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Intel is currently the uncontested leading manufacturer of consumer chips, followed by AMD, which is still far from providing a high-performance competitor for the former’s high-end chips. The Santa Clara-based chip maker has recently entered the low-cost, low-power market, with the release of its highly succes... |
5 September 2008
05:08 GMT |
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Apple released a new update for MacBook Air owners on Friday. Seemingly, some users have been experiencing issues with video playback. Processor core idling is another issue addressed in this release. The update is free to download and install.From Apple's Support page,About MacBook Air UpdateUltrathin, ultrapor... |
25 August 2008
02:54 GMT |
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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
12:23 GMT |
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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
06:19 GMT |
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The folks at touchArcade have put together this interesting article comparing the iPhone's gaming capabilities with those of dedicated gaming devices, such as Sony's PlayStation Portable and Nintendo's DS.By the looks of it, the iPhone clearly has some advantages. Of course, it all comes down to what c... |
8 July 2008
10:33 GMT |
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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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As we all know the microprocessor is the 'brain' of the modern digital computer, but have you ever wondered how a piece of silicon manages to process information so accurately and at such a high speed rate? The answer lies behind the basic building blocks of the processor, the logic gates, and a special typ... |
10 June 2008
09:03 GMT |
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IBM, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware and systems, has recently announced that it delivered the first working prototype of its water-cooled 3D chips. The new 3D chips are designed to operate with multiple layers of circuits and components stacked on top of each other. This design is said to be better than ... |
6 June 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Not long after releasing the OpenBook, VIA technologies has just launched the VIA Nano processor family. The new product is based on the VIA Isaiah Architecture and with it VIA plans to enter the low-power processor market. Apparently the new Nano processors are built on the successful energy efficient VIA C7 process... |
29 May 2008
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Recent reports have revealed that Apple has agreed to do business, to a bigger or smaller extent, with chip designer PA Semi, as in, it bought them. Answering the burning questions coming from Forbes, an Apple spokesman confirmed that they decided to buy PA Semi for their sophisticated designs for low-power chips tha... |
23 April 2008
05:14 GMT |
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Have you ever noticed how as soon as you enter a computer shop the seller starts talking in some alien language, mentioning words such as 'L2 cache', '16 megabytes buffer' or 'virtual memory', but never has time to explain what those words really mean? If you have, then you're in th... |
18 April 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Modern processor architectures allow semiconductor manufacturer to reach extremely high speeds, ranging from 3 to 5 Gigahertz. However, since no one can complain of too much horsepower, and the existing applications can suck your processor dry, researchers have already started their quest for terahertz chips.Accordin... |
16 April 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Intel is reportedly sticking to the already available core clock frequencies in its processor lineup at least for the rest of the year. This means that the QX9770 part, running at 3.2 GHz will be the fastest processor around for quite a while.The 3.2 GHz parts built on Intel's 45-nanometer production node seem t... |
8 April 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Graphics specialist Nvidia is allegedly in talks with chipset and CPU manufacturer VIA about a possible acquisition. According to some sources quoted by the Taiwanese tech website Digitimes, Nvidia has already made VIA a merger offer, but they did not reach an agreement on financial grounds.According to the same sour... |
18 March 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Just as the two upgraded Apple MacBooks were released, uncertainty started hovering over the new laptops' performance and battery life. Intel Core 2 Duo - Penryn sports a 45nm refresh which, surprisingly (to some), doesn't improve performance as much as it does battery life.Blokes over at AnandTech have ca... |
29 February 2008
09:11 GMT |
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AMD and IBM engineers have jointly announced a new advancement in the microprocessor design: they succeeded in creating a 45-nanometer processor using full Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography on its square silicon surface. Their achievement may be regarded as a new milestone in chip design and open the gates for ... |
27 February 2008
10:04 GMT |
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Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems signed an educational, three-year partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Education. The new agreement aims at improving the quality of education in chip design using Sun's technology included in the Sparc processors. The agreement stipulates that at least 100 professors wil... |
27 February 2008
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IBM scientists are currently researcher on linking DNA molecules with conductive carbon nanotubes. The procedure is extremely complicated because of the small scale the engineers are forced to work at. Once the carbon nanotubes are interconnected, the DNA can be shed off, leaving just an orderly grid of nanotubes. Th... |
20 February 2008
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Advanced Micro Devices has just issued an update to the list of motherboards that support AMD Phenom processors. The list is comprised of all the AM2 motherboards that can work with the latest Phenom processors.The Phenom-Ready certification shows the users that the recommended motherboard is fully functional when u... |
12 February 2008
10:51 GMT |
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Intel has managed to shrink yet another processor for the ultra-thin notebook market, just as it did with Apple's MacBook Air chip. Given the fact that Apple did not require an exclusive processor from Intel, the whole industry is dreaming about miniature, low-voltage processors to power their future ethereal no... |
12 February 2008
03:02 GMT |
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The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) intends to sue chip manufacturer Intel for an alleged patent violation. The lawsuit is based on the supposition that Intel's Core 2 Duo processor infringes on Patent No. 5,781,752 (also known as the '752 patent).The '752 is entitled "Table Based Data Spec... |
8 February 2008
02:51 GMT |
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Sure thing, this year's International Solid-State Circuits Conference brought a multitude of novelties in the processor industry. We have seen Intel's two billion transistors behemoth, as well as Sun's 16-core server chip, and there are many yet to come. The latest surprise in terms of processors comes... |
7 February 2008
09:36 GMT |
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Word on the street has is that processors specifically designed and developed by Intel for the MacBook Air will soon hit more PC platforms from different vendors other than Apple. The move is of course expected to create a bit of competition for "the world's thinnest notebook," but hey, every company in the indu... |
1 February 2008
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The upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco has rushed the major CPU manufacturers into detailing upon their new technologies that are being cooked as we speak. The ISSCC is one of the largest events in the chip design industry and the showcased products become reality within a few mon... |
29 January 2008
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Advanced Micro Devices had its shares suddenly rising eight percent due to rumors alleging it will be purchased by the IBM consortium. Although market analysts estimate that the chances of the "Big Blue" taking over the chip manufacturer were slim, spokespersons of both companies refused to comment upon the rumor.Wor... |
24 January 2008
03:53 GMT |
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For most average computer users, the hardware layer of their machines is a complete mystery, but for a handful of more advanced users and system administrators, the inner workings of a computer is worth knowing and monitoring in order to ensure an optimal performance level and a long life for the said computer. While... |
31 December 2007
12:32 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices is quite a spender for a year that almost led the company to ruin. It seems that the AMD treasurers have not reached the bottom of the sack yet, and the company is ready to open its $270 million Lone Star business campus.The campus is comprised of five buildings with a surface... |
28 December 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Imagine how our lives would be had Fujio Masuoka not invented the flash memory back in the eighties. We would have never known the miracle of thumb drives or even subscriber-identity-modules in mobile telephony, not to mention memory cards or portable MP3 players. They would have never been born. Or, maybe someone wo... |
7 December 2007
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The Nehalem secret lies deeply buried in the Intel labs. From time to time, rumors or even unofficial news surface on the web and give us another glimpse of what the Nehalems would act and look like. The Nehalem-EX series bears the Beckton codename and is a recent addition to the Nehalem family. Beckton promises an ... |
3 December 2007
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Qualcomm just presented its first two chipsets that include 1GHz processors. Both products are targeted towards the mobile phone market, which should open the door for a great number of possibilities from now on.Mobile phones are developing towards becoming miniature PCs, from what it looks like. 1GHZ processors are ... |
16 November 2007
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Bugs embedded in the silicon structure of a chip mainly come to surface after the fabrication phase has been completed and most of them represent design bugs or wrong wire connections in the computer chips and can potentially cost the producing companies millions of dollars and months of time to fix through the well-... |
6 November 2007
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Some new world records are about to be broken in terms of mobile phones and their performances. Broadcom Corporation has just unveiled a processor that should be capable of supporting a large number of great features, including that of delivering a HD camcorder that also provides an up to 12-megapixel digital camera.... |
5 October 2007
05:29 GMT |
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The holiday season is approaching and Advanced Micro Devices - the second largest central processing units manufacturing company - just announced a number of its partners that, starting with the 8th of October, a new price reduction will come in effect in order to better position the company on the mainstream market ... |
4 October 2007
02:36 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices just resumed shipments of its single core central processing systems as the manufacturing company just released a new lot of Athlon LE processors which are aimed at entry level computer systems where a low price tag is more important than a high computing power level.The new AMD Athlon LE proce... |
3 October 2007
11:39 GMT |
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A smaller fabrication process has a number of advantages, such as the possibility to cram more transistors on the same area and decrease power consumption while increasing the number of chips that are produced from a single silicon wafer. While Intel touted its upcoming 45-nanometer fabrication process and the centra... |
3 October 2007
05:07 GMT |
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Intel plans to go for the 45 nanometer fabrication process and the entire line of central processing units made by this company will be switched over to this new manufacturing technology, including the processors that are intended to be used in a server environment. Among those server aimed processors there are the o... |
28 September 2007
05:03 GMT |
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Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are bringing new weapons in their conflict as the two companies are preparing to launch yet another round of competing lines of products. As AMD is pricing its entire line of central processing units at a lower level than just about everything that is Intel made, the smaller company r... |
28 September 2007
03:36 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices just can't wait to launch their new generation of dual and quad core central processing units, the Phenom class of processors, and for the gamers that are feeling a little bit depressed surrounded by so many new Intel processors, the manufacturing company just launched the Athlon64 X2 5000... |
25 September 2007
09:35 GMT |
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Sometimes developing a new piece of technology in the computer hardware industry takes more resources that are available to a single company and then alliances and partnerships are formed, just like it was the case with the Cell processing units which were developed through a joint effort by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. Th... |
21 September 2007
11:01 GMT |
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Intel has just added one more device to those inspired by Apple's iPhone that have managed only to copy it instead of breaking it. This new handset is surely going to need some space in the crowd, as it comes in some unbelievable sizes, with a length that will surely scare many people away. Good thing it's ... |
21 September 2007
05:40 GMT |
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Three core AMD processing units will soon become a reality as Advanced Micro Devices officially announced that the company will work to bring to its customers yet another product in order to close the performance gap between the dual core and the quad core architectures. This announcement comes after several days of ... |
18 September 2007
04:39 GMT |
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Single and dual core processing units are old news and it looks like the quad core architecture is going to have the market dominance. That is until Advanced Micro Devices will start shipping a three core processing unit which is intended to fit between the dual core and the quad architectures. While there are no har... |
17 September 2007
03:32 GMT |
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The Tera-scale project is the latest multi core setup from Intel which is aimed at supercomputers and high performance servers. A prototype Tera-scale chip was built in February 2007 and it featured no less than 80 processing cores while being clocked at a total running frequency between 3.16GHz and 5.8Ghz. The proto... |
3 September 2007
10:12 GMT |
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Intel, as the most important processor manufacturer in the whole world, has quite a few processors running around these days and the company plans to release more soon. Currently there are Intel processors for just every branch of computer technology available from mobile computing systems like laptops and notebooks,... |
3 September 2007
08:55 GMT |
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The launch of a new computer hardware part is always a pretty tense moment as the manufacturing company can not really know how its product will be received by the market and the tension is going even higher when a lot of things are depending on a single line of products. This is exactly the case with the next genera... |
3 September 2007
06:52 GMT |
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The system on a chip, SoC for short, design is nothing as it has been used for several years now in embedded systems but now Intel sees a great potential in this market so it prepares to launch its very own embedded processor named Tolapai. A previous attempt at the embedded systems' market ended badly for Intel... |
30 August 2007
09:18 GMT |
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Intel announced that its designer teams are working on a new internal architecture for its processors that should address a number of performance bottlenecks and make improvements in the way several cores are connected and are communicating among them. This new processor architecture is going to mean a drastic change... |
29 August 2007
06:54 GMT |
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Sun announced the launch of the UltraSPARC T2 processing unit that is according to the manufacturing company the fastest commodity microprocessor in the world. While Sun's other efforts at dominating the server market ended up in flames, the company has some serious hopes and expectations from the successor of t... |
28 August 2007
07:32 GMT |
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Every x86 compatible processor has a number of hardware-based instructions that are grouped in sets and are integrated in the design of the CPU by its manufacturer. From the old and venerable MMX instructions extension set that was designed years ago in order to give Intel processors a better performance in the multi... |
25 August 2007
04:13 GMT |
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Data transferring speeds inside modern day computer devices is locked at the speed of the electric current that powers those circuits. As the speed of the current can not be easily increased since the circuits become smaller and smaller, another way to increase the data rate would be to use light as a transferring me... |
23 August 2007
11:22 GMT |
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