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 Acer Aspire One 721: Ultraportable or Netbook?If you've lusted after Acer's TimelineX 1830T ultraportable but don't have $700, you can get much the same experience from the company's $430 (as of 8/25/2010) Aspire One 721 netbook. The two units are outwardly identical, but the 721 substitutes a far cheaper AMD Athlon II Neo CPU for the (...) [Network World]  IBM's Million Dollar CPU Is the Fastest in the World At the Hot Chips 2010 conference, IBM announced their upcoming z196 CPU, which is really, really fast. How fast? Fastest chip in the world fast. Intended for Z-series mainframe computers, the Z196 has a clock speed of 5.2GHz. Measuring just 512 square millimeters, the Z196 is fabricated on 45nm (...) [OSNews] AMD Announces 8-Core Bulldozer CPU "You can't say that AMD is ever boring. The company says its next-generation Bulldozer CPU core will take a unique approach to computing that goes beyond Hyper-Threading, which some believe could offer phenomenal performance." [OSNews] AMD Sets New Mark in x86 Innovation with First Detailed Disclosures of Two New Core Designs Low-power 'Bobcat' and high-performance 'Bulldozer' pave the way to upcoming CPU and AMD Fusion APU designs - - HOT CHIPS, Palo Alto, Calif. - Today at HOT CHIPS 22, AMD (NYSE: AMD) will reveal new det... [WebWire Electronic components] AMD Sets New Mark in x86 Innovation with First Detailed Disclosures of Two New Core Designs Low-power 'Bobcat' and high-performance 'Bulldozer' pave the way to upcoming CPU and AMD Fusion APU designs - - HOT CHIPS, Palo Alto, Calif. - Today at HOT CHIPS 22, AMD (NYSE: AMD) will reveal new det... [WebWire Computer hardware] Ways to Share Spare CPU Cycles A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worthy cause. [Network World] CA Technologies Helps Customers Significantly Reduce Mainframe Costs with Innovative New Release of CA XCOM Data Transport Customer and Lab Tests Point to Cost Savings through Accelerated Performance and Dramatic Reduction in CPU Utilization - - ISLANDIA, N.Y. - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced a new release of... [WebWire High tech security] CA Technologies Helps Customers Significantly Reduce Mainframe Costs with Innovative New Release of CA XCOM Data Transport Customer and Lab Tests Point to Cost Savings through Accelerated Performance and Dramatic Reduction in CPU Utilization - - ISLANDIA, N.Y. - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced a new release of... [WebWire Internet technology] CA Technologies Helps Customers Significantly Reduce Mainframe Costs with Innovative New Release of CA XCOM Data Transport Customer and Lab Tests Point to Cost Savings through Accelerated Performance and Dramatic Reduction in CPU Utilization - - ISLANDIA, N.Y. - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced a new release of... [WebWire Computer networks] CA Technologies Helps Customers Significantly Reduce Mainframe Costs with Innovative New Release of CA XCOM Data Transport Customer and Lab Tests Point to Cost Savings through Accelerated Performance and Dramatic Reduction in CPU Utilization - - ISLANDIA, N.Y. - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced a new release of... [WebWire Computer software] Threads or Cores: Which Do You Need? Anyone contemplating a new computer purchase (for personal use or business) is confronted with new (and confusing) hardware choices. Intel and AMD have done their best to differentiate the x86 architecture as much as possible while retaining compatibility between the two CPUs, but the (...) [OSNews] Apple shifts to newest Intel CPUs in iMac refresh Apple today refreshed its iMac line for the first time since October 2009 by adopting Intel's Core i3, i5 and i7 processors across the board and abandoning NVidia's integrated graphics chipset for ATI-branded graphics processors. [Network World] Micro Express NBL60 Micro Express ships this lightweight, unassuming-looking, 15-inch laptop with a robust feature set and a moderate price. The $1199 unit boasts an Intel Core i7-620M high-end dual core CPU under the hood, switchable graphics, an 80GB Intel X25M solid-state drive, and 4GB of DDR3-1066 (...) [Network World] GPUs boost supercomputers' energy efficiency Supercomputers that mix CPUs with graphics processors made their mark on the Green500 list of top energy-efficient supercomputers released on Wednesday. [Network World] LLVMpipe Still Is Slow At Running OpenGL On The CPU The open-source Mesa/X.Org developers have been working on LLVMpipe, a Gallium3D driver that accelerates OpenGL and other state trackers on the CPU rather than any GPU driver to provide a better software rasterizer via LLVM optimizations. Unfortunately, it's still slow and can barely keep up (...) [OSNews] |
