AMD party trasher Intel and memory heavyweight Micron have now started bragging with the manufacturing of the first sub-40nm NAND chip. The record-braking chip is made using the 34nm process and is a 32 Gb multi-level cell part. The advancement in manufacturing technology has been made by Intel and
With the single-cored Atoms being gobbled up by manufacturers of low-cost laptops Intel is gearing up to start offering the basis of the Little Falls 2 platform, the dual-core Atom processors. The new dual-cores will go into production in the first month of Q3, July with desktop PCs powered by them
TGDaily is reporting that Intel’s next-gen Centrino 2 platform (aka Montevina) has hit a series of snags and won’t launch until July 14 at the earliest. Aside from delaying new Centrino 2 notebooks generally (duh), it also significantly quashes the chances of new MacBooks at WWDC—particu
Intel may be gearing up to release Centrino 2, but let’s not forget its arch-rival, AMD, is to release a notebook platform of its own, codenamed ‘Puma’. The cat will be let out of the bag at Computex, in Taipei on 3 June. So what’s AMD going to announce? Puma comprises a new (ish) processor, ‘Griffi
Intel will offer to bundle its promised solid-state drives with its upcoming Centrino 2 platform, it has been claimed. The plan is being portrayed as a bid to push SSDs into the mainstream. Today, SSDs generally command a significant premium over the price of equivalent notebooks fitted with a hard
AMD today announced that the company will offer Graphics Double Date Rate, version 5 (GDDR5) memory the company’s next generation of Radeon graphics cards and is working with companies such as Samsung Hynix and Qimonda to bring GDDR5 to the market. GDDR5 supports higher data rates (five times
What does Intel have on its near-term desktop processor roadmap? More of the same, it seems, in the period leading up to Q4’s introduction of its next-gen CPU design, ‘Nehalem’. The latest leaks coming out of Asia point to Q3 introductions of faster Core 2 Quads and Duos. The quarter will apparently
Santa Clara (CA) – Intel is transitioning all of its 45 nm Xeon DP processors from the C-O to the E-0 stepping. There are no changes in the feature set of the Harpertown quad-core CPUs and Wolfdale dual-core processors, with the exception of the flagship model, which is the sister model of the compa
Product: Rock Xtreme X770 T9500 Verdict Rock updates its X700 laptop with the top-end mobile ‘Penryn’ Core 2 Duo and delivers an impressive battery-life boost. Rating: 75% Review We started the year with a review of a Rock X770 gaming laptop. We used the machine to look at the Nvidia GeForce
Hewlett-Packard has told customers not to install Windows XP service pack three (SP3) on AMD-based desktops until Microsoft and HP cough fixes to the endless reboot snafu that has wreaked havoc on PCs. Microsoft confirmed yesterday that it was scurrying to patch the problem after hundreds of angry X
