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Western Digital working on 20,000 RPM Raptor

The new drive will be very similar to the recently-released VelociRaptor, in that it’ll be a 2.5in drive with a custom 3.5in housing built around it. Details are incredibly light at this stage, given that the product is still in development, and we don’ ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  6 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Western Digital,  RPM, Inc.

Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration

GPU acceleration is one of the most significant trends in today hardware industry, opening the doors to an entirely class of software running desktop. What will be possible is fascinating to see on a monitor, nut it is not tangible, if you just hear ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  24 May 2008

NVIDIA Acquires RayScale Software

PC Perspective sends word to us that during a meeting in San Jose, NVIDIA has announced that it is to acquire a ray tracing software company called RayScale. Interesting acquisition indeed, but little is known at the moment. There's still no press ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  23 May 2008
Related Topics: NVIDIA

Intel to Cut Prices on Existing CPUs and Introduce New Parts in Q3

Recent roadmaps reveal the company has another cut coming in Q3 2008. Simultaneously, Intel will release new quad-core and dual-core processors. This includes the 3.0 GHz Core 2 Quad Q9650 with a price of $530 in 1000 unit trays. The current Core 2 ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  23 May 2008

IBM Touts New-Generation Cell Processors.

IBM, a leading IT company and also a leading producer of chips, said at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) that its Cell processor, which was jointly developed with Sony and Toshiba, produced using 45nm process technology will ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  8 Feb 2008
Related Topics: IBM,  Sony,  Toshiba

Dell to Stop Selling AMD-based Systems Online

All seemed to be well with the AMD-Dell partnership -- until now. Dell appears to be in the process of removing AMD-powered machines from its website. Although machines like the Latitude D531, Vostro 1000, and Optiplex 740 are still currently available ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  8 Feb 2008
Related Topics: AMD

Intel, STM Ship First Phase-Change Memory Samples

Advancements in solid-state memory technology have brought us from the old days of the ROM technology to recent advances in NOR and NAND flash memory used in the most common personal media devices. So what's next for solid-state, non-volatile ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  8 Feb 2008
Related Topics: STMicroelectronics N.V.

KDE goes cross-platform with Windows, Mac OS X support

These efforts are largely made possible by the inherent portability of Trolltech's Qt development toolkit, the underlying framework used by KDE software. Qt is designed for cross-platform portability and even uses native widgets on both Windows and Mac ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  23 Jan 2008

Microsoft dumps Vista virtualization limits

Beginning immediately, Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium can be run in a virtualized environment, Microsoft said Monday. The pair are the cheapest editions of the operating system available at retail, selling in full versions for $199 and $239, ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  22 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

AMD Says Customers Demand Low-End Power-Efficient AMD Phenom Chips.

As those who wanted to have high-speed AMD Phenom processors ask why the chipmaker decided to delay their desired microprocessors, the maker of central processing units just claims that hardly anyone expects high-performance chips by AMD now. Advanced ...

From MATT DICECCA, Legit Reviews,  14 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

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