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  • Via's Nano to tackle Intel's Atom

    Taiwanese chip manufacturer Via Technologies has released a new energy efficient CPU, the Via Nano, which will go head-to-head with Intel's latest mobile processor the Atom.

  • AMD tears up server road map to push stability

    AMD has dramatically revised its road map for server processors, adding a new six-core processor and pushing out the arrival of a next-generation core well into the next decade.

  • Randy Allen gets to business at AMD

    AMD finalised a major executive reorganisation on Monday, promoting Randy Allen to a senior executive role while waving goodbye to Mario Rivas.

  • Red ring of death is closer than you think

    It can seem hard to believe that a company with all the resources of Microsoft can make make a billion-dollar mistake with a small chip-design fault. Yet chip design is not an exact science and Rupert Goodwins, who has been there himself, details how it can go horribly wrong.

  • Intel: Teraflops industry standard chip on way

    Amid a slew of product announcements at Intel's Developer Forum in Beijing, enterprise division head Pat Gelsinger has unveiled plans for a teraflops IA architecture code-named Larrabee.

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    Just how fast is fast, anyway?

    There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    OpenWorld closed

    Whenever the industry's top execs come together to speak to the masses, expectations are high. This year's Oracle OpenWorld conference provided an insight into which vendors have intriguing grand plans, and which ones prefer to rely on marketing bluff.

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  • Google's Android head on the iPhone, Linux and the Dream

    Google's Andy Rubin talks nuts and bolts about the Linux-based phone software, the lessons of Sidekick, and the beauty of the iPhone.

  • Can CEO-in-waiting give AMD a jumpstart?

    Company president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer is being groomed to succeed Hector Ruiz, but first he must prove that last year's engineering mistakes were an aberration.

  • Intel's mantra: Let's make a deal

    Would you avoid buying a PC with an Advanced Micro Devices chip inside because it wouldn't let you host an Internet conference call with six of your friends?

  • Intel's Midas man

    He led the Pentium team, and had a major hand in Centrino... what's next for Anand Chandrasekher?

  • Itanium: A cautionary tale

    The wonderchip that wasn't serves as a lesson about how complex development plans can go awry in a fast-moving industry.

Reviews (82)

  • HP touts advantages of Itanium 2

    The co-designer of the Itanium 2 chip has formally detailed its plans for the processor.

  • Why Itanium's jury is still out

    The lack of applications that can run on Itanium makes gauging the performance of software on the 64bit platform problematic. However, hardware-focused tests are possible.

  • Dell 3008WFP

    With a crazy number of inputs, 1080p over component and good rendering of 1080i, this screen has set itself up as a potential TV replacement, let alone a huge monitor. This one's the new king.

  • Fujitsu Lifebook T2010

    The LifeBook T2010 qualifies as a middle of the road offering from Fujitsu. It'll do the job, but you'll want to poke around at its competitors first.

  • Toshiba Qosmio G40

    Like its predecessor, the Qosmio G30, Toshiba's flagship multimedia desktop replacement offers a complete suite of entertainment features. The G40 is slightly slimmer and has a couple of tricks up its sleeve.

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