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AMD Unveils Platform for Cost-Effective Ultra-Thin Laptops.
AMD Enters Inexpensive Sub-Notebook Market with “Yukon” Platform
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Seagate Unveils Single-Platter 500GB Hard Drive, Slightly Implies 2TB HDDs.
Seagate Technology May Be One Step Away from 2TB Hard Drives
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Nvidia’s New Flagship Graphics Chip May Change Nvidia’s Approach to High-End Graphics Cards Design.
Preliminary Specifications of Nvidia GT212 Chip Reported by Web-Site
Hardware News
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
- U.S. Authorities Okay Creation of The Foundry Company. Committee on Foreign Investment Clears Path for Creation of “The Foundry Company”
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
- Samsung Launches New Solid State Drives with Unprecedented Performance, Power Consumption. Samsung Unleashes “Green” Solid State Drives
- Toshiba Heavily Bids on Solar Power Systems Business. Toshiba Focuses on Rapid Expansion of Renewable Energy Source Biz
- NEC’s New Memory Tech Can Enable Zero Power Consumption of Chips in Idle Mode. NEC Demos Another Non-Volatile Memory Technology
- Creative Labs Unwraps Some Peculiarities About Zii Stemcell Computing. Creative Discloses Some Zii Details, But the Mystery Remains
- AMD Unveils Platform for Cost-Effective Ultra-Thin Laptops. AMD Enters Inexpensive Sub-Notebook Market with “Yukon” Platform
Monday, January 5, 2009
- Companies Team Up to Improve Blu-Ray’s Interactive Capabilities, Ease Implementation. Ascent Media, Akamai, Sofatronic to Boost BD Live Functionality
- Dell Realigns Business Divisions Around Major Customer Segments. Dell Announces Global Restructuring Program
- Seagate Unveils Single-Platter 500GB Hard Drive, Slightly Implies 2TB HDDs. Seagate Technology May Be One Step Away from 2TB Hard Drives
- Nvidia’s New Flagship Graphics Chip May Change Nvidia’s Approach to High-End Graphics Cards Design. Preliminary Specifications of Nvidia GT212 Chip Reported by Web-Site
- Apple’s iPhone “Nano” Now Expected to Arrive in Q2 2009. Lower-Cost Apple iPhone Due in Q2 2009 – Analysts
- Freescale Semiconductor Aims Netbook Market with ARM Processors. ARM, Freescale, Pegatron to Enable “Gigahertz Performance” Netbooks for $200
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
- IN BRIEF: Microsoft Windows 7 Impresses Early Adopters. Windows 7 Beta Preview Hits the Web
Monday, December 29, 2008
- Creative Labs Touts “Stemcell Computing” with Zii Technology. Creative Set to Unveil Zii at Consumer Electronics Show
- Microsoft Patents Metered Pay-As-You-Go-“By-Speed” Computing Experience. Microsoft Wants Payments for Ongoing Computing Experience
- Nvidia Eager to Transit Majority of New Chips to 40nm Process Technology in 2009 – Rumours. Nvidia Expected to Aggressively Utilize 40nm Process Technology
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News Around the Web
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
- Intel warning casts cloud over CES. Nanotech
- Toshiba lets out Cell TV titbits. Reg Hardware
- Netgear hooks into HSDPA for on-the-go hotspot gadget. Reg Hardware
- Netgear to take on Apple TV next summer. Reg Hardware
- Toshiba Unveils Tricked Out Qosmio X305 Gaming Laptop. techPowerUp!
- HP readies Intel-based 10in netbook. Reg Hardware
- Intel cuts earnings estimates. the INQUIRER
- Wi-Fi video uploads coming to SD. Reg Hardware
- Twisted sister cables come to town. the INQUIRER
- Asus mulls Eee phone, Android-powered Eee PC. The Tech Report
- DivX 7 Standard Announced. techPowerUp!
- GTX 295 available in €uroland. the INQUIRER
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Personal Computers of 2009: Nine Predictions
[12/31/08 | Other]
Some like to review the year ended in an attempt to find certain trends or experience certain events again. But we decided to summarize our expectations for the coming year. In 2009 we seem to be going to bid adieu to Windows XP and get very stylish personal computers, we will see the rise of two polar worlds: ultra-cheap PCs and higher-end multimedia systems and also witness a number of other things that will define the PC world going forward.
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The manufacturer promises that with this router we get performance and style in a single device. With advanced MIMO technology using 3 antennas, users should benefit from its throughput at long distances, signal multiplexing, and reduced wireless dead zones. Let’s find out if it is really so!
Intel Corp. is the world’s largest supplier of graphics adapters, despite of the fact that it has not introduced a single new discrete graphics chip in the last decade. The company still has hopes for the market of standalone graphics processors and plans to introduce its Larrabee product in 2009 – 2010 timeframe. Since the new player on the market of graphics cards poses a great interest, we decided to ask Intel a number of questions about the market of discrete graphics processors, the company’s vision of the GPU design as well as Larrabee project.
Stars (K10) microarchitecture employed in Phenom X3 and X4 processors has finally made it to dual-core CPUs. So, the new Athlon X2 got all the advantages of their elder brothers including shared L3 cache. Nevertheless, these intriguing newcomers will hardly be able to fix AMD’s current market standing. Our today’s article will reveal why.
Today we are going to discuss the Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Storage Link from Linksys that combines four devices in one box: the Wireless Access Point, a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100/1000 Switch, the router and Storage Link that lets you easily add gigabytes of storage space onto your network. Read our review for details.
In this review we will be benchmarking the GeForce GTX 260 with different versions of the GeForce driver and also cover the image quality aspect. Our today's hero will be Zotac GeForce GTX 260 AMP2! Edition 896MB graphics card.
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