Posted on 04 August 2008
Tags: ATI, Chip Architecture, Chip Design, Chips, Intel, Intel Core, Intel Larrabee, Intel Microprocessor, Intel x86, Larrabee, Larrabee Chip, Microprocessors, nvidia, Right-hand Turn, x86
The Siggraph industry conference starts on August 11 and it will take place in Los Angeles. It is said that Intel will give us technical details about their new microprocessor family called Larrabee. These new chips will compete against NVIDIA and ATI on the computer graphics market, but those will also perform a lot of [...]
Posted on 31 July 2008
Tags: AMD, AMD Chipsets, Apple, Chipsets, Intel, Intel Chipsets, Intel Larrabee, Intel Nehalem, Larrabee, Nehalem, nvidia, NVIDIA SLI, Snow Leopard, VIA, VIA Chipsets
Lately, there were some rumors that pointed to a change that Apple could make and this is that Apple might replace Intel chipsets with AMD or VIA chipsets for their products. Some consider this very unlikely, but so far nobody explained why. Also, nobody said to us why this change would be good and why [...]
Posted on 13 July 2008
Tags: centrino, centrino 2, Intel, laptop, notebook, Sony, Sony Vaio, Vaio
Sone has released a teaser that confirms the release date for their Centrino 2 VAIO line. The new models will be outed on July 14th, at 9PM Eastern and should consume less power, along with an improved performance.
Rumors say that Sony will release 16:9 ratio notebooks, and some models might come with a redesign. The [...]
Posted on 16 June 2008
Tags: Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, CPU, Extreme, Intel, Intel CPU, Intel Extreme, Intel Nehalem, Nehalem, Processor, Quad Core
Intel is preparing to introduce three new desktop processors, based on their Nehalem architecture. There will be two quad processors and one extreme, for gaming platforms.
The processors will be codenamed Bloomfield and will clock at 2.66Ghz, 2.93Ghz and, respectively, 3.2Ghz, supporting 1066Mhz DDR3 memories.
The company claimed that the Extreme CPU will run at 6.4GT/s, while [...]
Posted on 13 May 2008
Tags: Gigabyte, Gigabyte M528, Handhelds, Intel, Intel Atom, Intel Gigabyte M528, Intel MID, M528, MID, UMPC
It has been a while since we heard about Intel’s Gigabyte M528 and now it’s finally available for pre-order. We were expecting it with arms wide open, but we were very disappointed to see that we would need $1131 to get one. This is way too much for most of our pockets, but for those [...]