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Intel's Core i7 goes on sale

new Core i7 processor went on sale yesterday, finally matching the lower power consumption and ability to handle multiple tasks offered by smaller competitor Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Intel is already one year ahead of AMD...

Intel Core i7 now available

The Core i7 45 nm quad core processor is available in three configurations. The "small" Core i7 920 costs from 285 euros. However, suitable boards and DDR3 SDRAM DIMMs make the Core i7 computer considerably more expensive than...

USB 3.0: Coming in '09

By David Meyer on 18 November 2008, 10:49am Unveiled on Monday by the USB Implementers Forum, the USB 3.0 spec can theoretically support data-transfer speeds of up to 4.8Gbps -- ten times the speed provided by USB 2.0. The new...

TSMC takes 40nm to volume

TSMC has moved its 40nm general purpose (G) and low power (LP) processes into volume production. Announced in March, the 40G process targets performance driven applications, whilst the 40LP process is aimed at low power...

Chips are down for Transmeta

Silicon Valley darling sold The low power chip company Transmeta has been sold to Novafora - the VC-backed "video processor" firm. Novafora is paying $255.6m(£169.8m), or between $18.70 and $19.00 a share, for the company. The...

Gainward Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample

Gainward has completley redesigned the Radeon HD 4870 1GB from the PCB up. It has built an overclocked dual slot, dual fan, dual BIOS card which even packs in a fantastically old school turbo switch! Read on to find out how it...

Transmeta sold to video-chipmaker Novafora

Transmeta, a company that once hoped to rival Intel and AMD to power portable computers, announced on Monday that it would sell itself to Novafora for $255.6m in cash. Novafora said it hopes to use Transmeta's people and...

InsideHW > CPUs - Shanghai CPU Presentation

Even though the launching of "Barcelona" (previous server processor from AMD) was in city Barcelona, Spain, "Shanghai" was launched in Berlin, Germany, and not on Far East (as we expected). Presentation opened Ian McNaughton...

£275 XO Laptop charity twinpack arrives in Europe

The charitable One Laptop Per Child organisation is attempting to create a Christmas rush with the European release of its XO Laptop. John Stokdyk reports. A dedicated sales site opened on Amazon.co.uk this week, offering two...

Overclockers Club > Graphics cards - MSI R4830 512MB

I was really impressed by the overclockability of MSI's 4830. In the end I was able to get a nearly 25% overclock on the RV770 core and a 20% overclock on the GDDR3 memory. The R4830 clocks in this review were initially...