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Intel Deems The Dual Core Atom 330 Too Hot For Netbooks
12:15PM Rosa Golijan | We’ve been curious as to why Intel decided to keep the N330 chip out of netbooks, and now we finally know: The chips are just too damn hot. More »
Hardware
Intel’s 32nm Arrandale Core i5 And i7 Chips For Anorexic Notebooks
8:04AM Matt Buchanan | We know, the Core i7-i5-i3 stuff is confusing. Not to make it worse, but Digitimes outs some of Intel’s notebooks plans for next year: a triplet of processors of Core i7 and i5 processors, codenamed Arrandale, for skinny laptops. More »
Hardware
AMD’s Atom-Mauling Bobcat And High-End Bulldozer Chips
7:39AM Matt Buchanan | Sure, AMD’s sorta revelling in getting handed $US1.25 billion by Intel, but more importantly, they’ve just revealed the future of AMD chips: The promised Atom competitor Bobcat and a new high-end architecture called Bulldozer. More »
Science
One Day, This Will Be Remembered As The First Tricorder Ever
2:12AM Jesus Diaz | Leave it to a NASA scientist to create the first Star Trek Tricorder using a stamp-sized sensor chip, an iPhone and some spiffy programming. What does it do? It can detect killer gases in the air. More »
Hardware
ZiiLABS’ ZMS-08 System-On-A-Chip To Bring 1080p To Netbooks
6:10AM Rosa Golijan | ZiiLABS latest system-on-a-chip is crammed full of features: 1080p playback, 24fps encoding, HD video conferencing, OpenGL ES 2.0 support, an integrated HDMI controller, X-Fi audio and Flash acceleration. All combined with a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8. Of course, there’s a catch. More »
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 »
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