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The race to fast boot times is on, with MontaVista making the latest headlines. The embedded Linux vendor announced in the United States Tuesday its latest system is able to boot in one second, and released a video demonstrating a vehicle dashboard system going from cold boot into a “fully operational” state in that time.
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 The rumors may be getting closer to the truth, or vice versa, as a report surfaced from Taiwan today that Apple plans to releases its much discussed tablet computer this October. Guesstimated pricing: $800.
The Taiwanese site InfoTimes reports (in Chinese) that the device will have a 9.7-inch touchscreen, making it a tad smaller than most […]

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Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition and Athlon II X2 250 target the mainstream

AMD’s Athlon II CPU die
Intel and AMD have both been touting their capabilities in the multi-core race. Each semiconductor company has been showing four core, six core, and even eight core CPUs in their bids to impress the buying public. Decreased manufacturing costs […]

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Smaller transistors mean lower prices are coming
Samsung Electronics has announced that it is shipping its 32GB moviNAND embedded memory card, built using a 30nm-class NAND manufacturing process. High density embedded memory cards are used to improve the performance of high-end multimedia phones and other mobile consumer electronics, especially when processing and storing large amounts of multimedia […]

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While there’s no doubt that Intel’s Core i7 CPUs lead the field when it comes to performance, that power comes at a price. Performance enthusiasts on a budget have been patiently waiting for the cheaper Nehalem derivative Core i5 pieces to be officially announced.
The Core i5 (codenamed Lynnfield) is basically a Core i7 part with […]

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Medfield will feature memory controller, graphics, and I/O on single die
A new roadmap has cropped up that shows the future of Intel’s Atom processors that power the majority of netbook computers on the market today. The Atom has proven to be very successful for Intel and future versions will offer even more power and performance.
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It seems like mainstream multicore CPUs are going their own way this time. An increasing number of cores in today’s CPUs leads to a decreasing performance in supercomputers. The major obstacle is not a brick wall, rather it is what engineers call - memory wall.
1. Memory speeds aren’t keeping up with CPU speeds.
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According to Erricson’s chief technology officer, John Cunliffe, mobile broadband could hit an unimaginably high speed of 42 Mbps by early next year. The current highest bandwidth in Singapore is 7.2 Mbps on a HSDPA network (Starhub, Singtel & M1).
The increase in speed is achieved by having better better antenna design and coding. Quoted from […]

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AMD processors launching starting in January 2009 through June 2009 unveiled
AMD is placing its hopes of regaining market share lost to Intel on its new line of processors set for launch next year. AMD is planning to launch a lot of processors, 14 of them to be exact according to the latest roadmap uncovered.
HKEPC says […]

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Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company that has released a list of the most remarkable cases of data loss witnessed this year. One customer left a banana on top of his hard drive, […]

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