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hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Dec 1, 2008
The other day the eagle-eyed Long Zheng noticed a document on Microsoft's MSDN site outlining how Microsoft plans to allow DirectX 10 acceleration on the CPU. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Also tagged: hardware, microsoft windows, directx, graphics, video card, cpu, video cards, semiconductors, processors, components, nvidia corp, adrian kingsley hughes, ati technologies inc, microsoft windows 7
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 8, 2008
Laptops using multiple GPUs aren't new, but they are becoming more widespread. Earlier this week AMD touted the first laptop "from a major manufacturer" with two ATI Mobility Radeon GPUs, the Alienware M17. Not to be …
Also tagged: hardware, alienware, notebook, semiconductors, processors, intel core 2 duo, components, nvidia geforce, toshiba corp, john morris, trade off, alienware m1, toshiba qosmio x305 series
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Oct 24, 2008
NVIDIA confirmed today to Gizmodo that the GeForce 9400M chip in Apple's new MacBooks can do a whole lot that Intel's integrated graphics can't -- it can support up to 8GB of RAM, it can do on-the-fly GPU switching and …
Also tagged: hardware, notebooks, apple macbook pro, apple macbook, apple inc, notebooks and tablets, andrew nusca
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Oct 14, 2008
Highlights from the Apple notebook event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. Steve Jobs takes that stage and introduces Tim Cook who discusses Apple's 2-3x the market growth, Vista and their retail successes. US retail …
Also tagged: hardware, graphics, notebooks, aluminum, apple inc, jason d o grady, notebooks and tablets
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Oct 11, 2008
Apple has now joined the ranks of Dell and HP and admitted that some if its MacBook Pro notebooks have been shipped with defective NVIDIA GPUs. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Also tagged: hardware, notebooks, apple macbook pro, apple macbook, apple inc, nvidia corp, adrian kingsley hughes, notebooks and tablets
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Oct 10, 2008
Months after Dell and other notebook manufacturers came clean, Apple has admitted some culpability for failing Nvidia GPUs. The GeForce 8600M GT has been failing recently in MacBook Pros and Apple has agrred t0 will …
Also tagged: hardware, notebooks, apple macbook pro, apple macbook, apple inc, jason d o grady, nvidia corp, notebooks and tablets, geforce 8600m gt
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Sep 18, 2008
A little off topic today as the world has gone all quiet. You can be an all-knowing computer science boffin and still not grasp the concept of the "GPU" and what it does. Pretty much everyone knows what the CPU is and …
Also tagged: hardware, cpu, semiconductors, processors, components, zack whittaker
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 23, 2008
At IDF this week Intel has lifted the lid on "Ibex Peak" and shown us how the motherboard's IO and northbridge functionality can be pulled together into a single chip. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Also tagged: hardware, cpu, semiconductors, processors, components, remote access, intel corp, adrian kingsley hughes
The Apple Core - Aug 21, 2008
On 8 August 2008 I reported that some MacBook Pros with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT GPUs were failing prematurely. Today Dell extended the warranty on their notebooks that use the chip. According to a post on setteB.IT …
Also tagged: graphics, macbook pro
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Aug 21, 2008
Intel has given new details of what it calls the biggest change in its processor platform in a decade. The new information on Nehalem, discussed in keynotes and presentations at the Intel Developer Forum this week, was …
Also tagged: hardware, core, semiconductors, chip, nehalem, processors, components, intel corp, john morris