chips in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up Besides, that £30 could be much better spent on chips and tie-dyed clothing - or whatever students spend their money on this year. Yes, that's right folks - the business and technology site you know and love has been delivering news from the world... [11 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up But let's face it: if you get your scientific kicks attaching RFID chips to the tiny but endearingly chubby bodies of live, flying insects - then you're a boffin. You almost certainly didn't undergo years of academic study to end up strapping RFID... [29 Feb 2008]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment All three featured the G4 chips, which lagged badly behind Intel and AMD chips at the time. But then the MacBook Air arrived. Hit or miss? Seb Janacek assesses its chances. In July 2000 Apple launched the G4 Cube, a ground-breaking desktop computer... [06 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.05.07
Round-Up Most confusing in all of this of course is why Intel would have named its chips after a small town on the Cornish coast. Think Cornwall and you may think about ice creams, cider and probably thick-crust meat and potato pasties. [04 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Qubits Rule?
Comment While the computing chips require only a few nanowatts (one nanowatt is one-billionth of a watt), the cryogenics consume around 20kW to get down to a stable operating temperature of 4mK (-273.15C). Written at Dallas Fort Worth Airport while... [01 Mar 2007]
Leader: Wise up to PC recycling
Leader Computer Aid only accepts systems with Pentium II or faster chips - and before sending them off services them to ensure years of useful life. Last week one of the silicon.com team was in Kenya to find out first-hand how PCs donated in the UK get... [12 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: Olympics as tech showcase?
Comment for the new ePassports now rolled out in the UK - the passports are meant to last 10 years but the chips inside them storing all manner of data have only been guaranteed for two. I've written and read a lot in the past few years about how the 2008... [07 Feb 2007]
Minority Report: The 10 worst things about Apple
Comment Certainly since the company upgraded to Intel chips and left the slower G4 and G5 chips behind, Macs have gained parity in the MHz wars with Wintel machines. Despite the desirable, good-looking products, Apple often manages to put more than a few... [05 Feb 2007]
Minority Report: How the Woz shaped Apple
Comment He spent his formative engineering years poring over the schematics of early computers and redesigning them with as few chips and transistors as possible. But, says Seb Janacek, 'the Woz' played at least as crucial a role in shaping the PC... [15 Dec 2006]
Unwired: The office of the future
Comment See what up-and-coming technology is being worked on in Cambridge - from bomb-sniffing chips to in-train entertainment systems. Which technologies and working styles will dominate the office of the future? [15 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up And speaking of security there are plans afoot to improve airport security with some nifty technology - implanting RFID chips into the brains of all airline passengers. And the biggest problem there, it seems, is how best to affix the chips to the... [20 Oct 2006]
Minority Report: Changing of the guard at Apple?
Comment Even the arrival of the Mac Pro - Apple's high-end workstation equipped with two dual-core Xeon processors - failed to wow the crowd, despite the machines representing the early completion of the company's impressive transition to Intel chips. [01 Sep 2006]
Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?
Comment Intel is already developing dual-mode wi-fi/WiMax chips and will incorporate WiMax into its Centrino platform. Does Intel's cash injection into the US' Clearwire mean WiMax will win out as the technology for wireless broadband? [27 Jul 2006]
Why AMD is putting its chips in one basket
Comment In addition, the company will be able to do chipsets with integrated graphics and video chips for digital TVs - products that Intel makes now. The 512K cache on the first Pentium IIs consisted of separate memory chips located near the processor and... [25 Jul 2006]
Minority Report: Apple changing its spots
Comment One by one Apple is addressing the objections to going Mac - from switching to Intel chips to accepting Windows. This is despite the fact Macs are now operating on a level playing-field with PC competitors with nippy Intel chips, meaning Apple no... [11 Jul 2006]
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