motherboards
Symbian lands on Atom to fuel netbooks?
News Android is itself in the process of being ported onto ARM-based motherboards which, like Intel's x86-based Atom, are destined for use in cheap, small devices such as netbooks and nettops. A Symbian Foundation team has... [20 Apr 2009]
Intel Multi-Core Performance Accelerates Nanoscience Research
White Paper The CNM team built a 1,152-core high-performance computing cluster with Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors plus motherboards developed by Intel, Supermicro, and SGI, delivering the extreme performance required with low... [01 Jan 2009]
Asus laptops get instant-on appeal
News The earlier agreement saw Asus saying it would embed Express Gate into its full range of motherboards. Asus is to embed a lightweight, instant-on operating system into several of its new laptop models. [02 Jun 2008]
Asus dives into instant Linux
News Asus is to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards, following good feedback from customers. Last week, DeviceVM, the company behind the distribution, said the... [19 May 2008]
Criminals posing as police burgle Verizon data centre
News The men tied up five members of staff at the data centre before stealing computing equipment that included motherboards, said a Metropolitan Police statement. The theft was undertaken at 21:17(GMT) on Thursday when... [10 Dec 2007]
Intel puts Nokia's HSDPA inside
News Nokia's HSDPA technology will appear on motherboards bearing Intel's Santa Rosa package, Dadi Perlmutter, general manager in Intel's mobility group, said at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. [28 Sep 2006]
Intel's Pandora has a Mac Mini feel
News AOpen also said it is making PC motherboards based on Intel's latest Pentium D processors with 945G and 945P chipsets. The two motherboards are AOpen's first to support dual-core CPUs. Both... [01 Jun 2005]
Intel in the money
News The chipmaker's Intel Architecture Business Group - which includes PC processors, chipsets and motherboards - was again Intel's main engine for revenue growth. The group saw record unit shipments of products including... [12 Jan 2005]
Intel confirms Otellini as new head
News Intel, which claims more than 80 percent of the PC processor market and does a huge business in PC chipsets and motherboards, will release a number of major new products in 2005 and attempt to erase a series of missteps... [11 Nov 2004]
Lead-free motherboards make greener PCs
News Chip manufacturer VIA announced this week that it has produced a motherboard that contains no lead, in partnership with Japanese technology firm Yamashita. The development will accelerate the move towards more environmentally friendly... [23 Apr 2004]
Intel gears up to put an end to PC copper
News Intel's Components Research Lab is working on ways to replace copper wiring between motherboards and chips inside computers with faster, more energy-efficient optical fibre. It's going to take a number of years, but... [01 Mar 2004]
Motherboard Buying Tips
White Paper After years of helping people choose motherboards, there are a few simple lessons that I've learned. No matter what happens with the technology involved, there is always one problem that plagues the DIY system builder:... [25 Feb 2004]
Dell demands a ban on smoking
News Defective motherboards used in Dell's PowerEdge 1650 servers can cause the systems to overheat, bellow smoke and then die, according to the company. Dell said the problem occurs because certain... [23 Jan 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Itanium 2, managing LANs and the Info Pro
Comment This put event monitoring capabilities onto motherboards and added interfaces between desktop hardware and management software. There are some words that periodically turn up in news articles and vendor marketing material. [16 Sep 2003]
Intel stalls on Centrino Wi-Fi parts
News Strauss noted that Intel became the largest supplier of Ethernet chips by including them on their motherboards, and it appears they are using the same strategy by combining Wi-Fi chips with mobile processors. [11 Sep 2003]