AMD is planning to launch mid-range ATI Radeon HD 4000-series GPUs (the ATI Radeon HD 4600-series) this month and two 45nm quad-core CPU by the end of this year, according to sources at motherboard and graphics card makers.
AMD will launch the ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphics card, adopting its RV730 core with 512MB DDR2 memory, [...]
Intel Corp. is launching a quad-core chip for desktop gamers on Monday, continuing a barrage of new products the company has announced in the past week.
Intel Corp. is launching a quad-core chip for desktop gamers on Monday, continuing a barrage of new products the company has announced in the past week.
Increase the efficiency of your printer and extend the page life of your ink cartridges with these sensible strategies.
Printers are cheap to buy, but expensive to use. Printer vendors may think that their ink cartridges and special paper are worth their weight in gold, but that doesn’t mean you can’t print on the cheap. You [...]
Hot Technologies in ‘07
1. Ruby on Rails
2. NAND drives
3. Ultra-Wideband
4. Hosted hardware
5. Advanced CPU architectures
3. Ultra-Wideband: 200x personal-area networking
As it currently stands, personal-area networking via Bluetooth is useful for telephone conversations, data syncing between mobile and stationary devices and, in extreme cases, music. But it doesn’t take much to imagine a type of usefulness — [...]
From next-gen CPU architectures to high-powered personal-area networks, we name the five hottest trends in developing technology.
It seems like every month a new technology emerges with the potential to change everything. Technology writers and analysts get hyperexcited. Everyone starts patting one another on the back and hugging. And two years later, we’re still talking about [...]
What will it take to put thousands of microprocessors in cell phones and laptops?
NOT SO SUPER: A supercomputer in 1996 (top left) capable of calculating one trillion operations per second took up about 2,000 square feet and consumed 500,000 watts. Recently, Intel unveiled an 80-core research chip (bottom right) that achieves the same calculation rate [...]
Advanced Micro Devices released several new Opteron server processors Wednesday, including new low-power models.
Three low-power Opterons and two processors in the mainstream power category were added to AMD’s product list. The low-power chips are said to consume no more than 68 watts, while the mainstream processors consume no more than 95 watts.
On Saturday, Intel and IBM separately announced a new type of transistor material that the companies say will lead to smaller chips, increased computing performance, and more energy-efficient computers. Both chip makers have plans to integrate the new material into the next manufacturing line of chips–known as the 45-nanometer generation–within a year. Ultimately, this advance [...]
Toshiba’s higher capacity chips are based on new 56-nanometer production process.
Toshiba will begin selling in April NAND flash memory chips capable of holding up to 2GB of data, the company said Wednesday.
Availability of the chips should mean that higher capacity flash memory cards are on the horizon. That’s because the capacity of such cards, which [...]
Hewlett-Packard researchers have designed a faster, more energy-efficient chip by packing in more transistors–without shrinking them.
In the chip-making industry, the best way to increase the speed of electronics and make them cheaper has always been to shrink a chip’s transistors to create room for more. But now researchers at Hewlett-Packard (HP) Labs have announced a [...]
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