new CPUs are expected t... |
22 August 2008
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After all the recent rumors, Intel has finally decided to go official with its highly anticipated dual-core Atom processor, designed for the already established small sized, low-power portable computer systems, or netbooks. According to the company, the new CPU is expected to be launched next month and will expand th... |
21 August 2008
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As expected, Intel has disclosed details about its upcoming products and technologies at the Intel Developer Forum, held in San Francisco and due to end today. There have been talks about the company's upcoming Core i7 processors, Centrino 2, as well as about future projects such as the graphics-targeted Larrabe... |
21 August 2008
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Internet TV represents, without a doubt, the future of television as we know it, since the WWW is turning into world's greatest content delivery solution. However, in order to be able to enjoy the various types of content that can be delivered via the Internet, users require dedicated, specialized machines, and ... |
21 August 2008
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The netbook market is undoubtedly one the most impressive and dynamic markets in the IT industry. This is why several major companies, including Eee PC manufacturer ASUSTek, and processor makers Intel and VIA benefit considerably from its fast growing rate. However, considering the popularity of this small-sized, Int... |
19 August 2008
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Not too long ago, several rumors were making the rounds, saying that AMD was expected to release a new low-power processor, completely designed to compete with Intel's highly popular Atom CPU. Ultimately, all speculation came to an end once claims were made that the Sunnyvale-based chip maker was not even consid... |
18 August 2008
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VIA, a well known manufacturer of x86 processors, is reported to have received NANO CPU orders from leading notebook vendor HP. Apparently, the Taiwanese-based manufacturer has already started shipping the processors to HP, although details regarding quantities aren't yet available.At this time, it is unknown wh... |
15 August 2008
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After proudly claiming that its small-sized, low-power Atom processor is the product most suitable for the worldwide weak economy, Intel has recently announced that it will drop the Centrino Atom brand, opting instead to use just the Atom labeling across this part of its product line. Certainly, it looks like the Ato... |
14 August 2008
09:21 GMT |
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As we mentioned in a number of our previous articles, the netbook market sees a healthy dynamic growth, compared to the other hardware markets. In fact, it looks like the netbooks are the only products that don't seem affected by the worldwide slowing growth in the PC market. Ultimately, this is nothing but grea... |
13 August 2008
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It's been almost one month since the leading chip maker Intel finally unveiled its latest mobile platform, the Centrino 2. Since that date, a number of portable systems manufacturers have went ahead and released their own implementations of the company's high-end mobile platform. As a matter of fact, just r... |
12 August 2008
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Today, Intel officially unveiled the brand name for its upcoming processors, which are built on the highly talked about Nehalem architecture. The company did not release any specific technical details about the future chips, but only the products' logos and brand names. Fortunately, users will soon get to know m... |
11 August 2008
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As most of you must know by now, the latest news reports on Intel's Atom and VIA's Nano processor claim the latter is better than the highly-rated Atom. All surveys and head-to-head reviews of the two small-sized processors appear to indicate a single winner, namely VIA's Nano CPU. Undoubtedly, this en... |
4 August 2008
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Computers have become an indispensable tool in our every day work. Some of us may see this modern tool as an object that only makes our life easier but, still, there are some of us who are really interested in it and, consequently, who would like to know a bit more about it. In order to find out almost all there is t... |
31 July 2008
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The latest reviews and tests made by a number of sites show that, on the low-power area, Via's Nano processor leaves Intel's Atom chip behind. The processors were tested on similar desktop systems by all the reviewers. For the Nano-based system, a prototype Mini-ITX motherboard with a 1.8GHz Nano L2100 proc... |
30 July 2008
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As we mentioned before in a couple of articles, Intel's Atom processor has become one of the company's most successful products. And that's mainly because of a number of manufacturers that have announced their intentions of releasing their own Atom-powered, small sized computer systems, most of which a... |
25 July 2008
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What follows will probably not sit well with all those AMD fans who were expecting the Sunnyvale-based company to put out a new CPU to compete with Intel's Atom in the netbook market. Sad but true: according to the statements of one of the company's officials, AMD is not going to release a low-power, low-co... |
23 July 2008
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Price cuts are always an interesting subject, as they allow a user to acquire better products for less money than under normal circumstances. This holds true regardless of the manufacturer's reasons for it. However, if you're on the lookout for another price cut session for NVIDIA's GeForce lineup, the... |
22 July 2008
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With the netbook market getting so crowded with each passing day, it's very likely that AMD will soon provide a new low-power CPU meant to take on Intel's Atom. As we already told you a while back, the new CPU is expected to be launched by the end of the year.Back when we first brought you the news, the est... |
21 July 2008
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Leading chip manufacturer Intel turned 40 last week and, as you might remember, it actually received a couple of very impressive gifts. These came in the form of the Q2 revenue figures for both the Santa Clara-based microprocessor maker and its Sunnyvale-based competitor, AMD. And, even if Intel's Q2 figures wer... |
21 July 2008
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It's a commonly known fact that the higher on performance your CPU is, the better your cooling solution must be. Trying to keep the CPU temperatures down to a minimum has led some system builders to incorporate liquid-based cooling solutions into high-end computer systems. Nevertheless, such solutions are expens... |
18 July 2008
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Despite the fact that Intel's Atom processor is generating an increasing amount of interest on behalf of many manufacturers of computer systems, the worldwide leading processor maker doesn't see the Atom replacing its Celeron CPUs. At least not in the near future. "At this point in time, we do not see [Inte... |
18 July 2008
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If you happen to find yourself somewhere near "the land down under" and you are looking to acquire a new high-end notebook, then you should check out the offer of PC maker Pioneer Computers. The Australian manufacturer is now taking preorders for laptops equipped with the yet unreleased Intel quad-core mobile process... |
11 July 2008
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Thermaltake, one of the leading manufacturers of computer cooling products, has just announced a new release. Following the success the company had with the launch of the Bigwater 760i liquid cooling system in 2007, newcomer Bigwater 770 promises to help users achieve those high CPU frequencies they've been drea... |
8 July 2008
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Sometime ago, we told you about how Intel was planning to built its processors with more overclocking capabilities. Now, it seems that one of the company's yet to be officially introduced processors has already surfaced on the web as part of a couple of overclocking experiments. We are talking about the E8600, w... |
8 July 2008
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It looks like this hot summer will become more bearable for us regular folks, thanks to a couple of initiatives coming from some of the biggest hardware manufacturers. As you might know, AMD and NVIDIA have already started to downsize the price tags for their graphics cards lineups, and Intel is soon to get in the ga... |
7 July 2008
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Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group held a meeting with a number of journalists this week. The VP used this opportunity to present its predictions in regard to Intel's future, making four assumptions that set Intel as part of every segment of com... |
3 July 2008
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AMD has to fight its battles on several battlegrounds in the computing market. But one arena that the manufacturer is used to is the CPU market, where the company falls behind rival Intel in the high-end processors segment. And with Intel's future to come Nehalem architecture, AMD will have a tough time with the... |
2 July 2008
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Even though the processor market is dominated by Intel, with AMD struggling to expand its elbow room, new players are able to find a little room to breathe. VIA Technologies is an illustrative example in this respect, with its products embraced even by Microsoft. However, the marriage between Windows client and serve... |
1 July 2008
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A strong cooling system is what stands between high-performance and frequent failures, for any computer. This is why a number of companies specialize in the development and manufacturing of better and easier to use cooling systems. But cooling manufacturers aren't the only ones looking for better ways to improve... |
1 July 2008
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When you talk about cars V8 indicates pure power, but when you turn to computers the V8 from Cooler Master is meant to offer your high-end CPU the optimum working environment. The newly announced CPU cooler has been previously showed at the Computex show in Taipei, but the company decided to wait until now to officia... |
1 July 2008
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AMD is taking a shot at the desktop processor market with the release of three new Phenom processors. One of these CPUs, the new Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition, will become AMD's flagship model, taking the place of the company's previous title holder, the Phenom X4 9850. Unlike the Black Edition Phenom, the o... |
1 July 2008
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As a hardcore Mac user, you can't just rely on putting your ear to the machine to hear how fast the CPU fan is spinning so you can form an idea of how solicited it is. What you need is a nice little free app such as MenuMeters. Luckily for PowerPC users, the latest version of the app adds PPC support.Although th... |
26 June 2008
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AMD will not stand by and watch how Intel's Atom processor takes all the spotlight in the netbook market, especially since it is still far from producing a real competitor to the latter's high-end CPU lineup. As we already mentioned before, AMD is planning to release a processor meant to offer the necessary... |
20 June 2008
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This year's Computex trade show was definitely the place to go to see the latest product releases. Besides all the buzz around the release of the netbooks, a few other companies have also managed to hold the headlines with their newest products. Among them, VIA made for a nice surprise with the release of the lo... |
19 June 2008
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Rest assured that AMD isn't going to let grass grow under its feet while Intel is prepping the release of the new Nehalem processors. The Sunnyvale-based chip manufacturer is planning to launch several low-power triple- and quad-core processors during the second half of this year. According to sources among the ... |
17 June 2008
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So many words have been spent, either in writing or in speech, on the arrival of Intel's new Nehalem processors, that some users might actually deem them old history. Still, Intel's new CPU architecture is yet to be revealed and although the company has even demonstrated the performance capabilities of its ... |
17 June 2008
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Although Intel is currently the leading manufacturer of consumer processors, the company plans not to give rival AMD a single break in topping it. As most of you already know, AMD is best at providing energy-efficient and low power computers that also offer a good performance/price ratio. This is exactly where Intel ... |
13 June 2008
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Intel is sort of used to delays in its own production line, if we're to consider the recent news about Intel postponing the official release of the Nehalem processors, as well as not being able to ship the Atom CPU until September 2008. On top of that, it appears that Intel also had some difficulties in bringing... |
12 June 2008
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Advanced Micro Devices intends to cancel the introduction of dual-core AMD Phenom processors based on the company's latest generation K10 micro-architecture. The processor lineup in question is manufactured on AMD's current 65nm process technology. But no need to worry yet, as AMD also plans to bring out tw... |
11 June 2008
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As we mentioned before, Intel's next generation mobile processor, the Atom, is expected to ship sometime after September 2008. This is a serious issue as system integrators like Asus, MSI and others rely on Intel to provide them with the computing power demanded by their most recently released notebooks. To cap ... |
10 June 2008
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Although AMD has a lot of ground to recover in the high-end and high-performance consumer market, the company still holds a strong position in the energy-efficient processor market. To be more exact, its Opterons account for a high number of server systems, as they provide the necessary performance with a minimum of ... |
9 June 2008
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Besides Playstation 3 users, who know that the Cell BE CPU is powering their favorite gaming console, the number of users aware of the existence of this CPU is limited. Still, the computing performance of this Cell BE CPU is not to be taken lightly, especially as it can be optimized for a number of applications.As re... |
9 June 2008
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If you ever ran a Windows operating system, then I'm most certain that you have encountered at some point in time an error saying something like "Your system is low on virtual memory..." and so on, but you have never really figured out what it meant or what virtual memory really was. The virtual memory is part o... |
6 June 2008
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Yesterday, at a meeting with some journalists, Intel stated that CPUs realize video encoding, as that is a task designed for them and that the future would not bring any changes. According to Intel representatives, the CPU is used by DivX for dynamical adjustments of details across scenes. The processor is the only p... |
5 June 2008
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