Tag Archive for 'cpu'
Intel’s Atom 330 is most definitely intended for the nettop, not the netbook, market, we’re told, and so hopes were high that the latest super-efficient chip would offer a pleasing boost of dual-core performance what with battery concerns no longer an issue. PC Pro brought a Shuttle barebones - I’m guessing the X27D - based [...]
With AMD set to announced their netbook chipset strategy today, they’re not the only three-letter company looking to take a bit out of Intel’s Atom. ARM have released details of their own plans, collaborating with Canonical - the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu - to optimize the Linux distro for the ARMv7 architecture. ARM chips, such [...]
Intel have announced a press conference in San Francisco on November 17th, where it will officially launch the Core i7 “Nehalem” processor range. Although test chips are already with reviewers - in fact we reviewed one of the first PCs to use the Core i7 920 CPU, the Gateway FX6800-01e, here - until now the actual [...]
The Apricot Picobook Pro - one of the few netbooks to use VIA’s 1.2GHz C7-M processor - has been put through its paces by the Register Hardware team, and while this isn’t the killer budget ultraportable the company might have hoped it was, it has its fair share of notable features. Aside from the CPU, [...]
ARM Cortex A8 and, later, A9 processors will be used to power upcoming netbooks, according to Rob Coombs, director of mobile solutions at the company, with announcements by hardware partners expected in the next few months. The Cortex A8 is the successor to the popular ARM11, which currently can be found in numerous smartphones and [...]
Intel have demonstrated the first, working prototype of their upcoming ultraportable Moorestown chipset, the “system on chip” (SoC) that is set to replace the Atom CPU. Demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, Moorestown’s primary claim to fame is its extreme energy efficiency: 10x less power required than current Atom chipsets. As well as [...]
AMD are preparing to reveal their netbook intentions at an analyst meeting on November 13th. Management at the company have previously been apathetic toward the segment, with VP of advanced marketing Pat Moorhead suggesting they only really made sense “around the house” rather than as a valid mobile warrior tool; CEO Dirk Meyer is now [...]
Motherboard manufacturer Portwell have begun shipping what they’re calling the first nano-ITX ‘board based on Intel’s Atom processor. The Nano-8044 is a 4.72-inch square that supports up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a CompactFlash drive via an onboard socket, an SD card and an IDE drive. It’s also apparently cool-running enough to be used fanless, [...]
Raon Digital’s Everun Note has generally done a great job impressing reviewers with its balance of portability and power; the only two areas of real contention have been the speed of the hard-drive and the device’s price. Raon Digital ship the Everun Note with a standard 60GB hard-drive that dragged down the benchmarks, and the [...]
ASUS’ upcoming S101 netbook - which company CEO Jerry Shen insists is not an Eee - was expected to launch in September. Instead all we have is this recently discovered photo, which seems to picture the Atom-based ultraportable in its identity-confused phase as it still has the Eee logo on the lid.
