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1. Nvidia auctions "ultimate" gaming system on eBay

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... DA1000 Power Supply Case Accessories by Performance PCs Case LED Lighting by Oznium Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard Custom Nvidia Themed Razer Boomslang Mouse Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Edition provided ...

2. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   2.5 TFlops of raw compute power Nvidia has debuted an advanced line of Fermi-based Tesla GPUs for the high performance computing (HPC) market. An Nvidia spokesperson told TG Daily that the Tesla 20 ...

3. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   2.3 petaflops of peak performance The AMD-powered "Jaguar" system has been dubbed the world's "supreme supercomputer" by the TOP500 organization.  The upgraded Cray XT5 - which is based in the Oak Ridge ...

4. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... team and a different focus of execution. “Their real goal is battery life and cost and performance that gives you a real experience. It will be the ultimate thin and light CPU with the best performance ...

5. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... past fail to tell users what their machines can actually do. The problem, of course, is that while AMD has what we consider is a reasonable point on consumers measuring price and performance, it certainly ...

6. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   ... The ability to layer or stack arrays of PCMS provides the scalability to higher memory densities while maintaining the performance characteristics of PCM, a challenge that is becoming increasingly more ...

7. Intel: Windows 7 offers "improved" performance and stability

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 28 October 2009

   An Intel spokesperson recently told TG Daily that Microsoft Windows 7 offers "improved performance and stability" compared to Vista and the veteran, yet aging XP operating system.An Intel spokesperson ...

8. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   Kingston has introduced a bootable 40GB SSD drive. According to company spokesperson David Leong, the SSDNow V drive is "aimed primarily" at desktop users as a "performance upgrade" for existing systems. ...

9. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 25 October 2009

   ... the entire chip." Doud explained that the two "key" technologies enabled TILE architecture performance to scale nearly linearly with the number of cores on the chip. "Tilera is four years ahead of ...

10. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... SSD can lose its snappy performance because data gets fragmented easily. Tests done by Lloyd Chambers show that those 250MB/sec reads can plummet to 47MB/sec if the drive is not "reconditioned." That process ...

11. Windows 7 to trigger notebook replacement sales

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... will plot their usual conservative path until they're sure of Windows 7's stability. DRAM Exchange believes that Windows 7 has far better performance than Vista, incorporating better memory utilization, ...

12. SanDisk ships 64 Gigabit X4 Flash memory cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... was to not only deliver the lower costs inherent to 4-bits-per-cell, but to do so while meeting the reliability and performance requirements of industry standard cards that employ MLC NAND," explained ...

13. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... performance" than previous processors. Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have introduced an advanced line of quad-core SPARC64 VII processors. The retooled chips - which run at 2.53GHz and 2.88GHz - reportedly ...

14. HP rolls out notebooks: Hails Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... battery and wireless connectivity options. The ProBook b-series notebooks use AMD microprocessors and HP claims an astonish improvement in battery life for up to eight hours and 15 minutes, and a performance ...

15. Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... systems which offered "twice the performance" with just half the number of servers. However, Kucic did concede that slashed budgets have seriously affected the hardware industry. Has the sluggish market ...

16. Nvidia unshackles Visual Studio with Nexus GPU integration

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... performance and speed of both the GPU and CPU. Nvidia has introduced an advanced development environment for massively parallel computing. Nexus - which is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio - includes ...

17. Nvidia kicks off 2009 GPU conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... the game, both in terms of performance and the experience," claimed Bergman. But will ATI remain the "undisputed leader" for long? Although the answer is uncertain, it is quite clear that Nvidia will ...

18. Toshiba introduces ultra-thin laptop line

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... explained company spokesperson Carl Pinto. "These new ultra-thin laptops reflect the next step in Toshiba laptop innovation, delivering the perfect balance of performance, mobility and style, and broaden ...

19. Intel outlines future of interactive television

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    ... innovative platform to showcase Flash-based applications in a vivid way," opined Wadhwani. "Flash Player 10 combined with the performance of the Intel media processor and its support for standards such ...

20. Toshiba targets high-end gamers with Qosmio X500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... GTS 250M with 1GB of GDDR5 video memory."Gaming and high-definition content creation continue to drive high-performance PC demand and Toshiba is extremely committed to serving those markets," said Toshiba's ...

21. Intel debuts Nehalem mobile chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... others, Intel has revolutionized the laptop PC processor, delivering performance when you need it, energy efficiency when you don't," said Perlmutter. "For the first time, mobile users can choose a laptop ...

22. ATI introduces Radeon HD 5800 GPU for DirectX 11 gaming

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... the most powerful processor on the planet, AMD is changing the game, both in terms of performance and the experience," said AMD's Rick Bergman. "As the first to market with full DirectX 11 support, ...

23. SGI introduces Octane III 'personal' supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    SGI has introduced a "personal" supercomputer capable of accommodating up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly 1TB of memory. According to SGI CEO Mark J. Barrenechea, the Octane III will help enable ...

24. 2TB SSDs released

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ... Talent’s RAIDDrive supports sequential read speeds of up to 1.4GB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 1.20GB/s. The RAIDDrive, which operates flash memory chips in RAID mode to boost performance, ...

25. ARM 2GHz chip design has dual core legs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... designs can build an industry standard ARM microprocessor with a low power envelope and aimed at both the consumer and enterprise markets. The company says that it will deliver a peak performance of 4,000 ...

26. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... impressive jump in performance. This is small, light, should have very good battery life and still price out a hair under $400.  This product probably won’t even be available until October 22nd. ...

27. IBM SOCs it to 'em with high performance chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    Big Blue claimed it has created the highest performance throughput microprocessor system on a chip (SOC) device aimed at the comms, storage, consumer, defense and aerospace markets. Big Blue claimed ...

28. SanDisk gets speedy with faster flash cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... up to 90MB/s. That, it claims, doubles the performance from its previous high end camera memory cards. The faster cards are shipping now and SanDisk also claims that they have better reliability using ...

29. Intel confirms top management shakeup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... Data Center Group, focused on servers, cloud computing, networking and high-performance computing, will be headed by Kirk Skaugen. The Visual Computing Group will be managed by Jim Johnson. The Ultra ...

30. AMD launches Tigris and Congo notebook platforms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    AMD has introduced a "mainstream" notebook platform designed to provide improved performance for multimedia applications and 3D gaming. Tigris - which has already been adopted by 8 OEMs - supports full ...

31. Kingston introduces Lynnfield optimized memory kits

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    ... performance for 1333, 1600, 2000 and 2133MHz frequencies. San Francisco, Calif. Kingston has announced 4GB DDR3 memory kits optimized for Intel's LGA1156 Core i5 and Core i7 systems. The  HyperX kit ...

32. Twitter makes you dumb, says psychologist

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    ... skills, says Alloway, who claims working memory is more important to success and happiness than IQ. In an eight week study of children aged between 11 and 14, the performance of slow learners saw a significant ...

33. AMD launches 40W six-core Opteron processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 30 August 2009

    AMD has introduced a 40W six-core Opteron processor. The retooled chip reportedly offers 31 percent higher performance-per-watt over a standard quad-core Opteron. San Francisco (CA) - AMD has introduced ...

34. IBM uncloaks eight core Power7 processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 26 August 2009

    ... 32 threads per chip along with advanced pre-fetching data and instruction sets. "Power7 is an 8-core, high performance server chip. A solid chip is a good start. But to win the race, you need a balanced ...

35. Filter promises better cellphone performance

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... allow others to pass, improving transmission efficiency. Incoming signals generate voltage to produce the electrostatic force that causes the vibration. The band-pass filter design promises higher performance ...

36. Hitachi GST gives two terabytes a spin

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 06 August 2009

    ...  The 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 includes low power features and high performance. It comes with a 32MB memory cache, a 3Gb/S Serial ATA (S-ATA) interface and is aimed at desktops for power users or gamers. Hitachi ...

37. Intel lowers SSD prices with 34nm manufacturing process

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... 34nm NAND flash memory lithography, but to do so with the same or better performance than our 50nm version," said Randy Wilhelm, an Intel VP. "We made quite an impact with our breakthrough SSDs last year, ...

38. Big Blue readies Power7 Unix servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    ... 'books' that contain the chips and memory. Power7 is a lot more efficient than the Power6, which was launched in May 2007. According to Big Blue it can manage two to three times the performance while using ...

39. Shared Memory Graphics accuses Apple and Sony of patent infringement

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    ... USPTO, performance is enhanced "because display data retrieval from the on-chip frame buffer is much faster than from an external frame buffer...and the DRAM timing constraints are reduced." The accelerator ...

40. The death of the netbook

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    ... about a new class of hybrid drives which combine flash and magnetic media to significantly increase drive performance and related battery life. Windows 7 will be in production and the software actually ...

41. Micron puts 34 nm flash memory into mass production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    ... that its new 32 Gb multi-level cell (MLC) NAND chip is 17% smaller than its first-generation 32 Gb chip, while the 16 Gb chip has an area size of just 84 mm2. The company said it is also sampling higher-performance ...

42. Update: Firefox 3.5 is fast, but still behind Chrome and Safari

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    About two weeks ago, following the release of Safari 4.0, we had a close look at the performance delivered by today’s browsers. At the time, our benchmark runs were based on the first release candidate build ...

43. Firefox 3.5 out of the gate

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    ... claims that Firefox 3.5 is twice as fast as 3.0 and more than ten times as fast as 2.0. Recent benchmarks show that Firefox is, in JavaScript performance, still significantly behind Google’s Chrome and ...

44. Samsung moves ARM to 45nm

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 28 June 2009

    ... Q3. The chip is principally aimed at consumer products such as personal navigation devices (PNDs). "Today's ultra-competitive consumer electronics market demands rapid performance upgrades and effective ...

45. Rambus showcases 7.2Gbps XDR memory system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

    ... and multi-core processors require significantly higher memory performance under extremely challenging power and thermal constraints," said Martin Scott, a senior Rambus VP. "This technology demonstration ...

46. Gateway introduces high-definition netbook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

    ... "At the same time, it delivers reliable mobile communications. Customers get the larger-sized 11.6-inch display along with enhanced netbook performance, so they can do even more while on the go." According ...

47. The Big Peddie endorses Xeno Pro network gaming card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 16 June 2009

      Jon Peddie Research has apparently endorsed the Xeno Pro network gaming card designed by Bigfoot Networks Killer. According to Peddie, the Xeno Pro offers improved online performance by significantly ...

48. Nvidia targets mobile market with Windows 7 optimized GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... chips reportedly offer "up to twice the performance" and longer battery life with "half the power." San Francisco (CA) - Nvidia has introduced five GPUs for the mobile market. The processors are based ...

49. Review: LG enV Touch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... also an LED flash. Performance I tested Verizon’s dual band (CDMA 800/1900; EV-DO Rev. A) technology via the LG enV Touch in Chattanooga, TN. Though the call quality itself was acceptable, it was unfortunate ...

50. Browser wars: Is Safari as fast as Apple claims?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... disciplines. Also, don’t expect to achieve the same benchmark numbers on your computer as I did, since these benchmarks heavily depend on the performance of a computer overall. The results are relative ...