Search results

A European court on Tuesday rejected a request from Intel to postpone a deadline in the European Commission's antitrust proceedings against the company. The Court of First Instance (CFI) in Luxembourg also rejected a request to allow Intel to access certain documents from Advanced Micro...

After introducing the Phenom II family of 45nm CPUs at this year's CES, AMD will reportedly release the fastest version of the chip, the Phenom II X4 950 rated at 3.1GHz, sometime in the second quarter of 2009. The CPU would include 8MB of cache which supposedly could be split up to 6MB for L3...

Nvidia’s recently announced GeForce GTX 295 may have snatched the lead from the Radeon HD 4870 X2 as the world’s fastest single-card desktop graphics solution, but AMD is now ready to take the fight to the all-important notebook segment with a series of mobile graphics chips designed for...

AMD HAD some interesting things to say at their CES keynote, one of which signaled an industry paradigm shift. When AMD's CEO Dirk Meyer says that more transistors are no longer the way to push innovation, you have to pay attention. While he didn't say it outright, the point is simple. More...

Introduction to the first 55nm consumer GT200 If it seems like it has been forever since NVIDIA has released an extremely high-end consumer graphics card, you'd be partially correct. The last release that NVIDIA aimed for the flagship spot with was the GeForce GTX 280 based on the GT200...

Toshiba, IBM and AMD have announced the joint development of a new SRAm cell with an area of only 0.128 square micrometers. "SRAM cells are key components in integrated circuits and are an important technology metric in the semiconductor industry," Jeff Couture of IBM said. "This highlights...

There’s been a lot of talk of Nvidia partner defections and reshuffles in recent months, following the low market performance of their graphics cards compared to a reinvigorated Radeon lineup. Earlier this year it was Gainward, and now another Nvidia exclusive video card partner has announced it...

The N97 might be one of the most exciting devices Nokia has launched in a long time and it seems like Nokia is hell-bent on taking on HTC, Apple, Sony Ericsson et al. The handset that's just been announced doesn't look anything like earlier leaks have suggested and it's easily the most exciting...

We were pointed out that Intel's Nehalem, the CPU that we know as Core i7 has TLB. TLB, three letters that have destroyed the sales of Phenom and Opterons based on 65nm K10 cores stands for Translation Lookaside Buffer and Intel officialy states in its Intel Core i7 Processor, Extreme Edition...

After initial disappointment with the original Phenom processors, AMD showed off its upcoming 45nm ‘Deneb’ desktop chip – now confirmed as Phenom II – for reviewers at an event in Texas this week, and overclocked the second-generation quad-core part to what some observers said was 6.3GHz. The...

AMD recently announced the ATI Radeon HD 4600 series, claimed to be a mainstream graphics offerings that deliver exceptional gaming and HD multimedia performance while consuming less power than a standard light bulb. Comprising the ATI Radeon HD 4670 and the ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphics cards...

The Atom impressed many when it was released earlier this year, quickly becoming a prime choice for anyone building low-power PCs. It was directly competing with Via's Nano because of this. Some initial performance benchmarks showed the Atom as quite more potent than the Nano, though Via claimed...

Even though AMD’s move to sell off their manufacturing assets has been seen by many as a good move for the company, it may not be a smooth transition. Only hours after the announcement, Intel stepped in to say that they are concerned about what AMD has done. The issue that Intel apparently...

Is HP developing its own operating system to avoid Windows? According to a recent BusinessWeek article they’re at least looking into it. The company has supposedly assembled a group of engineers to quietly work on several different ways to avoid a dependence on Microsoft, such as developing...

Mozilla has let it out on their Wiki that the next version of Firefox will offer a Private Mode, in which writes to cache, history, and other traces of a user’s browsing activity are blocked. This has been considered before but was sidelined indefinitely in the run-up to the release of Firefox...

Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA arm will flog a mobile phone that uses Google's Android software within weeks. According to the Mercury News, Goggle and T-Mobile plan to present details of the release on September 23 in New York. The handset will be a smartphone, which allows users to surf...

People don't usually get excited about mainstream and low end graphics cards, but they nonetheless represent the largest part of the market and thus one that simply can't be ignored. With this in mind AMD is releasing a new round of mainstream graphics cards that should fall in the sub-$80...

Last month, Dell claimed to have achieved an impressive mobile-computing milestone by getting its E-Series Latitudes to operate continuously for 19 hours on a single charge ? albeit using a combination of a giant 9-cell internal battery and a whopping 12 cell external one. Today, however, HP is...

China's new Godson-3 chip is starting to show that Intel could face some problems from behind the bamboo curtain. Developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the chip aims to make China less dependent on the likes of Intel and AMD. While this could hurt sales for both those companies in...

The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has been feverishly working on its homegrown Godson microprocessor, with the hope of building its own first petaflop-class supercomputer with the chip in 2010, according to one of the country's senior engineers. China had decided back in the 1990's not to...