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17th July 2006 Archive

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  • AMD reverse multi-threading tech 'does not exist'

    Someone misunderstood virtualisation?

    AMD is not working on technology to allow a multi-core processor to emulate a single-core chip, it has been claimed by reports citing sources close to the company. The claims contradict alternative allegations that maintain the chip company has been working on just such as system. Source cited by Xbit Labs and another by …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jul 2006, 09:25

  • Intel to add 3G connectivity to next-gen Centrino?

    Turbulent Windigo

    The next generation of Intel's Centrino platform, codenamed 'Santa Rosa', may well include 3G mobile phone network connectivity as well as the standard Wi-Fi, if allegedly leaked company roadmaps are to be believed. According to a posting on Chinese-language site HKEPC, the Santa Rosa specification includes 'Windigo', the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jul 2006, 09:56

  • BlueTrek Serenity

    Review Never forget your mobile again, apparently

    Always forgetting your keys, or leaving your phone behind? BlueTrek's Serenity claims to be able to help, not through a programme of concentration-enhancing exercises, or by stapling the offending keys to the back of your hand, but through the application of wireless technology... The Serenity consists of three boxes about …

    Networking and Wireless 17 Jul 2006, 10:26

  • Intel plans 3 September Celeron M update

    Core Duo LV, ULV lines to be tweaked too

    Intel will extend its Celeron M low-cost mobile processor line-up on 3 September - the day that will see the debut of the anticipated low-voltage Core Duo L2500. The new arrivals will push down the prices of existing models. The new Celeron Ms are the 440 and 450, clocked at 1.86GHz and 2GHz, respectively. The 65nm single- …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jul 2006, 10:30

  • HP reveals tiny, tiny wireless chip

    A recipe for silicon risotto

    Some of HP’s biggest brains have created what the company claims is the world’s tiniest wireless data chip. The vendor’s Memory Spot technology, developed at its labs in Bristol, currently squeezes 256Kb to 4Mb of memory and an antenna into a device between 2mm and 4mm square. Or, as HP phrases it for those of us only able to …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jul 2006, 10:48

  • Intel 'Merom' due 23 July?

    Mobile Core 2 Duo prices leak out too

    Intel's pricing plan for 'Merom', its next-generation architecture mobile Core 2 Duo processor, has leaked out ahead of the chip family's debut - now apparently scheduled for 23 July. According to a Week 28 roadmap update slide posted by Chinese-language site HKEPC, the two 2MB L2 Core 2 Duos - the T5500 and T5600 - will cost …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jul 2006, 11:08

  • Orange reveals upcoming smart phones

    SPV trio plus Samsung's i320

    Orange's upcoming smart phones got an airing this weekend, revealing the carrier will be bringing Samsung's QWERTY keyboard-equipped, 3G-connected Windows Mobile 5.0 device, the i320, on board. Joining the i320 will be the SPV C100, a quad-band candybar phone, again running Windows Mobile 5.0 with push email support. It's …

    Phones 17 Jul 2006, 13:02

  • How to fry an egg... on an Apple MacBook

    MacBook -> CookBook?

    Now we know why Apple's notebooks run hot - the company wants you to own a computer you can cook your breakfast on. Well, maybe not, but hasn't stopped one enterprising user claiming to have done so. He's even gone as far as to put the laptop's AC adaptor into service as a coffee warmer. He's even got a movie apparently …

    Mac 17 Jul 2006, 13:23

  • Intel 'Tulsa' 65nm Xeon MPs to ship 27 August?

    Conroe-based Xeon 3000s coming a month later

    Intel appears set to introduce a new line of dual-core Xeon MP server chips on 27 August, bringing the family into the 65nm era and once again equipping its top-of-the-line x86 server chips with L3 cache. The new line-up is currently best known by its codename, 'Tulsa', but it will ship as the Xeon MP 7100 series. Unlike, the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jul 2006, 13:55

  • Dell, Acer tout 802.11n wireless laptops

    Will they be compatible?

    Dell and Acer both announced today notebook-oriented add-in cards equipped with a pre-standard version of the 802.11n next-generation Wi-Fi specification. The company's cards provide data transfer rates of up to 270Mbps and 300Mbps, the two firms claimed respectively. Dell's Wireless 1500 is available now for all XPS and …

    PCs 17 Jul 2006, 15:32

  • AMD's Geode exiles float to new Fort Collins center

    Making chips in US's top city

    There's a new game sweeping through AMD's engineering ranks called the "Colorado Shuffle." The company has revealed plans to relocate about 75 of the workers affected by the closure of its Longmont office to a new design center in Fort Collins. Ultimately, the Fort Collins outpost will employ more than 200 people. AMD's …

    Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jul 2006, 23:22