Posts Tagged ‘ CPU ’

Nvidia Reportedly Ready to Unveil Tegra 2 3D Next Month

January 24, 2011
Nvidia Reportedly Ready to Unveil Tegra 2 3D Next Month

A leaked slide of Nvidia’s upcoming Tegra 2 3D platform surfaced over the weekend, revealing a few details Nvidia reportedly plans to unveil at the Mobile World Congress in February, TechEye.net reports.
There are two versions of the processor being re…

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AVADirect Drops Sandy Bridge into New Desktops and Notebooks

January 21, 2011
AVADirect Drops Sandy Bridge into New Desktops and Notebooks

Custom system builder AVADirect this week announced new desktops and notebooks built around Intel’s recently released Sandy Bridge platform, paving the way for more affordable configurations with increased performance.
“We always knew the day would com…

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AMD Closes Out 2010 with $6.49 Billion in Revenue

January 21, 2011
AMD Closes Out 2010 with $6.49 Billion in Revenue

Overall one would have to say it was a fairly good year for AMD, who despite still trailing Intel for the performance crown, still managed to post $6.49 billion in revenue for the year ended December 25, 2010, the chip maker announced on Thursday. Reve…

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Acer to Phase Out Netbooks with Sandy Bridge Tablets

January 19, 2011
Acer to Phase Out Netbooks with Sandy Bridge Tablets

At some point, you have to think Acer will become a major player in the emerging tablet market, just as the company blitzed the netbook segment full force. But perhaps wisely, the PC maker has, for the most part, taken a wait-and-see approach.
In the c…

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Texas Instruments Reportedly Shipping Dual-Core OMAP 4440 Chip in 2H01

January 14, 2011
Texas Instruments Reportedly Shipping Dual-Core OMAP 4440 Chip in 2H01

There’s nothing sexy about single-core computing anymore, even if developers have yet to really fully embrace multi-core processors. We’re already up to six-core processors on the consumer desktop, so why are we still stuck at single-core chips in the …

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Oak Trail a Tough Sell in Tablet Market

January 13, 2011
Oak Trail a Tough Sell in Tablet Market

Intel is having a tough time convincing notebook vendors to adopt its Oak Trail platform for upcoming tablet PCs. As a result, the Santa Clara chip maker has begun pitching offers it hopes OEMs can’t refuse, DigiTimes says.
Acer, Asus, and Hewlett-Pack…

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Online Vendors Now Selling Sandy Bridge CPUs

January 12, 2011
Online Vendors Now Selling Sandy Bridge CPUs

Been waiting for Sandy Bridge? Well, you can stop waiting and start building around Intel’s latest processor architecture, as a handful of online vendors are now selling Sandy Bridge chips.
Street pricing shakes out like this:

Core i5 2300 (2.8GHz) – …

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AMD Aiming for Sub-$100 Brazos Platforms

January 10, 2011
AMD Aiming for Sub-$100 Brazos Platforms

AMD’s bread and butter has almost always been aggressively attacking the price-to-performance sector, and the chip maker’s Brazos platform won’t be an exception (for a refresher on Brazos/Fusion, see here). According to Fudzilla, AMD hopes to see Brazo…

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