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Should enter mass production soonQualcomm Snapdragon, NVIDIA Tegra 2 and Intel Atom are the main platforms expected to spawn tablet PCs and/or media slates this year. All compete against each other in terms of processing power, multimedia support and, most importantly, energy efficiency. On the other hand, the competition can be seen as going on between the ARM architecture, already in control of

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12.1-inch laptop with 4GB DDR3 and NVIDIA IONAmong the things that Intel's dual-core CPUs will enable are netbooks with screen sizes larger than 10.1 inches. This also means that making a mobile PC that blurs the lines between netbooks and notebooks will be much easier to accomplish. ASUS has just confirmed this by unveiling the existence of the Lamborghini VX6 mobile PC, a netbook-sized laptop

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Card takes up three expansion slotsWhen NVIDIA finally made the official introduction of its GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics adapters, it was revealed that, for all their assets and extreme performance capabilities, the adapters had two main drawbacks: their high power consumption and equally high operational temperatures. This meant that, while the cards themselves didn't really have any

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Offering a choice for both AMD and Intel-powered laptopsToday, Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard announced the expansion of its line of business-focused portable computer systems with the introduction of a series of new models. The new models start at just US$549, according to the leading PC manufacturer, providing users with a nice range of choices for different technical

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Promises increase of performance but lower power consumptionIntel continues its effort to increase its presence in the market for low-power computing processors, with the introduction of its latest Moorestown platform. Designed for tablets and smartphones, the new series of Atom CPUs will enable Intel to better compete with ARM, the company that's responsible for the majority of chips inside

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Based on System In Package technologyWith all the different sorts of USB-compatible flash drives, SSDs and HDDs that have been cropping up over the past few months, consumers might have been misled into thinking that there is little room for innovation in this area, at least in terms of design. ATP Electronics, however, seems ready to prove this assumption wrong, now that it has completed the

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No word on specs or pricesNot all that long ago, it was rumored that Dell was planning on eventually joining the upcoming tablet war, which can only mean that, by the time this year is over, there should be at least one slate bearing the company's logo on display in shops. Whatever form they take, it is quite likely that the newcomers will play on the areas where the iPad is lacking, namely

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USB 3.0 to be used in emerging device classesIt would appear that the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface has genuinely picked up some speed if the number of certified SuperSpeed products has increased by 25% in just one month. Back at the start of March, USB-IF (the USB Implementers Forum) came out and announced that 50 devices had passed its certification tests. Now, the Forum has once again stepped

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Capacities of up to 400GBWith solid state drives (SSDs) always getting faster, more reliable, more secure and more capacious, it is no surprise to hear of the launch of newer models. In fact, new SSDs are launched on a rather regular basis and practically all storage-solution developers and manufacturers have at least a small number of models on sale. As such, hearing of newcomers on this market

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Uses military-class components and the Twin Frozr II Thermal designNot long ago, Micro-Star International expanded its Lightning Series of graphics cards with the new, custom-made R5770 Hawk. Eager to further increase its range of high-end graphics adapters, the company has now revealed that it has completed yet another model in this series, namely the top-tier R5870 Lightning. Essentially an

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Factory overclockedOnce again, the time has come for Advanced Micro Devices to expand its DirectX 11 graphics-card offering. The Sunnyvale, California-based CPU and GPU maker has released the Radeon HD 5830 and, naturally, its partners have immediately followed suite with their own custom models. PowerColor, of course, did not tarry and, as such, has already unwrapped what it calls “the latest HD

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Lowest-performance Cypress-card on the marketSunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced today the launch of its latest graphics card, part of the outfit's Radeon HD 5800-series, namely the Radeon HD 5830. Designed to provide consumers with a high-performance 5000-series graphics card, the new GPU comes as scaled down version of the 5850, consequently becoming the

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With multiple tessellation unitsThere has been much anticipation surrounding the upcoming DirectX 11-capable cards from NVIDIA, but the products were delayed so many times that some end-users might actually no longer be surprised at hearing that the cards were delayed yet again. In a more surprising turn of events, however, one of these upcoming graphics adapters, namely the GeForce GTX 480, is

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Based on reflected infrared lightTwo men from the Penn State University seem to have built and tested a device capable of performing wireless transmissions based on reflected infrared light. This device was said to transmit data through the air at a speed six to 14 times faster than the most capable WiFi networks currently in existence. Not only that but the two inventors even state that their

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8MB of embedded DRAM per coreWhile Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are aggressively promoting their consumer-oriented central processors, IBM has decided not to pay heed to this segment overly much, investing, instead, more time and effort into its high-performance multi-core server solutions. Most recently, the company has completed the development of its Power7 eight-core server chips and has

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Will be similar to the company's N210Netbooks are still set to see a significant growth during 2010 and PC vendors are naturally keeping an eye on this market, seeing as how netbook sales were one of the main factors behind the more favorable general marketing performance of 2009, compared to 2008. One element that is expected to help keep interest in netbooks high is Google's Chrome OS. Recently

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Excellent for video, leaves room for improvement when gamingIntel recently launched the Clarkdale and Arrandale central processing units with integrated graphics, but most focus has been so far on their actual processing power than on their graphics capabilities. This can be seen as rather surprising, considering the fact that these integrated graphics were supposed to be one of the key elements

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Set to debut in Japan next weekFujitsu has already introduced a number of laptops based on Intel's Arrandale central processors, but it seems that the company will soon expand its lineup. The Japanese market will see the rise of two new FMV-LIFEBOOK family members, dubbed the FMV-A8390 and FMV-S8490. These mobile PCs will work on Core i3 or Core i5 CPUs and will be running Windows 7 Professional.

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DirectX 11 now available for notebooksSunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices, one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer processors and graphics processors, announced today the debut of its new line of ATI Mobility Radeon GPUs, bringing DirectX 11 support to mobile users. The chip maker revealed an entire lineup of new mobile GPUs, including the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800,

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Intel's roadmap reportedly made up of 45nm quad-core Nehalem and Lynnfield chipsEven though official releases or news of any kind is hard to come by during the holiday period, the rumor mill is still very much alive and kicking. Rumors have been going around concerning a variety of so-called possibilities. Details on the infamous Google Chrome netbook supposedly surfaced, the FCC leaked info on

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Upcoming IGP supposedly capable of running Sims 3, WoW and Battlefield Heroes among othersWhile most so-called new developments have consisted over the past week of little else besides unconfirmed rumors and reports from undisclosed sources, the Donanimhaber website seems to have gotten its hands on a rumor with a picture to back it up. The slide posted shows the supposedly targeted gaming

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Tests show no breakthroughs in speed but drastic improvements in the area of power consumptionJust a short while after they were officially introduced, Intel's Pine Trail platforms were benchmarked and evaluated by testers over at HotHardware and PCMag. The Pine Trail and Pineview were highly anticipated products, especially considering the high rise in popularity of mobile computers over the

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Orders will no longer be accepted for 50nm SSDs after April 20, 2010As it always happens when science develops, older technologies become obsolete and are replaced by newer, more refined versions or completely different technologies altogether. Such seems to be the case with first-generation Solid State storage, specifically Intel's SSDs introduced back in August 2008. Intel will no longer be

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The new format procedure increases sector size and improves ECC efficiency by 50%Western Digital drives have begun incorporating a new type of formatting technology, which will allow them to run faster, support larger capacities and improve overall storage capabilities by using a larger sector size, namely 4k. Such larger physical sectors will increase format efficiency and even that of storage

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Despite not-so-amiable NVIDIA-Intel relationship, the former doesn't ridicule the Larrabee projectNormally, when two companies aren't exactly on good terms, one would expect both parties to not miss any opportunity, no matter how small, to gloat over the other's so-called failures. Verily, the relationship between Intel and NVIDIA isn't exactly the highest level of friendship, with both of them

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