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 on Wednesday confirmed plans to integrate critical system components and reintroduce...
[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. Graphics chip leader Nvidia launched the next...
[July 17, 2002, 6:57]
Mobitools - Essential tools for Pocket PC - for WM 5.0
Downloads Mobitools is a small applicationbut includes rich features as:Power Off, Screen Off,Soft reset, Task manager, Battery & Memory status, Screen Capture, Smart launcher, quick cleaner, access control panel components , CPU Controlling and quick...
[November 10, 2002, 6:00]
How to configure a notebook review
Reviews The good news is that by concentrating on three main components -- hard drive, memory and processor -- you can get the best mix of performance and battery life. Make no mistake, your choice of components is key, because how your notebook performs...
[January 16, 2006, 17:45]
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. Lower-power components are important to cell phone makers, who are designing new phones for...
[August 7, 2002, 15:56]
Sony to increase PC prices
News But prices for memory components are beginning to stabilise. Those two components have been rising steeply in price since late last year, although prices have recently begun to approach a plateau. About two weeks ago, Apple announced that it would...
[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. Chip sets exist to aid a computer's processor, performing jobs such as delivering data and controlling system components.
[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. Intel also is releasing a chassis into which those motherboards and other components are bolted.
[June 17, 2002, 9:23]
IBM eServer xSeries 226 8488 (Xeon 3GHz) review
Reviews From within the program's neatly arranged Console window, you can drill down to any cluster of computers on the network, and then observe or manipulate it (or an individual system) in numerous ways: conducting an inventory scan; evaluating the...
[August 11, 2005, 9:10]
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. Unisys augmented the chipset with its own components to permit communication among 16...
[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. She added that there is a natural tendency to assume the overall score is the average...
[July 10, 2006, 10:10]
Microsoft promises end to 'DLL hell'
News Historically, components were shared because disk space and memory was expensive. Strong binding means an application or component can bind to a specific version of another component, so you can reuse components or use them in isolation.
[March 6, 2003, 14:52]
mySkin
Downloads Compact skins: Save memory by removing skin components that duplicate data in your ROM. You can now distribute skins that do not include all the skin components--the missing components will be copied from your ROM.
[August 23, 2008, 8:00]
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. The main rating is on a scale of 1 to 5, but individual components are also given a "sub rating" on some other, unspecified range.
[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. The way Intel intends to reduce the price of a PC is to cut the cost of its...
[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. These chipsets are designed to be compatible with today's hardware components, and allow for a seamless...
[February 22, 2002, 17:20]
Start-up promises to speed web data access
News The appliances use the newest versions of industry-standard components. By using these components, which have been optimised for speed, Schooner said it believed it could speed up web access by eight times compared with most datacentre servers.
[April 15, 2009, 15:30]



