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New HP laptop lineup sports AMD chips
News Each computer comes with the option to run on AMD's mobile Turion or Sempron chips, as well as the option to install Intel's mobile Pentium or Celeron chips. The Turion is essentially an energy-efficient version of AMD's Athlon 64 chips for desktops.
15 June 2005, 9:00 > More matches in News
Photos: Computex buzzes about mini laptops and their chips
Crave Tech hearts are also going 'buh-boom' over the revolutionary new chips running these tiny PCs of joy. Both are powered by Atom chips. According to the company, the chips are geared for "graphically intensive games, 3D applications and HD movies at...
4 June 2008, 10:08 > More matches in Crave
AMD unveils new Athlon chips
News AMD unveiled desktop chips on Tuesday based on its AM2 socket, setting the stage for future products based on a new architecture. The new chips include the Athlon 64 FX-62, which becomes AMD's highest-performance desktop chip, and the Athlon 64 X2...
24 May 2006, 11:21 > More matches in News
New Wi-Fi chips embedded in Samsung laptops
News Samsung is embedding chips from start-up company Airgo Networks that use a technology called multiple-input multiple-output, or MIMO, to increase bandwidth, speed and range of wireless networks. Today, most laptops equipped for wireless...
1 June 2005, 10:31 > More matches in News
IBM details new PowerPC chips
News IBM has released details about two new PowerPC chips designed for entry-level servers and PCs. Executives outlined the features of the chips at a company event on Thursday in Tokyo. Prices were not disclosed, and it wasn't immediately clear when...
11 July 2005, 11:17 > More matches in News
Alienware adds Airgo chips to new laptops
News Airgo's chips are designed to connect a computer with Wi-Fi systems at speeds fast enough to make high-performance gaming possible, Airgo executives said. Niche PC maker Alienware has chosen chipsets made by Airgo Networks to power two game-focused...
10 May 2006, 9:35 > More matches in News
Apple ships MacBook Pro with faster chips
News Apple is officially shipping its first laptops with Intel processors, and it has thrown in faster versions of those chips at no charge. Those prices reflect orders in quantities of 1,000 chips, and large Intel partners tend to negotiate their own...
15 February 2006, 9:25 > More matches in News
Toshiba plans Intel chips for tablet PC
News Because of the thermal constraints of building a PC that is designed to rest on a person's arm for extended periods of time, most early tablet PC designers opted for low-power versions of Intel's Pentium M processor or Transmeta's Crusoe chips.
8 February 2006, 9:02 > More matches in News
AMD cuts prices on many chips
News The cuts come on Opteron server chips, Turion and Sempron notebook chips, and the single- and dual-core Athlon processors, as well as the budget Sempron line. Six years ago, AMD actively sold only a few different chips at any given time.
2 August 2005, 9:00 > More matches in News
Intel strikes back with next-gen chips
News Intel expects its forthcoming Conroe and Merom chips to deliver a performance advantage of at least 20 per cent over chips from AMD slated for the same time, a company executive claimed on Friday. The microarchitecture also allows the processor to...
20 February 2006, 11:02 > More matches in News
Samsung delivers 16 chips in one package
News In the never-ending quest to make mobile phones and MP3 players smaller, Samsung has come up with a package that can stack 16 memory chips into a space that used to accommodate just one. When stuffed with 8-gigabit flash memory chips, the package...
2 November 2006, 9:43 > More matches in News
New AMD chips target mobile gamers
News The Turion MT-40 and MT-37 chips are available to PC makers for $359 and $268, respectively, in bulk amounts. Longtime AMD supporter VoodooPC has already pledged to use the two chips in a pair of laptops outfitted specially for people who take...
23 August 2005, 9:07 > More matches in News
UWB chips debut with gigabit wireless in sight
News No equivalent details are available for the faster chips. Motorola's semiconductor division, Freescale, has announced availability of its first ultrawideband (UWB) wireless chipsets, with parts to be available to manufacturers by the end of June...
7 June 2004, 14:45 > More matches in News
Quad-core chips feel the heat
News Sources familiar with Intel's plans have indicated that when the company is ready to move from its current 65-nanometer manufacturing technology to its 45-nanometer process next year, it will start with dual-core chips to make the transition easier.
4 August 2006, 10:34 > More matches in News
Chips clock up new approach
News Instead, he's focusing IBM's work on other areas, such as on-the-fly reconfiguration that will let chips automatically adapt to different jobs. The open approach will involve IBM disclosing more technical information than before about its chips...
10 June 2004, 10:50 > More matches in News


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