Entries for August 22nd, 2008

22 Aug
2008

Intel Exposes New Chip Design to Challenge AMD

Posted by Mike

Intel Corp. revealed the microarchitecture, a blueprint for its chip that the corporation as well as some analysts consider as the killer of its smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Many experts see the unveiling of the microarchitecture as an indication that Intel is indeed very well ahead of AMD. Intel regularly exposes new and advanced chip design every two years, analysts see this as the reason AMD’s stock price depreciated by 5 percent in technology shares. AMD’s losses amounted to $5 billion in the past 18 months.

Apart from the new blueprint, Intel has also plans of creating what it calls an integrated memory controller. This controller shall move information between the microprocessor and the computer straight into the processor itself – beaker information transferring speed records.

Experts see this as a great development as new and modern workstations need more speed; therefore any increase in communication speed is most welcomed.

According to Intel, their new structure will triple the speed at which data can be written to memory or read back. Dubbed as Nehalem, this would also double the 3-D rendering capabilities of previous chips, taking more advantage of the Intel’s core processor technology.

Intel will finish production of the four-core Nehalem chips by the end of 2008.

Source: AP Google

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22 Aug
2008

Cartoon of the Week

Posted by Ruel

How many times have Windows crashed on you? I bet it’s twice the digits of your favorite basketball player’s jersey number. While Microsoft futilely denies it, their operating systems are prone to seizures, leaving the user helpless and dumbfounded during attacks or glitches.

However, to its credit, Redmond is continuously trying to avoid painting your screen blue whenever its OS stumbles upon something that makes it cough. Patches are regularly issued, while malicious software removal tools are being shipped with the updates.

What Microsoft isn’t directly addressing, though, is its operating system’s inability to flush out the remains of outdated or deleted programs in the registry. The program’s ineptness to deal with the problem has caused it to sometimes carry bricks when the actual load should only be pebbles.

This is the reason why RegCure is essential. It fills in the holes left open by Microsoft. The fact that the registry is a very vital organ in your system makes a registry cleaner indispensable. With RegCure installed, you could ensure that the featured cartoon in this post remains funny.

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