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Nokia N800 Internet Tablet
Ars Technica - Unfortunately, no amount of code optimization was able to cover up the slow CPU and meager RAM. With little advance notice, Nokia released the 770's successor at the beginning of 2007, the Nokia N800. Is it powerful enough to rekindle the fires of

PassTime(TM) USA Launches New PassTime(TM) ''ELITE'' Based on Wavecom
Forbes - PassTime(TM) USA today announced the launch of its latest payment assurance device, PassTime(TM) Elite, featuring the Wavecom Q2687 Wireless CPU(R). The device harnesses the power of wireless machine-to-machine technology to help credit-troubled

AMD slashes Athlon prices by up to 45%
Channel Register - AMD has followed up last week's Opteron price cuts with a round of reductions applied to its Athlon-brand processors. The latest cuts affect both single- and dual-core versions of the 64-bit CPU family. While Athlon 64 FX and Quad FX processor cost

OpenMacGrid: spare CPU for science research
MacNN - Leveraging Apple's Xgrid technology, MacResearch.org today announced the first wide-scale, publicly-accessible computing grid: OpenMacGrid allows anyone running Mac OS X 10.4 or later to donate their Mac's spare CPU cycles to help researchers perform

Intel's Teraflops Chip: An Architecture That's 'Outside The Box'
Information Week - Last year, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced a coherent-processor approach to multiprocessors dubbed Torrenza and based on its proprietary HyperTransport CPU bus. Intel and IBM Corp. countered with Geneseo, a set of extensions to PCI Express that

Spotlight to sport improvements in 10.5
Ars Technica - With Quick Look, writes Haas, it will be much faster to check the contents of a document without necessarily having to spend time and CPU cycles opening the application (Rosetta users of Photoshop, that's your cue to swoon). If Apple builds support

Get Vista Features on Your XP Category: SOFTPEDIA NEWS :: Microsoft
Softpedia - Calculator, Clock, CPU Meter, Currency Conversion, Feed Viewer, Feed Watcher, Notes, Number Puzzle, Picture Puzzle, Recycle Bin, Slide Show, Stocks, and an egg timer. Additional gadgets are published at Microsoft's web site, which offers both

Intel's GPU plans could include extending x86 ISA
Ars Technica - So a 16-core chip that starts out in a discreet graphics processor could eventually be integrated, either wholly or in part, onto the CPU die itself without much, if any, change to the graphics software code base. As the CPU and GPU begin to merge

OKI Develops Micro Controller Equipped with Voice Synthesis LSI
Consumer Electronics Net - TOKYO, BUSINESS WIRE -- Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703) today announced it has developed a single chip micro controller equipped with a high performance 8bit CPU core and a voice synthesis LSI. The voice synthesis LSI included in this