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• End of Intel, AMD duopoly near? Via readies Isaiah chip 15 hours, 56 minutes ago
  
  Is the end of the Intel-AMD duopoly nigh? Via Technologies is hoping this may be the case when it announces the "Isaiah" processor later this month.
• Dell to cut PC energy use by 25 percent 2 days, 7 hours ago
  
  Bragging rights in the PC industry have shifted from being cheap on price to efficient with energy.
• 'OLPC Could Be the IBM Global Services of Laptop Programs' 2 days, 21 hours ago
  
  Back in November of 2006, I wrote a piece about the One Laptop Per Child Project. I was afraid that the project's focus on creating a whole new paradigm (the Sugar UI) would ultimately intervene with the actual goal of the project: teaching stuff to kids. Ivan Krstic, former director of security architecture at OLPC, wrote an essay in which he heavily criticises the OLPC project.
• AMD's Six-Core Istanbul Processor Got Pictured 3 days, 1 hour ago
  
  AMD's upcoming six-core Istanbul processor, slated to arrive in early 2009 got pictured earlier today. The chip manufacturer plans to switch to the SOI (silicon-on-insulator) 45-nanometer process as of this summer and the first parts to hit the market in the second quarter will be the Deneb-based processors.
• Sun Adds AMD Chips to Its Quad-Core Server Offering 3 days, 2 hours ago
  
  Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems has just announced the availability of new server systems equipped with Advanced Micro Devices' quad-core Barcelona chips. The AMD-based servers are the result of a long collaboration between the two manufacturers and aim at giving a cost-effective alternative to the Intel-powered counterparts.
• AMD adds low-power quad-core chips 4 days, 15 hours ago
  
  On Monday, Advanced Micro Devices announced availability of low-power quad-core Opteron processors targeted at servers.
• Intel multi-core threading library supports Sun Studio 5 days, 1 hour ago
  
  As part of their ongoing alliance, Intel and Sun Microsystems have ported Intel's Linux-compatible multi-core C++ development library to the Linux- and Solaris-compatible Sun Studio. The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) technology has also been made available for the latest version of the Solaris operating system (OS).
• Hector Ruiz Plans to Sell AMD's Consumer Division 1 week, 1 day ago
  
  Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz said during the meeting with the company's shareholders that he saw more changes coming as part of the restructuring policy. He also admitted that AMD had been a poor performer on the CPU market during 2007, but the new restructuring plans would make AMD "consistently" profitable.
• AMD Alters Course on the Way to 12 Cores 1 week, 1 day ago
  
  AMD today offered industry observers a look at a very different roadmap for the next two years of its server processors, changing its plans from just a few months ago to focus on offerings that will scale to up to 12 cores without increasing power demands.
• AMD Unleashes Hydra: 8-Core Competition for the Nehalems 1 week, 3 days ago
  
  Despite the fact that AMD is half dead because of its tiny CPU market share, the company is currently making the preparations for a worth-mentioning Nehalem competitor. The chip manufacturer's upcoming 45-nanometer chips in the Deneb and Propus families will undergo a significant micro-architecture redesign, also known as K10.5 Rev. D.
• 6 Comments Asus Eee PC: Easy Enough for a Kid 1 week, 3 days ago
  
  I broke down and purchased the Asus Eee PC (above left) from a retail superstore today. At $299 for the older 2GB model, it seemed like a steal. And compared to my MacBook Pro (above right), the Eee PC is super small. Here are some initial thoughts about the Eee PC, including the most important one of all: The Eee PC shatters the myth that consumers can’t use Linux.
• HP reveals memristor, the fourth passive circuit element 1 week, 6 days ago
  
  The long-sought after memristor -- the "missing link" in electronic circuit theory -- has been invented by Hewlett Packard Senior Fellow R. Stanley Williams at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif.

  Memristors -- the fourth passive component type after resistors, capacitors and inductors -- were postulated in a seminal 1971 paper in the IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory by professor Leon Chua at the University of California (Berkeley), but their first realization was just announced today by HP.

• Multi-threaded processor goes dual-core 2 weeks, 2 days ago
  
  Raza Microelectronics, Inc. (RMI) is shipping a new low-end XLS MIPS64-based processor called the XLS208 that offers dual 1GHz cores and comes with a Linux-compatible evaluation board and software development kit (SDK). RMI also announced that Macraigor's hardware debugging tools will support both the XLR and XLS processor lines.
• Seagate: 1 billion hard drives and counting 2 weeks, 2 days ago
  
  Seagate has come a long way in the data storage business, from its 5MB ST506 hard drive in 1979 to its latest 1TB Barracuda introduced last year. And today the company announced that it is the first manufacturer to ship 1 billion hard drives.
• Tools for your ultra-portable laptop 1 month ago
  
  Our sister site, Linux.com, ran a great article this week about putting Puppeee Linux on an Eee PC. Author Dmitry Popov says that the lean, mean distro that’s based on Puppy Linux “provides an excellent combination of Puppy Linux’s nifty features and solid support for Eee PC hardware.” The article made me wonder what neat projects are being hosted at SourceForge that are aimed at ultra-portable computers. As it turns out, there’s quite a few.
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