Month: April 2005

Digitimes had a pretty useful interview with an Intel bigwig (Sunil Kumar, director of chipset marketing) the other day. I say “useful” because while there’s no earthshattering revelations in it, Digitimes asked, and Intel answered quite a few questions people

Pretty soon, people will start looking for Venice-core Hammer chips. How can you tell them apart from other versions? The easiest way to do this is to look at the last two letters on the first line of code identifying

Initial benchmarking of Intel’s first dual-cores are in. In the pre-game analysis, we had been saying that dual-cores were likely to greatly advantage only the relative handful of applications designed to be multithreaded, plus offer “a smoother ride” when a

A new kind of cooler is described over at the Inquirer. Essentially, it’s like water cooling, except that it uses oil mixed with little metal alloy bits. The reason for the little metal alloy bits is to make the solution

During an interview on CNN’s “Late Edition” in 2000, Vice President Al Gore uttered the infamous assertion, “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” Did Al Gore invent the Internet? Although

Lightweight laptop – Peter Deng

XBit Labs published an Opteron roadmap the other day. You may not be interested in ever buying an Opteron, but since an Opteron roadmap very roughly follows what happens with Athlon 64, provided you don’t take it too literally, you