Archive for September 28, 2006

AMD’s Multiple Threads, Multiple Cores, Multiple Gains

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What Is HDTV?

High Definition Television à is an international digital TV standard aired in 16:9 format (4:3 for normal TVs) and in Dolby Digital surround sound.Viewers get clear contoured shows with vibrant colors and a wider depth-of-field compared to normal systems.HDTV has up to five times the number of pixels on standard PALs used now.

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Roll-up displays and screeens ‘moving closer’

“Roll-up laptop screens and e-newspapers may be a step closer, according to scientists.”

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How LAN Switches Work

This document covers the general concept of how LAN switches work and the most common features that are available on a LAN switch. The document also covers the differences between bridging, switching, and routing.

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AMD’s Native Quad-Core K8L Architecture Analysed

DIGIT LIFE explores the next generation native quad core architecture from AMD, the K8L, based on one presentation made by Guiseppe Amato in Moscow. There are a few benchmark slides but most of the presentations seems to hover around the power to performance ratio which can turn quite dirty for Intel.

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Micron Samples DDR3 Memory

Micron is the second major DRAM manufacturer to announce sample shipments of next-generation DDR3 modules and claims to be the first company to ship 1 Gb devices with a capacity of up to 2 GB. DDR3 promises to double the speed of today’s DDR2 memory and is expected to become available on high-end desktop computers in late 2007.

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VisionTek PCI Radeon X1300 256MB

VisionTek’s PCI based RADEON X1300 256 MB graphics card is a unique product that fills a unique niche. Does this PCI graphics card stack up to the PCI-Express competition? What potentials does it hold beyond 3D gaming? The perfect affordable physics acceleration card?

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