Intel unleashes quad-core Itanium 9300
Although the mass of both current and upcoming Nehalem-based Xeons might suggest otherwise, Intel still hasn't killed its Itanium processor lineآ—far from it. Just yesterday, the company introduced five Itanium 9300 processors based on the brand-new Tukwila architecture. Tukwila features four cores, eight threads, 24MB of L3 cache, Turbo Boost,...
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Nvidia brings Optimus switchable graphics to notebooks
Switchable graphics is the best way to squeeze decent gaming performance and great battery life from the same notebook, but it's never been able to deliver graphics power on demand seamlessly. Nvidia's Optimus switchable tech promises to do better, and we've tested a system to find out whether it...
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National Bagel Day Shortbread
National Bagel Day DealBook Blog reports 10th person in Galleon insider case pleads guilty Yahoo! News reports TPM cracked MacRumors: Current MacBook Pro models deleted from Best Buy's inventory system? Updates imminent? ...
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Radeon HD 5570 launches at $79-85
After outing the Radeon HD 5670 in January and the Radeon HD 5450 last week, AMD has now added a third sub-$100 graphics card to its DirectX 11 lineup. The new Radeon HD 5570 fits squarely between its two siblings with a $79-85 suggested price range, and it...
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Boy Scout Day Shortbread
Boy Scout Day The Register reports U.S. economy sheds 20,000 jobs in January Ars Technica reports Google's China problem leaves opening for Bing CDN: The enterprise opportunity that Apple doesn't want you to know about (thanks...
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Faster Athlon II X2s may arrive later this year
Penny pinchers may get another two dual-core Athlon IIs to choose from before the end of the summer. According to Fudzilla, AMD will roll out an Athlon II X2 260 next quarter and follow up with a faster X2 265 model the quarter after that. Both of those future processors...
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Apple chip designers leaving to form startup
Last month, the iPad became the first device to feature Apple's A4, a new applications processor designed in-house at the company by former PA Semiconductor staffers. According to a story by the New York Times, however, Apple may have already lost some of the talent that came up...
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