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Christmas breathes life into Dell's high-end sales
News "Sales in 166MHz and 200MHz Pentium multimedia machines with 16Mb RAM, 2Gb drives, and eight-speed CD-ROM drives, which sell for around £1,200 to £1,400 are very popular this year", said Annette Condon, Dell Direct's PR and events manager.
[December 6, 1996, 8:57]
IBM to unveil cheaper high-end arrays
News According to a recent survey of chief information officers by Banc of America Securities, storage stands out as the greatest beneficiary of IT spending.percent of CIOs expect to increase spending on storage this year, while 62 percent expect to...
[October 12, 2004, 8:55]
Sony shows first products in high-end Qualia line
News The company cited the decrease in the sales of Vaio PCs, as well as CRT televisions, as some of the reasons for the electronics business' results. The Qualia line, which started in May 2001, will be made up of high-end consumer electronics products...
[June 10, 2003, 7:51]
Palm readies high-end wireless handheld
News Palm and AT&T Wireless, a US mobile phone network, were set to make a formal announcement about the launch of the Tungsten W on Tuesday, but held off because one element of the certification process for the device had not been finalised with the...
[February 19, 2003, 8:11]
CPU roadmap: Intel and AMD's new chips
News By the end of the year, the picture will have changed dramatically for consumer and high-end PCs. Beginning around midyear, Intel will roll out completely new chips for value PCs, mainstream desktops and high-end servers and workstations.
[May 3, 2000, 8:08]
Quad-cores may be mainstream by 2009
News Currently, sales of Intel servers and high-end PCs that use Intel quad-core processors are growing very quickly, and Intel's rival AMD is set to launch its own quad-core processor this year. In the first quarter of 2007, only 16 percent of...
[April 18, 2007, 14:22]
Intel to stick with Rambus strategy
News Intel plans to use SDRAM to fill the price gaps between high-end Pentium 4 PCs based on RDRAM and less expensive PCs using Pentium III or Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon chips. To help increase performance on its high-end PCs, MacWilliams said...
[February 28, 2001, 8:54]
AMD to unleash new desktop beast
News The chipmaker will unveil its Athlon 64 FX-55 chip next week, in an effort to bump up the performance of game desktops and other high-end PCs in time for Christmas. The high-performance game PCs can also create a so-called halo effect that elevates...
[October 18, 2004, 9:20]
Six new desktops lead Sony's PC charge
News According to a report this week from research firm ARS, the consumer electronics giant has a half-dozen PCs in the works that will target the middle and high-end of the market. Sony is preparing six new desktop PCs that it hopes will revive a...
[May 21, 2003, 9:09]
Rambus-powered PCs in the works
News For end users, the 820's faster 133MHz bus and Rambus support promises to increase performance of high-end PCs. This anomaly, first reported in the German magazine c't, happens only when the older Rambus modules are used and should not effect end...
[November 2, 1999, 8:23]
High-end home networking on hold at Cisco and 3Com
News Rather, they plan to focus on basic devices that allow people to network their PCs to share data or a high-speed Internet connection. Like many tech companies, 3Com and Cisco are building new home appliances called "residential gateways," which...
[January 9, 2001, 16:18]
New Pentium 4 'just over a week away'
News The chip will offer an extra helping of clock speed for high-end PCs, as Pentium 4 chips are now only available at speeds of up to 3.6GHz. Previously, only Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor, mainly for high-end gaming PCs, has offered...
[November 5, 2004, 14:18]
Processor 'dead zone' looms for Intel
News The dominant microchip manufacturer, whose chips run the majority of PCs, is not planning a high-end chip for PC systems costing under $2,000 (about £1,335) until mid-2001, leaving this crucial segment of the market open to products from smaller...
[August 15, 2000, 16:44]
Intel chipsets, Celerons mean cheaper PCs
News The combination of the new chipsets will allow manufacturers to deliver a slew of new PCs, ranging from better performing, low-price Celeron-based PCs, starting at $650 (£450), to high-end desktops approaching the $3,000 mark.
[May 21, 2002, 9:08]
Intel shortens dual-core wait
News Intel has hotrod desktop PCs in mind for its first dual-core processors. Intel has said that a dual-core chip could speed up PCs by a large percentage by dividing up the job of processing data. The chipmaker said on Monday that it will launch a...
[February 8, 2005, 8:25]
Rambus finally arrives
News Rambus, Intel's new memory technology, has been controversial, suffering setbacks in June and again in September when the chip maker delayed the introduction of its 820 chipset for high-performance desktop PCs.
[October 22, 1999, 8:53]
'Drivezilla' has monster 200GB storage
News The drive, which the company nicknamed Drivezilla, will give high-end consumer PCs a whopping 80GB more storage than most now have. Western Digital's 200GB "Drivezilla" is about to stomp its way into desktop PCs.
[July 30, 2002, 9:56]
Intel eyes 450MHz chips, 'lean' clients
News We will have a single Pentium II brand, but with substantially different implementations, from low-end basic PCs to high-performance workstations and servers,'' said Craig Barrett, president and chief operating officer.
[November 10, 1997, 9:14]
AMD's 750MHz attack - kicks Intel when down
News PCs with the new chip will deliver plenty of performance for high-end computing and taxing applications, such as gaming. Compaq will offer the new chip as part of its "Built for You" program, which allows customers to purchase custom-configured...
[November 29, 1999, 14:17]
HP dabbles with Voodoo
News Voodoo makes expensive high-end PCs for gamers and PC enthusiasts, often with flashy designs and cases. In addition, the company plans to hook up with Yahoo to bundle Yahoo's software onto HP PCs sold to consumers in North America and Europe.
[September 29, 2006, 8:55]
