Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Dell Releases the XPS 720 Upgrade Kit

Dell Releases the XPS 720 Upgrade Kit
Softpedia - And if they really want a CPU push, these particular customers can also get a quad-core QX6700 with a substantial price cut (25%). Nice one, especially if you need that much power. Unfortunately that's where the story stops since the H2C unit won't be

PSP 3.5 firmware unleashes full processor power
Ars Technica - Originally, the CPU's speed was restricted to increase the unit's battery life. Games were developed for the restricted 266 MHz. Now, that restriction has been alleviated. Though custom firmware in the homebrew scene has allowed this for quite a

Pericom Announces PCI Express(R) Gen2 Clock Buffer Family Supporting 5
Earthtimes - This has been validated by independent testing at a Tier 1 CPU chipset vendor laboratory. Testing concluded that the PI6C20800S outperformed competitive products in the critical 'additive jitter' test, providing less than 1.0 picosecond of additive

PSP’s full power finally freed
MCV - Latest firmware update removes 266 MHz CPU restriction, allowing developers access to full 333 MHz clock speed It has emerged that the most recent firmware update for PSP, numbered 3.5, has removed the software restriction that had previously capped

News Blog: Posts tagged IBM
CNET News - The mouse can literally run circles on the CPU with ease." -- QJ Science blog " I still believe that no matter how good a brain simulation a computer can create, it will never become an independent mind. Animal brains are electrochemical systems and

TI's Highest Performing Floating-Point DSPs Power Polycom's New
Earthtimes - core, the C6727 features 256Kbytes of RAM, a ROM module preloaded with DSP/BIOS(TM) and other valuable software, a 133Mhz SDRAM External Memory Interface (EMIF), and a powerful dMAX engine which can perform intelligent DMA transfers allowing the CPU

SPU Hopes BYT, PR, CPU Will Back Political Reform
Ukrainian News - The Socialist Party hopes that the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, the Party of Regions and the Communist Party will support the political reform during the second stage of its implementation, which envisages stronger constitutional provisions for the

Why do video clips sometimes stop or pause?
CNBC - Internet traffic congestion is the most common cause of pauses or stops, though high CPU usage on your computer or low speed connections can also result in similar issues. Receiving no audio transmission is generally an indicator that your speakers or

Seven steps to a green data centre
TechWorld - With AMD's newest designs, "at 50 percent CPU utilisation, you'll see a 65 percent savings in power. Even at 80 percent utilisation, you'll see a 25 percent savings in power," just by turning on power management, says Kerby. Other chip makers are

Mobilygen Announces the Industry's Broadest Range of H.264 HD Codec
Forbes - The SOCs integrate an ARM9 CPU dedicated to customers' applications. A programmable Multi-Media Engine supports all leading audio formats including AAC, MP3, G.7xx and Dolby Digital. Network connectivity is provided via integrated Gigabit Ethernet

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