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Low-Power Implementation Of An OFDM Based Channel Receiver In Real-Time Using A Low-End Media Processor
White Papers This paper illustrates the implementation of a real-time and low-power OFDM based channel receiver on a TriMedia TM1300 processor. This paper focuses on the exploration of data formatting alternatives of background memory for efficient sub-word...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Apple Makes 54Mbps Standard On EMac
News The $999 (£618) eMac comes with an 800MHz PowerPC G4 processor, 128MB of SDRAM, a 60GB hard drive, a CD-rewritable/DVD combo drive, a 32MB ATI Technologies' 7500 graphics accelerator, 56Kbps modem, 10/100 networking USB 1.1 and FireWire ports, and...
[May 6, 2003, 16:01]
Palm Zire review
Reviews In fact, Palm's previous low-end model, the m105 has a more generous 8MB of RAM, although its screen and processor are the same as the Zire’s. In our informal tests, we found that the Zire's processor and screen performance were at the low end of...
[October 8, 2002, 10:54]
Taking Graphics Technology To Mars
News It's less about processing your spreadsheet or word processor. A: The graphics processor has become more and more relevant over the years, because the applications that are being used in computing are more rich in graphics.
[January 26, 2004, 10:40]
Low-power Computing: A Tech Guide review
Reviews To this end, the test involved (1) typing a short (187-word) document into a word processor, (2) entering three columns of figures into a spreadsheet and creating a graph, (3) opening a browser and using Google to find the Computer Aid web site...
[March 26, 2008, 15:19]
Intel Confirms Chip-naming Change
News Intel has confirmed to ZDNet UK the truth of rumours that it is dropping speeds from future processor names. Rather than have people concentrate on the gigahertz, we want people to look at the features that make up a particular processor," an Intel...
[March 19, 2004, 17:15]
Who Needs Pentium III?
News Systems based on Intel's low-cost Celeron processor, AMD's K6-2, or Cyrix's M II are fast enough for most users. This is not to say that using computers is not rife with waiting and wasted time, but these drains come from elements beyond the...
[May 18, 1999, 9:11]
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE review
Reviews Code Morphing describes the job of a software layer that sits between programs and the Crusoe processor's compact, low-power VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) hardware engine. The combination of Code Morphing and LongRun technologies results in a...
[October 30, 2000, 23:00]
Palm M515 review
Reviews Cosmetically, the m515 is identical to the m505, weighs exactly the same (139g), and has a 33MHz DragonBall VZ processor at its core. You get Palm Mobile Connectivity software for connecting your Palm to your cellphone in order to access the...
[March 19, 2002, 23:00]
Intel To Debut Celerons In March
News While the two chips will be based on the same technology, Intel's high-end processor brand, the Pentium III, will offer higher clock speed, larger amounts of cache and faster bus speeds. This yet-to-be-named chip will offer smaller amounts of...
[February 29, 2000, 9:33]
Intel Reaches 1GHz Mark
News What a difference a couple of days makes -- AMD announced its 1GHz Athlon processor on Monday. The two processor rivals have been locked in a clock speed battle since 9 August, when AMD announced its Athlon processor at speeds of up to 650MHz.
[March 8, 2000, 13:18]
Chip Upstart Takes On Intel... With God
News A third chip, codenamed Matthew, is said to be a highly integrated, low-cost processor. The desktop PC processor market is turning into a battle of biblical proportions. Chen even applies his beliefs to "overclocking", the practice used by some...
[March 10, 2000, 15:14]
Sun Working On StarOffice Update
News StarOffice, Sun's commercial distribution of its open-source OpenOffice package, includes a word processor, a spreadsheet application and other common office tools. Thin clients are computing terminals whose applications and data run off a...
[March 10, 2003, 8:35]
Pentium 4: Worth The Price?
News Consumers who buy a Pentium 4 system to use as a word processor will see only a relatively small bump in performance. Intel, which revealed a host of new details about its Pentium 4 processor this week at the Intel Developer Forum, is betting the...
[August 25, 2000, 9:00]
Sony Dumps MS Office For StarOffice
News StarOffice, Sun's commercial distribution of its open-source OpenOffice package, includes a word processor, spreadsheet application and other common office tools. OpenOffice, the free, open-source software StarOffice is based on, is already offered...
[December 6, 2002, 7:24]
MXI: Run Any Desktop Program On Your Handheld
News According to its developers, when a program -- say a word processor -- makes a call to a specific part of the Windows operating system (to save a file, for example), MXI intercepts that call and acts on it.
[June 17, 2002, 10:16]
Microsoft To Unveil Pocket PC 2002
News However, new memory and processor requirements could spell the end of sub-$200 Pocket PC-based devices, making the gadgets less attractive to consumers. All future Pocket PC-based handhelds must now include an ARM4-based processor and offer flash...
[September 6, 2001, 9:32]
SGI Claims Supercomputing Victory
News Columbia is made of twenty 512-processor machines connected with the high-speed InfiniBand networking technology, and each machine runs a single operating system. SGI has just completed work connecting four of the 512-processor machines into a...
[October 27, 2004, 9:05]
HP Increases PC Competition With Itself
News One of its first new models, the HP Pavilion a250n, will incorporate a 2.66GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with hyper-threading, 512MB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, a DVD burner and an Nvidia graphics card with its own 64MB of RAM.
[June 6, 2003, 11:08]
Sun Rents Out StarOffice
News StarOffice is a package that combines a word processor, spreadsheet application and other common office tools. At the end of the year, the customer can renew the licence for another year or stop using the software, which will become unusable once...
[January 16, 2004, 7:25]
