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Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?

Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Where's Sarah Connor?Will it change its shape to an LA policeman and chase me in a tractor trailer truck?Mercury?It's the only metal I know of that is liquid at room temperature.RE: Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Reminds me of liquid-sodium-cooled nuclear...

Tags: liquid metal-cooled CPU, metal-cooled CPU, water-cooled system, Liquid metal-cooled CPU, CPU, Galinstan, Mercury, PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?

UK-based Bios Magazine is reporting that the world's first commercially available liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship -- and that Danish company Danamics says that its LM-10 outperforms standard air-cooled heatsinks and most watercooled systems with a power draw of just 1W: The liquid metal is a...

Tags: Metal, CPU, Liquid Metal-cooled CPU, Liquid Metal, BIOS, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-21

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Can Moore's Law last another 40 years?

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Moore's Law to last 40 more years?

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...

Tags: Performance, CMOS, Intel Corp., Moore, Nanotechnology, Memory, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Intel, carbon nanotubes, Moore's Law

Videos 2008-08-21

About Atom: Intel's big plans for its little chip

One of the bolder goals Intel set at IDF this week is that within a decade it wants ship 1 billion Intel-based mobile computing devices each year. That's a big bet when you consider Intel estimates there will be a total of 163 million notebooks shipped this year. ...

Tags: Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Menlow, Moorestown, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Photos: The ultramobiles of IDF

Here's a peek at a dozen or so ultramobile computers powered by Intel's new Atom CPU and on display this week at the company's developer forum. by CNET News.com

Tags: Peek, Photograph, Productivity, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-08-20

Nanospheres moving faster than light?

In recent years, I don't think I've spent a month without a report about a new way to exceed the speed of light. Yesterday, University of Pennsylvania researchers announced a theoretical way to increase the speed of pulses of light which could bring optical computing closer to reality. The scientists...

Tags: Team, Bandwidth, Researcher, University Of Pennsylvania, Theory, Nanoparticle, Particle, Penn, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-20

The news on Intel's Nehalem; chips with integrated GPUs up next

Intel has given new details of what it calls the biggest change in its processor platform in a decade. The new information on Nehalem, discussed in keynotes and presentations at the Intel Developer Forum this week, was expected. Nehalem isn't a single product, but a family of...

Tags: Core, Intel Corp., Chip, GPU, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-20

My Windows 7 wish list

My Windows 7 wish listPut more muscle in thereWhen you pay 100+ bucks, you'd expect it's loaded with more than just Notepad or Paint. Those two haven't had much major upgrade since Windows 3.0. If you want some themes, you shouldn't have to pay another 40 or so to get...

Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Dell Inspiron 910 customers can choose between XP and Ubuntu

Dell Inspiron 910 customers can choose between XP and UbuntuIt's also interesting that......[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9112885]A third of new PCs are being downgraded from Vista to XP[/url].Why do you suppose that is? ;)At this price point, I just might buy my first small computer. Though, Imight wait for them to offer a little...

Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Notebooks, Ubuntu, Dell Inspiron 910, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Inspiron, Dell Inspiron 910 customer, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Tom Bihn announces first "Checkpoint Friendly" bag (updated)

On Friday 16 August 2008 the U.S. Transportation Security Administration TSA launched their new "checkpoint-friendly" bag policy. The policy allows notebook computers in "checkpoint-friendly" bags to remain in their case while being scanned, sort of. In order to qualify under the program the bag must have a...

Tags: Tom Bihn, Checkpoint Flyer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-19

SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus (4GB)

The 4GB SanDisk Cruzer Titanium ($50) is a new kind of flash drive that offers an automated online backup each time it's attached to a computer with an Internet connection. This model looks almost exactly the same as the original Sandisk Cruzer Titanium, but this one lets you perform automatic...

Tags: Backups, Flash memory, Microsoft Windows, Cruzer Titanium, SanDisk Cruzer, BeInSync, SanDisk Corp., backup, software

Product reviews 2008-08-18

HP Pavilion Elite m9300t

At its core, our $1,100 HP Pavilion Elite m9300t review unit is a reasonably priced example of HP's midrange desktop. It gives you about $900 worth of basic computer, and an extra $200 in home theater-style extras. The good news is that this system is configurable, so if, like us,...

Tags: Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, Network technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, HP Pavilion Elite

Product reviews 2008-08-18

More info on USB 3.0 emerges

More info on USB 3.0 emerges4.8Gbps Huh?Not too shabby, now only if I can think of a consumer computer peripheral that can utilize that speed. With the other bottle necks in data storage devices such as hard drives I think there is a need to improve those data...

Tags: NOW IT, USB, USB 3.0, More Info

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

IBM: The mainframe is back

IBM: The mainframe is backMainframe decision makers...As long as IT departments are headed by baby boomers who are in bed with IBM, the z series will continue to exist and propogate. There are a number of old systems (re: COBOL) that still meet the business needs, and will continue...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe

Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe.....So what, you lost some electronics and doo dads. You and your's are alive, that's what is important. The electronics can be replaced, repaired and data recovered from back-ups I know you have them. The fact that you consider losing your electronics harmful is...

Tags: Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, security system, lightning strike, electronics, strike

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Apple acknowldges reception problem in iPhone 3G

Apple acknowldges reception problem in iPhone 3GWhy only 2%If there is a problem with the phone, why would it only affect 2%. It seems that if it were a hardware, software, or service problem, it would affect all iphones or all iphones in specific areas and not sporadically in certain...

Tags: Cellular phones, hummm, Apple iPhone, reception problem, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Apple Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Don't downgrade me to XP!

Don't downgrade me to XP!except thatVista won't with our printers, or our scanners, or our cameras, or much of our vital s/w.It isn't logical to buy all new and then have vista be slower than tar on a winters day on the machines it's put on.Don't downgrade me to XP:...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attackIt will take more then empty ....... rhetoric to give them back the title. Even if Intel is copying them it is little solice considering Intel's manufacturing lead.liars.Intel had IMC first in Timna before AMD had it in any of their chips....

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., big show, intel

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Sanyo Katana Eclipse - silver (Sprint)

The Katana series of phones have changed quite a bit since the original Katana, which was nothing more than a Razr clone with its slim and wide style. Two years and a couple of Katana models later, it appears that Sanyo has decided to go in a very different design...

Tags: Media players, Engineering, Digital music, Digital media, Sprint Communications, Sanyo Katana, Sanyo Electric Co., Sanyo Katana Eclipse, music player, LED indicator, display

Product reviews 2008-08-17