Intel has managed to cut down on the amount of lead it uses to create its products and hopes to ship the eco-friendlier chips this year according to The Phoenix Business Journal. The use of lead in chips is mostly…
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Lindows.com has decided to drop its name outside of the U.S. due to legal pressure from the software giant Microsoft. They’ll continue to use the name in the U.S. so they’ll have a bit of a multiple-personality gig going on,…
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Xtreme Resources has a review of the nVENTIV Mach II phase change cooler which they tested with the Intel cooling kit. They were able to achieve some very impressive results with it, but many times these cooling units hit some…
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PC World has the details of Intel’s new batch of mobile processors that they will soon launch. The four mobile CPUs all seem to target the cost conscious and power saving crowd. There aren’t any ground-breaking new features but it…
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EE Times has some news on a research report by a company called In-Stat that compared the features, instruction sets, and the like of Intel’s upcoming 64-bit CPUs with that of AMD’s 64-bit chip line. They found that Intel’s chip…
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eWeek has the story of the U.K. government’s plan to bring wi-fi internet access to people across the country using equipment attached to street lights and the like. The system will use a “mesh network” like technology to pass on…
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This seemed to fly under most people’s radar but Intel cut prices on a few of its processors this past Sunday. Most of their cuts were to their low power mobile chips. The last price cut in ExtremeTech’s news bit…
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Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology has developed a “direct methanol fuel cell” which uses a mixture of methanol, water, and air to generate electricity. While they have no products available that use the technology they expect some some hefty battery…
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AnandTech has somewhat reliable sources when it comes to information dealing with unreleased products so it stands to reason their info on ATI and NVIDIA’s upcoming video chips is close to the truth. They dish out some info on launch…
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The Tech Report ran a barrage of tests against three motherboards which are all capable of running dual AMD Opteron 64-bit processors. The two Tyan boards, Thunder K8W and Tiger K8W, come in sporting AMD chipsets while MSI chose to…
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X-bit labs has hit up the rumor mills again, this time they’ve stirred up some info on a possible 8-way AMD Opteron processor based server being launched this week. There’s no mention of what company is launching such a machine…
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