Sharon Gaudin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Sharon Gaudin

Article | 13/05/2008 AMD unveils low-power Opteron processor

Advanced Micro Devices Monday unveiled five low-power quad-core server processors, and said that manufacturers are planning to use the chips in both b...

Article | 12/05/2008 Swarming spy bots that share information being built for military

A group of US Marines hunker down beside a building, enemy fire coming at them from somewhere up ahead. One soldier reaches into his pack and pulls ou...

Article | 8/05/2008 AMD lays out plans for six-core and 12-core chips

Advanced Micro Devices Wednesday announced that it plans to release a six-core chip next year and a 12-core chip in 2010.

Article | 9/05/2008 NASA's new supercomputer aims for 10 petaflops by 2012

SGI and Intel are teaming up to build a supercomputer for NASA that they expect will pass the petaflop barrier next year and hit 10 petaflops by 2012....

Article | 8/05/2008 Intel and friends start planning move to 450-mm wafers

Intel Wednesday announced that it has joined with two other chipmakers in an effort to ease a move from 300-mm wafers to 450-mm wafers, which will ena...

Article | 7/05/2008 Discovery may lead to faster, more powerful processors

Researchers at Princeton University this week reported that they have found a way to literally melt away miniscule defects in computer chips, a discov...

Article | 7/05/2008 Purdue builds own supercomputer -- on Monday morning

Technicians at Purdue University wanted to assemble their own supercomputer, and they had some high expectations. Apparently, they could have set them...

Article | 2/05/2008 Intel boosts Atom production to avoid supply squeeze

Early demand for an Intel chip that's being designed for small laptops and desktops is so much higher than anticipated, the company has been forced to...

Article | 1/05/2008 Report: For heart surgery, robot beats a surgeon

Worried about doctors cracking open your chest to perform critical heart bypass surgery? Would you feel any better if a robot was involved in the oper...

Article | 30/04/2008 IT vet talks about the most influential computers

Gordon Bell has been working in the IT industry for nearly 50 years. He was a key engineer and vice president of research and development at minicompu...

Article | 28/04/2008 Humanoid robot to conduct Detroit Symphony Orchestra

A humanoid robot will conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra next month, mixing two different cultures - technology and music.

Article | 24/04/2008 Dell gives glimpse at its smallest desktop ever

Dell announced that the company is working on a desktop computer that is slated to be 81 percent smaller than a standard mini-tower machine, while usi...

Article | 22/04/2008 In pictures: inside Microsoft's robot factory

Members of Microsoft's Robotics Group are confident robotics is going to be the big story of the next five years.

Article | 22/04/2008 AMD releases two energy-efficient Athlon chips

Advanced Micro Devices Monday released two more 45-watt, energy-efficient Athlon desktop processors.

Article | 22/04/2008 Intel slashes chip prices, boosting pressure on AMD

Intel is slashing the price of some of its processors up to 50 percent, a slap in the face to rival Advanced Micro Devices, long known as the low-pric...