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  • Taiwan earthquake may send LCD prices soaring

    TSMC and rival United Microelectronics make a wide range of chips, including mobile phone chips for Qualcomm and graphics chips for Nvidia and ATI. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Taiwan may affect the global technology industry by…
  • AMD Fusion to boast speed and power efficiency improvements

    The Core chips were made using the 32-nanometer manufacturing process.However, AMD was the first company to plan a chip that integrated the CPU and GPU on a single die when it announced the acquisition of ATI Technologies in 2006.
  • AMD aims to put graphics processors in servers

    AMD acquired graphics technology when it bought ATI Technologies in 2006.AMD designs both CPUs and GPUs, giving it a leg up over the world's leading chipmaker Intel, whose CPUs go into close to 80 percent of PCs worldwide.
  • Apple iPad spurs AT&T's 3G network upgrade

    Lindner said the iPad will be used a "substantial amount of time in a Wi-Fi environment" and promised that if that's not the case, "we'll adapt to it.Analysts have questioned whether users will rely on a 3G connection for streaming HD video to an…
  • Mesh launches world's first DirectX 11 laptop

    Mesh has launched what it claims is the world's first commercially available DirectX 11 (DX11) laptop.Powered by an Intel Core i7 720QM processor, the Windows 7-based Mesh Edge DX laptop includes an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and 1GB of graphics…
  • HP launches laptop with USB 3

    Thanks to speeds up to 5Gbps (compared to USB 2.0s 480Mbps), 1GB of data can now be transferred in just 3.3 seconds, compared to at least 33 seconds with USB 2.0.All USB 3.0 devices will be backwards compatible, meaning that theyll work with USB…

Latest Features

  • How to buy a new PC: The specs

    Variables such as power consumption, size, and the brand of your motherboard (which may limit which cards you can use) help determine which GPU is right for you.Gamers with deep pockets can opt for a multiple-graphics-card setup using either…
  • Intel Larrabee was a casualty of Intel's legal battles

    The FTC recently discussed Intel's predatory practices with Nvidia, and is exploring whether Intel's lawsuit against its former ally is merely an attempt to stifle competition disguised as a contract dispute.AMD, Intel's largest rival in the CPU…
  • Intel's new Core i7 and Core i5 processors explained

    Test Bed: Intel DP55KG Motherboard, 4GB DDR3 1333 RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics, 2x Seagate ST3750630AS hard disks (Raid 0), Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit Service Pack 2 So where does that leave the Core i7 870?
  • AMD buy-out of ATI: One year later, is it working?

    Worldwide lawsuits against Intel and four straight quarterly losses have distracted AMD during its integration of ATI Technologies, but the merger remains on track, according to industry analysts. Worldwide lawsuits against Intel and four straight…
  • VMware's Mendel Rosenblum speaks out

    We've been talking to AMD/ATI and nVidia, as well as Intel about it. VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum has aired his views on last month's Citrix-XenSource acquisition, on what features the CPU vendors should put in their products in support of…
  • 2006: The year in PCs and chips

    In April, Apple launches its Boot Camp software, enabling Intel-based Macs to run their choice of Apple's OS X or Microsoft's Windows XP.AMD announces ATI acquisitionAMD announces a plan in July to buy Canadian graphics chip vendor ATI
 

Reviews

  • DLR Vantage MM550GE review

    The 500GB Samsung hard drive offers a useful amount of storage.The graphics card is a cut above the standard £500-budget fare, a 1GB Vertex3D ATI Radeon HD 5750 that hit some high marks in our gaming tests.
  • CrossOver Linux 9 review

    It was running the Debian-based MEPIS 8 desktop Linux distribution.I also tried CrossOver 9 on an older Gateway 503GR with a 3-GHz Pentium 4 CPU, 2GB of RAM, an ATI Radeon 250 graphics card and a 300GB SATA drive.
  • Acer Aspire Z5610 review

    The new Acer Aspire Z5610 all-in-one PC scored 98 points in our WorldBench 6 real-world speed test (the original model scored 101).The US model we reviewed here doesn't offer great support for gaming - the all-in-one PC's integrated ATI Radeon HD…
  • Corel VideoStudio Pro X3 review

    It can also use your PC's graphics processor (GPU) to speed up a number of transition and special effects.This GPU support will work with most recent graphics processors, but the program has also been specifically optimised to work with nVidia…
  • MSI P55-GD80 review

    The MSI P55-GD80 board has four DDR3 RAM slots since the P55 chipset only supports dual-channel memory (triple-channel is an exclusive preserve of boards based on Intel's X58 chipset), and supports speeds upto 2133 MHz.MSI has also tried to go…
  • Dell Studio 15 review

    A 9-cell battery is an option which ought to break the five-hour barrier.Thanks to a true discrete ATI graphics card, the Dell Studio 15 was quite up to playing modern 3D games. The Dell Studio 15 is an affordable 15in-screen laptop, now available…
 
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