Okay this is my last proper post before the exams (unless I write another ). Thought I’d talk about some computer thing so I warn you now! If you don’t understand something the best thing to do is just put the name at the end of a wikipedia url for example bios: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS will be the url for the explanation of a BIOS. Day 1 Dad comes home with a PC he’d bought for work a while ago and wants a general service (new Hard Disk, format and install OS and applications etc). I take a look at it and I’m like hold up, this is better then our my PC. He isn’t...

No i’m not talking about chips that you eat, i’m talking about the price that it costs Intel to manufacture the average P4 computer processor chip: Though Pentium 4s can sell for up to $637, Intel’s average cost for making a chip comes to $40, according to a report from analysts In-Stat. The report doesn’t consider expenses related to design or marketing, or the fact that high-end chips can sell for more because fewer off the production line can actually run at top speed, but it does shed light on how Intel has managed to maintain healthy margins in an era of...

Apple Computer plans to announce Monday that it’s scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel’s microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned. According to CNET News, Apple will ditch IBM’s line of PowerPC processors in favor of Intel microprocessors. "Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006 and higher-end models such as the Power Mac in mid-2007," asserts CNET. The announcement is expected to be made this Monday during Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs’ Worldwide Development Conference...

Intel Corp. will try to liven up the drab desktop PC later this year with new technology that will help convert the home computer into an entertainment hub, but advertising and technology experts say such a product will be tough to market. Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is keeping details of the technology under wraps. It will introduce a set of chips with a new brand name in the third quarter. Analysts say the chip bundle and software will transform the PC into an all-purpose multimedia device designed to function as a CD and DVD player, digital video recorder, game console, as well...

The year of the dual-cores is coming sooner than many expected. After a few months of speculation, it appears that Intel is indeed ready to roll with dual-core parts, and not only just for Itanium. The company is now talking dual-core Pentium 4s in the second quarter of this year, which means we may see parts as early as April. But what kinds of parts will we see? SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2005 Intel Corporation today announced it has completed initial production runs of dual-core processors and provided further details about its multi-core plans to its customers, signaling the beginning...

According to hot sauces By Fuad Abazovic: Monday 24 January 2005, 09:05 SOURCES CLAIMED Microsoft is planning to introduce its 64 bit operating system for Intel and AMD processors (iAMD64) on the 29th of April. The sources are close to Microsoft. It appears there will be a release to manufacturing version of WinXP 64 in March. That’s the stage before the CDs get stamped out and the boxes get printed. Quite coincidentally, Intel will finally be ready with its full line of 64 bit capable CPUs, including Celeron 64s, close to that date. This, of course, is entirely coincidental and is just...

Intel’s ‘Smithfield’ dual-core desktop Pentium 4 processor will ship as the 8xx series, Taiwanese motherboard maker sources claim the chip giant has said. And it has set 20 February as the launch date of the P4 6xx series – the first 64-bit Pentium chips aimed at mainstream desktops systems. It’s already known from internal Intel roadmaps that Smithfield will ship at three clock frequencies – 2.8, 3.0 and 3.2GHz – with model numbers x20, x30 and x40. Only now has the missing first digit been filled in, courtesy of a DigiTimes report citing said sources. To...

Intel’s 64-bit Pentium 4 processors have gone on sale in Japan, local media report. The chips, which feature Intel’s AMD64-like EM64 technology, aren’t new. Launched in August 2004, the chips were geared toward workstation and server roles. Indeed, the boxed units that went on sale this week are clearly labelled “for uni-processor workstations and servers”. However, their arrival in Japanese computer-component stores suggests the parts are now being offered outside OEM circles. All four clock frequencies are available: 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 and 3.8GHz. The latter was only...