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A federal judge has dismissed part of AMD's suit against Intel on the basis that it does not meet the anticompetative claims made. In June of 2005 AMD filed a 48 page complaint against Intel alleging the company was engaging in monopolistic behavior by forcing companies (38...
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In a rather stark claim, Analog Devices and Creative labs state that Realtek's high definition audio solutions do not render proper EAX and EAX2 effects correctly and in some cases not at all. Realtek audio solutions are quite popular among OEM motherbboard vendors as they provide low cost...
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Over the course of the last few days, we have seen an impressive amount of exciting news come out of the latest Intel Develop Forum. Such hot topics such as Quad-Core CPU's and CPU-based physics in games have been the talk of the town as of late. For those who have not yet armed themselves with the appropriate information to hold their...
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Did you know your cellphone is anonymously snitching on your location all the time by scanning for signals from the nearest cell tower, whether you're using it or not? Well, IntelliOne Technologies has a way to put that to some use. They've developed a system to allow traffic to be mapped by plotting cellphone locations in real...
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My goodness, your desktop is dirty. According to a recent study done at the University of Arizona, the average desktop has more bacteria on it than the average toilet seat. And fewer interesting things to read, I might add. I don't even want to think about the mouse at the public library's computer. To help with this problem, IOGEAR...
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AMD Opens New North American Chip Design Center SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Sep. 28, 2006 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the opening of an advanced microprocessor development facility in Fort Collins, CO. Dubbed the "Mile High Design Center" (MHDC), the facility is the latest in...
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Anandtech has posted an interesting bit of news from IDF regarding the highly anticipated upcoming title Alan Wake and its apparent need for a dual-core CPU or better. Used as a demonstration to showcase the power of Intel's new quad-core CPU's, the exceptionally detailed game was actually running no less than five independent threads....
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ATI leads the way with industry's first graphics hardware certified for Windows VistaTM MARKHAM, ONTARIO, Sep 26, 2006 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX News Network) -- Underlining the company's leadership in developing hardware and drivers to support Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista...
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Paul Otellini, Intel's president and CEO, kicked off this season's IDF by coining the phrase "It's what's inside that counts", and spoke about why processing power matters again. A few years ago, he noted, PC Magazine declared that consumers...
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Today Google has presented a paper at the Intel Developer Forum, requesting the industry create a more efficient power supply. Today's current brand of PSUs convert high-voltage alternating current to low-voltage direct current, and Google is looking to change that by using a single 12-volt standard....
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While we've posted links to various factory tours in the past, Firingsquad has a unique video tour of the insides of one of Gigabyte's factories. Click here to see the 2:11 minute video of Gigabyte, Taiwan. "Back in June we were invited to tour one of Gigabytes top factories. If you've...
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Intel, DIRECTV Poised to Connect PCs and TVs in U.S. INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 26, 2006 - Intel Corporation and DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading satellite television service provider, today unveiled details around the world's first digital set-top box with integrated...
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Intel To Pay Up To $1 Million Bounty For Sexy, Small, Stylish PCs INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 26, 2006 - Intel Corporation is challenging PC designers and manufacturers to think sexy, stylish and small as they design...
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Intel has pledged to have a CPU with 80 cores on it within 5 years and has a prototype to prove it. Intel showed off the CPU wafer at IDF which contains 80 teraflop chips which reportedly can process 1 trillion floating point operations per second. Now Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that can fit on a...
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The hunt for a safe and secure browser has long been the focus of computer users due to the rapid increase in cyber crime. Due to its popularity, Internet Explorer long became the focus of attacks. This gave rise to alternate browsers such as Opera and Firefox. These alternate browsers rapidly increased...
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DigiTimes reports that AMD is preparing to launch no less than 3 new Athlon 64 FX processors in November to combat the launch of Intel's new QX6700 processor. As part of the company's upcoming "4x4" platform which will consist of two dual-core processors being placed on a motherboard, these new products will be competing...
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We all know Al Gore invented the internet. Did you know Bush invented Google? Search Marketing Info has a fascinating history of search engines, chockablock full of useful information about both their history and the nuts and bolts of how they work. And according to them, back in 1945, Bush came up with the idea of a searchable database, and...
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You wouldn't be reading this if you weren't bright. Dopes don't generally take the back off the CPU and monkey around in there. But how much nerve do you have? Are you brave enough to forget about getting any kind of credentials from one of the greatest Institutes Of Higher Learning on the planet if they give you the education...
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Some of you we're aware have issues with audible instruction and are much more-so the visual learning type. If you fall into this camp and have previously struggled with something as simple as an airline safety announcement before take-off, have no fear. Chris P is at the ready...
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In a time where job layoffs in the tech industry make the headlines, it's always good to see a company adding to its workforce. Dell will be looking to hire new software and mechanical engineers, as well as program managers, for its Texas building. "Michael Dell declined to comment on last week's announcement that the company had received...
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Grand Theft Auto, the highly popular and controversial game from Rockstar Games, is continuing to take the heat in a high-profile murder trial. Codey Posey has been convicted of killing his father, stepmother, and stepsister, after claiming years of abuse. However, various attorney's, including famous antigame activist Jack Thompson,...
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ATI Delivers 'Ready for Vista' Multimedia Performance and Productivity with New Mobility Radeon(R) graphics processors for Notebook PCs MARKHAM, ONTARIO, Sep 25, 2006 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX News Network) -- ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) has developed a family of...
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