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Rumor: Faster Processor, Bigger Hard Drive for New iMacs

A woman-oriented tech website claims it was apparently tipped off on the upcoming release of upgraded iMacs. The new computers, sporting speedier processors and more storage space, are said to be released as soon as next week. The site claims the refreshed models will be priced similarly to the currently available iM...

25 April 2008
04:50 GMT

Apple Wanted Blu-ray on Its MacBooks. Sony Couldn't Deliver

Rumor has it that Apple wants Blu-ray on its MacBook Pros. Why? Because it's the winning format, yet the winners had a bit of a problem delivering. Plus people still refer to optical drives quite a lot. There's this itsy bitsy problem however, and that's battery life.AppleInsider reveals that Apple was...

3 March 2008
07:02 GMT

Dell Adds Penryn Flavor to Precision M2300, M4300, M6300 Notebooks

Dell has long since started updating its notebook offering with the latest mobile chips in the Intel family. It was an obvious evolutionary step, given the fact that the Penryns not only do they add some more horsepower to the laptop, but they are also more energy-efficient and preserve the battery life for longer pe...

29 February 2008
10:35 GMT

Intel's Centrino 2: Hell Breaks Lose This June

Intel's mobile roadmap outlines the new Centrino 2 platform that will arrive on the market in June. The difference does not reside in the branding only, and the Centrino update will pull out the really big guns: processors running at 1.2 GHz while drawing up 5.5 watts of power, DisplayPort connectivity as well a...

27 February 2008
06:58 GMT

New, Penryn Powered MacBooks Confirmed!

Told ya Tuesday was going to bring some joy. Well, as long as you're a MacBook lover anyway. Turns out Apple was planning on introducing new MacBook models. The Cupertino folks have also equipped the Mac Pro with smarter strackpads and multitouch features, while the extra memory, storage capacity and faster proc...

26 February 2008
10:45 GMT

Best Buy - MB Pros Sold Out! Upgraded Models Coming?

Best Buy currently lists 15-inch MacBook Pro models as we-ran-out, with a mentioning of two-weeks waiting time for a new batch, possibly indicating the arrival of the new (rumored), fully loaded MacBook Pros.Penryn" Core 2 Duo processors and multi-touch tech is what the new Pros are rumored to get, and by the looks o...

18 February 2008
06:38 GMT

Dell's XPS M1730 Comes Now In Penryn Flavor

It has only been a week since the Dell and AMD "online breakup", but Dell is determined to move along, or at least this is the general impression. However, what's bad for AMD seems to be extremely profitable for the computer enthusiast.Dell's 17-inch gaming laptop is the perfect example to illustrate the ab...

16 February 2008
03:47 GMT

Asustek Gears Up for Launching Its U2E Notebook PC Next Week

Taiwanese notebook PC vendor Asustek Computer has already slated its upcoming 1.25 kilogram, battery-friendly U2E notebook for the next week's launch in Taipei. The new laptop will sport sexy leather wrapped exteriors, adorned by tasteful metal accents.The U2E notebook is a member of the Stylebook family that wa...

12 February 2008
08:50 GMT

Dell Is Phasing Out Its AMD-Based Computer Systems

Dell is reported to have stopped distributing its AMD-based systems via its online shop. This may seem the end of a long and beautiful friendship with world's second chip manufacturer. The company announced back in May 2006 that it would sell AMD-based servers to the public, but Dell quickly adopted the AMD chip...

8 February 2008
10:21 GMT

Toshiba's Satellite X205-SLI Joins the Penryn Family

Intel rolled out its first batch of mobile Penryn processors back in January, but laptop vendors did not haste in implementing them into their existing models. Well, since patience usually pays off, more and more laptops hit the market with the new Penryn heart pumping harder.Toshiba today has announced that its flag...

6 February 2008
04:19 GMT

Dell's Penryn-Powered XPS Notebooks, Due Within a Week

PC manufacturer and vendor, Dell Computer will start shipping a new batch of notebook systems powered by Intel's next-generation of processors, built on the 45-nanometer technology. According to some sources, the Penryn-based laptops will arrive within a week or so. Intel has released its dual-core offerings in ...

5 February 2008
09:19 GMT

New MacBook Pro Revisions Stick Their Nose Out

Not more than a week ago, we heard from Apple that they're planning to release two new models of MacBook Pro models (a 15- and a 17-inch one), new versions that will feature the multi-touch trackpad already available on the MacBook Air and Intel Penryn Core 2 Duo mobile processors (as the rumor goes, most likely...

31 January 2008
02:07 GMT

Intel to Sign the Death Sentence for Nine Mobile Processors

Penryns are slowly, but firmly claiming their place into the new notebook systems, so Intel decided to retire no less than nine mobile CPUs, namely seven Core 2 Duo chips built on the Merom core and two Celeron M processors.According to a product change notification, the first chips that will enter the discontinuance...

29 January 2008
05:46 GMT

HP to Sell Penryn-Powered Pavilion Notebooks

HP has introduced a new version of their Pavilion dv2700t, Pavilion dv6700t and Pavilion dv9700t notebooks, powered by Intel's 45-nanometer processor, codenamed "Penryn". This was a quiet move, and the company did not even bother to announce its availability. However, the Pavilion dv2700t, Pavilion dv6700t and P...

28 January 2008
04:16 GMT

Ouch! Intel Faces the Errata Wall in Its 45-Nanometer Quad-Cores

Intel's 2008 roadmap suffered quite a bump with the 45-nanometer quad-core Penryns. Although things seem to run just smoothly for the number one x86 CPU manufacturer, there has been a slight delay in launching the Penryn powerhorses. Initially scheduled for January this year, the official launch date has been di...

16 January 2008
11:12 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad X61, Available Next Month in Penryn Flavor

Lenovo has announced its ThinkPad X61 ultra-mobile PC will be available, starting next month, in a new version, powered by Intel's 45-nanometer Core 2 Duo processor, codenamed "Penryn".The Lenovo ThinkPad X61 series is made of ultra-mobile business laptops for the most sophisticated computing needs. Apart from i...

15 January 2008
03:04 GMT

Penryn Notebooks Information, Leaked Just Before the CES

Intel's series of 45-nanometer processors, codenamed " Penryn" has been unveiled back in November with all the due fuss. Back then, Intel promised notebooks built around Penryns to emerge on January the 6th. More to the point, the announced headlines were the Core 2 Duo T8100, T8300, T9300, T9500 and Core 2 Xtre...

3 January 2008
08:35 GMT

Intel's Penryns Going Down: Yorkfield Delayed Due to Board Issues

Chip manufacturer Intel should enjoy a smooth ride, since rival AMD is struggling with the Phenom TLB errata. Things are, however, more complicated, and Intel is beginning to feel a little of AMD's disappointment. Intel's Yorkfield 45-nanometer quad-core CPU line has been slated for official unveiling on Ja...

27 December 2007
05:49 GMT

Intel: Get Ready for the 2008 Launch Frenzy!

The year that is about to end in a few days has been extremely generous to chip manufacturer Intel. It has been the first to switch to the 45-nanometer technology, and has been momentarily left without any competition on the CPU market. The next year may be even better and Intel has already unveiled the launch schedu...

27 December 2007
03:51 GMT

MSI P7N Diamond - Penryn Support and 3-way SLI

Micro-Star International have officially unveiled their P7N Diamond and P7N SLI Platinum motherboards that support the 45nm Intel processor architecture. The P7N Diamond is built around the nForce780i chipset that supports 3-way SLI technology, while the P7N SLI Platinum features an nForce750i chipset. "P7N series mo...

17 December 2007
08:27 GMT

AMD Missed the 45-nm Train But Aims Directly at 32-nm Technology

Intel has already been taking advantage of the brand-new 45-nanometer family of Penryns for some time, yet AMD missed the train, since all their competitive products are handicapped and had to be pulled off the shelves. There's always a second chance and the only thing the company should focus on is the next-gen...

15 December 2007
03:56 GMT

Nvidia 680i Update: Penryn CPUs Are Still Out of Discussion

Bad news everywhere about Nvidia's 680i chipset motherboards. Word of mouth has it that all current Nvidia nForce 680i SLI boards will not be able to support the new family of 45-nanometer processors from Intel. Since 2004, the LGA775-enabled motherboards have caused trouble with processor updates and they have ...

29 November 2007
04:05 GMT

Alienware's New Area-51 ALX Desktop System: Power of the Overclocked Quad-Core Intel Penryn Unleashed

Alienware has been creating specialized, high-end, gaming-oriented rigs for quite some time now, providing certain configurations that really sound "alien" to most normal users. And now the "alien" engineers have come up with yet another technical marvel, because the company has just announced the Area-51 ALX desktop...

13 November 2007
14:46 GMT

Intel Unveils 16 Core 2 Extreme and Xeon CPUs from the Penryn Family

Although everyone knew they were coming for quite some time now, Intel, the world's biggest chip manufacturer, has finally decided to unleash its latest "horde" of 16 processors (the Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad core desktop processor and 15 dual-core and quad-core CPUs) the first to use the Hafnium-based high-k m...

12 November 2007
11:51 GMT

Lenovo Unveils The ThinkStation Brand of Workstation PCs - Power to the Penryn's!

When Lenovo purchased IBM's PC division back in 2005, the whole world expected quite a lot from the new business unit. And even if it took it around two years, Lenovo has finally delivered on everyone's hopes, launching a new brand, namely the ThinkStation family of workstations, which marks a double premie...

7 November 2007
11:46 GMT

Intel's Silverthrone May Open Up New Markets

Intel, the most important computer hardware manufacturing in the world, is preparing to defend its position against Advanced Micro Devices and its announced range of products with the November launch of a line of central processing units from the Penryn class that are bringing new 45 nanometer CPUs to desktop, mobile...

3 October 2007
04:25 GMT

Intel Penryn Pricing Scheme And Performance Revealed

The biggest central processing unit manufacturing company is expected to launch its latest generation of processors, the Penryns, sometime in November and the first to hit the market is going to be the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650, which is according to its name the top offering that Intel launches now for the gamers ...

26 September 2007
07:01 GMT

Shrinking The Intel Chips

Intel Developer Forum proved to be quite an interesting venture as the biggest computer hardware manufacturing company in the whole world decided to share with the rest of the human race some of its projects, objectives and future plans. Among those plans there is the fact that Intel will switch again its fabrication...

21 September 2007
06:18 GMT

Intel Wants Triple Core Processors Too

After Advanced Micro Devices officially announced their intention of building a triple cored central processing unit which is intended to close the gap in both performance and price between the dual and quad core desktop architectures, Intel said that it will pursue the very same goal.According to the news site fudzi...

18 September 2007
05:28 GMT

Intel Intros Quad Core Mobile CPUs

While the desktop computer market is mainly centered around performance and price with energy efficiency usually a far off third, on the mobile computing market things are a little bit different as energy efficiency alongside with heat dissipation, pricing and performance is a key factor which can decide if a process...

6 September 2007
05:27 GMT

Intel Prepares New Desktop Intended Processors

While AMD prepares for launching its first quad core family of processors designed of the server market with the consumer market processors to follow after some time in the form of the Phenom class of central processing units, Intel prepares for a new launch of desktop oriented processors and according to an official...

31 August 2007
10:16 GMT

Intel Upgrades The Xeon Family

There are two nice and relatively easy solutions when it comes to increasing the performance of a family of central processing units, CPUs for short, without going deep into their internal working and modifying their architecture. The first method would be to simply increase the running frequency and while this metho...

30 August 2007
05:00 GMT

Next Generation of Intel CPUs Reach 4GHz

The release date of the Intel processors based on the Penryn core is coming fast so that the manufacturing company decided to announce some details about the next generation of desktop processors. The Penryn generation will start with initially nine processors based on the 45nm fabrication process and will reach the ...

18 August 2007
04:25 GMT

Intel Announces Official Penryn Launch Date

The release date of the next generation of quad core server intended processors from the Xeon line is official now. Intel decided that the best release data is the 11th of November, when the giant chipmaker will launch no less than seven processors based on the Harpertown core.According to the news site DailyTech, In...

15 August 2007
09:42 GMT

Intel's "Penryn" Mobile Processors

Intel's next generation of processor, the Penryns, are intended for both desktop and mobile computing systems and on the mobile segment they will replace gradually the Morom core architecture that is now used by the Core 2 Duo family. Core 2 Duo processors based on the Merom core are produced with the 65 nanomet...

10 August 2007
03:30 GMT

Intel's Next Generation CPUs Revealed

AMD will soon launch its Barcelona quad core processors and Intel will follow after a few months with a new family of processors named Penryn. Based on the 45nm technological process, the processors using the Core 2 micro architecture and the quad core design are gathered into a single family generically named Penryn...

6 August 2007
06:59 GMT

Intel's Penryn Is on Its Way

Intel decided to bring forward its processors based on the 45 nanometer technology and built on the quad core architecture, sooner than it was expected, that is in the last quarter of 2007. The manufacturing company hopes that move will allow it to better compete against its rival quad core server and desktop process...

3 August 2007
04:42 GMT

INTEL Will Produce Triple-Channel Memory Controllers

The arrival of Core 2 Duo brought INTEL and its CPUs back into the light. However, the company has not based its upcoming processor design solely on the development of Core 2 Duo. The upcoming 45nm architecture is significantly different from the Penryn CPU (which is essentially a 45nm C2D) in terms of processing pow...

12 June 2007
02:39 GMT

INTEL Rolls Out the First 8-core 45nm Penryn Benchmarks

Lately INTEL has been trying to get everyone's attention with its new CPUs. Well, maybe lately is a little off since INTEL has tried that throughout the latest years. But now, more than ever, INTEL has a perfectly good reason to do that since AMD's Barcelona is almost an equal competitor. Almost...Almost a ...

8 June 2007
03:16 GMT

ASUS P5K3 Deluxe, First Mobo Based on Intel P35 Chipset

Intel's latest series of processors, the Penryn-based models, are going to bring some new light into the world of desktop and server computing, being the first processor models in the world to be manufactured on the 45nm manufacturing process. But these processors aren't yet available for the masses as Inte...

26 April 2007
05:13 GMT

First Intel Penryn Benchmarks

Since Intel announced its new line of desktop and server processors based on the 45nm manufacturing process, everybody wanted to get their hands on one so that some actual results could be made available and from the numbers, conclusions could be taken down. Intel approved that some tests were necessary so that the g...

18 April 2007
08:41 GMT

Intel Santa Rosa Platform Will Not Support DirectX 10

Intel's new mobile platform, codenamed Santa Rosa, is one of the topics Intel talked about on the second day of IDF, held in Beijing. Their long expected product is going to hit the market in May, and is part of a long plan Intel has for the mobile market. The fourth generation of Centrino platform, Centrino Pr...

18 April 2007
02:57 GMT

Intel Penryn Is 40 Percent Faster in Gaming

Intel made a big splash at the IDF held in Beijing, a lot of novelties brought forth, and some light shed on previously known plans. The first of these include the performance Penryn will bring to us, humble users, compared to the current Conroe-based products. The company isn't wasting any time; they are, in l...

17 April 2007
04:38 GMT

Intel Unveils Penryn and Nehalem Details

Since there has been a lot of talk about semiconductor manufacturing facilities preparing tools and fabs for the 45nm manufacturing process, we supposed that Intel would have to comment something on this case, and as information about the 45nm process node had become generally available and continuously increasing in...

29 March 2007
02:43 GMT




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