by Brooke Crothers May 15, 2008
Is the end of the Intel-AMD duopoly nigh? Via Technologies is hoping this may be the case when it announces the "Isaiah" processor later this month. The company's first high-performance x86 chip will be targeted at the mainstream PC market--another first for the Taipei-based chip supplier. Via processors have historically appeared in ultrasmall mobile devices (such as the OQO), embedded computers, or thin-client computers. "It puts us into the mainstream market for the first time," said Richard Brown, vice president, corporate marketing at Via. Isaiah, like Via processors before it, will still hew to the lower-power line, however. Isaiah (a code name) will consume no more than 3.5 watts, while Intel's Atom processor ranges from 0.6 to 2.5 watts. Atom, however, uses a more simple "in-order execution" design compared to Isaiah's Superscalar, out-of-order design capable of decoding three full x86 instructions per clock cycle of the processor.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
The (new) Fastest Hard Drive Ever
by David Murphy 04/21/08
Ok, so technically a Dilophosaurus hocked the venom loogie all over Nedry's face. But in marketplace of consumer hard drives, there is no question that Western Digital's Velociraptor is the beast to be feared. The new 300GB, 10,000-RPM device comes as a much-needed bolster to Western Digital's high-performance storage line. After all, it's been two years since the launch of the 150GB Raptor X, and other drive manufacturers have been quick to take note. Prior to today, Samsung's HD103UJ was the reigning king of storage, offering an unbeatable combination of awesome speeds at a price-per-gigabyte ratio that made the Raptor line of drives look ancient by comparison. After all, why would anyone want to spring for a slower 150GB drive when a slightly bigger investment would net a super-fast terabyte drive? The Velociraptor might still not be the best option for frugal computer enthusiasts on a strictly price-to-size ratio, but it's still not going to break the bank. Western Digital is selling the drives for exactly the same amount as the Raptor X drives at their launch: $300
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Ok, so technically a Dilophosaurus hocked the venom loogie all over Nedry's face. But in marketplace of consumer hard drives, there is no question that Western Digital's Velociraptor is the beast to be feared. The new 300GB, 10,000-RPM device comes as a much-needed bolster to Western Digital's high-performance storage line. After all, it's been two years since the launch of the 150GB Raptor X, and other drive manufacturers have been quick to take note. Prior to today, Samsung's HD103UJ was the reigning king of storage, offering an unbeatable combination of awesome speeds at a price-per-gigabyte ratio that made the Raptor line of drives look ancient by comparison. After all, why would anyone want to spring for a slower 150GB drive when a slightly bigger investment would net a super-fast terabyte drive? The Velociraptor might still not be the best option for frugal computer enthusiasts on a strictly price-to-size ratio, but it's still not going to break the bank. Western Digital is selling the drives for exactly the same amount as the Raptor X drives at their launch: $300
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AMD eggs on Nvidia's war of words with Intel
Hopes it'll help
By Paul Hales: Thursday, 15 May 2008
THE WAR OF WORDS that broke out between Nvidia and Intel has AMD chuckling along from the sidelines. “One says the CPU is not important, the other says the GPU is not important. The beauty of AMD is that we provide a balance with a strong CPU and a strong GPU - the company best tailored to provided a balanced PC,” puffed Giuseppe Amato, AMD’s technical director of sales and marketing in EMEA. “We hope we see some gain from the fight these two are having together.” Amato was talking to the INQ from AMD's Dresden fab where he'd been outlining the firm's global channel strategy to partners and selected channel hackery.
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By Paul Hales: Thursday, 15 May 2008
THE WAR OF WORDS that broke out between Nvidia and Intel has AMD chuckling along from the sidelines. “One says the CPU is not important, the other says the GPU is not important. The beauty of AMD is that we provide a balance with a strong CPU and a strong GPU - the company best tailored to provided a balanced PC,” puffed Giuseppe Amato, AMD’s technical director of sales and marketing in EMEA. “We hope we see some gain from the fight these two are having together.” Amato was talking to the INQ from AMD's Dresden fab where he'd been outlining the firm's global channel strategy to partners and selected channel hackery.
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