Core 2 Vs Quad Core (Saturday 06th of September 2008 06:23:00 PM)
There has been this debate for a year or so on different forums on the web whether a person
should buy a Core 2 duo processor or Quad. The Core 2 duo's (Wolfdale or 45nm) can overclock to
4ghz and use 10% less power. So ...
(more)AMD = Great Vaue but Intel Wins (Saturday 06th of September 2008 04:56:00 AM)
AMD is in a pricing war with intel which is great news and their black edition processors
offers some promise for later on. Intel is beating them in performance and power consumption,
two very important things for high end machines and over clocking. ...
(more)Intel X58 To Be First Non-NVIDIA Chipset To Get SLI (Thursday 28th of August 2008 03:30:03 PM)
Vigile writes "In a somewhat fortuitous move from a company that is used to holding its
proprietary technologies close to its chest, NVIDIA has announced that it is opening up a
'certified SLI motherboard' program for boards using the approaching Intel ...
(more)Nvidia Claims Intel's Larrabee Is "a GPU From 2006" (Monday 25th of August 2008 12:15:07 PM)
Barence sends this excerpt from PC Pro: "Nvidia has delivered a scathing criticism of Intel's
Larrabee, dismissing the multi-core CPU/GPU as wishful headwork — while admitting it
needs to catch up with AMD's current Radeon artwork cards. 'Intel ...
(more)In Computer Heaven: ... (Saturday 23rd of August 2008 08:10:02 PM)
In clone Heaven:The rule is from Intel,The design and explication is done by Apple,The truck is
done by Microsoft,IBM provides the support,Gateway determines the pricing.In data processor
Hell:The order is from Apple,Microsoft does design and construction,IBM ...
(more)Inside Intel's Core i7 Processor, Nehalem (Saturday 23rd of August 2008 08:45:01 AM)
MojoKid writes "Intel's next-generation CPU microarchitecture, which was anew given the mark
processor family name of 'Core i7,' was one of the big topics of argumentation at IDF. Intel
claims that Nehalem represents its biggest scaffold architecture ...
(more)Dreamworks and Carmack Discuss 3D and Threading At IDF (Friday 22nd of August 2008 06:30:02 AM)
MojoKid writes "At the Intel creator Forum, VP and GM of Intel's macos and Solutions group,
Renee James, wheeled out a few celebrities of the 3D world, namely Jeffrey Katzenberg of
Dreamworks and John Carmack of id Software. by the book to Katzenberg, ...
(more)Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps (Tuesday 19th of August 2008 03:45:01 AM)
Anti-Globalism sends along a PCWorld article outlining two technologies from Intel and Dell
that do an end run around Windows. "Dell, Intel and their partners announced last week new
technologies that equal major leaps forward for mobility. The companies ...
(more)Leaked Intel slides reveal 8-core CPUs, AVX instruction set (Saturday 16th of August 2008 03:31:00 PM)
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
We lately learned that Intel would be (officially) calling
Nehalem Core i7 and Centrino Atom, um, Atom. Now, however, we've got a few more related details
for you to digest thanks to a stack of leaked display slides. The ...
(more)Intel's "mainstream" 80GB and 160GB SSDs ready to launch with mainstream price? (Friday 15th of August 2008 09:58:00 AM)
Filed under: Storage
Looks like Intel, the big bad daddy of silicon, is about to unleash its
first regular oriented SSDs into the market. While Intel's 1.8- and 2.5-inch 80GB and 160GB SSD
plans were pretty thoroughly minute in those May leaks, Expreview ...
(more)More netbooks on the way from Lenovo, Sylvania and Intel (Wednesday 30th of July 2008 11:52:00 PM)
Filed under: Laptops
It looks like the number of netbook hold-outs just keeps on dwindling,
with Lenovo and Sylvania now break-in the fray, and Intel coming back for another kick at the
can. While details are light on Lenovo's offering, the company is ...
(more)Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores" (Thursday 03rd of July 2008 01:00:04 AM)
Impy the Impiuos Imp writes to tell us that in a recent affidavit Intel has revealed their
plans for the future and it goes well beyond the traditional processor model. Suggesting
developers start considering cap about tens, hundreds, or even crucial ...
(more)Doubts Over Intel's WiMAX Service Pricing Claim (Saturday 21st of June 2008 09:00:06 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "An Intel manager has suggested in a blog post that WiMAX could lead to
massive savings on broadband Internet, mobile voice, and mobile data service prices. His post
lists a WiMAX-based package of casework including home broadband, mobile ...
(more)NVIDIA and friends working on alternate USB 3.0 spec, SiS joins in, Intel uninvited from everybody's birthday parties (Saturday 14th of June 2008 08:45:00 PM)
Filed under: PeripheralsRemember middle school? These guys do. NVIDIA, AMD, VIA and now SiS
(only two capital letters? Not trying hard enough) have all teamed up in a fight against Intel
of truly pubescent proportions. Intel has denied accusations of ...
(more)Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week (Friday 06th of June 2008 06:30:01 PM)
4roddas writes "Reports circulated Wednesday that Apple may demo the next iteration of Mac OS X
next week or even release code to developers in preparation for an early-2009 launch. by the
book to rule to an account on Mac enthusiast site TUAW (The Unofficial ...
(more)Canonical makes Ubuntu Netbook Remix official at Computex (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 05:00:00 PM)
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
Not like we weren't totally expectant this or anything, but
Canonical has chosen Computex as the expo where it will officially showcase Ubuntu Netbook
Remix. Hailed as a "reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically ...
(more)RISC Vs. CISC In Mobile Computing (Tuesday 20th of May 2008 01:53:43 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "For the processor geeks here, Jon Stokes has an cerebration article up at
Ars Technica analyzing RISC vs. CISC in mobile phones (Wikipedia on Reduced Instruction Set
televisions and Complex Instruction Set Computers). He wraps it up ...
(more)WWDC to launch a 3G iPhone and Atom-based MID device? [updated] (Thursday 15th of May 2008 10:45:00 AM)
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, haulable Audio, wieldy VideoHonestly, we're wearied by the
sheer amplitude of 3G iPhone chatter swamping the rumor channels (and our inbox). Nevertheless,
it would be a disservice to you, dear reader, if we let this ...
(more)War Brewing on the Inexpensive Laptop Front (Tuesday 06th of May 2008 12:39:22 PM)
The in the in the christian era era Science Monitor has an interesting look at the war brewing
on the inexpensive laptop front. With everything from the Eee PC to the OLPC, the trend in
slimming and trimming seems to be continuing. "The market segment ...
(more)Nvidia CEO "Not Afraid" of CPU-GPU Hybrids (Saturday 12th of April 2008 08:15:10 AM)
J. Dzhugashvili writes "Is Nvidia worried about the advent of both CPUs with motion pictures
processor cores and Larrabee, Intel's future discrete digital pictures processor? Judging by
the tone adopted by Nvidia's CEO during a pocket analyst colloquy ...
(more)CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LV: NVIDIA boss says "We're going to open a can of whoop-ass" on Intel (Friday 11th of April 2008 07:45:02 AM)
Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsLooks like Intel's plans to enter the visuals space in a big way
with its Nehalem and Larrabee lines strike NVIDIA CEO Jen Hsun-Huang as being rather foolish --
in a palaver call with analysts today, Huang said Intel's microcircuit ...
(more)Intel's Netbook revealed as FTEC SmartBook, mystery solved (Tuesday 25th of March 2008 12:27:00 PM)
Filed under: Laptops
Finally, the Intel Netbook mystery is solved with the official unveiling
of the 7- and 9-inch low-enders in Malaysia. The ruggedized laptops for kids (at least,
initially) are manufactured by Malaysia's own FTEC and will carry a SmartBook ...
(more)Carmack Speaks On Ray Tracing, Future id Engines (Thursday 13th of March 2008 01:00:10 PM)
Vigile writes "As a matter of principle, when legendary game programmer John Carmack speaks,
the entire creation listens. In a recent consultation he caveat on a multitude of topics
control gate with hookup about Intel, their ray tracing infrastructure ...
(more)Intel, friend of memory, doubles phase-change capacity (Tuesday 05th of February 2008 10:50:00 AM)
Filed under: StorageMere days ago we were being treated to the adventures of Intel and Micron
in their efforts to create the "world's fastest" NAND drive, and now Intel's got its hands in
some phase-change memory, with a hi tech* to double the storage ...
(more)Intel's Skulltrail QX9775 x 2 never met a benchmark it didn't like (Monday 04th of February 2008 01:54:00 PM)
Filed under: Desktops, Gaming
Forget that retiring person nonsense Intel keeps talking about --
squeezing battery-sipping processors inside minuscule form factors -- it's totally played. We
got here some numbers on Intel's new Skulltrail gaming platform, ...
(more)New VIA x86 CPU Takes Aim At Intel Silverthorne (Saturday 26th of January 2008 06:15:04 AM)
Kaz writes "While not overhead on the same scale as the two major CPU designers, VIA has been
gaining traction in the world of UMPCs and thin clients with its Eden and C7 lines of
processors. While past architectures have been considerably out-of-date ...
(more)Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year' (Wednesday 02nd of January 2008 01:45:06 AM)
Twitter writes "The Vista Death Watch is PC Magazine's most popular column. That is just one of
many items in Dvorak's review of yet another 'disappointing' year in Technology. 'I was not a
fan of 2007. It was another crappy tech year--just the latest ...
(more)In Computer Heaven: ... (Sunday 23rd of December 2007 11:10:02 AM)
In headwork machine* Heaven:The management is from Intel,The design and construction is done by
Apple,The truck is done by Microsoft,IBM provides the support,Gateway determines the pricing.In
data processor Hell:The management is from Apple,Microsoft ...
(more)Large Tech Companies Moving Beyond the Cubicle (Tuesday 04th of December 2007 10:45:04 PM)
Statemachine writes in with a story from Silicon Valley about how Intel and Cisco, among other
companies, are experimenting with cubeless, open, and unassigned seating. "Beginning this
month, [Intel] will set up three experimental work sites. Open areas, ...
(more)Intel, Microsoft Despised the XO Laptop (Sunday 25th of November 2007 12:30:04 PM)
Gregsim writes "The Wall Street Journal today reports that the new XO laptop, centerpiece of
the One Laptop Per Child project, is stimulating an active response from both Intel and
Microsoft. The companies evidently feel jeopardized by the little upstart, ...
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