Components For Laptop

The quad-core chips that have sat at the top of the microprocessor heap for two years are about to begin to be replaced by their bigger, burlier older brother - the 6-core processor.
Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, Wednesday afternoon announced that the company is set to release [...]

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Nvidia has uncovered a problem with some older graphics chips that shipped in “significant quantities” of laptop PCs, the company said Wednesday.
Nvidia hasn’t determined the exact cause of the problem but said it relates to a packaging material used with some of its chips, as well as the thermal design of some laptops. Modern processors [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices Tuesday unveiled three new quad-core Phenom X4 processors, including a high-end Black Edition chip.
The 2.6GHz AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition processors are aimed at power users and gamers, according to a report from AMD. And the 2.0GHz AMD Phenom X4 9350e and 1.8GHz AMD Phenom X4 9150e processors also were released [...]

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Preempting Intel’s official launch of its latest Centrino 2 mobile processors, PC makers and chip resellers are leaking processor details by letting customers preorder the chip through channels and in laptops.
The Centrino 2 platform, codenamed Montevina, is an upgrade to Intel’s current Centrino platform and will include five Core 2 processors running at clock speeds [...]

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Imagine turning a movie into a game instantly, with the audience driving storytelling by defining the character. Advanced Micro Devices wants to make that possible in the future, with the company releasing new graphics chips that allow moviemakers and game developers to render three-dimensional images in real time.
AMD on Monday said it was releasing Radeon [...]

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Intel engineers first began toying with a low-power microprocessor almost a decade ago, but their initial design was rejected by the company’s top executives and the effort stalled soon after, an Intel executive said on Wednesday.
The initial concept behind Atom, Intel’s new family of low-power chips for mobile devices, had its genesis in a research [...]

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After watching the market’s giants move into its territory, Via Technologies Thursday began moving to push back against the likes of Intel and Advanced Micro Devices with five new processors.
On Thursday, the company launched the five single-core chips, which have been newly designed from the ground up. Unlike specialized processors from chip-maker rivals, the

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Advanced Micro Devices Wednesday announced that it plans to release a six-core chip next year and a 12-core chip in 2010.
Trying to pull itself out of its 2007 financial and PR slump, the chipmaker early this year released several chips and a key chip set. Now, AMD is laying out a road map for its [...]

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Intel on Friday confirmed it will ship quad-core chips designed specifically for notebooks, most likely for desktop replacement laptops, later this year.
The quad-core chips will be based on the Core 2 Duo microarchitecture and will ship in the third quarter, Intel officials said.
Intel declined comment on chip details, though enthusiast Web sites [...]

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Processors specially developed by Intel for Apple’s new MacBook Air laptop will soon be used by other PC vendors in systems, possibly creating competition for what Apple calls the world’s lightest and thinnest notebook.
Two PC makers will use the miniaturized Intel Core 2 Duo processors used by Apple in MacBook Air, said a source [...]

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