They're not the glamour products of the semiconductor business, but Intel's new chip sets promise a performance boost for consumers by midyear.
Intel's upcoming chip for cheap PCs and portables will be a 700MHz version due to be released mid next year. It will offer improvements for low-cost PC makers -- and possibly consumers.
Although Intel garners most of its revenue and profits from such well-known processors as the Pentium 4 or the Xeon, it's unsung heroes like the US$40 915G Express chipset, released earlier this year, that have let Intel become the largest and fastest-growing graphics chip designers on the planet.
A few new technologies are eliminating some of the bottlenecks in memory and motherboard performance.
Intel's latest mobile platform, now officially christened Centrino Duo, introduces the Core Duo (Yonah) chip with dual CPU cores. This and other developments should deliver useful -- if not revolutionary -- increases in notebook performance and battery life.
RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.
Welcome to the start of another confusing round of changes in systems that always seems to accompany major Intel CPU and chipset announcements.
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