Archive for September 19, 2006

DDR4 coming to a Graphics Card near you.

Forget your purchase of consoles.

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Tom’s Socket AM2 Motherboard Summer Slam

Just because everybody talks about Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor doesn’t mean AMD shouldn’t be on your radar screen. There is a healthy crop of mature socket AM2 motherboards available to power Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX and Sempron processors. Thanks to recent price drops, AMD still offers a nice price/performance ratio compared to Intel

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Intel readies Quadro chips for November release

Our good friends in Santa Clara, California have been very busy as of late — Intel’s working on getting lasers into silicon

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Million Gigabyte Hard Drive

New technology that could possible store millions of gigabytes into a single hard drive.

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The Most Innovative DDR2 System Memory Ever: Corsair’s Dominator

Thanks to a custom PCB, redesigned heatsinks, meticulously binned chips, a unique cooling apparatus and their patent-pending DHX Technology (Dual Path Heat Xchange), Corsair has created a 2GB memory kit that can run with tight 4-4-4-12-2T timings at an impressive 1.11GHz. This article details the tech and mechanisms at work in this impressive kit.

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RFID-enabled smart shelves heading into stores

These shelves will be able to track whether you debated the PSP over the DS lite, whether you wanted the high end version but opted for the low end because of price and what items were popular amongst consumers and which were not.

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Toshiba Readies New HD DVD Players

The devices, which will be available soon, will offer better picture quality than earlier models.

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A Chip That Can Transfer Data Using Laser Light

Researchers plan to announce on Monday that they have created a silicon-based chip that can produce laser beams. The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design.

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AMD K8L Quad Core Discussion & Editorial

A chat with AMD’s CTO about the upcoming K8L Quad Core AMD processor gives us some new insight as to just how AMD is looking to handle the newly competitive market served up by Intel’s Core 2 Duo and beyond.

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FedEx Fights Missiles…

A FedEx MD-10 freighter, equipped with Northrop Grumman’s Guardian infrared laser jammer, is slated to become the first wide-body commercial aircraft in scheduled service flying with technology to counter terrorist missile attacks.

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