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1. GPUs to increase Folding@Home processing power up to 500x

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 29 September 2006

   ... being able to calculate folding processes in real time: In fact, 1 ns of folding currently takes about 1 day to calculate - or 1 second will take more than 2700 years on "one fast processor," he said. ...

2. Tom's Hardware is 10 Years Old Today

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 26 September 2006

   ... can work. Entering its second decade, Tom's Hardware Guide needs to recognize that the voice of authority is not just one commentator or author, but communities of dedicated, engaged individuals who have ...

3. Is Physics The Third Wheel In Gaming?

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Saturday, 27 May 2006

   ... card now? Well, for one, even the ATI boys like Richard Huddy admitted that if you want to build the best and the brightest machine that can expunge every last frame per second from its bowels, getting ...

4. Tom's Hardware Guide presents the 2005 Readers' Choice Awards

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 25 November 2005

   ... Pentium M 770 processor, 2 GByte of RAM and a 100 GByte harddrive. TV enthusiasts may also appreciate the integrated TV-tuner. The second prize is a 500 GByte 7200 RPM harddrive from Seagate. Winners three ...

5. David Strom: Picking the Perfect Pocket Pal

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

   Wednesday, 23 November 2005

   ... I now was bringing along a second cell in addition to the Motorola that I normally use. These games are much less satisfying than my Sudoko/Palm combo. For one thing, the text is so small that I am going ...

6. His and Her First Day Gaming with the 360

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 21 November 2005

   ... and hit the big green button on the controller. Nothing happened. She said, "Watch what?" and after getting over a few seconds of pride for unknowingly recreating a scene from The Empire Strikes Back, ...

7. Desperately Seeking Saburi: Finding the Camera Phone Creator

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 18 November 2005

   ... camera phone for digital still photos. The device weighed in at a hefty 6 ounces, integrated a 2.0" TFT display capable of displaying 65K colors, could transmit video at two frames per second and had enough ...

8. David Strom: The New Landscape at Tom's

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Wednesday, 16 November 2005

   ... them to the places where they make sense. So if you need to find my back columns, or Omid's Second Hand Smoke, or our gaming columnist Aaron McKenna, you can find them easily here. Finally, if you are ...

9. Aaron McKenna: Parents need to get game

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Wednesday, 09 November 2005

   ... parents in the audience don't recognise the second game mentioned in that sentence. Yet the Civilization series is what I would consider to be one of the most intelligent, non-explicitly educational and ...

10. David Strom: Sony BMG's music sounds off-key

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 09 November 2005

    ... lies here. First is how they are not being upfront in their EULAs (not that most of us read these documents anyway, but still). Not being upfront on their Web pages dealing with the matter is the second: ...

11. Samsung to increase production capacity of LCD glass substrates by 150 percent

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 06 September 2005

      Samsung today said that it will invest 1.76 trillion South Korean Won (approximately $1.72 billion) to complete the second phase of its 7G LCD panel fab. Samsung today said that it will invest ...

12. OCZ releases speedy USB stick

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 31 August 2005

    ... on the market." Data read speeds of the OCZ Rally, which is available in sizes of 512 MByte, 1 GByte and 2 GByte are indicated to reach 28 MByte per second. Write speed is 15 MByte per second for the 512 ...

13. Clearspeed announces 50 GFlops add-in card for PCIe

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 25 August 2005

    ... as a higher bandwidth capability compared to the PCI-X model. Theoretically, maximum is 1 GByte per second up and down, which is estimated to be a more realistic 750 MByte per second each way in everyday ...

14. Microsoft enables streaming between PC and Xbox 360

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Tuesday, 16 August 2005

    ... beta testers. The software, which allows digital media receivers (DMR) to stream music, video, and photos stored on Windows XP-based computers, will support in its second generation a range of new devices, ...

15. Memina launches 4 GByte Rocket USB Flash drive

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Monday, 15 August 2005

      Memina, a spin-off of Samsung, today announced a 4 GByte version of its "Rocket" Flash drive, which promises a 200x data transfer speed (30 MByte per second). Memina, a spin-off of Samsung, today ...

16. Second Hand Smoke: Naked Transgressions

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Friday, 12 August 2005

      There is a new post in Omid's blog. There is a new post in Omid's blog. If you have followed our articles over the past week, it may be little surprising to you that Omid dedicates some space ...

17. Imagination announces Shader Model 3 capable mobile graphics processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 05 August 2005

    ... variations, the SGX510, SGX520, and the SGX530. Fillrate spec for the chips range from 200 million to 1.2 billion pixels per second at a clock speed of 200 MHz. Polygon performance is rated at 2 to 13.5 ...

18. Pretec launches 4 GByte 133x SD card

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 02 August 2005

    ... card, compliant with the SD 1.1 spec, can store up to 4 GByte of data and offers data read speeds of 20 MByte per second and data write speeds of 16 MByte per second. The company did not announce pricing, ...

19. Iomega posts $6.7 million loss, realigns product strategy

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 28 July 2005

      As expected storage specialist Iomega posted another quarterly loss, amounting to $6.7 million on revenues of $65.7 million for the second quarter of this year. As expected storage specialist ...

20. Nvidia announces Quadro FX 3450/4500 workstation graphics chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 28 July 2005

    ... into one system. The FX 4500 comes with 512 MByte of memory a 256-bit memory interface and a memory bandwidth of 33.6 GByte per second. Compared to the previous flagship, the FX 4400, the new model offers ...

21. Smartphone growth accelerates

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Thursday, 28 July 2005

    ... are quickly gaining in popularity. UK market research firm Canalys reports that global shipments were up 105 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of this year. Nokia dominates the segment with ...

22. Iomega abandons Zip and DVD, fires 120

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 26 July 2005

      Damage control at Iomega - two days ahead of the release of its second quarter results, the company announced a "restructuring plan" to be able to return to profitability. Damage control at Iomega ...

23. WD ships 400 GByte SATA desktop harddrives

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 22 July 2005

    ... desktop computers. The device comes with 16 MByte cache and a platter speed of 7200 rpm. The company promises a data transfer rate of 150 MByte per second, following SATA specs. The new drive is priced ...

24. IBM retiring OS/2, sort of

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 15 July 2005

    ... Serenity Systems' eComStation - a software that is based on a OS/2 license and is currently offered in its second generation. Serenity said that "eComStation will remain available as long as it is a good ...

25. Acer climbs to second position in standalone LCD market

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 08 July 2005

      According to a report from market research firm DisplaySearch, Acer has become the second largest provider of standalone LCD displays in the North American marketplace. According to a report from ...

26. Transmeta sees light at the end of the tunnel

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 08 July 2005

    ... paying off: In May, the company had set a goal to reduce quarterly cash losses to less than $5 million by the end of the second quarter. Looks like Transmeta's massive job cuts, Sony's commitment to ...

27. XM Satellite Radio tops 4.4 million subscribers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 01 July 2005

      XM Satellite Radio today announced that it has added about 640,000 new subscribers to its service during the second quarter of this year. XM Satellite Radio today announced that it has added about ...

28. Maxtor equips OneTouch drive with FireWire 800 interface

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 15 June 2005

    ... per second. Maxtor announced a new version of its OneTouch II external backup harddrive: The new drive received a FireWire 800 interface that allows data to travel at a speed of up to delivers up to ...

29. Intel: No "unannounced" DRM technology in Pentium D processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 03 June 2005

    ... products today, including those just mentioned do work with existing content protection technologies out there including DTCP-IP. In the second half of 2005, Intel will deliver an updated graphics driver ...

30. Matsushita transmits data at 12.5 Gbit per second

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 31 May 2005

    ... Cavity Surface Emitting Laser) operating at 8 mA, the company claims it sent and received data at a speed of 12.5 Gbit per second. The company plans to use the technology for low-cost optical communication ...

31. Tektronix intros new logic analyzers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 31 May 2005

    ... especially multi-lane serial buses including second generation PCI Express and SATA III as well as double data rate (DDR II) memories, place new requirements on designers for accurately sampling at high ...

32. Infineon shows first standard compliant 100 Mbit VDSL2 chip

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Friday, 27 May 2005

    ... Vinax uses the full VDSL2 frequency spectrum of up to 30 MHz and provides a bandwidth of symmetric 100 Mbit per second over copper wires at distances greater than 350 meters or 1150 ft - which is about ...

33. Wireless USB spec released

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Tuesday, 24 May 2005

    ... MAC convergence architecture, using the WiMedia Alliance's MB-OFDM ultra wideband MAC and PHY. The technology will deliver speeds equivalent to wired Hi-Speed USB, with bandwidths of 480 Mbit per second ...

34. Freescale demos UWB with 60 ft range

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Monday, 23 May 2005

    ... for Freescale's XS110 chipset to double in range, while still performing at over 110 megabits per second - a dramatic improvement for our OEM customers," said Martin Rofheart, director of Freescale's Ultra-Wideband ...

35. WD intros SATA II and color-adjustable external harddrives

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 18 May 2005

      Western Digital (WD) today announced it is shipping SATA II harddrives that offer a theoretical data transfer rate of up to 300 MByte per second. Western Digital (WD) today announced it is shipping ...

36. Elpida and Samsung deliver XDR memory for the PS3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Wednesday, 18 May 2005

    ... The memories used offer a bandwidth of 9.6 GByte per second and peak at an orating speed of 4.8 Gbit per second at 1.8 volts. (THG)  ...

37. Wireless USB gets its own developer conference

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Wednesday, 11 May 2005

    ... of USB connections to the wireless world. WUSB will be backwards compatible to USB and will offer a bandwidth of 480 Mbit per second for distances less than 30 ft. (THG)  ...

38. SMSC offers USB-to-infrared controller for digital cameras and cellphones

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Monday, 09 May 2005

    ... rates between 0.6 kbit per second and a maximum of 4 Mbit per second. Typically wireless capability at this time is only available for higher-end cameras but is based on Wi-Fi technology to allow a relatively ...

39. EA announces Burnout Legends for PSP

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Friday, 06 May 2005

    ... second crash junction can be just as satisfying as a two-hour multiplayer session - and that's the hallmark of a perfect PSP game." The game will be previewed at the upcoming E3 Expo in Los Angeles (May ...

40. Sony releases expansion pack for Everquest II

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Thursday, 05 May 2005

      Sony Online Entertainment announced Desert of Flames and The Splitpaw Saga, the first expansion pack and second adventure pack, respectively, for EverQuest II. Sony Online Entertainment announced ...

41. ATI's Xpress 200M chipset aims at Intel notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 20 April 2005

      ATI today released a second version of its Radeon Xpress 200M chipset: This time, the chipset aims at Intel notebooks and offers the features of the Xpress 200M for the AMD64 platform, released ...

42. Nintendo paints DS "Electric Blue"

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Tuesday, 19 April 2005

      Nintendo announced a second color for its handheld DS gaming system. Nintendo announced a second color for its handheld DS gaming system. Following about two million sold units in the US, the ...

43. Intel to develop notebook platform for Chinese students

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 14 April 2005

    ... to Intel. Initial OEM systems based on the Tanggula platform are expected to be available in the second half of this year. Intel did not provide details on the technology of the platform, but mentioned ...

44. Traffic to Firefox website grows 237 percent

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Wednesday, 13 April 2005

    ... with developing the Firefox browser, saw a 284 percent year-over-year growth to 4.1 million unique visitors. When the latest version of Firefox launched in November 2004, Mozilla.org drew its second largest ...

45. Tektronix ships "world's fastest" real-time oscilloscopes

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 08 April 2005

    ... electronics industries enabling customers to complete designs for second-generation serial data standards such as PCI-Express Gen II, SATAIII and double XAUI. (THG)  ...

46. Pioneer's new DVD recorders offer harddrive and DVD-R DL recording

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Tuesday, 05 April 2005

    ... details on what it defines at 100x, the firm said that one hour of content can be copied to a DVD in about 40 seconds. At this time it is not clear, if the two recorders will be offered in the US in the ...

47. Razer unveils Diamondback Plasma mouse

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Monday, 04 April 2005

    ... new product. The device offers a resolution of 1600 dpi and features a frame rate of over 6400 frames per second (5.8 megapixels per second) as well as a 16-bit data path. The mouse also comes with a high ...

48. Sony creates "ST Mobile Display" to manufacture TFT LCDs for mobile devices

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 31 March 2005

      Sony said it has founded ST Mobile Display (STMD) as its second manufacturing base for TFT LCD panels. Sony said it has founded ST Mobile Display (STMD) as its second manufacturing base for TFT ...

49. Samsung samples FB-DIMMs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 15 March 2005

    ... DDR2, FB-DIMMs add an Advanced Memory Buffer (AMB) chip to each memory module to enable the use of high- and low-speed interfaces. The buffer can generate speeds from 3.2 to 4.8 Gbit per second. The maximum ...

50. AMD posts updated processor roadmap

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 14 March 2005

      AMD has recently updated its public processor roadmap. AMD has recently updated its public processor roadmap. The version dated for March 10, 2005, lists four dual-core processors for the second ...