Intel

by Rafael Hernandez on April 12, 2004 · 0 comments

Intel is set to announce a pair of new chips that work in tandem to bring new, higher levels of performance to gadgets according to CNET News. The PXA270 paired with the 2700G multimedia chip support some “advanced” features such…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Intel seems to be having some initial problems with its upcoming i925X chipset and DDR2 ECC memory and they expect a delayed launch for their “Nocona” processor according to AnandTech. Early i925x chipsets won’t have the ECC feature at all…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 8, 2004 · 0 comments

ATI is a relatively new player to the desktop chipset world which enables CPUs to communicate with the rest of a PC’s peripherals. X-bit labs brings news of some supposed products ATI has been working on which will embed DirectX…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 7, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on April 7, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on April 7, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on April 7, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on April 6, 2004 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on April 2, 2004 · 0 comments

Sharp has released its Linux PDA; the Zaurus SL-6000. It features an Intel X-Scale 400MHz processors, built-in 802.11b, and CF and SD/MMC slots but it comes in at a whopping $700 price-point, which should be ok with the corporate customers…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 1, 2004 · 0 comments

Xbit labs has some rumors from a Frech hardware site that believes AMD will take on a naming scheme similar to one Intel is adopting. Intel has changed its naming scheme to denote CPU family and how far up the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 31, 2004 · 0 comments

eWeek has a list of features that will be in Microsoft’s upcoming Windows CE 5.0 OS. It will be targeted to PDAs and cell phones as always and it gains some impressive technology over previous versions such as the “Adaptive…

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