IBM unveiled a new microprocessor Monday, claiming advances in performance and power consumption for the high-end servers used by many corporations. The Power6 features 790 million transistors, with circuits measuring 65 nanometers and is said Continue reading “IBM Powers Up New Power6 Processor”.
With todays launch of DDR3 memory Legit Reviews takes the time to compare DDR2 to DDR3 in terms of system performance. Armed with a 2GB kit of PC3-10600 from Corsair Memory and a 2GB kit of PC3-11000 from Kingston Technology LR takes a look at performance at stock and overclocked settings for both types of memory. If you are interested in seeing how DDR2 CL4 performance against DDR3 CL6 then read on for the most detailed independent DDR2 versus DDR3 performance article to date.
Western Digital today announced it is now shipping its 250 GB WD Scorpio 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives. The 250 GB Scorpio hard drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to achieve the highest capacity available in a shipping small form factor drive. Read on as we preview one of these drives and take a look at the new features that come on one of these monster notebook hard drives made by Western Digital.
Kingston Technology’s wholly-owned subsidiary in China, Payton Technology, will start production of its window ball grid array (WBGA) lines in June, with a monthly capacity of 10 million units, and will chiefly process orders from Continue reading “Kingston Technology subsidiary to start WBGA lines this June”.
In a bold and potentially risky move, Google is making dramatic changes to the way it helps hundreds of millions of people find information on the Internet. Executives Wednesday unveiled a new master search engine Continue reading “Google retools search engine”.
What has taken Intel so long? For one thing, Intel says the ever-changing requirements for Windows Vista drivers forced it to pull resources away from the project to make sure it had stable drivers for Continue reading “Intel chipset road map slowed down by Windows Vista drivers”.
Kingston Technology announced that it will invest NT$184 million (US$5.51 million) in Taiwan-based packaging and testing house Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) through private placement. The sum amounts to 8% of the shares that OSE plans Continue reading “Kingston Technology invests in packaging and testing house OSE”.
It seems that high end video cards from ATI and NVIDIA keep on getting hotter. Today we break out the uber geeky infrared digital laser pyrometer to find out just how hot some of these cards get when it comes to the exhaust air and PCB area behind the core of the GPU. The results were a tad shocking and it’s obvious that these high end graphics card can easily increase the room temperature when used in a small home office or dorm room!
The Itanium Solutions Alliance has commended Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation, a Founding Sponsor of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, on their cooperation to deliver Sun’s Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) for Itanium 2-based solutions. Continue reading “Java SE To Be Supported For Intel Itanium 2-Based Systems”.
NVIDIA has released a new beta driver for Windows Vista users with GeForce 8 series graphics cards. The Forceware 158.43 drivers enable SLI for DirectX 10 applications for the very first time, so all the Continue reading “NVIDIA Releases Forceware Beta 158.43 Drivers”.
AMD today announced broad availability of the latest version of its I/O virtualization technology specification, which is enhanced with stronger and more secure input/output connections. Together with AMD Virtualization Technology (AMD-V), the AMD I/O Virtualization Continue reading “AMD Announces Update to Its I/O Virtualization Technology Specification”.
Millions of broadband Internet users across most of eastern Japan were unable to log on Tuesday evening after a problem at the country’s largest broadband provider. All said and done 2.85 million customers were impacted Continue reading “Millions disconnected by NTT broadband outage”.
Nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold in the first 100 days following its release, more than twice the sales of Windows XP over the same time period, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Continue reading “Microsoft Says 40 Million Vista Copies Sold in 100 Days”.
I knew AMD stock was on the rise, but I didn’t know that it was up twenty percent in just five days! This is great news for AMD and investors that got in at the Continue reading “Advanced Micro Devices shares are up 20% in five days”.
Microsoft Corp made its broadest challenge to date against open-source software, including Windows rival Linux, claiming that such programs violate 235 Microsoft patents and saying it will seek license fees. The world’s largest software maker Continue reading “Microsoft says open-source violates 235 patents”.
