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CPU 1672

You may have heard that the Associated Press sent out DMCA takedown notices to a website for quoting excerpts from its news releases. If it is determined that this is a no-no, this is going to mess up standard practice

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CPU 2221

The title of the Digitimes article is a bit drawn out: “Commentary: What Apple’s Snow Leopard announcement tells us about its future plans for Intel Nehalem.” It really should have been called, “Can Apple whack Microsoft with Nehalem?” This is

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Vaporons

AMD cancels a Kuma dual-core and all Phenom FX processors AMD has issued a “denial”, but if you go to that link, go to this one, too and judge for yourself how seriously this “denial” should be taken. The fact

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CPU 1847

The last week has had a number of news items: South Korea fines Intel $25 million FTC opens formal probe of Intel chip business Trial for AMD lawsuit against Intel delayed ten months until February 2010 There will no doubt

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CPU 2129

There’s an article over at Tom’s Hardware which describes what looks to be a rather odd AMD “innovation” for Phenoms. I quote: “If you are running an upcoming 2.8 GHz Black Edition CPU, a motherboard with the old SB600 model

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Laptops 2432

SUMMARY: Mini laptops are all the rage – but what about keyboard ergonomics? As a frequent traveler, I like to have a laptop with me. What I DON’T want is a 7 pound albatross – I have carried on bags

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CPU 1874

Not Quite Looks like Intel isn’t quite ready yet with Nehalem. Perhaps we’ve become spoiled, but Intel provided at least Intel-run benchmarks for Conroe and Penryn three to six months before introducing the first products. We have not seen this,

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GPU CPU Overclocking

SUMMARY: Intel embraces the GPU overclocking market – how well remains to be seen. This Inquirer article caught my eye: Overclocking capabilities are a main feature of Intel’s 4 series chip set “Intel used to lock down its chips to