Even more Intel news. ZDNet has this story, from the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, which covers Intel’s plans to release a Linux driver for the wireless portion of its Centrino package of mobile chips….
January 2004
CNET News has a great article covering Intel’s upcoming CPU codenamed “Prescott” and speculates on what the chipmaker changed and also explains AMD’s processor naming scheme in relation to Intel’s clock speeds….
Read more Reworked Prescott Built for Speed
Intel and a group of telecommunications companies are pushing for a wireless broadband standard called WiMAX. While it’s still in its infancy and other competing standards are sure to pop up WiMAX has attracted some of the larger telcos around…
Read more WiMAX to the Home?
AMDZone has a few notes from AMD’s conference call yesterday which features some interesting tidbits in the Q&A section concerning future products and their move to newer manufacturing processes….
Read more AMD's Plans
NewsFactor has an article that takes a look at what the trends are with business PCs and attempts to piece together a rudimentary picture of how computing will change and what innovations will be introduced to the workstation in the…
Read more Changes in the PC World
Nintendo has unveiled its newest portable gaming system called the Nintendo DS. What sets this apart from a gameboy is its two lcd screen and some other advanced features which Reuters covers here. ETA: Q4 2004…
NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit, is set to study a rock the mission team has named Adirondack with some of its microscopic and spectrographic tools. Discovery News has some more information as well as a nifty animated slideshow of the rover’s…
Read more Spirit to Study a Rock
Wired’s 7th Annual Vaporware Awards recognizes all of the overhyped and much anticipated hardware, software, and gadgetry that was supposed to hit store shelves in 2003 but were delayed or in some cases, delayed for yet another year….
Read more Vaporware Awards
Texas Instruments will launch a speedy 1GHz Digital Signal Processing chip this week. DSPs are used in hardware ranging from the low end of CD players and hard drives to high end networking equipment. CNET News has more on the…
Read more 1GHz DSP Chip
The Washington Post has an interesting piece on the two high definition audio formats, DVD-Audio and SACD, which just can’t seem to get any sales or general interest in them moving….
Read more High Definition Audio Going Nowhere
HardAvenue managed to get their hands on a Western Digital 74GB Raptor SerialATA hard drive. The drive’s platters spin at rate of 10,000rpm making it one of the faster consumer-friendly hard drives on the market….
Read more 74GB WD Raptor Review
