Stories about: PC Chips

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    Dell aims high with its XPS 13 Ultrabook 11/01/2012 09:25:00

    Dell laptops of the last few years have been mostly...boring. Boring, and sort of cheap-feeling. It seems as though Dell was leading the charge in a "race to the bottom", producing inexpensive and bulky laptops that could be outfitted with a wide variety of upsell options like faster processors or bigger hard drives. Sometime last year, it seems as though the company caught on to what customers want these days: fewer confusing options, better design, and quality materials. The XPS 15z was the first laptop from Dell I had seen in a long time that really got it right, and the XPS 14z continued the legacy.
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    Intel ships samples of Westmere PC chips 15/04/2009 08:57:00

    Intel's new Westmere microprocessors are being sampled by PC makers and will ship in volume later this year, the company's CEO said Tuesday.
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    Multicore chips pose next big challenge for industry 23/03/2009 09:32:00

    Adding more processing cores has emerged as the primary way of boosting performance of server and PC chips, but the benefits will be greatly diminished if the industry can't overcome certain hardware and programming challenges, participants at the Multicore Expo in Santa Clara, California, said last week.
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    Former CEO of ATI quits AMD 11/07/2007 08:13:57

    The former chief executive of ATI Technologies has resigned from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) just nine months after the two companies combined in a US$5.4 billion merger.
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    PS3 game systems to take role in fighting Alzheimer's 20/03/2007 09:54:57

    Looking for a perfectly good reason to buy a Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) game system? How about this: Starting at the end of this month, PS3 users can help researchers at Stanford University find a cure for Alzheimer's disease.
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    Vista adoption will not boost PC sales, predicts TSMC 29/01/2007 11:35:58

    Microsoft's new Windows Vista OS won't boost PC sales very much this year because operating systems usually face slow, gradual adoption, the head of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Thursday.
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    AMD completes ATI merger, plans CPU, GPU fusion 26/10/2006 08:06:26

    Advanced Micro Devices plans to make chips integrating its x86 with a graphics processor on a single piece of silicon by early 2009. The announcement came as AMD completed its US$5.4 billion merger with graphics chip manufacturer ATI Technologies on Wednesday.
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    Intel causes Q2 chip inventory spike: iSuppli 14/08/2006 07:28:36

    Semiconductor inventories soared to their highest level in years during the second quarter, but the trouble is mainly in the PC sector and namely with chips from Intel, according to market researcher iSuppli.
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    Intel's Conroe processor roils chip market 27/07/2006 08:13:10

    Intel is planning to launch its "Conroe" chip for desktops this week, triggering a cascade of steep price cuts in the chip market and a raft of new PC designs.
 
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