Fancy a processor with 1 teraflop of processing power in your PC?  Intel have today unveiled their new Knight’s Corner chip that uses a 22nm build process to pack a huge 50 cores onto the die.  This new (MIC) Many Integrated Core chip isn’t for playing Battlefield 3, frankly it would be wasted on that.  [...]

Categories: Hardware

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the next version of Windows running on ARM processors at only 1GHz.  Many people have been sceptical, few more so than myself.  Rather than be a naysayer however I decided I’d find out if Windows really could run on processors with this little grunt so Microsoft kindly sent [...]

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Ranked as the no. 2 PC manufacturing company in the world, Acer Inc. has announced plans to produce an ultra book which will be a super light computer model. The plan is to launch this new product as early as the fourth quarter of 2011. This statement was made by the President of Acer Inc. [...]

Categories: Hardware, Notebooks

There have been two recent advancements in technology that will make it easier for manufacturers to put a lot more punch in smaller packages. Intel released news about a new 3d transistor technology, and Seagate announced breaking the 1 TB per platter hard drive barrier. Both of these announcements show the drive for companies to [...]

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When Intel first announced its new LightPeak device connection technology the sweaty masses got very excited indeed.  This replacement for USB would be based on fibre-optic technology and offer gigabits of data transfer speed far above what is currently on offer today, even through USB3. Then they dampened down everyone’s hopes a few months ago [...]

Categories: Apple

In a move that’s reminiscent of the famous Pentium floating point bug, Intel has issued a recall of all new Sandy Bridge PCs and laptops that run its latest generation of processor. The recall is to fix a problem with the Series 6 chipset, used in all Sandy Bridge systems.  The company says that  the [...]

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Intel, the world’s biggest manufacturer of computer processors has announced it’s to buy security technology firm McAfee for $7.68bn (£5bn) in cash the BBC reports.  The deal values the anti-virus firm at $48 per share, almost 60% higher than it’s closing share price yesterday. Intel says it will utilise McAfee to help it build security [...]

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I have a dual-core processor in my main PC, which is good, and will later this summer buy a new computer with a quad-core processor, which is better, but probably not something I would be able to take advantage of.  But what would I do if I had 50-cores in my processor?  Apart from pay [...]

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It is always a good idea to check the computer hardware thoroughly after it has been purchased. It does not really matter if a fully manufactured PC has been purchased or a single component like a processor or video card. A friend of mine for instance bought a new PC recently with a hard drive [...]

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