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For the past year the Intel Atom processor has been the default netbook processor.  It’s small, efficient, and fast enough to run the small machines.  The next version of the Atom, code named “Pine Trail” is due out by early 2010 at the latest.  It will feature graphics on the… Continue Reading »

Today is the final day of the Intel Developer Forum and as in the end of any forum/expo/conference, it’s a bit light on anything new.  Intel, being the large company it is, had something new to announce, though it seems to be just about the only thing new.  Intel decided… Continue Reading »

The Intel Developer Forum looks to be an excuse for Intel to show off all the cool stuff they’ve been cooking up and let PC makers show off some of their products.  Of course there’s a multitude of technical sessions each day, though those probably won’t interest many people outside… Continue Reading »

Today began the Intel Developer Forum, a chance for Intel and a number of other companies to debut their newest computer technology.  It’s the perfect opportunity to see what’s coming up next in terms of computer hardware and will likely see a lot of new Windows 7 machines throughout the… Continue Reading »

Gamers are always looking for ways to upgrade notebooks in order to serve up the best graphics and sound during game play.  AMD has announced ATI Mobility RadeonTM HD 4000 series graphics, their planned next generation series of notebook graphics processors.  AMD says that this new processor will bring PC… Continue Reading »

The quality of cameras in phones has risen exponentially in the last few years from poor VGA to the fairly good 3 megapixel and beyond.  But there is always progress to be made, and Sony Ericsson have outlined some fairly ambitious aims in the release of their four year plan… Continue Reading »

Planning on building that new gaming rig? Here’s some good news. Putting pressure on rival chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel has surprisingly halved the prices on its Core 2 Quad Q6700 (from $530 to $266) and Quad-Core Xeon X3230 (from $530 to $266). Overall, fourteen processors experienced a price… Continue Reading »

Forget quad-core, AMD is preparing a dodeca-core chip. If you didn’t stay in boarding school if you need refreshing with your greek vocabulary, dodeca means 12, and that’s 12 cores for you right there. Imagine, a dozen times faster than a normal chip. But how fast does one’s computer ever… Continue Reading »

Intel has recently shown off not one, not two, but three ultra-portable laptops running on their much-awaited Atom processors. Pictured here is a little lappie from a little-known brand called Thinno, perusing Intel’s Atom processor with Windows XP. Register Hardware was unsure of the third laptop and calls it a… Continue Reading »

Intel announced a new family of low-power processors that will run its low-cost PCs and mobile internet devices (MIDs). Branded as Intel Atom, this new processor will be based on a new Intel microarchitecture designed specifically for small devices and runs on low power. Despite its size the new process… Continue Reading »