Tag: PROCESSOR

In August of 2010, Intel announced it was purchasing McAfee for a cool $7.7 billion in cash. The deal had been held up by U.S. and EU regulators ever since, but the transaction has finally been given the all-clear. The two companies plan to develop security solutions which more tightly integrate hardware and software, a move both claim is imperative in today's rapidly evolving threat ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/01/20/china-plans-home-brew-champion-supercomputer/'; For the second time in just three years, China is planning to build a supercomputer using its own home-grown Loongson family of processors. Loongson processors were meant to be used in the Dawning 5000a supercomputer back in 2008, but as they lacked Windows compatibility they were ...

I'm not the biggest Twitter fan, but let's face it: people sometimes share really useful information in their 140-character updates. Scott Hanselman (@shanselman), for example, tipped users about a slick addition to your Windows 7 taskbar that you'll find over at Codeplex called Taskbar Meters. Download developer Jeff Key's .zip file and extract the contents to a folder on your hard drive. ...

The Windows Task Manager already has options to adjust task priority and processor affinity, but MZ CPU Accelerator's extra features make it well worth installing if you like fine tuning your system's performance. Activate MZ, and it will automatically assign your pre-set priority level to your foreground window. Click away, and the process automatically returns to the default level. On ...

The Inquirer says it has "confirmed" that 3D graphics giant Nvidia is hard at work building its own x86 processor with integrated graphics to compete with the offerings of Intel and AMD. Both Intel and AMD--which acquried ATI back in July--have been busy strapping integrated graphics on their own chips, it seems logical that Nvidia would want to play, too. Their efforts would be bolstered by its ...

While the question that usually occupies my mind is "Does anyone care about Blu-Ray/HD-DVD?" our sister blog PVR Wire raises another salient query: "Does anyone care about Intel's Viiv?" Like PVR Wire's JJ Hawkins, I've got to wonder if Intel's marketing, which tries to paint it as the only way to build a real multimedia PC, is really getting through to anyone, and if there's anything to it. "This ...

In the next 5-10 years by all estimates we should have a processor capable of 1Tbps throughput, at least according to Intel. The optical networking chip Intel is working on uses laser light as the medium for performing computations, instead of the traditional transistor-based chips. Light represents data, which is processed instead of molecules or electrical signals. I guess you could say that ...

UneasySilence brings word of a little known page which appears to be offering rare and coveted invitations to Google Spreadsheet and online word processing application Writely. The site is still accepting applications (shoot them your email, they shoot you the invites) as of 9:45 MST. I haven't received mine yet, but the guys at Uneasy usually have pretty good stuff. The only other way for us ...