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1. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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 ...

2. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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 ...

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

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   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 ...

4. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   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. ...

5. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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 ...

6. SSDs inch toward the desktop

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   ... 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 ...

7. Windows 7 to trigger notebook replacement sales

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... 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, ...

8. SanDisk ships 64 Gigabit X4 Flash memory cards

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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 ...

9. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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 ...

10. HP rolls out notebooks: Hails Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

12. Nvidia unshackles Visual Studio with Nexus GPU integration

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

13. Nvidia kicks off 2009 GPU conference

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

14. Toshiba introduces ultra-thin laptop line

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

15. Intel outlines future of interactive television

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... 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 ...

16. Toshiba targets high-end gamers with Qosmio X500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

17. Intel debuts Nehalem mobile chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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, ...

19. SGI introduces Octane III 'personal' supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

20. 2TB SSDs released

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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, ...

21. ARM 2GHz chip design has dual core legs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... 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. ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

24. SanDisk gets speedy with faster flash cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

25. Intel confirms top management shakeup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

26. AMD launches Tigris and Congo notebook platforms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

27. Kingston introduces Lynnfield optimized memory kits

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

28. Twitter makes you dumb, says psychologist

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... 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 ...

29. AMD launches 40W six-core Opteron processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    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 ...

30. IBM uncloaks eight core Power7 processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

31. Filter promises better cellphone performance

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

32. Hitachi GST gives two terabytes a spin

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  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 ...

33. Intel lowers SSD prices with 34nm manufacturing process

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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, ...

34. Big Blue readies Power7 Unix servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... '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 ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... 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 ...

36. The death of the netbook

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... 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 ...

37. Micron puts 34 nm flash memory into mass production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    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 ...

39. Firefox 3.5 out of the gate

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

40. Samsung moves ARM to 45nm

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

41. Rambus showcases 7.2Gbps XDR memory system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

42. Gateway introduces high-definition netbook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... "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 ...

43. The Big Peddie endorses Xeno Pro network gaming card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      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 ...

44. Nvidia targets mobile market with Windows 7 optimized GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

45. Review: LG enV Touch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 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 ...

47. Microsoft admits Windows 7 will not save PC market

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... version of Safari 4 that boosts the performance of the Nitro JavaScript engine by up to 50 percent. "For the first time, system applications including Finder, Mail, iCal, iChat and Safari are 64-bit and ...

48. Apple updates Macbooks, cuts prices

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the time of this writing) after all, but Apple has thoroughly upgraded its existing line of products, increased their performance specifications, some features and prices.   The Macbook Pro was the ...

49. NIST develops flexible memory chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... that operates on less than 10V, maintains its memory when power is lost, and still functions after being flexed more than 4,000 times. What's more, the switch's performance bears a strong resemblance ...

50. Wozniak astounded by Microsoft's Bing

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Apple with Randy Wigginton. Wozniak was recently appointed chief scientist at Fusion-IO, where he is providing R&D guidance related to solid-state architecture and high-performance I/O solutions.  ...