For more rock solid predictions and navel gazing, check out silicon's newest hot topic, Beyond the Processor at http://www.silicon.com/btp Computer memory could one day be based on a non-metallic - but magnetic - material discovered accidentally by...
The $999 entry-level model, the Profile 4SE comes with a 1.7GHz Celeron processor, 15-inch flat-panel monitor, 128MB of memory, CD-ROM drive and Windows XP Home. The high-end consumer all-in-one, the Profile 4XL, will come with a 2.66GHz Pentium 4...
An approach like core hopping, which Krewell likened to a game of 'hot potato', could help alleviate the problem. Meanwhile, vacant space on the memory controller inside AMD's Hammer chip indicates the chip could be transformed into a dual-core...
While a processor can be seen as the brain of a PC, a chipset is its nervous and circulatory system, managing data that flows between the processor, memory and other system components. The chipset incorporates its own graphics processor, in this...
Adjusting to curtailed corporate computing spending for such products, IBM, Dell and HP shifted plans to blades that pack more punch with two and in some cases four of the more powerful Xeon processors.
The MobilePro 900, which will start to go on sale in late May, comes with a 400MHz XScale processor from Intel, 64MB of memory, and 64MB of flash memory for storing and managing applications. Like a PDA (personal digital assistant), the MobilePro...