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    Atom Processors To Get the 32nm Treatment in 2011

    Intel's 32nm Arrandale Core i5 and i7 Chips for Anorexic Notebooks

    AMD's Atom-Mauling Bobcat and High-End Bulldozer Chips

    Intel Pays AMD $1.25 Billion To End Antitrust, Patent Wars

    ZiiLABS' ZMS-08 System-On-A-Chip To Bring 1080p and Full Flash Acceleration To Netbooks

    Via Nano 3000 Wants to Rip Out the Eyes of the Intel Atom

    Rumor: Select Intel Atom CPU Netbooks to Be Allowed 2GB RAM

    New iMacs Get Core i7 Chips, But What Does That Mean?

    Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips

    Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    11/12/09

    In reply to AMD's Atom-Mauling Bobcat and High-End Bulldozer Chips
    Awesome! I love AMD. I’m glad to see they are back in the running. #processors
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    Image of Gonzie Gonzie
    11/12/09

    In reply to AMD's Atom-Mauling Bobcat and High-End Bulldozer Chips
    wtf ISA support?

    i thought that crap went out with the pentium #processors
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    11/12/09

    @Gonzie: Do you know what ISA is?

    Instruction Set Architecture. They're simply saying it supports all x86, x86-64 instructions. All of the SSE extensions too I presume. #processors
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    11/12/09

    @anexanhume: I knew what ISA was way back when, nice of them to bring back the abbreviation back from the dead #processors
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    11/12/09

    @Gonzie: My mistake, I see what you meant now. #processors
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    11/12/09

    @anexanhume: now gerrorrf mah lawn *shakes walking stick in the air*

    XD #processors
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    11/12/09

    @Gonzie: It's still hiding in there for legacy I/O and BIOS, but it's now a serial bus called LPC. #processors
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Intel Pays AMD $1.25 Billion To End Antitrust, Patent Wars
    I like how billion is in italics, like it is a lot of money

    /smokes cigar made from hundred dollar bills and Megan Foxes pubes. #intelantitrust
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    Image of Digo Digo
    11/09/09

    In reply to ZiiLABS' ZMS-08 System-On-A-Chip To Bring 1080p and Full Flash Acceleration To Netbooks
    I've loved Creative ever since I was in my early teens and I handled R.M.A. for an exporting company. I don't know how they are now, but the few times I've had to return anything from them they made it a breeze. I hold the products of any company with such care for their consumers with at least some regard. #ziilabszms08
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    Image of Guard Guard
    11/09/09

    @Digo: I bought an MP3 player from them like 10 years ago. They made the power jack and the headphone jack the same size, and put them right next to each other.

    Of course, one day I put the power cord in the wrong one, and the sound never worked again. I hesistate at Creative's decisions since then.

    That along with terribly slow support on their sound cards with new OS releases. Vista took what, 2 years to support decently? Assuming they even do now. #ziilabszms08
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    11/09/09

    @Guard: Did you return the mp3 player? #ziilabszms08
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    11/11/09

    @Digo: This happened like 6 months after I had it, I couldn't return it. I called up Creative and wanted a refund. They would only do a replacement. As far as the replacement went, I can't remember what happened to it...

    I think I may have done the same thing again later and just threw it away. #ziilabszms08
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    11/09/09

    In reply to ZiiLABS' ZMS-08 System-On-A-Chip To Bring 1080p and Full Flash Acceleration To Netbooks
    Starting to get really close to the point where I can setup a full smarthouse using nothing but netbooks and some Wifi #ziilabszms08
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    11/09/09

    In reply to ZiiLABS' ZMS-08 System-On-A-Chip To Bring 1080p and Full Flash Acceleration To Netbooks
    Are we really going to have to endure lines of products with the "ii" tag after them now thanks to the Wii? We were finally getting over the iPhase. #ziilabszms08
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/09/09

    @yantelope: Oh, I hope not. I'd finally have to unstick my "i" key. #ziilabszms08
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    11/09/09

    @yantelope: Coming soon, the iiPhone with WiiFii! #ziilabszms08
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    11/09/09

    @met2art: For all your iinternet needs! #ziilabszms08
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    11/09/09

    @yantelope: The "ii" is there to make sure people pronounce 'Z' as "zee" instead of "zed". #ziilabszms08
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    11/09/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Sticky i's? Insert creepy joke about the keyboard being the only place where "u" and "i" are together. #ziilabszms08
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/09/09

    @met2art: Have you been borrowing my keyboard again? #ziilabszms08
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    11/10/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Yeah, I "borrowed" your keyboard for some "data entry" but I was just about to return it. It's not like I have CTRL issues or anything... put the cleaning bill on my TAB. #ziilabszms08
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/10/09

    @met2art: You know what? Just keep it. Happy Next-Gift-Giving-Occasion
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    11/10/09

    @Rosa Golijan: I feel terrible... Here's a complimentary copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking... it's practically untaintable! #ziilabszms08
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    11/09/09

    In reply to ZiiLABS' ZMS-08 System-On-A-Chip To Bring 1080p and Full Flash Acceleration To Netbooks
    With all of these newer chips being pumped out, it keeps holding back my trigger finger to finally pick up a netbook, though the S12 with the ION is mighty enticing. #ziilabszms08
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    11/03/09

    In reply to Via Nano 3000 Wants to Rip Out the Eyes of the Intel Atom
    will apple break compatibility on VIA nanos as well? #vianano3000
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    11/03/09

    @_rt¹⁰⁰: Are they compatible now? I wasn't even aware. #vianano3000
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    11/03/09

    @_rt100: apple killed Intel Atom compatibility with 10.6.2 I believe #vianano3000
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    11/03/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: apple killed Intel Atom compatibility with 10.6.2 I believe #vianano3000
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    11/03/09

    @_rt¹⁰⁰: Oh no I meant the VIA. #vianano3000
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Rumor: Select Intel Atom CPU Netbooks to Be Allowed 2GB RAM
    The CPU itself doesn't have anything to do with the amount of RAM supported (unless the memory controller is on the CPU).
    With current Atoms, the memory controller is on the northbridge. Nvidia Ion chipset, for example, let's you even use dual channel of DDR3 RAM. So it's currently possible to use more than 1GB of RAM with Atoms (even with the Intel chipset, I think). I don't really trust Fudzilla (your source). #intelatom
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Rumor: Select Intel Atom CPU Netbooks to Be Allowed 2GB RAM
    I don't think the problem was ever hardware-induced. Lenovo currently sells their S12 with 2 and 3 GB configurations with a vanilla N270 Atom CPU.

    I believe that the problem really was ARTIFICIAL, with Intel not allowing manufacturers to include more RAM on these netbooks -- which sucks big time. #intelatom
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    Image of DougOLis DougOLis
    10/20/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips
    Although Intel doesn't market chips according to their codenames, the individual chip gets a model number that gives you an idea of how it compares, spec-wise (clock speed, cache size, etc.), to other chips in the same group.

    That's not entirely true. An Intel i7 870 (and 860 for that matter) are going to be a hell of a lot faster than an i7 920. They are different core types and that idiom holds true for each core, but the general public will see i7 920 vs. i7 870 and mistakenly think the 920 is faster.
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    10/20/09

    In reply to New iMacs Get Core i7 Chips, But What Does That Mean?
    Thanks for the previous article, Giz. I read through it when it came out, but I was just looking for it.

    i7 sounds good. Anyone have any idea of the difficulty level to transfer an Adobe CS3 license to a new computer?

    Thanks #newimacs
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    10/20/09

    In reply to New iMacs Get Core i7 Chips, But What Does That Mean?
    Will this help the hackintosh movement at all? #newimacs
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    10/20/09

    @J2M3: Neutral. Nehalem was already used in the Pros, so the support was there. I'm not big on hackintoshing, but there may be some particulars to the P55 motherboards that it helps because of the new i5/i7's being used. #newimacs
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    10/20/09

    In reply to New iMacs Get Core i7 Chips, But What Does That Mean?
    So I'm guessing the i7s in the iMac are going to be the Clarksfield variant? #newimacs
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    10/20/09

    @TJ: Actually no, they look to be desktop Lynnfield cores. The 95W TDP is helped by the 27 inch enclosure, presumably. #newimacs
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    10/20/09

    @anexanhume: Thanks! #newimacs
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    10/20/09

    In reply to New iMacs Get Core i7 Chips, But What Does That Mean?
    One should also note that the high end 27" has the 2.8 Ghz core i7 option. What you gain from this is a virtual 8 cores, due to hyper-threading being enabled. The core i5 does not feature hyper-threading, but is still a quad-core processor. #newimacs
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    10/20/09

    @anexanhume: More like pseudo 8 cores. Have people really been writing apps that take advantage of hyper-threading lately?

    I mean, Intel hasn't had a ht capable CPU for over 4 years between it's Core Duo and Core 2 Duo cpus... #newimacs
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    10/20/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: If it takes advantage of multiple cores, it takes advantage of hyper-threading. People were coding programs with independent threads even before we had dual cores. The advantage of having hyper-threading is the Turbo Boost. If you use 2 threads in one core as opposed to 1 thread in 2 cores, that 1st core can be OC'ed more than those two, yielding higher performance. #newimacs
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    10/20/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: All you need to take advantage of it is more threads running concurrently. Even if NONE of your apps take advantage of HyperThreading directly, you will benefit from it.

    Hyperthreading wasn't absent from Intel's newer chips because it was inherently bad -- it was absent because it was first baked into the Pentium 4 architecture, which as you may recall, was a steaming pile. They have in recent years ported HT to the Atom and i7 architectures.

    HT was a MUST-HAVE for the P4 because it's obscenely-long pipeline made cache misses too expensive. In a CPU with an architecture as short as a Core2Duo it's not nearly as beneficial.
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