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- Prescott
- The code name for the first Pentium 4 chip to use the 90 nanometer (0.09 micron) process technology. Introduced in early 2004 with clock speeds from 2.8 to 3.4...
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- Start-up develops tiny hot plate that burns like Venus
- Start-up develops tiny hot plate that burns like VenusGood, stick it under the seats of Microsoft Engineers.So when the next flaw comes out, it will take less time to fix it...Waaaaaait for it......... NOW!InHell already invented this and called it PRESCOTT !Nothing burns as hot as an InHell Prescott, nothing....
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Nothing, Prescott, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip
- Discussion threads 2004-07-02
- Cheaper Pentium Ms arrive
- Cheaper Pentium Ms arrivePentium MThe Pentium M is Intel's first good design since the P-III at, what was it, 450MHz? (And even that was only a slight modification of the P-Pro/P-II.)The amount of money they wasted on the Itanium and P4 designs (esp. the ones that were cancelled and...
- Tags: Processors, Intel Pentium M, Intel Pentium, Prescott
- Discussion threads 2004-06-23
- Factory flaws yield headaches for chipmakers
- Factory flaws yield headaches for chipmakersWelcome to OUTSOURCING - Problems galoreWelcome folks one and all to the world of outsourcing. Where the word quality is stamp out over cheap labor and 3rd world countries.The only ones who care are stock holders, as long they are making money who cares.Infineon Tech.Infineon...
- Tags: Semiconductors, manufacturing base, Intel Corp., Infineon Technologies AG, chip, outsourcing, Prescott, headach
- Discussion threads 2004-04-24
- Intel's latest P4 chip hard to get, PC makers say
- Intel's latest P4 chip hard to get, PC makers sayNorthwood is faster than PrescottPrescott is another marketing attempt by Intel for exaggerating the speed of their cpus.Insist on Northwood if you want to get a Pentium 4.http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/prescott-tests.htmlNo Demand for Prescott, and No supply either !Nobody with a clue would touch...
- Tags: Processors, Games, chip, Prescott, Northwood, Intel Corp., Intel Pentium 4, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Pentium
- Discussion threads 2004-04-12
- Prescott: It's the cash not the cache
- Prescott: It's the cash not the cacheGood storyI take back anything bad I ever said about about you Rupert. Keep it up.INTEL IS IN BIG TROUBLEIntel has fallen and can't get up. The fact that their 90 nano process is defective and causes execessive heat is confirmed with Prescott. The...
- Tags: Processors, 64-bit, CPU Speed, Intel Corp., Prescott, CPU
- Discussion threads 2004-02-03
- Intel cranks out new Pentium 4
- Intel cranks out new Pentium 4Intel P4 is very goodI like having a AMD chip at home, but in the Enterprise I prefer my workstation to have a P4. Intel builds a great processor and with Windows XP Pro it is a GREAT combination.Holy Pipelines Batman!31 stages? Good greif, 3/4...
- Tags: Processors, Network technology, Intel P4, Ace Hardware, Intel Corp., Prescott, Intel Pentium, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Pentium 4
- Discussion threads 2004-02-01
- Intel to delay next-generation mobile chip
- Intel to delay next-generation mobile chipMore Power"More Power" [bang fist] "Give Me 200Million Transistors With Hyperthreaded Application" [bang fist] "More Power, I Neeed More Power" [bang fist, bang fist ,bang fist ] Hmm that gets to be smarts after a while. -just talking.IS this a BAD Joke or what ???Not...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, mobile, mobile chip, Intel Corp., transistor, chip, More Power, Prescott
- Discussion threads 2004-01-14
- Intel's 'Prescott' chip to keep Pentium 4 name
- Intel's 'Prescott' chip to keep Pentium 4 nameNot so strange after all...."Intel's 'Prescott' chip to keep Pentium 4 name"I guess this new chip shows no big boost over the current P-4.If you see where I'm coming from it's safer to keep the name ongoing if the new chips pack no...
- Tags: Processors, Network technology, Prescott, Intel Corp., heatsink, Pentium 4 name, Intel Pentium 4, chip, Intel Pentium, RAM
- Discussion threads 2003-12-12
Additional Resources
- Local market prepared for digital TV transition
- New York is the local television market most ready for digital TV transition, with just 3.5% unready television sets. Portland, OR is the least prepared local market, with 22.4% of all households using only analog sets and over-the-air television Market % of Over the Air Only...
- Tags: Network Computer, Digital Television, Computer Associates International Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Thin Clients, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, NB
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Robotic rats will get a sense of touch
- An international team composed of robot designers and brain researchers is looking at nature to develop a new generation of robots with active touch sensing abilities. The BIOTACT ('Biomimetic technology for vibrissal active touch') project is developing whiskered robot rats which might help in rescue or search missions under conditions...
- Tags: Researcher, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Bias and Kanter's Intel CSI analysis
- Early last week a guy named David Kanter at Real World Technologies released a careful analyis of Intel's planned common systems interconnect CSI and its associated integrated memory controller IMC technology. One of the earliest comments on this came from zdnet's own George Ou who provided a quick...
- Tags: P6, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Analysis, Intel Corp., David Kanter, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-09-09
- Exploits, security tools disappear as German anti-hacker law takes effect
- Exploits, security tools disappear as German anti-hacker law takes effectWell, if you could prove that......hacking is another form of bearing arms, you might get their attention. Then again, I think the NRA General Council would rather be out target-shooting, duck hunting or selling guns anyways.NRA should be all over this...After...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, tool, hacking, security tool
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- iPhonomics and the post-PC era
- iPhonomics and the post-PC eraOh I See...It's not even June 29 and we have an 'economy' brewing here.iphonomics? Come on.The iPhone and anything sprouting up around it will be only a small 'niche' market compared with its competition.But feel free to buy into it!Moore’s Law? Where is my 30GHz...
- Tags: Engineering, Semiconductors, Handhelds, Processors, Gilmore, Apple iPhone, post-PC, Gordon Moore, battery
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- Google Gmail: Hot, hip or third place player?
- Hitwise is aptly named: It creates Internet hits, courtesy of its “Hitwise Intelligence Analyst Weblogs”! The blog of LeeAnn Prescott, Research Director at Hitwise, solicits prospective clients to use its: “competitive insights to maximize online marketing programs.” Prescott’s latest “competitive insights” posted at her blog concern Gmail, asserting:Users...
- Tags: E-mail providers, INTERNET, Google Inc., Hitwise, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-13
- Gmail users are young, hip, richer
- Google Gmail is a magnet for the young, rich and hip, according to Hitwise. Hitwise analyst LeeAnn Prescott writes in a post that Gmail users are a different breed from the Hotmail and Yahoo Mail folks. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail users...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, MSN Hotmail, Gmail Users, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Google's YouTube, Viacom: Better off divorced!
- The Google-YouTube-Viacom $1 billion copyright infringement tussle is sounding more and more like the prelude to a divorce settlement!I dissect Google in-house counsel Michael Kwun’s “he-said, she-said” legal “defense” preview in “YouTube: Why Google is running scared” AND provide my claim by claim counter argument to him for why his...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, TV, Television, ROI, Profits, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Choosing between Vista x86 32 bit or x64 64 bit
- Choosing between Vista x86 32 bit or x64 64 bitThe benefit will come."For home users, there's no real benefit of x64. Period."It will come. Software is always getting bigger as hardware advances, and we'll hit that 4 GB barrier sooner than you think. Already with Vista 1 GB is becoming...
- Tags: Network technology, PCI, Novell OpenSuse, X64, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-03-07
- A Vista primer for the consumer
- A Vista primer for the consumerYou forgot the spinYou may not get too many comments simply because there is little to argue with in what you presented. An umbrella view for the common Joe looking to take the Vista splash.Example: [i]a brand-new system with a 3.33MHz Intel Celeron D processor...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Processors, Vector Linux, Celeron D, laptop computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, special knowledge, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- Wikipedia now a top site, thanks to Google
- Despite university bans and limitations on its use, Wikipedia has scored in the top 10 rankings of hot Internet properties for this month, reports Tech News World. With 42.9 million unique visitors, Wikipedia earned ninth place ranking on comScores traffic watchers list of top 50 properties for the month....
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- 768 cores ought to be enough for anybody
- 768 cores ought to be enough for anybodyHOW DOES A CPU CORE WORK?Could somebody please explain how this CPU Core stuff works?How does this system exactly relate to software functioning?Software is assembly and assembly runs on its own.They're using the word "Code" in this article.If it's "Code" I run away.One...
- Tags: Processors, CPU
- Discussion threads 2007-02-14
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