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Intel has developed a prototype of a "resilient" processor that it says delivers substantially more throughput than a conventional one. Conventional chips come with guardbands, which allows for... Read more...

Intel will be rolling out new Nehalem-based processors during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in just a few weeks time. Due to be unveiled will be processors manufactured using new 32-nanometer... Read more...

If you're thinking of rewarding yourself with a new netbook with the just released Windows 7 operating system for Christmas, the latest news is that you might be better off holding off until early... Read more...

NVIDIA has announced its new Fermi graphics processor unit (GPU) architecture at the GPU Technology Conference mid-week. "Fermi differs from ordinary GPUs, as it's the first to be designed from the... Read more...

Intel introduced the new "Clarksfield" Core i7 Mobile processor at the Intel Developer Forum last week. One of its capabilities is called "Turbo Boost," which in itself introduces a different... Read more...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to develop faster processors even as the current method of shrinking the transistors on computer processors for greater... Read more...

Microsoft has updated its popular programming suite, Visual Studio 2008, to incorporate better support for parallel programming. Among other capabilities, it will now include support for debugging... Read more...

Samsung has co-developed a new processor with Texas-based Intensity that it says runs at 1GHz. Designed for smartphones, the new chip is code-named "Hummingbird." Of course, it's hardly the first... Read more...

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has released five more processors to its six-core Opteron lineup early this week. Three of these processors are manufactured using a 45-nanometer process and... Read more...

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