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Hardware
Rumour: Select Intel Atom CPU Netbooks To Be Allowed 2GB RAM
6:20PM Adrian Covert | Leaks from the Pine Tree Pine Nut Pine Trail roadmap from Intel suggests that going forward, certain Atom processors will support 2GB of RAM, a jump from the previous 1GB max instituted by Intel as a measure to prevent cannibalisation between netbooks and processors in middle tiers. 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 »
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 »
Phones
Why Android Phones Are Slow (Today)
8:45AM Brian Lam | AIn a new column on Engadget, Anand from Anandtech explains why Android phones feel slow. (Answer: They use cheaper arm chips, which also, using the same nanometre process, allows them to be smaller.) [Engadget]
Computers
9:30AM Chris Oaten | Gamers, could you handle this? An Aurora ALX with a Core i7 975 processor, X58 microATX motherboard and two ATI Radeon HD 5870’s in CrossFire. Is it fast? Pfft. Whaddyareckon? More »
Raw. Power. Aurora ALX Benchmarked
9:30AM Chris Oaten | Gamers, could you handle this? An Aurora ALX with a Core i7 975 processor, X58 microATX motherboard and two ATI Radeon HD 5870’s in CrossFire. Is it fast? Pfft. Whaddyareckon? More »
Hardware
AMD Athlon II X4 620: Four Cores For $US99
3:20PM Danny Allen | AMD’s new Athlon II X4 chips are like a Phenom II minus the L3 cache. And they’re super-cheap: $US99 (2.6GHz-620), and $US122 (2.8GHz-630). Also looks like they hold their own against the $US150 Core 2 Quad 8200: [Maximum PC] More »
Phones
Inside The Palm Pixi’s Brains
8:55AM Matt Buchanan | When Jason played with the Palm Pixi, Palm implied it wasn’t quite as gutsy as the Pre—it’s gonna be cheaper, after all—but didn’t get into details. Well, Palm InfoCenter’s got the full spec breakdown for its Qualcomm MSM7627 brain: two ARM cores, one running at 600MHz (for apps) and another at 400MHz, with a 200MHz 3D graphics core that supports OpenGL 2.0 (like the iPhone 3GS, which is actually an advtange over the Pre). More »
Hardware
Intel Core i5, i7 Chips: Nehalem Superpowers Cheaper Than Ever
12:40AM Matt Buchanan | The long and short of the new Lynnfield-based Intel Core i7 and Core i5 desktop chips: Nehalem power for cheaper than ever, and all you’re losing is triple-channel memory (in new i7 and i5) and hyperthreading (in i5). [Anandtech]
Science
Nanowires Making Gadgets Smaller And Faster
9:20AM Joanna Stern | Computers have been getting shrinking for years, yet they cram the same amount of power if not more. Essentially that is Moore’s Law, or the theory that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits doubles a year. More »
Hardware
9:00AM Matt Buchanan | This is the Intel 8088. A beast with 29,000 transistors that could be clocked up 8MHz in its 1979 heyday, it was the second chip to use the x86 architecture, and the brains inside the original IBM PC. More »
Intel 8088: The Chip That Gave Birth To The Borg
9:00AM Matt Buchanan | This is the Intel 8088. A beast with 29,000 transistors that could be clocked up 8MHz in its 1979 heyday, it was the second chip to use the x86 architecture, and the brains inside the original IBM PC. More » 
