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Second Nokia phone explodes
Talkback Would it be possible to let us know what the model number of the two exploding phones. In the case of the first phone with an exchange battery, what was the brand and model number of the replacement battery?
[October 29, 2003, 19:12]
Will Opteron help dispel the megahertz myth?
News Instead of using a four-digit model number designed to relate the chip's performance to traditional clock speed measurements, similar to the scheme for its Athlon XP processor for PCs, the company has chosen to identify the new chips with a three...
[March 13, 2003, 15:24]
Intel confirms chip-naming change
News Instead, new chips will be christened with a model number, in a similar scheme long adopted by car makers. Although Intel is upfront about the similarities between the model naming convention and that long used in the automotive industry, it is...
[March 19, 2004, 17:15]
The Basic Principles of Building ABM Models
White Papers When structuring a model there are a number of key points to consider. As always, some thought and planning at an early stage will prevent a path being taken that leads to an inefficient model or one that does not answer the business issues ABM was...
[August 10, 2006, 0:00]
AMD and Intel war over benchmarks
News The class charges that AMD's Athlon XP 2000+ chip does not live up to its model number ranking. Athlon XP chips come with a model number that indicates their performance relative to older Athlon chips, so that the Athlon XP 2000+ (at 1.67GHz) would...
[April 3, 2002, 14:07]
My Cars
Downloads Store your cars' general information, such as model, year, purchase price, dealer, color, plate number, VIN number, transmission type, etc. Everything can be sorted and filtered by each car model.
[November 18, 2002, 21:21]
Response Time Analysis of a Multi-Server Processor Sharing Model
White Papers A multi-server PS model is a PS queue but the number of requests which can be processed simultaneously is limited by a threshold. This paper investigates the response time of a multi-server Processor Sharing (PS) model.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of 'planned software'
News Such a model is demonstrated by Vista and the number of bugs within it, he said. Whitehurst claimed that there are "half the number of bugs in Linux per thousand lines" compared to the Microsoft operating system, because of the open-source...
[October 20, 2008, 8:25]
ZDNet's quick guide to Intel processors review
Reviews Coinciding with the release of its 915 and 925X Express chipsets, Intel will now drop the gigahertz rating from its model names in favour of a three-digit model number. In fact, Dell, HP and Sony all list the new model number along with the clock...
[August 6, 2004, 11:30]
UK firm shipping 'real' PIII-based systems
News There is a model number and CPU ID number on all Intel processors," he said. The PIIIs that we are using have a model number of 7 and a CPU ID of 3. The PII has a model number of 5 and a CPU ID of 2. A sales rep for Digital Networks UK said that...
[February 11, 1999, 11:47]
Intel gives up the gigahertz
News Under the model number system, processors will be given numbers to describe their performance, in addition to being described as running at 2GHz or another speed. Under the model number plan, each chip's clock speed will become one of several...
[March 15, 2004, 7:45]
A Queueing Model for Finite Load IEEE 802.11 Random Access MAC
White Papers The model is valid for finite loads and can account for arbitrary arrival patterns, packet size distributions and number of nodes. This paper presents an analytic model for evaluating the MAC layer queueing delays at wireless nodes using the...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
AMD slashes Opteron price and power
News It will start out near the top of the company's model number system for ranking performance, with the HE 846, 246 and 146 models. The first digit in each of the model numbers depicts a chip's purpose or family, while the second two reflect its...
[February 18, 2004, 10:15]
Intel releases new mobile Pentium chip
News Previously, the slowest and cheapest model number chip was the Pentium M 715, which runs at 1.5GHz and comes with 2MB of cache. Until the arrival of the Pentium M 705, all of the model number chips came from the Dothan generation of chips that came...
[July 15, 2004, 7:50]
AMD to unveil Athlon XP 3000+ chip
News The larger cache and faster bus -- holding larger amounts of data close to the processor core and speeding up data to and from the chip -- help increase the chip's model number by boosting performance.
[February 10, 2003, 7:46]
Whose math is fuzzy?
Talkback There is a high-level point to be made here: because all BlackBerry failures are lumped together, it could be that there is one bad "apple" in the bunch---a BlackBerry model that has very high failure rates and therefore accounts for a...
[November 11, 2008, 14:58]
Using Java Beans to handle business logic
News The EJB component model also adds a number of important component-model features that make it even more appealing as a middleware component, such as transactions, security, and database connectivity. We've seen how JavaBeans can be used to build...
[March 6, 2003, 13:21]
Behavior of TCP-Like Elastic Traffic at a Buffered Bottleneck Router
White Papers This paper investigates a queueing model where the traffic essentially shows ON/OFF characteristics, i.e.the number of active TCP connections of finite (probabilistic) duration varies as described by a stochastic process.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Police seize relabelled AMD chips
News Relabellers most often boost the chip's clock speed, which helps them relabel a chip with a higher model number, in turn allowing them to resell the part for a relatively high price to a potentially unsuspecting buyer.
[January 5, 2005, 8:30]
AMD quits the megahertz race
News Marketing computers by model number rather than megahertz, of course, represents a sea change for AMD. The new nomenclature will use a model number instead of listing the Athlon's clock speed, according to sources familiar with AMD's plans.
[August 31, 2001, 8:41]
