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Intel Pine Trail due Q4; products unlikely until early 2010

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 25th 2009 No Comments

After ongoing rumors and speculation that Intel would miss their Q4 launch for Pine Trail, their next-gen Atom processor line-up, the company has again confirmed that the low-power netbook processors are on course to hit manufacturers in Q4 2009.  However the company will not be drawn on how long those chips will then take to show up in commercially-available devices: estimates suggest that Pine Trail based netbooks won't actually be on shelves until Q1 2010 at the earliest.

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CrestaTV universal TV tuner chip reaching manufacturers

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 23rd 2009 No Comments

The days of a universal laptop TV tuner are almost upon us, as CrestaTech begin sampling their CrestaTV "universal broadband receiver".  Packing not only support for DVBT, ATSC, Cable QAM, NTSC and PAL TV standards, the CrestaTV also receives FM radio and features a GPS receiver, and could allow travellers to watch TV on their notebooks no matter where in the world they are.

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Samsung unveils 40nm 2-gigabit DDR3 RAM

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Jul 21st 2009 No Comments

samsung2gbddr3It seems Samsung just hit a first today. They’ve announced their 2-gigabit or 256MB DDR3 RAM chip, which is the first to be mass produced using their 40-nanometer process.

The great thing about this process is that it allows the company to mass produce very dense chips without upping their power consumption. This keeps costs down as well. The idea here is to offer up 4GB RAM for notebooks and 16GB RAM for servers.

These new chips contain twice as much bandwidth as the old 1 gigabit chips. We don’t know at this time how much the RAM will cost or when it will be made available, but you can count on these chips being available pre-installed in computer offerings first.

Intel Pine Trail Atom N450 delayed to 1H10?

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 21st 2009 No Comments

Intel’s Pine Trail platform, set to replace the company’s current Diamondville netbook/nettop architecture, could be delayed until the first half of 2010 so as to reassure vendors.  According to Digitimes Research senior analyst Joanne Chien, the Intel Atom N450 processor has been pushed back from its original Q4 2009 launch schedule so as to allow the existing netbook market to settle.

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AMD Congo detailed: dual-core Neo plus Radeon HD 3200 GPU

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jun 12th 2009 No Comments

AMD may have convinced HP to slap their new Congo into the updated dv2 ultraportable, but if you’ve been waiting to hear a little more about the dual-core chipset then we’ve some more detail for you.  Targeted at thin-and-light notebooks rather than taking on Intel’s Atom N-series chips, Congo is a combination of the new dual-core AMD Neo processor, updated ATI graphics and an improved chipset.

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Intel launch 3 new Core 2 Duo chips, new ULV CPU and GS40 chipset

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 2nd 2009 1 Comment

Intel have announced three new Core 2 Duo processors, as well as an ultra-low voltage (ULV) chip and new GS40 Express Chipset.  The three new Core 2 Duo chips are the T9900, P9700 and P8800, topping out at 3.06Ghz with 6MB of L2 cache and a 1,066MHz FSB.

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Intel Pine Trail next-gen Atom chipset detailed

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, May 20th 2009 No Comments

Intel’s next-gen Atom platform, Pine Trail, may have been reasonably well known before now, but the CPU manufacturer has just released [PDF link] the first official details about the new netbook and nettop chips.  Expected to reach the market later this year, Pine Trail’s biggest change is in integrating the graphics core into the processor, slimming down both the overall size and the platform’s power requirements.

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