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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

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

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

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: 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

Firefox for Intel Macs set for March

News Demand for the browser on Apple's new CPU platform is expected to rocket as the PC vendor last week started selling the first Macs based on CPUs from Intel. The Mozilla Foundation has set a March launch date for a version of its Firefox Web browser...

16 January 2006, 9:23

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

Photos: Nintendo Wii swings into action

News Wii will run on a PowerPC CPU, code-named 'Broadway', that was developed with IBM, and will include an ATI graphics processor. Nintendo says its newly named Wii console is about the width of three stacked DVD cases and will play single- or double...

10 May 2006, 11:38

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

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

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: 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...

Tags: apple, presentation, suite, wireless

8 August 2007, 11:16

Xbox 360 keeps on cussin'

News When it debuts, Microsoft said its Xbox 360 will have a 20GB hard drive, a custom-built IBM PowerPC-based CPU, high-definition game support and a 500MHz ATI graphics processor. Despite additions to the Xbox 360, you'll still be able to insult your...

1 June 2005, 11:48

AMD 4000+ chip to provide thrust to jumbo laptops

News AMD managed to carry some momentum in the first quarter of 2005, when the company eked out 16.9 per cent of the x86 CPU market, according to Mercury Research. AMD has released a new set of mobile processors designed for consumer laptops it hopes...

17 August 2005, 10:53