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News.blog: Asus Eee Box details released

News CPU: Intel Atom N270 (1.6 GHz, FSB 533) Word got out a little early yesterday morning regarding Asus's small Eee Box, which will be available in early July. The listed dimensions of the unit are 25 by 216 by 178mm, standing upright on its included...

Tags: hard drive, box, linux, lan

3 June 2008, 10:47

Microsoft limits XP mini laptop specs

News In April, Microsoft issued guidelines for manufacturers of cheap mini laptops, recommending among other things "a minimum CPU speed of 500MHz and an optimal CPU speed of 1GHz". Choosing a CPU with a higher speed [than 1GHz] can further improve...

Tags: storage, cpu, processor, mini

16 May 2008, 10:24

News.blog: Nvidia takes fight to Intel

News The idea is that Nvidia wants to show you how to build or buy a PC that's 'balanced'.In Nvidia's opinion, that means that rather than spend all of your PC budget on a quad-core processor (and relying on a built-in graphics chip), for a truly...

Tags: dedicated, processor, processing, links

11 April 2008, 11:06

Photos: Deflating a MacBook Air

News Panning around the insides, we can see the main circuit board, where we will surely find the RAM, CPU and graphics chip. After removing a few screws and prying at the thermal paste, we reveal the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and the Intel North Bridge...

Tags: ram, board, hard drive, air

6 March 2008, 9:35

News.blog: Nvidia snaps up PhysX chip

News Ageia describes the role of the PhysX processor as part of the "Gaming Power Triangle", which consists of the CPU, a GPU from either Nvidia or AMD's ATI, and the PhysX "physics processing unit". Nvidia snapped up Ageia on Monday, with plans to add...

Tags: chip, processor, processing, standalone

5 February 2008, 8:47

Photos: Busting up a PlayStation

News For example, the Emotion Engine (CPU) and This image shows the system batter, CPU/GPU (covered with a gray pad), and the PS2's rear ports. According to a forum post on nfggames.com, the Sony CXM4015R chip converts the raw video signal from the CPU...

Tags: ports, post, chip, cable

1 February 2008, 9:53

XP outperforms Vista in benchmark test

News XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put New tests have revealed that XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.

Tags: ads, windows vista, consumers, beta

28 November 2007, 9:27

Photos: Cracking open the Wii

News After the heatsink has been removed, you get a good look at the CPU and GPU. CNET.co.uk is publishing this excerpt. TechRepublic runs a regular series called 'Cracking Open' in which it takes a look inside a variety of gadgets.

28 August 2007, 10:48

Photos: Apple unveils new iMacs and apps

News It comes with a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU, 2GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive. Apple has unveiled new iMacs at an event held on Tuesday at its headquarters in California. There will be two 20-inch iMacs with different specifications, and...

8 August 2007, 11:16

AMD's new Puma stalks Intel's Centrino

News These power-saving techniques will largely be controlled by the CPU and the chipset, he said, and will be independent and above any power-management techniques implemented by the operating system. The chipmaker is prepping an energy-efficient...

18 May 2007, 10:42

News.blog: Updated Xbox 360 chips slated for autumn

News For those keeping score, that means the new 65nm technology will be incorporated into both the game machine's CPU (central processing unit) and GPU (the dedicated graphics chip). No, those new Xbox 360 Elites that were released in the US last...

2 May 2007, 11:18

Intel developing Linux mini-tablet

News While McCaslin's CPU components -- codenamed Stealey -- will be dual-core processors clocked at 600MHz to 800MHz and capable of running Windows XP and Vista, Intel plans for the devices to run an embedded Linux OS but with a mix of open source and...

17 April 2007, 9:47

AMD selling graphics to the masses

News Therefore, Intel offloads a decent amount of graphics processing on to the main CPU to help boost graphics performance. AMD's hopes for limiting Intel's surge in 2007 are coming into focus. Things have changed somewhat in the ongoing tussle between...

24 January 2007, 10:21

Combined future for AMD and ATI

News AMD completed its $5.4bn acquisition of ATI Technologies on Tuesday, paving the way for its expansion into chipsets and graphics technology. The company announced a project, code-named Fusion, that will aim to deliver a PC processor with an...

26 October 2006, 10:43

News.blog: Nvidia rumoured to be making CPUs

News Rumours flew this week, prompted by a report on the Inquirer, that Nvidia is considering a plunge into that rare club of x86 CPU companies. The report claimed that Nvidia, which currently makes graphics chips and chipsets, recently launched a...

23 October 2006, 10:56