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Cheap Linux PCs targeted at home users
News A start-up located near Microsoft's headquarters unveiled an effort to sell super-cheap Linux computers to home users. The 30-person company, Linare, on Monday began selling systems with its own version of Linux for $199 (£119.42), company chief...
[June 24, 2003, 8:32]
A Year Ago: Chip firms compete to push limits
News Following IBM's announcement last week of new insulated substrate technology, working in conjunction with copper interconnects to improve chip performance, AMD, Texas Instruments and Samsung have revealed more details of their innovations.
[April 16, 2001, 6:07]
New spec speeds data transports
News A new version of the HyperTransport specification comes out this week that will, ideally, boost performance in PCs and communications equipment over the next year. When embodied in chips, HyperTransport 2.0 will be capable of transferring up to...
[February 9, 2004, 10:05]
AMD cuts prices - but keeps it quiet
News AMD quietly cut prices on its Athlon line of processors earlier this week, according to sources. Later this week, the company is expected to announce the price cuts and declare them retroactive. The price cuts are expected to have a knock-on effect...
[May 3, 2001, 7:32]
Intel, AMD to trim chip prices
News The processor skirmishes will start again this week as Intel and AMD cut prices on their desktop chips. According to sources, Intel is due to trim the prices on select Pentium 4 and Pentium III chips by up to nearly 30 percent.
[October 29, 2001, 8:43]
Power Mac gets cheaper and faster
News Apple on Tuesday harvested a new crop of Power Macs, outfitted with faster processors and lower prices on some configurations. The company also released a new wide-screen monitor. The high-end systems top out with twin 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 processors...
[January 28, 2003, 15:43]
Intel puts Pentium IIIs on sale
News Intel has dropped the prices of its Pentium III chips for desktops and servers. The chipmaker continues its Pentium III closeout sale, eyeing the chip's eventual departure from the desktop PC market, where it will be replaced by the Pentium 4.
[December 3, 2001, 15:34]
Micro PC M-Series review
Reviews This neat little package delivers the core functionality of a PC without the bulk and noise associated with a traditional desktop system. The 15.7cm by 14.6cm by 4.5cm system unit contains a fully functional Pentium III or Celeron-based PC, with a...
[July 23, 2001, 0:00]
'Google phone' set to be unveiled on Tuesday
Blog At 6pm UK time, Google will hold a press conference on the subject of its Android mobile operating system. The company is almost certain to unveil the Nexus One, an HTC-made smartphone. Details of the Android handset are still to be officially...
[January 5, 2010, 9:56]
Motorola chip gets networks talking
News Motorola introduced a more talkative chip on Monday. The company asserts that its PowerQUICC III is the first in a new family of communications chips that can process data more quickly and thus speed up networking equipment.
[July 23, 2002, 6:27]
RIM picks Intel for future BlackBerrys
News Ending months of speculation, Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, said on Tuesday that it will use Intel processors in its future designs. The first BlackBerry devices using the new Intel chips are expected to reach consumers...
[September 28, 2005, 9:45]
Linux tablet PC breaks $1000 barrier
News A small PC maker and a Linux distributor have teamed up to offer a tablet-style PC for $999 (about £600), hundreds of dollars less than similar devices running Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software.
[December 2, 2003, 8:40]
Athlon 4 and Duron ship in laptops
News AMD announced late on Tuesday that its Athlon 4 and Duron mobile processor will be used in new laptops from Fujitsu, NEC and Sony, bolstering its plans to do battle with Intel in the mobile PC market.
[May 23, 2001, 16:49]
Apple security patch takes out 64-bit apps
Talkback Ever since I patched the security with the then latest security patch, I have lost the ability to print any text from Mail, Safari, FireFox, PDF, TextEdit, Word. I can however print a scan document from my scanner.
[September 26, 2005, 19:50]
HTC HD2
Blog I’ve spent a few hours with HTC’s latest Windows Mobile based smartphone, the HD2. Much anticipated, this device represents the leading edge of Windows Mobile smartphones. It has facilities like GPS, digital compass, Wi-Fi, HSDPA/HSUPA (7.2Mbps...
[November 9, 2009, 11:08]
News Burst: Athlon price cuts on the way
News AMD is expected to announce price cuts on its top-end processors on Friday, according to reports. The California-based chip manufacturer plans to reduce prices on three of its highest speed-grade Athlon processors -- 950MHz, 900MHz and 850MHz -- by...
[March 24, 2000, 10:25]
Sun refreshes server lines
News Sun has begun selling a lower-end server using the UltraSparc T1 Niagara processor and has passed an important milestone in the development of the chip's successor. The Sun Fire T1000 server is 1U thick compared with 2U for the Sun
[April 12, 2006, 10:20]
Chipmakers on fast track to 10GHz
News The semiconductor industry has reached an important milestone on the path to producing 10GHz chips. The Extreme Ultraviolet LLC, a joint development effort charged with developing next-generation chip-manufacturing technology, recently built its...
[January 16, 2001, 14:45]
AMD to curb quad-core power usage
News The cores inside Barcelona, the quad-core chip coming from AMD later this year, are going to lead independent lives when it comes to power consumption. The processor, which AMD will discuss at the International Solid State Circuits Conference...
[February 12, 2007, 9:29]
AMD's Sanders: More speed on the way
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is close to announcing a 1.2GHz version of its Athlon microprocessor, as its most senior executive said the company's product rollout plans are running ahead of schedule. The company is likely to disclose a more...
[August 18, 2000, 12:12]
