New Chip Gives Speed Boost to Ultraportable PCs
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A new chip from Via Technologies, which supplies processors to ultraportables from OQO, Samsung, Packard Bell and others, promises to double the performance of the super-small computers in which it's embedded.
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All-in-one machine at Intel confab bears resemblance to new Apple PC. Also: High-tech sandwich boards?
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With a maximum data throughput improvement of up to 33 percent between the CPU and system memory (compared with an 800 MHz system bus), the Extreme Edition&#39;s 1066 MHz bus can enable faster frame rates for both gaming and video editing.
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MIT researchers have developed a new ultralow-voltage chip that could improve the energy efficiency of low-power electronics tenfold.
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Processors will feature enhanced power management technology.
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Advanced Micro Devices plans to demonstrate its version of a new approach to processor design, with a chip that is expected to offer faster computing and relatively less power consumption.
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A new type of memory could soon be available to device makers.
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For decades, PC performance has jumped and prices have dropped, owing largely to the ability to squeeze increasing numbers of transistors into the computers&#39; silicon brains - but they can&#39;t shrink forever.
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Researchers have built a prototype of a 'desktop supercomputer' that runs 100 times faster than today's PCs.
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Memory chips are now the most popular type of RAM used in PCs.
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Blog: Averatec has introduced the new, 11.1-inch 1579 ultraportable.
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ATI HAS developed a new technology to allow system memory to be fully utilised by graphics boards, it said today. The extra bandwidth of the PCI Express bus means that shuttling data to and fro between the
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Toshiba revealed a new high-performance chip aimed at multimedia applications such as video processing in consumer devices.
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For decades, computer performance has been driven largely by the increasing numbers of ever-smaller transistors squeezed into the machines&#39; silicon brains.
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New line of flash memory cards will transfer data twice as fast as current cards.
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The new NAND chip design will increase throughput up to 5X
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The computing technologies to go beyond Moore's Law