Category: Hardware

  • How AMD/ATI Can Turn the Tide

    Just when the ATI division of AMD gets into gear, they’re held back by the CPU division. Can this company ever fire on all cylinders? Can they reverse the momentum of rivals Nvidia and Intel? read more | digg story

  • AMD’s Phenom Disappoints the Enthusiast…and Lots of Other Folks

    As stated on page one, the Phenom is a disappointment. It comes close to meeting a clock for clock battle at 2.4GHz or so, but still just does not do it. Phenom has not caught up with what Conroe had to offer so many months ago. As the clocks scale, Phenom begins to look even…

  • Is AMD Doomed?

    Can a $622M dollar cash infusion plus reasonably profitable GPUs give AMD enough breathing room to prove its gamble on true quad core was a good one? The jury is still out, but the portents are not very encouraging. The tech world really needs a scrappy, nimble CPU company like AMD, just like it needs…

  • FIRST REVIEW Of Laptop With nVidia 8800M GTX

    Finally, a mobile graphics card that can actually play decent games! TrustedReviews has reviewed a Clevo made Rock notebook, which is powered by an 8800M GTX – the new mobile graphics card from nVidia which is based on the 8800 GT. They’ve tested it on Crysis and a number of other games and results are…

  • Intel Launches next generation Micro Chips

    A sophisticated new process crams up to 40% more transistors onto their 16 new chips. read more | digg story

  • F-35 Joint Striker Fighter helmet renders the plane nearly invisible

    This ain’t your papa’s flight helmet. Designed for pilots of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the helm you see above will allow pilots to virtually see through the aircraft around them, giving them a wide field of view ahead and superimposing an Infrared image of the world below onto their visors at night. read more…

  • USB 3.0 – 10 Times Faster – In the Works for 2009

    “Enter USB 3.0, which moves the bandwidth needle from 480Mbps to roughly 4.8Gbps, 10 times faster than the current version.” read more | digg story

  • Intel released four nuclear multi-channel Xeon processor

    Intel announced the first multi-channel high-end server-oriented industry standards four core processor 2004 – September 6 pm news, Intel Corporation today announced the industry ’s first global synchronization for multi-processor (MP) servers designed four core Intel Xeon 7300 series server processors. The processor can satisfy enterprise applic read more | digg story

  • Apple Researching Touch Surface Keyboard

    During the build up to Leopard’s release, we overlooked a very interesting patent application from Apple that appeared last week. This latest application is another product of Apple’s Fingerworks acquisition from 2005. Fingerworks had commercialized versions of multi-touch interface input devices,… read more | digg story

  • Gphone 2.0 Megapixel Camera?

    Leaked images yesterday, show that the google phone may have a 2.0 megapixel camera. read more | digg story