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More Rev F delays, IBM's HTX embrace and Sun's mystery 'Eunuch'
The Register - These chipsets have started appearing in commercial motherboards with single CPU sockets but the bug report indicates a system with 4 CPU cores. Now either that's very early silicon of a quad core Opteron (unlikely) or Sun are using the mcp55 in a 2

Let's Get Small
MCPmag.com - Vista changes all that with its hunger for more RAM, hard drive, CPU power and graphics. Will we see $500 Vista laptops and $300 Vista desktops in the near future? I doubt it. Who asked for such a gargantuan OS? Most folks I've heard from want the

Current Leakage Tool Could Boost Transmeta's Efficeon Current Leakage
TechWeb - One of the few technical details the company reserved for the launch was an updated power management scheme used in the Efficeon that mitigates current leakage in the CPU. Transmeta has been working on Efficeon for four years. The part is widely seen

Ray tracing soon to go real-time for 3D rendering
Ars Technica - Its behavior is very well suited to CPU processors, and scales well with hyper threading and multi-processor configurations. The traditional cache hierarchy associated with CPUs is very effective at managing the external memory bandwidth requirements