Month: June 2006

Today marks the end of the first half of the year. For sure, the second half of the year is going to be a lot more turbulent than the first. The CPU arena will become livelier than its been in

AMD Announces X2 Processor With Only 256K Cache Per Core Last year, AMD had dual-core Semprons on its roadmap. They disappeared rather quickly, or did they? For practical purposes, this is a dual-core Sempron. This is not a bad thing,

In a few months, I’ll have to get somebody a notebook for someone. Indeed, I feel a bit of desire to get one myself sooner than that. So I started looking, but before I did, I set some criteria for

AMDZone reports that Overclockers.ru has an article saying that reverse hyperthreading is possible on current AMD AM2 chips and that it will debut right after Conroe. The article goes on to say that this feature will be enabled with just

The article says it all: Rap star 50 Cent: is entering the world of technology and is currently in negotiations with Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs to produce a line of affordable home computers to inner-city residents. This is bizarre. Since