Month: September 2007

You can see initial Penryn models, availability and pricing here. Outside of the $999 special, Penryn is going to be a January beast. The lowest price for a “full” (meaning 12MB cache) quad will be a 2.66GHz chip for $316.

Well, Apple came out with its threatened updatebreak, and not only does it render an unlocked iPhone inoperative; it renders practically any third-party software you may have installed on your iPhone, locked or not, inoperative. (There’s some progress being made

Imagine either Intel or AMD announcing the following: “We think overclocking is bad. It often causes irreparable damage to our CPUs, and makes it likely that the overclocked CPU will become permanently inoperable when the next BIOS update is installed.

Looks like the fiscal numbers are going to be pretty bad for AMD this quarter. Why do I say that? According to the Inquirer, benefits are going to be cut. For instance, AMD’s stock purchase plan is going to be

The AMD strategy to explain its lack of financial success seems to be morphing away from “wait for K10” to “It’s Intel’s fault.” Business Week just had an interview with Hector Ruiz which was punctuated by some pretty outrageous claims:

RAM prices slid a lot the first half of the year, and it looks like they’re going to slide some more the rest of the year. Today, you can equip a machine with two 1GB DDR2 800 modules for less