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Due before year’s end, the next-gen ‘Nehalem’ architecture succeeds Core 2 with up to eight cores on a single processor, and much more.
Continue reading “Intel preps meaty and modular ‘Core 3′ platform”

Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few years.

Price has been a key feature of Atom, previously code-named Silverthorne, since the very first time Intel talked about this product. Intel itself stated that the production cost of the tiny chip may be close to that of a 286 CPU, allowing the company to sell the processor for a low price to open a new market of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and Nettop computers with prices well below the $200 range.

Continue reading “A New Goldmine For Intel: The $6 Atom Processor”

AMD has formally unwrapped its three-core Phenom X3 8000 series, along with new versions of its existing quad-core Phenom X4 processors, now known as the 9050 line.

The three-core Phenom X3s, first announced back in September 2007 just ahead of AMD arch-rival Intel’s bi-annual Developer Forum, are detailed just before the next IDF is due to kick off in Shanghai.

Continue reading “AMD announces tri-core, tweaked quad-core Phenoms CPUs”

Apple has been conducting research on a new breed of display hardware that would employ autostereoscopy to produce three-dimensional images that can be viewed by multiple users without the need for special headgear or glasses.

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ATI is the first graphics card manufacturer to have its graphics cards officially certified for the new DisplayPort interface. VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) has officially certified ATI Radeon HD 3400, Radeon HD 3600, Radeon HD 3800 and ATI FireMV 2260, and the IGP AMD 780G for DisplayPort.

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Corsair and Crucial have all launched new DDR3 modules sporting the highest frequency yet. Corsair Dominator TW3X2G2000, Crucial Ballistix PC3-16000 and OCZ PC3-16000 all operate at 2000MHz, have EPP 2.0 profiles and are labeled as SLI-Ready.

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apologies on the late update….

The geforce 9800GX2 was released, here are some reviews of the new hardware from nVidia

:: MVKTech :: Bjorn3D :: HotHardware :: DriverHeaven :: HardOCP :: TechPowerUp :: Tomshardware :: TweakTown :: Legitreviews ::

Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it had begun shipments of its triple-core central processing units (CPUs) to large makers of personal computers (PCs). AMD Phenom 8000-series microprocessors will be available for end-users and small system makers at a later time.

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AMD is looking to relaunch Phenom this year with a new revision of the core and higher clock speeds. This new core was designed specifically to address the TLB errata that crept up late last year. Anandtech managed to get their hands on a pre-release sample from one of AMD’s partners before final production samples shipped.

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OCZ has entered the SSD race by announcing a series of ultra-fast OCZ SATA II 2.5″ Solid State Drives. The series contains two models, 32GB and 64GB, both sporting 120MB/s read speed and 100MB/s write speed.

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