Intel, meanwhile, continues to develop reference designs for building these devices around Intel's Xscale (formerly StrongArm) family of processors. Microsoft is developing a software environment, called Media2Go, for portable video players (PVPs...
Apple managed the feat when it moved its computers from Motorola's 68000 line of processors to its PowerPC line but could do so only because the new chip represented such a performance bump that it could offset some of the performance hit caused...
Applications written to take advantage of 64-bit computing won't work in Windows unless the drivers are also 64-bit, Glaskowsky said, adding that a lack of drivers could well be a "gating factor" that keeps people from moving to 64-bit programs.
To be affected, HP discovered, notebooks must combine the potentially defective memory modules with one of several Intel chipsets and Pentium processors that support a certain low-power state, dubbed C3, he said.
Then of course we have the sensor networks built into our transport, utility supply, infrastructure, climate monitoring and other systems. And how about all 26 million books in the Library of Congress?
The Mac Pro offers a similar casing to the Power Mac G5 that preceded it but it replaces the older PowerPC processors with two dual-core Intel Xeon chips, as well as space for two optical disc drives and up to four hard drives.