Loading ...Apple’s Mac business outgrew the overall PC market in the U.S. by a significant margin in the first quarter, according to research from IDC and Gartner released Wednesday.
Check out my colleague Erica Ogg’s post for the overall news, which has the PC market as a whole growing by 14.6 percent, but the U.S. market growing [...]
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Members of Intel’s Itanium team took to the stage yesterday at ISSCC to disclose fresh details of what is literally the biggest microprocessor ever made. Tukwila, as the new 65nm chip is called, is the first quad-core member of the Itanium Product Family (IPF) and the world’s first processor to break the 2 billion transistor [...]
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In our lab tests, Intel’s 45nm Penryn CPU didn’t blow away the previous generation, but the tech behind it should keep Intel ahead.
There’s a new high-end desktop chip in town–namely, Intel’s Penryn family of CPUs, which are the first built on a 45nm manufacturing process developed by the chip giant. Our first WorldBench 6 tests [...]
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In an effort to keep the pressure on rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel on Monday launched a pair of new quad-core server processors that promise to crank out more performance per watt.
While the quad-core war between Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) and AMD may seem esoteric, technology sold at a premium for [...]
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Intel introduced the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 at $999, which is $200 less than the QX6800, the company’s previously fastest desktop processor.
Intel on Monday introduced a faster quad-core desktop processor that’s less expensive than its previous top-end chip, an indication that a new round of price cuts are on the way as the chip [...]
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Delivering a four-core foreshadowing of innovations to come for PC enthusiasts worldwide, AMD today unveiled the upcoming AMD Phenom™ processor family name and publicly demonstrated the first all-AMD enthusiast platform, codenamed “FASN8.”
The industry’s only true quad-core client processors are expected to deliver the ultimate visual experience, especially when paired with AMD’s new DirectX 10 ATI [...]
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Dell has confirmed it will offer Ubuntu Linux preinstalled on “select consumer desktop and notebook products.”
The program will begin with Ubuntu 7.04 ‘Feisty Fawn’, but there’s no indication yet of which models will be available with the open-source operating system preinstalled. The company’s web site reveals that one of chairman and CEO Michael Dell’s [...]
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VIA has shrunk its motherboards again and has announced its Pico-ITX design which is barely larger than a playing card. The 10 cm by 7.2 cm board is 75% smaller than the already small Mini-ITX form factor board released a few years ago. VIA’s reference board the VT6047 runs the VIA C7 or [...]
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San Francisco - Computer chip giant Intel on Monday launched its fastest-ever quad-core microprocessor, hoping that the speedy and powerful new chip will be a hit with PC gamers and design professionals.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX6800 runs at 2.93 GHZ, compared to the 2.66 GHZ for other quad core [...]
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