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Hardware
Samsung’s New Flash Memory Chips Will Cause Gadget Shrinkage
5:00AM Rosa Golijan | With a thickness of only 0.6mm, Samsung’s newest NAND chips are practically anorexic, but for once that’s a good thing. Thinner chips like these could bring smaller gadgets and hopefully also lead to lower SSD prices. More »
Hardware
100-Core Tilera TILE-Gx Processors Planned For 2011
10:56PM Danny Allen | While Intel and AMD look to make a complete jump to 8-cores, Tilera (an MIT start-up) says its upcoming 100-core chip has “at least four times the compute performance of an Intel Nehalem-Ex, while burning a third of the power”. More »
Computers
New iMacs Get Core i7 Chips, But What Does That Mean?
3:41AM Wilson Rothman | We were pretty excited to see Intel’s new monster quad-core chips inside the iMacs Apple unveiled today, but you may be a little confused by the options: Core 2 Duo or Core i7 or Core i5??? Can someone please explain? Why yes, Giz can.
Hardware
Giz Explains: Intel’s Entire Confusing Armada Of Chips
1:00AM Matt Buchanan | Intel makes a lot of processors. Too many, maybe. Don’t know the difference between a Core i7 and a Core 2 Duo? A Bloomfield from a Wolfdale? A Sasquatch from a Yeti? You’re not alone. More »
Hardware
Nvidia’s Nforce Chipset Is Dead In The Water
12:29AM Matt Buchanan | I used an Nvidia Nforce-based motherboard in the first computer I ever built, so I’m a little sad to see that Nvidia’s freezing all development on their Nforce chipset because of licensing issues with Intel, primarily over whether or not Nvidia’s licence covers chipsets for Nehalem-based processors. Nvidia’s not developing new chipsets for AMD’s processors, either. Lame-o. [PC Mag]
Hardware
Intel Atom CE4100 Is A Beast Of A Media Chip
4:50AM Dan Nosowitz | Here at IDF, Intel introduced the Atom CE4100 media chip, which is likely coming to set-top boxes and Blu-Ray players. It’s got some serious power: We’re talking simultaneous decoding of two 1080p streams, 3D rendering and more. More »
Computers
Intel Core i7 Mobile = Fastest Laptop Processor EVER
1:40PM Joanna Stern | Laptops got a hell of a lot faster today. We’ve been waiting for Intel to bring out its mobile version of Core i7 and today it did. The benchmarks are in and they say it’s fast. Really freaking fast. More »
Phones
Samsung Pushes Mobile Devices Forward With Processors, Cameras
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Samsung introduced a mess of new components for mobile devices that we’re likely to start seeing in early 2010, including a 5MP camera capable of taking 1080p video and a couple powerful yet efficient chipsets. More »
Hardware
AMD Confirms Six-Core Consumer Processors Codenamed “Thuban”
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Just one day before Intel’s IDF conference, AMD dropped a little bit of a bomb on us, confirming that they will bring hexa-core processors to consumer computers. Even better, they’ll be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards. More »
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