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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.

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28 August 2007, 10:48

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

Electronic clothing set to shock gadgeteers

News As soon as you understand where the fabric is addressed and gets the information to the CPU, that's it. The UK-based start-up says the booming growth in consumer electronics has opened the door for commercial exploitation of its invention: fabric...

27 May 2005, 9:53

Intel strikes back with next-gen chips

News Integrating the memory controller allows that vital gateway between the CPU and the memory to run at the speed of the processor, whisking data into the processor at a high rate. Intel expects its forthcoming Conroe and Merom chips to deliver a...

20 February 2006, 11:02

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

PlayStation 3 stats spotlighted

News CPU: Cell Processor• PowerPC-base Core @ 3.2GHz• 1 VMX vector unit per core• 512KB L2 cache• 7 x SPE @ 3.2GHz• 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs• 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE• 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy• total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPSGPU...

18 May 2005, 10:27

Intel unveils Mac Mini clone

News The hybrid motherboard is based on a socket 479 Pentium M (Dothan) CPU, Intel's 915G desktop chipset and ICH6 I/O controller. Taking another crack at the living room, Intel is again showing off a concept PC that closely resembles Apple's Mac Mini.

1 June 2005, 11:00