Archive for February, 2008
Finally, Dual Core Semprons Are Available!
In terms of performance, it seems AMD’s current Sempron processors are what Intel’s Celerons were a few years ago, but they can be pretty useful in mobile devices, multimedia centers and other devices that don’t need an impressive amount of processing power, especially if pricing is right. The only problem is that everyone, especially programmers, [...]
High-End Sound From Asus
Once upon a time, when talking about high-end sound cards, the only answer one would get was “Creative”. Obviously, other producers, like Yamaha, were also producing sound cards for professionals, but Creative always had the largest part of the market, and managed to bring together decent prices and excellent quality. Now, they are facing a [...]
Asus Eee PC Gives Nightmares To Sony
If you didn’t buy an Asus Eee PC, you probably know someone that owns one, and if that’s not true either, I am sure you heard of the thing, at least that! When I saw it for the first time, I was quite surprised, and didn’t expect to see it sell so well. I usually [...]
Acer Acquires Packard Bell, And The European Comission Agrees
It seems these days you can’t go away for more than a day or two far from any contact with the news sites without missing some merger, takeover or new formal alliance in the IT world, and I am not thinking about rumors here! Today, it’s about three companies with a pretty long history - [...]
Itanium 2 Is Dead, Long Live Itanium!
Intel’s Itanium brand name is used for their processors implementing the Intel Itanium architecture, formerly known as IA-64. Using this brand, Intel released two families - the original Itanium, followed by the Itanium 2, as you probably know already. The first Itanium was released in 2001, with clock speeds starting at 733MHz, and the newset [...]