Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
For years, hackers have focused on finding bugs in computer software that give them unauthorised access to computer systems, but now there's another way to break in: hack the microprocessor.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated how they altered a computer chip to grant attackers back-door access to ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The trend toward ever smaller and cheaper PC components is, of course, nothing new. Chips have shrunk and prices have fallen for over 30 years now. Yet that trend has accelerated dramatically in recent years, spurred onward by the rise of mobile computing and signified by the success of low-cost ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Advancing its architecture at what most independent observers would now agree is a breakneck pace, Intel offered further details today on how soon it would begin phasing out the Core Microarchitecture it introduced in the summer of 2006.
With the second phase of its 45 nm generation microprocessors -- what it ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Intel says it will ship quad-core chips designed specifically for laptops later this year.
The quad-core chips, most likely for desktop replacement laptops, will be based on the Core 2 Duo microarchitecture and will ship in the third quarter, Intel officials said.
Intel declined comment on chip details, though enthusiast Web sites ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Gaming computers cost several thousand dollars, right? That's common knowledge, you'd think. Of course, those of us in the do-it-yourself community know better. You can build a perfectly capable gaming PC for little money. In fact, for years we've been challenging ourselves to build a decent gaming rig for less ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
It happens to us all: You put together your latest home-built PC masterpiece and before you've even downloaded your first Windows XP patch, some new technology comes along, or the price of an existing one drops, and you find yourself wishing you'd waited just another few days, weeks, or months. ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
There's a famous scene in the classic movie Caddyshack in which Bill Murray (playing demented greenskeeper Carl Spackler) says that in order to defeat the gopher that's ruining his golf course, he must think like a gopher. Troubleshooting computers can be a bit like that: To recognize and fix what's ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Advanced Micro Devices introduced two new low-power-consumption 64-bit microprocessors, the MT-37 and the MT-40, to its Turion mobile range this week.
The model names identify two aspects of the processors' performance. The T signifies that they are part of the low power-consumption range of Turion mobile processors (components from the ML ...
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