Processors Archive

  • AMD’s Vision: The chip race is finally over

    AMD’s Vision: The chip race is finally over

    Remember back in the day when you could go into a store and compare two clock speeds and come out with the right machine for you? Everything else was immaterial. Hard drives could be upgraded, memory could be added, but clock speed was the number you lived or died by. 1.8GHz was better than 1.5GHz [...]

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  • New AMD processor details leak

    New AMD processor details leak

    Oops! Looks like someone accident let some information out early. AMDs "Thuban" processors will be out next month, and there wasn't a whole lot of information out there until recently. Turns out that somebody talked. Well, at least someone's BIOS talked.

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  • VIA’s 3000-series Nano CPUs promise longer battery, increased performance

    VIA’s 3000-series Nano CPUs promise longer battery, increased performance

    VIA has introduced its updated line of Nano processors, built for netbooks and all-in-one computers. The 3000 series promises a 20% performance boost over existing Nano CPUs while managing to reduce overall power consumption by 20% as well.

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