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by Rafael Hernandez on July 8, 2004 · 0 comments

The Post Gazette has some coverage on Intel’s research into “ubiquitous computing” which would allow anyone to access they own personal desktop space and applications from most any other PC. I see a ton of security related problems and digital…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 7, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World writes of a slight oversight Microsoft may have had with its beta 64-bit version of Windows XP. The main problem is that it was limited to installing only on AMD 64-bit CPUs to begin with which is a…

Read more 64-bit Xeon Incompatible with XP64, for now

by Rafael Hernandez on July 7, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC tossed together a comparative review of a few mobile chips from both AMD and Intel. Interesting results from the Pentium 4/Dothan (Pentium M)/Athlon 64s, each varies quite a bit architecturally yet they each maintain comparable performance levels so you’re…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 5, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes writes of Intel’s planned price cuts to its upcoming Celeron D line of processors as well as a few of their older designs which will put pressure on AMD’s upcoming Sempron chip. Moderate drops in price for the most…

Read more Low-End Price Battle Brewing

by Rafael Hernandez on July 3, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has word that ATI is planning to launch a pair of motherboard chipsets with integrated graphics for both the Intel and AMD. The chipset’s graphics performance is expected to be above par with the current choices out there, which…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 1, 2004 · 0 comments

Bytesector got a hold of some of Intel’s latest chips and hardware gear in the form of their latest and greatest P4 LGA 775 CPUs and a pair of boards featuring the i915/i925 chipsets. Good performance and features from Intel’s…

Read more Socket T, i9x5 Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on June 25, 2004 · 0 comments

eWeek reports on a bug that could prevent people from booting up their operating systems if they happen to have a new Intel 915/925 chipset based motherboards with the ICH6R southbridge. A bit of a black mark for the company…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 24, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the latest version of Intel’s popular, low-price CPU, the Celeron D. Intel’s architectural improvements give this updated version of the chip quite a performance boost, bumping it into a performance parity with AMD’s 32-bit Athlons….

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 23, 2004 · 0 comments

InfoWorld has the details on Intel’s launch of two new, “slower”, Pentium M processors which use their Dothan mobile core. The two chips come in at 1.5GHz and 1.6GHz clock speeds and feature the rather large 2MB of cache the…

Read more Two New Pentium Ms Launched

by Rafael Hernandez on June 23, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World writes of Intel’s plan to launch a 64-bit version of its Xeon processor line next week. The chip will be able to run both 32-bit and 64-bit code natively similar to the AMD Athlon64/Opteron line. Since it is…

Read more Intel x86-64 Chip Coming Soon

by Rafael Hernandez on June 22, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a fiew details on Intel’s planned dual-core Itanium2 64-bit processor which was, apparently, demonstrated in Japan recently. The chip will feature 24MB of cache next to its dual CPU core attached to a quad-pumped 667MHz bus…the chip…

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