Month: August 2005

It’s Now Or Later, Much Later After all the developments and conferences over the last six months, we now have a decent idea what to expect over the next two years. First, there is now. “Now” isn’t going to change Read More

Both AMD and Intel plan to make dual cores mainstream once their 65nm fabs get on stream. This does not mean they’re going to stop selling single-cores, though. For those who are skeptical that they really need to see double Read More

Is Intel Turning Into Apple? I don’t mean that seriously, but it does seem like Intel’s been helping itself to Apple’s playbook this week. Their new mantra “performance per watt” seems quite reminiscent of the claims Macsters used to make Read More

I don’t care what Intel says, these new processors are spiffied up, die-shrunk Pentium Ms. Just like Hammers are basically Athlon XPs with a memory controller, these chips are Pentium Ms with desktop features attached. The only people who are Read More

SUMMARY: A useful accessory for temperature controlling 12 volt devices. The good guys at mCubed were nice enough to send a sample of their FanAmp to try out. The FanAmp is a separate power supply for 12 volt devices, such Read More

There’s a new video standard coming. It’s called DisplayPort. There’s been a few comments elsewhere about some of the features on this, most notably its ability to accommodate DRM standards, but there is a more fundamental change which hasn’t gotten Read More

When we spoke about Intel cutting power requirements on current CPUs, we mentioned that others had done some speculating about this, too. The article we were referring to was this one. This article starts by pointing out that some of Read More