Month: April 2005

The Inquirer states that there will be dual-core Athlon 64s out in June. At first impression, this would seem to contradict AMD’s conference call comments and our rather rather stronger assertions that AMD doesn’t really want to do dual-core on

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Which one? – Matt Bidinger

Intel will start the dual-core era today with official release of dual-core Extreme Edition chips. AMD will follow with dual-core Opterons on Thursday. Does it matter that Intel “won?” It matters only if you think over the next three days,

AMD lost money again last quarter, but that was solely due to their flash memory division doing horribly. Profits in the CPU industry went up a little bit, but this is something that ought to happen as production shifts from

Revision E Athlon 64s should be showing up in a few weeks: Monarch Computers is taking preorders with OEM chips shipping May 6. As we noted a few days ago, many people have been taken a bit aback by the

User laptop review – Paul Macklin

Laptop comments – Makito Kanabe

We asked a few days ago whether a 2.8 or 2.9GHz Hammer would be good enough for them to upgrade. A bit less than half indicated that, yes, that was good enough to get them to upgrade. For the rest,

We had to expect this. Microsoft will introduce XBox2, not at some trade show, but on MTV. Talk about an infomercial: “The special will feature never-before-seen, action-packed gameplay of future Xbox games, a peek into the future of the Xbox