Hardware

October 20, 2003

Japanese electronics leader NEC and mobile microprocessor mainstay ARM have announced a long-term collaboration initiative toward new multiprocessor-based cores for mobile devices and other multimedia applications. NEC and Britain-based ARM said they will codevelop and comarket the next-generation multiprocessing core based on technology from both companies. Also, though they did not indicate when they will begin shipping the new CP...

The Ongoing Struggle for Graphics Supremacy

October 16, 2003

Graphics technology leaders ATI and Nvidia have been rolling out new innovations at a steady pace in the past several years, competing for desktop partnerships and mind share. The two companies have often been compared to Intel and AMD in the way they've battled furiously, but ATI and Nvidia don't h...

Analysts: Notebooks Warm Up PC Sales

October 16, 2003

Fueled by continued demand for notebook computers as well as consumer and corporate spending, worldwide PC sales in the third quarter of 2003 grew nearly 16 percent from last year, about 5 percent above projections, research firm IDC said. The IDC report, reinforced by similar Gartner findings of 14...

AMD Beats Apple's G5 and Intel's P4

October 15, 2003

Recent high-end performance tests show AMD's 64-bit Athlon and dual Opteron processors beating Apple's G5 and Intel's Pentium 4, but analysts have downplayed the results, citing lack of available 64-bit applications in addition to market timing. While Apple has claimed its Power Mac G5 is the world'...

Dell Introduces Wireless Axim X3

October 15, 2003

Dell has expanded its handheld product offerings by introducing the three-member Axim X3 family, consisting of slim and compact PDAs that include the Axim X3i, a $379 PDA with integrated wireless capability. At 5 ounces, the Axim X3 is 28 percent lighter than its predecessor and, at a half inch thic...

Transmeta Takes New Efficeon Processor To Market

October 15, 2003

Furthering its unique technology that uses on-chip software to economize processor energy, Transmeta has introduced the Efficeon TM8000 family of chips, which the company hopes will broaden its markets. The new Efficeon TM8000, announced at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California, builds on...

Sun Unveils UltraSPARC IV Processor

October 13, 2003

In a bid to keep up with rivals Intel and IBM, Sun has revealed more of its "Throughput Computing" strategy by unveiling the new UltraSPARC IV processor that uses multithreading to speed performance twofold compared with the UltraSPARC III. Sun said the UltraSPARC IV will begin shipping in systems d...

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