The Tech Report has a review of VIA’s latest Athlon 64 chipset, the K8T800 Pro. They appear to have made some minor improvements to the HyperTransport support and PCI/AGP clock locks in preparation for AMD’s Socket 939 CPUs which are…
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In a weird turn of events Intel is dropping its upcoming Tejas-core Pentium 4 chip and a low end Xeon processor according to Yahoo News. Tejas was rumored to be quite the heat producer, and since the usual cooling solutions…
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NeoSeeker is seeing the sights at this year’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference which is set up by Microsoft to show what the future will bring hardware wise and what to expect out of major software releases. There’s a bit about…
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AMD has launched a pair of low power Athlon 64 CPUs targeted at the laptop market according to Techweb. The chips can handle both 64-bit and 32-bit code natively, of course, and will do a better job at power usage…
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Boston.com is running a story on a report that claims Wal-Mart’s “garaunteed” low prices apparently don’t extend to video games. They’re beaten on pricing by a number of other large brick and mortar as well as internet retailers by quite…
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The Windows brand is set to get six seperate operating system releases before “Longhorn” ever reaches retail according to Techweb. The releases are targeted at mostly niche areas with the 64-bit edition of XP being the major desktop release between…
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USA Today writes of a DVD player from a company called ClearPlay which is capable of skipping and bleeping out content played from DVDs on the fly. The concept sounds reasonable, but movie studios are angry, and I doubt the…
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Texas Instruments has worked their magic by getting PCI Express to run over CAT6 cables according to ExtremeTech. It’s an interesting concept and modular PCs have been a dream for many system designers which could make upgrading a computer a…
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VIA plans to raise the prices on its line of chipsets starting in July according to DigiTimes. The 6-10% won’t translate into much for consumers but motherboard manufacturers that buy in bulk will feel the initial sting, although with a…
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CommsDesign has the story of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s formation of a wireless access task force which will look for ways to use the technology in bringing broadband to the more rural areas of the U.S. and bring wireless…
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AnandTech takes a look at the Sony DRU-700A which is capable of burning to dual layer DVD blanks. The dual layer write speeds aren’t very impressive, although there isn’t much to compare it to. Regardless manufacturers will be pushing the…
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