PC Component News

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  Intel Launches Oak Trail Tablet Processors

  13 April 2011

  Intel has finally rolled out its Atom Z670 or Oak Trail chip, as it attempts to gain some traction in the tablet space - but is it too late?

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  Texas Instruments Buys National Semiconductor

  05 April 2011

  Texas Instruments has signalled its intent in the analogue chip sector purchasing National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion.

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  nVidia Unveils Dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590

  24 March 2011

  nVidia's latest graphics dual-GPU graphics cars is looking to take its crown back from AMD's Radeon HD 6990.

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  AMD Llano APUs Coming In Q3

  18 March 2011

  Unveiled first at CES last January, AMD's high-end performance chip will be with us in the second half of this year.

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  Intel To Spend $5 Billion On 14nm Technology

  21 February 2011

  Intel will create 4,000 new jobs in Arizona when it builds a new manufacturing plant producing 14nm technology.

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  Series6 PowerVR GPUs As Powerful As Desktop PCs

  18 February 2011

  Imagination Technologies has announced a new range of GPUs which will be up to 100 times more powerful that the current models.

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  Nvidia Reveals Tegra 3 - Called Kal-El

  16 February 2011

  Nvidia has announced its quad core CPU which promises double the power of the Tegra 2.

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  Texas Instruments OMAP 5 Arriving This Year

  14 February 2011

  PlayBook powering chip will get an upgrade later this year.

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  Qualcomm Announces Next-Gen Snapdragon Chipsets

  14 February 2011

  Fancy a quad-core 2.5GHz CPU inside your tablet?

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  Intel Roars Again With Cougar Point

  08 February 2011

  Only to systems not affected by design issue.

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  Intel Recalls Cougar Point Chipsets

  01 February 2011

  A "design issue" on Intel's flagship chipsets could cost $700 million.

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  ARM And AMD Announce New Processors

  31 January 2011

  AMD and ARM are both looking to capture the lucrative portable device market.

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  RAM And Flash Unified In One Chip

  25 January 2011

  Breakthrough US research could mean the end of having both RAM and Flash memory in our gadgets.

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  Nvidia Could Announce 3D Tegra 2.5 At MWC [Updated]

  24 January 2011

  Nvidia looks set to announce a 1.2GHz 3D-compatible mobile processor in the coming weeks.

• AMD Boasts Of Fusion Power

  17 January 2011

  AMD's Bob Grim tells us Fusion will blow Intel out of the water. We're not so sure.

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  Intel Brushes Off ARM Move

  14 January 2011

  Intel dismiss ARM like an annoying little fly.

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  Intel And Nvidia Bury The Hatchet

  11 January 2011

  Intel has agreed to pay Nvidia $1.5 billion to use its technology.

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  Nvidia To Build Custom CPUs Based On ARM

  07 January 2011

  Nvidia licenses ARM architecture to build next-generation processors that add a CPU to the GPU.

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  Nvidia And LG Announce Birth Of Superphone

  06 January 2011

  Not content with smartphones, Nvidia believes its Tegra 2 processor will herald the development of the superphone.

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  AMD Launch Fusion Series Of APUs

  05 January 2011

  AMD yesterday launched its Fusion APUs which combine the power of x86 CPUs and DirectX11-capable GPU.