Hardware news
Review: New Intel chips power skinny laptops
Jun 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Tiny, cheap laptops known as netbooks have been a big success. But not everyone likes their small screens and keyboards, and their processors aren't powerful enough for some common tasks, like playing ...
AMD's Phenom II Takes On Intel's Core 2 Processors
Feb 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has added two new Phenom II desktop chips to their product line. The Phenom II Dragon line desktop processors use AMD's new 45-nanometer technology and consists both of a triple-core (X3) ...
Acer eyes Japan growth with new cheap laptop
May 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Acer Inc. of Taiwan said Friday it plans solid growth in the previously hard-to-crack Japanese market with a new slim, lightweight laptop that boasts an eight-hour battery life and a cheap price.
Leading-edge data analytics and visualization enable breakthrough science
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most science research programs that run on high-performance computers like the IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) generate enormous quantities of ...
Nvidia Adds Five New GPU's to Their Mobile Line
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Nvidia adds five new GPU's to their mobile GeForce lineup. These new chips have up to twice the performance and half the power consumption of previous chips.
This hard drive is hardened to disasters
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Anyone who has been reading my column or listening to my radio talk show "Computer America" knows I have been preaching the back-up mantra for years. If I ever decide to have a bumper sticker on my car, it will read: "It's ...
AMD Releases Two New HD4800 Series 40nm Mobile GPU's
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today, two new ATI Mobility Radeon HD4800 series mobile GPU's. The HD4830 and HD4860 are both built on ATI's 40nm process technology and both support DDR3, GDDR3 and GDDR5 memory, ...
Cisco announces its first servers, riling rivals
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. wants a bigger chunk of the corporate computing market, and plans to start selling servers in competition with old partners like Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp.
Indian schools to benefit from new computer chips
Mar 10, 2009 |
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An educational initiative between Rice University computer scientists and Indian educators will enable schools in rural India to be some of the first to benefit from Rice's revolutionary, low-energy computer chips.
HP recalls laptop batteries over fire hazard
May 14, 2009 |
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) is recalling some 70,000 batteries for notebook computers because of a fire hazard, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on Thursday.
ASUS Rampage II Extreme Motherboard Set i7 Overclocking Record
Dec 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the release of the Intel Core i7, there is excitement every where about overclocking records being broken. The ASUS Rampage II Extreme motherboard supports the newest Intel platform and ...
Intel Launches Core i7 -- Fastest Processor on the Planet
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Intel Corporation introduced its most advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ...
ASUS Eee Top Touchscreen PC's Coming 1H 2009
Nov 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Asus has just revealed their 15.6-inch Eee Top touchscreen PC that is powered by an Intel Atom processor N270 (1.60GHz) and Intel 945 GSE core-logic with built-in graphics core. The system ...
Samsung Now Producing 256GB Solid State Drives
Nov 21, 2008 |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. With the addition of the high-speed 256GB drive, Samsung now ...
'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC
Aug 28, 2008 |
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Measuring just 2 inches by 2 inches, the Space Cube is roughly the size of a large die. However, the cube is actually a tiny PC, developed by the Shimafuji Corporation in Japan.
