Robert Adler, a physicist and prolific inventor best known as the co-inventor of the television remote control, died Feb. 15 in Boise, Idaho. He was 93. The cause was heart failure, said his wife, Ingrid Continue reading “Deaths: Co-inventor of the television remote control – Robert Adler”.
AMDs Barcelona CPU is loaded with invented here innovation. It is also inspired by IBMs Power architecture. IBMs newest Power CPU, Power6, is due mid-year, along with quad-core processors from Intel and AMD. And while Continue reading “IBM’s Power6 looms large”.
Strong sales of notebook PCs and printers pushed Hewlett-Packard’s fiscal first-quarter profit up 26% and lifted its top line above Wall Street expectations. The Palo Alto, Calif., company grew first-quarter sales 11% to $25.1 billion, Continue reading “Hewlett-Packard’s fiscal first-quarter profit up 26%”.
OCZ Technology Group today announced the OCZ Vindicator CPU cooler, an enthusiast-grade thermal solution for the latest high performance processors. The Vindicator can be used as a passive or active cooler depending on the needs Continue reading “OCZ Announces the Vindicator Premium CPU Cooler”.
I’d like to take a second and congratulate the Legit Reviews Folding@Home team on breaking the 5 million point threshold and for turning in over 27,000 work units over the years. The team currently has Continue reading “Legit Folding Team #38296 Breaks 5 Million Team Points”.
AMD today introduced desktop processors designed for users seeking the ultimate in energy-conscious or high-performance computing. The new energy-efficient 45-watt AMD Athlon 64 single-core processors 3500+ and 3800+ can help consumers and businesses save energy Continue reading “AMD Launches the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Processor”.
Corsair today expanded its Secure Digital (SDTM) card family with the new 4GB SD High Capacity (SDHCTM) cards. Based on the SD Association 2.0 specification and tested to be fully compliant with SDHC host devices, Continue reading “Corsair Enhances SD Family with New 4GB SDHC Card”.
ECS continues their trek of producing an enthusiast line of motherboards. Can they continue on that path with an Nvidia 680i based board? Legit Reviews finds out by taking a look at the ECS PN2 SLI2+ motherboard. Determined to push the PN2 SLI2+ to the limits we loaded it with the latest BIOS (P25) and ran it against other leading chipsets like the 975X and 650i!
Playing video games appears to help surgeons with skills that truly count: how well they operate using a precise technique, a study said Monday. There was a strong correlation between video game skills and a Continue reading “Surgeons who play video games more skilled”.
The MIT team showed a comparator-based switched capacitor (CBSC) circuit, which could be manufactured with smaller size and better power efficiency than traditional analog circuits using operational amplifiers. The team had presented a rougher version Continue reading “MIT improves analog circuit for consumer devices”.
Six weeks from now, the world will get the first retail Radeon X2900 XTX, or at least that is what the Daily Tech staff believes. AMD’s guidance claims R600 will feature 700 million transistors. By Continue reading “AMD Releases Final ‘R600’ Specs — Welcome Radeon X2900 XTX”.
Nvidia is preparing to launch a series of GeForce 8600 cards in the middled of the second quarter 2007 to help satisfy the increasing demand for DirectX 10 supporting graphics cards caused by Windows Vista, Continue reading “Nvidia GeForce 8600 series will launch in the middle of 2Q”.
Although the consumer version of Vista saw tepid sales during its first week on store shelves, the new Microsoft operating system did seem to help PC sales. Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista at Continue reading “Windows Vista Sales Are Slower Than When Windows XP Launched”.
NVIDIA today released a public beta of the NVIDIA CUDA Software Developer Kit (SDK) and C-compiler for computing on NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). GPU Computing with the CUDA SDK is a new approach to Continue reading “NVIDIA CUDA Unleashes Power of GPU Computing”.
abit is launching the Fatal1ty F-I90HD motherboard today, but don’t expect this one to win awards for overclocking or gaming performance. The abit F-I90HD is based on the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 chipset, which features Continue reading “abit Launches the Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard”.
