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Dell Also Hit By Quake
News The direct computer manufacturer Monday said a recent 25 percent spike in prices for computer memory chip components it uses to build personal computers were likely to hurt results for the company's third quarter, ending later this month.
[October 19, 1999, 8:19]
Intel's Nehalem To Reintroduce Hyperthreading
News In the past, Intel executives have spoken in broad terms about integrating components such as the memory controller and direct links between processor cores. Intel also plans to build chips with "point-to-point" links that directly connect...
[March 29, 2007, 8:53]
FTC Limits Size Of Rambus Royalties
News The commission's order sets a maximum royalty rate of 0.25 percent for SDRAM products; 0.5 percent for DDR (double data rate) SDRAM products; 0.5 percent for SDRAM memory controllers or other non-memory chip components; and 1 percent for DDR SDRAM...
[February 6, 2007, 12:52]
Nvidia Revamps Chipset Line
News As previously reported, nForce2 continues Nvidia's venture into the risky but potentially profitable business of chipsets, chips that bridge a PC's processor with key components such as memory. Other additions to nForce2 include faster memory...
[July 17, 2002, 6:57]
AMD Unveils Low-power Flash Memory
News By using lower-power components such as flash memory, the manufacturers can hold the line on battery life and maintain the smaller size of their new phones. AMD is pitching a new low-power memory chip for cellular phones and personal digital...
[August 7, 2002, 15:56]
Sony To Increase PC Prices
News But prices for memory components are beginning to stabilise. About two weeks ago, Apple announced that it would be raising the price of new iMacs by $100 because of the rising cost of LCDs and memory.
[April 8, 2002, 9:55]
Intel Plan: New Chip Sets, Faster PCs
News The system bus provides a data pipeline between the processor and system memory, among other components. The 815E adds Intel's new ICH2 memory controller hub, which includes an ATA 100 disk drive interface, integrated LAN (local area network) and...
[June 2, 2000, 9:26]
Intel Builds Servers, Block By Block
News The building blocks include several motherboards -- the electronics boards on to which processors, memory and other components are attached. Finally, the company will release bare-bones systems that require the addition of processors, memory and...
[June 17, 2002, 9:23]
Intel Adds Wi-Fi To Mobile Chips
News As previously reported, the PXA255 chips are the successor to the PXA250 chips and double the speed -- from 100MHz to 200MHz -- at which the processor can communicate with other components within the device, such as memory.
[March 25, 2003, 11:38]
Unisys Servers Shape Up For Itanium 2
News To join the processors to each other, to memory and to communications components such as network cards, Unisys uses a modified version of Intel's E8870 chipset. The Itanium 2, a 64-bit chip that can handle vastly more memory than 32-bit processors...
[July 18, 2002, 8:43]
Vista Rating Tool Is Tweaked
News The tool is designed to help consumers make sense of Vista's fairly complicated needs when it comes to memory, graphics performance and other internal components. The tool rates a system on its processor, memory, hard drive, graphics card and...
[July 10, 2006, 10:10]
Microsoft Promises End To 'DLL Hell'
News Historically, components were shared because disk space and memory was expensive. In the past few years, hard disk and memory prices have dropped dramatically, and disk space is no longer a premium. Strong binding means an application or component...
[March 6, 2003, 14:52]
Will Your PC Keep Pace With Vista?
News It would mean the prospective buyer wouldn't have to compare the memory, hard drive and other components on their own. A desktop on the IDF show floor with Intel's Pentium D 940 processor and 2GB of unspecified memory also received a 3, with the...
[March 16, 2006, 11:00]
Intel's Timna Is Targeted For Even Lower Cost PCs
News Intel says this level of integration will allow PC makers to eliminate extra components, such as graphics boards and memory controller chips, to achieve lower cost. Named Timna after a national park in Israel, where it is being developed, the chip...
[February 16, 2000, 15:18]
Intel Rivals Aim To Trump Its Conference
News Chipsets are crucial components in any computer as they connect the processor to other elements such as memory, graphics and networks. ServerWorks, which dominates the market for server chipsets, will be announced on 25 February and is expected to...
[February 22, 2002, 17:20]
Intel Revenues Down 77 Percent
News Although earnings per share fell 17 percent from the second quarter, shipments of processors, flash memory, chipsets, motherboards, Ethernet products, networking components and network processors increased in the third quarter, Intel said.
[October 17, 2001, 9:02]
Intel Puts On Its Show With Prestonia
News Chipsets manage data traffic for the processor and connect the processor to memory and other components. Memory type: DDR RAM These chips will also sport a new 1MB third level of cache, reservoirs of memory located near the processor for rapid data...
[February 25, 2002, 8:48]
Mobile Hard Drive Revolution Proposed
News Instead of two static RAM memory buffers for storing data temporarily, there would be one. Cost is especially important given that prices are falling for flash memory. In Agere's vision, the hard drive component would handle memory buffering for...
[October 11, 2004, 15:10]
Dell And HP Confront Laptop-battery Shortage
News PC makers may be able to offset the rising cost of batteries with other components, such as PC memory, whose prices have been falling. Analysts attributed an increase in Dell's fourth-quarter operating margin to lower prices for components...
[March 26, 2008, 7:28]
Smartphone Laptop Release Announced
News The mobile phone aspect of the device has Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC phone edition, a PXA communications processor from Intel, 128MB of DRAM and 1GB of flash memory. The computer part of the equation consists of Windows XP Tablet operating system...
[December 16, 2005, 12:50]
