Intel officially adds Pine Trail Atom N470 processor, early performance results don’t impress
Intel introduced the new Atom N470 netbook CPU back in September and then Lenovo showed off its S10-3t with the new processor at CES, but chipzilla’s taking the time today to give its newest Pine Trail CPU a proper unveil. The 1.83GHz N470 joins the 1.66GHz N450 as an option for netbooks, and like the [...]
Intel’s chief says consumer spending fueled computer industry turnaround
Intel chief executive Paul Otellini said that consumer spending led to a turnaround in computer purchases in the fourth quarter. That, in turn, led to one of Intel’s most profitable quarters ever.
Otellini said server chip sales were strong thanks to a product refresh cycle. Intel launched its Nehalem-based server chips in the spring and stayed [...]
Worldwide consumer electronics market expected to be flat in 2010
Throwing cold water on hopes for a powerful tech recovery, economists are predicting that the worldwide consumer electronics market sales will be flat at $681 billion in 2010. That compares to a 2 percent decline in 2009, according to the forecast and sales report by the Consumer Electronics Association.
The forecast is surprisingly pessimistic, coming from [...]
NVIDIA Ion 2 coming in early 2010, compatible with Pine Trail
Well, here we go: NVIDIA just gave us the heads-up that the next generation of Ion chips (which we’ll be calling Ion 2 until it gets a proper name) will be compatible with Intel’s new Pine Trail platform and arriving in Q1 of 2010. That’s good news, seeing as the Pine Trail-based Eee PC 1005PE [...]
Intel details next-generation low-cost Atom processors
Intel Monday revealed its new line of low-cost, low-power Atom processors that will be found inside inexpensive netbooks and computers starting in 2010.
ASUS Eee PC 1005PE review
By our count ASUS has released — at the very least — 20 Eee PC netbooks since 2008. Some had 8.9-inch or 10-inch displays, some ran Xandros Linux or Windows XP, and some packed hard drives instead of flash storage. But common to virtually all of them was an Intel Diamondville 1.6GHz Atom N270 or [...]
Intel’s next-gen Pine Trail Atom processors officially announced
Get ready for the next generation of netbooks and nettops: Intel’s just officially announced the Pine Trail Atom N450, D410, and D510, along with the NM10 Express chipset, and we should see over 80 machines with the 45-nanometer chips at CES 2010. Nothing too surprising about the 1.66GHz chips themselves, which integrate the memory controller [...]
Acer Ferrari One
This ultraportable outclasses netbooks when it comes to performance, but you’ll pay a premium for its sports car looks.
Looks like the Google phone is real, named the Nexus One
It’s looking all-but-official that Google is developing a smartphone of its own using its Android operating system, as reported in TechCrunch last month.
All Google has said officially is that it has developed a “mobile lab” device that “combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android,” and that employees are “dogfood” testing [...]
Microsoft Store designs leaked
Gizmodo’s editors got their sweaty, shaking hands on design and branding firm Lippicott’s plans for Microsoft’s retail stores that the company plans to plunk down right next to Apple Stores. Lippicott’s 54-page presentation shows an impressive combination of Apple Store ripoff with a brightly colorful environment wrapped in wall-size video screens. A character named Emily [...]
