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Intel Nehalem Benchmarks: 50-100% Performance Increases

Thursday, June 5, 2008

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First, thanks to Grant Gochnauer for sending this across, it’s a kick-ass preview of the upcoming (end of year most likely) Nehalem CPUs and Chipsets from Intel. Secondly let’s thank Anandtech for sneaking into the Intel expo and capping off these benchmarks for us. Quick Tips Nehalem is the upcoming CPU design from Intel at 45nm to [...]

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AMD Attacks Intel Using “We Suck” Strategy

Sunday, February 17, 2008

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In an interesting strategic strategy, AMD has decided to partner with Dell (who almost dropped them from their server lineup) to release a Three-Core (yea, tri-core) server line of Phenom computers. The icing on the cake? The 3-core (aka “Tard Core”) Phenoms are actually just quad-core Phenoms with 1 core disabled… so that’s awesome. I’ve never heard [...]

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OLPC Responds to Intel’s Withdrawl

Thursday, January 10, 2008

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The OLPC foundation responds to the departure of Intel from the foundation. I’ll just inline the entire quote because it more or less p0wns Intel for only ever joining the foundation for marketing reasons and having never contributed anything (technology, code, design or otherwise) and constantly trying to usurp OLPC with their own low-powered laptops [...]

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Intel Z-P140 SSD Kicks Other SSD’s Asses

Thursday, December 20, 2007

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We have covered Solid State Drives (SSDs) here a lot over the past few months, with the general consensus being that they are small in capacity but fast. Some user comments have suggested that stability and longevity of these devices just isn’t there yet however. While most of these SSDs are the size of a normal [...]

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AMD’s Quad-Core CPUs Having Severe Problems

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

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Well AMD can’t catch a break… first they tackle Intel and p0wn them and maintain the lead for something like 4 years… in that time, they never fundamentally redesign their chip, simply releasing refresh after refresh of the same K7 core and then the K8 core. Intel responds with the Core Duo platform and shits all [...]

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Intel QX9650 (Yorkfield) Not That Great

Monday, October 29, 2007

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If you are one of the folks, like me, that has been waiting for the Intel refresh of the quad-core chips before jumping on top of one, you were likely waiting to see how the QX9650 did before making your decision. (Double-check our previous coverage of the chips, their names and making sense of it [...]

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Intel Turbo Memory Not Until 2008

Thursday, June 7, 2007

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For those of you waiting on Intel’s Turbo Memory (ReadyDrive, ReadyBoost, etc.) bit-tech reports that manufacturers have given a resounding “Not until 2008 at the earliest” to the question of “When?!”. The idea behind “Turbo Memory” and all this jargon is simply this: Use flash-memory attached to the computer via a PCI-Express slot as a “faster than [...]

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Ubuntu to Work with Intel on Embedded / Low Power Devices

Sunday, May 6, 2007

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OSNews pointed me over to this announcement on the Ubuntu mailing list, and it looks like Ubuntu will be working to get a low-power/embedded version of Ubuntu on some new Intel platforms. When you combine that announcement with the Dell announcement, the light at the end of the tunnel of Hardware on Linux issue is starting [...]

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IBM, Intel, HP + Community Form ‘Linux Foundation’

Monday, January 22, 2007

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Interesting… it looks like the big commercial Linux folks are getting together and forming the Linux Foundation, not unlike what happened with IBM and the Eclipse Foundation. It will be nice to see more competition on this front for everyone.

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Ubuntu 6.06 + ThinkPad T60 Wifi (ipw3945) + WEP/WAP

Thursday, September 7, 2006

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Ok the short story here is that the wireless adapter on the ThinkPad T60 series of notebooks (ipw3945 driver) work fine with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) IF you are using no encryption or WEP encryption. I put “if” in bold back there because I’m a moron, let me explain: I received my ThinkPad T60 from UPS [...]

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Intel Jumps AMD to Quad Core Chips

Friday, August 18, 2006

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I was really surprised to see this news today. I know that in response to the Core 2 Duo benchmarks AMD announced quad-core chips for next year in their top end gamer line of chips, so I figure that next year Intel will release a prototype of a quad-core chip later in 2007 to [...]

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Intel Core 2 Duo chips instock at Newegg

Sunday, August 13, 2006

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Well it looks like some (the slower ones) of the new Core 2 Duo chips are finally in stock at Newegg now: Here are 6300/6400/6600/6700 Here is the 6800 Extreme One thing I’m surprised to see on the slower chips is how many reviews/votes there are already… people must be building these machines up as fast as they [...]

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