 Samsung Develops 7-inch WVGA, Single-Chip LCD for Mobile Devices May 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the industry's first amorphous silicon (a-Si) seven-inch, single-chip TFT-LCD panel that reproduces colors in high resolution (WVGA-level, 800×480 pixels). | |
 Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors February 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 63 vote(s)
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Intel has just announced the first microchip that contains more than two billion transistors - tiny switches that together perform the calculations in computers. The chip, known as Tukwila, marks a milestone ... | |
 AMD Introduces Cutting-Edge PC Platform November 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Rewriting the rules for enthusiast computing, AMD today unveiled its new platform codenamed “Spider”, with the first true quad-core processor supporting scalable graphics for The Ultimate Visual Experience. ... | |
 Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to ... | |
 Alienware's Giant Curved Monitor a Gamer's Delight January 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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One of the more intriguing technologies at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held this week is a 42-inch-long, curved monitor. Made by Alienware, the monitor is supposed to simulate peripheral vision. ... | |
 No Power Use in Standby: New Zero-Watt Monitor April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Computer monitors in standby mode will soon save far more energy. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed the world’s first monitor that requires no electricity at all in idle mode. | |
 AMD Launches 780 Chipset March 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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AMD is announcing the availability of the AMD 780G chipset, designed to deliver the ultimate mainstream computing experience. | |
Intel Delivers 'Hard-Core' Eight-Core Platform for PC Performance Aficionados February 19, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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For those who crave more performance than what four processing cores and a single graphics card can deliver today, Intel Corporation has introduced the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. Formerly codenamed "Skulltrail," ... | |
Hitachi Achieves Nanotechnology Milestone for Quadrupling Terabyte Hard Drive October 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced today they have developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive ... | |
 NVIDIA Reveals First Next-Generation GeForce 9 Series GPU February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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NVIDIA Corporation has unveiled the first graphics processing unit (GPU) of its next-generation GeForce 9 Series that may offer the largest single-generation performance jump in the Company’s history. Introduced ... | |
 AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier June 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD today introduced its next-generation stream processor, the AMD FireStream 9250, specifically designed to accelerate critical algorithms in high-performance ... | |
1 million trillion 'flops' per second targeted by new Institute for Advanced Architectures February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Preparing groundwork for an exascale computer is the mission of the new Institute for Advanced Architectures, launched jointly at Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories. | |
 Epson Develops Long-life OLED Display System Capable of Reproducing 'the Ultimate Black' October 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Seiko Epson Corp. has developed an organic light-emitting diode ("OLED") display system capable of producing "the ultimate black." Having resolved the problem of achieving long life for the device, a longstanding ... | |
 Sony Unveils 4x Blu-Ray Disc Writer Drive October 09, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Sony Electronics today announced its second generation internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) writer drive for the computer aftermarket, which boasts 4X BD-R and 16X DVD+R recording speeds. | |
 New PCs can wake up when they get phone calls August 14, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Intel Corp. is unveiling new technology that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet. | |
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