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- HP's new 13" ProBook 4310s offers Core 2 Duo, discrete GPU; starts $799
- In addition to its diminutive mini netbook, HP on Wednesday also announced the 4.34-lb., 13.3-in. ProBook 4310s laptop for small and midsize businesses and mobile professionals. Given its professional audience, the ProBook 4310s has features to match: a full-size keyboard; glossy "noir" or...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mobile, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., GPU, Serial ATA, Chipsets, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Is SATA capped at 1.5Gbps on the 13" MacBook Pro
- For some, the pride of owning a brand new 13" MacBook Pro was shortlived as they discovered that the speed of their SATA hard drives are capped at 1.5Gbps, well below the expected 3.0Gbps. The difference between 1.5Gbps and 3.0Gbps makes little difference when you're dealing with...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Serial ATA, Chipsets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage, Semiconductors, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- AMD announces ATI Theater HD 750 "HDTV on a chip"
- Some owners of home theater PCs HTPCs want as much of the same experience as a typical cable user as possible, which means they need to install CableCards into their systems to access scrambled digital channels and the like. For those whose TV needs are less demanding, a PC with...
- Tags: HDTV, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Chipsets, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Lenovo IdeaPad S12 pushes netbooks in new directions; Intel, Microsoft push back
- The battle over the role of netbooks appears to be escalating. Computer makers, aided by Nvidia, are broadening the features and performance of netbooks--adding larger displays and more-capable graphics. The latest example is Lenovo, which just announced a 12-inch netbook--the first from a major computer maker with Nvidia's Ion platform....
- Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., NVidia Corp., Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Intel Corp., Ion, GeForce 9400M, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Chipsets, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- SiSoftware Sandra 2009.SP3c (Windows)
- SiSoftware Sandra is a 32- and 64-bit client/server Windows system analyzer that includes benchmarking, testing and listing modules. It tries to go beyond other utilities to show you more of what is really going on under the hood so you draw comparisons at both a high and low-level in a...
- Tags: Client-server, SiSoftware, SiSoftware Sandra, Microsoft Windows, Chipsets, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-05-18
- Intel Larrabee to have 32 cores, ship in 2010
- Intel has hinted to its plans for its multiple-core Larrabee graphics processor, showing a design that uses 32 processor cores and mates each to its "own vector math unit, allowing each core to process very specialized tasks very efficiently," according to Electronista. The news was revealed at...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Intel Larrabee, Chipsets, Leadership, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- CPUCool 8.0.9 (Windows)
- CPUCooL displays all units connected to an I2C bus. You can see the temperature, voltage, and fan values, and the values programmed in the E2PROM of the SDRAM. CPUCooL can also optimizes your Windows memory. This update adds some improvements and bug fixes. CPUCooL can change the speed of your...
- Tags: Podien, Chipsets, Microsoft Windows, Memory, Semiconductors, Operating Systems, Hardware, Components, Software
- Software downloads 2009-05-03
- IEEE 802.15.4 semiconductors to grow 79.6% by 2014
- The market for IEEE 802.15.4 semiconductors, in both consumer electronics and commercial markets, is set for significant growth over the next five years as the standard becomes the foundation for a host of applications and systems. That growth will see 802.15.4 chipset shipments grow from nearly 15 mln in 2008...
- Tags: IEEE, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, AM
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!
- Yesterday, OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte indicated that their next generation XO-2 will almost certainly eschew it's current x86-based design and move towards one that is based on the ARM, the most common embedded RISC architecture in the world. It's used in over a billion cell...
- Tags: RISC, Mobile, Intel X86, Mobile Computing, CPU, One Laptop Per Child Project, Chip, XO-2, Diamondville, Chipsets, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Semiconductors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- PowerStrip 3.85 (Windows)
- PowerStrip provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable ATI Mach 64 to the latest Matrox Parhelia-LX and Radeon 9800. It is in fact the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under...
- Tags: Video Card, Graphics, EnTech Taiwan, PowerStrip, Microsoft Windows, Video Cards, Microsoft Windows 95, Chipsets, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors
- Software downloads 2009-03-10
- P55 chipset Core i5 motherboard makes an appearance at CeBIT
- The eagle-eyed folks over at Hexus has spotted a Gigabyte GA-IBP at CeBIT. So what's so special about this board? It's a P55 chipset, socket LGA1156 motherboard for Intel's upcoming Core i5 processor. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Motherboard, CeBit, Intel Corp., Core, Chipsets, Corporate Governance, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- HP xw8600 Workstation Supplants Non-HP System
- Poor performance of the non-HP platform was wasting time, demoralizing editors and threatening deadlines. In the deliver-or-die TV industry - Magical Elves has developed or is currently producing shows for Bravo, NBC, CBS, ABC and HBO - poor equipment performance ultimately could have dulled the company's competitive edge. The HP...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Chipsets, Workstations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Dr. Hardware 2009 9.9.2e (Windows)
- Among the best hardware detection programs for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4 and 2000. It provides a detailed analysis of processor, BIOS, SDRAM modules, sensor chips, mainboard chipset, ASPI, EIDE and PCI devices; Windows specific stuff like in-depth-analysis of file and memory management, VCACHE statistics, system monitor; also provides benchmarks...
- Tags: Peter Gebhard, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 95, Chipsets, BIOS, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-02-21
- Intel asks court to settle Nvidia licensing dispute
- Intel and Nvidia will let a judge decide whether a four-year-old chipset licensing agreement between the two companies extends into new technologies, such as Intel's Nehalem microprocessors, which come with integrated memory controllers. Intel maintains that the agreements between the companies does not extend to those technologies...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Chipsets, Service Management, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- NVIDIA Tegra APX 2600 mobile chipset on Android revealed
- NVIDIA's Tegra APX 2600 chipset has made an appearance in the flesh at Mobile World Congress, and this time, it's running Google Android on a proof-of-concept unit, and on another, delivering 1080p video with 10 hours of battery life to boot, reports Engadget. Impressive stuff. ...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Mobile, NVidia Corp., Engadget, Chipsets, Keyboards, Semiconductors, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Google Android business plan starts to come together
- Critics forget Google started this effort from scratch 15 months ago. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Chipsets, Internet, Corporate Communications, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- ChrisTV Lite 5.30 (Windows)
- ChrisTV Lite is software which brings TV channels on your PC with high quality image and sound. It supports all TV cards based on BT8x8 chipset, Philips SAA713x chipset, Conexant CX2388x, also works with any capture device like Webcams and graphic cards with video in. This product gives great image...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Chris P.C., ChrisTV Lite, Chipsets, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2009-02-12
- CompassApp 1.1.1 (Mobile)
- Compass App is a free GPS-based compass application.It has been developed for the iPhone 3G as this has a GPS chipset built into the device.It may take a few seconds for the application to locate you. When it does, it will give you your Latitude and Longitude values, speed in...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Apple iTunes, Compass App, GPS, Digital Music, Digital Media, 3G, Chipsets, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-01-14
- Casio's small-and-speedy Exilim EX-FC100 and EX-FH20
- Using technology borrowed from Casio's high-speed-but-bulky EX-F1 and EX-FH20, the company popped out a sensor and chipset that packs a 30fps shooting mode into tiny, easier-to-use digital camera packages: the 9-megapixel EX-FC100 and EX-FS10. The higher-end FC100 has a 5x zoom lens and sensor-shift optical stabilizer; the much thinner...
- Tags: Digital Camera, Camera, Casio Inc., FC100, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Chipsets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-01-10
- Wi-Fi: the only network you need?
- CES, the showcase of all tech that is likely to make a splash over the next year, is upon us. While reserved primarily for, as the name implies, consumer technology, there are fundamental tools and technologies that will impact businesses as well.News coming out of Las Vegas today is around...
- Tags: Device, Network, Personal Area Network, Radio, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Chipsets, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Chris Silva
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
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