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AMD Launches new Dual-Core Phenom CPUs

firdooze — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:11:56 +0000

Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition and Athlon II X2 250 target the mainstream AMD’s Athlon II CPU die Intel and AMD have both been touting their capabilities in the multi-core race. Each semiconductor company has been showing four core, six core, and even eight core CPUs in their bids to impress the buying public. Decreased manufacturing costs [...]

AMD’s “Istanbul” Opteron CPUs Out Soon

firdooze — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:20:44 +0000

AMD beat its time to market estimates for “Istanbul” The sluggish global economy has meant that not only were consumer computer sales down, but sales in the enterprise computing space for servers and data center computers were down significantly as well. The only thing for chipmakers like AMD and Intel to move ahead with new processors [...]

Intel’s Next Generation Atom Platform revealed

firdooze — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:41:25 +0000

Intel has released some details of the next-generation Atom platform, code-named Pine Trail. One of the most interesting revelation (apart from the late 2009 launch date) is that Intel is packing more into the CPU (code-named Pineview). The Pineview CPU will incorporate both the GPU and memory controller onto the CPU, which means that the number [...]

Samsung Launching 32GB Embedded Memory Card Built with 30nm-class NAND

firdooze — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:07:08 +0000

Smaller transistors mean lower prices are coming Samsung Electronics has announced that it is shipping its 32GB moviNAND embedded memory card, built using a 30nm-class NAND manufacturing process. High density embedded memory cards are used to improve the performance of high-end multimedia phones and other mobile consumer electronics, especially when processing and storing large amounts of multimedia [...]

Facebook Now Works in Windows Mobile 6.1 Devices

firdooze — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:36:04 +0000

Prior to this application, there were several attempts at making WM 6.1 to work with Facebook. Sadly, most applications break and were highly unstable causing lots of frustrations. Therefore, users had to rely on opera to access mobile Facebook webpages which have very limited functionality. Just recently, Microsoft released a Facebook application which is available in [...]

The Answer to Your Windows Mobile Woes.

firdooze — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:13:29 +0000

If you happen to have a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone, you would have realized how bad the memory leakage problem is. Prior to this application (which I will introduce in a while), one will either have to soft-reset their WM phone every few/several days or to use a less-superior memory release program. The former is [...]

Intel Core i5 details leaked

firdooze — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:15:46 +0000

While there’s no doubt that Intel’s Core i7 CPUs lead the field when it comes to performance, that power comes at a price. Performance enthusiasts on a budget have been patiently waiting for the cheaper Nehalem derivative Core i5 pieces to be officially announced. The Core i5 (codenamed Lynnfield) is basically a Core i7 part with [...]