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We caught a glimpse of the HP xw9400 quite a while back when it was first announced, but it’s now available on HP’s site and we’ve got the full details on the mammoth’s innards. There are quite a few customizable options, including AMD’s Dual-Core Shanghai Opteron CPUs (from 2.0GHz to 2.5GHz), up to 32GB MHz [...]

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2009 isn’t even here yet (at least on the right coast of Planet Earth), but Okoro’s being exceptionally proactive by announcing that its ‘09 OMS-LX100 is already shipping. The system, which is a revamp of the original that popped out in 2006, is situated in the outfit’s “low profile” range of HTPCs, and it brings [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices’ new graphics chips are taking market share from Nvidia, a report issued Wednesday confirmed.
“AMD has by all accounts exceeded expectations with its Radeon HD 4000 series,” according to report issued by market researcher Jon Peddie Research (JPR).
Aggressive pricing by AMD’s ATI graphics unit made …
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IBM is now offering 45-nanometer chipmaking “foundry” services based on its silicon-on-insulator technology.
Foundries have become a big business in the chip industry. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest foundry in the world, builds chips for Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia. AMD announced in October that it was spinning …
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Updated at 5:20 p.m. throughout. Also, correction made for earnings per share.
In the third quarter of its fiscal year, Nvidia’s profit dropped sharply from last year’s levels, but revenue came in above forecasts.
For the three months that ended October 26, profit sank 74 percent …
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This month marks the release of Intel’s new i7 processor. Die-hard PC enthusiasts drooled over the latest and greatest i7 with unparalleled efficiency and performance would have to pay a higher price to get the novelties ahead of everyone. While many are struggling to get hold of the new Intel Core i7 processors, Newegg is [...]

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You think your SLI or CrossFire setup of the latest graphics card is powerful? Well, it might be. However, it’s nothing compared to the single card that Nvidia introduced on Monday.
The Quadro FX 5800 is arguably the most powerful professional graphics card in the world…for …
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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

We’re expecting a ton of new laptops to support hybrid graphics thanks to chipsets like NVIDIA’s soon-to-be-ubiquitous GeForce 9400M, but Microsoft isn’t as enamored with hybrid graphics as most everyone else seems to be — it says it won’t be natively supporting them in Windows 7. In a just-released document titled Guidelines [...]

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Filed under: Laptops

Another day, another awesome laptop announcement. This one, the EX623, a 16-incher from the hallowed depths of MSI’s genius labs packs an Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo CPU, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a max 320GB hard drive, and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS graphics, with a 16:9 widescreen display. The “Bravo,” as [...]

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Filed under: Laptops

Given that you’ve surely got rafts of free cash to burn through right now, we know you’re eager beyond belief to drop north of four large on a new gaming notebook. To that end, we’re utterly thrilled to announce that Toshiba’s Qosmio X305-Q708 (starts at ,199, goes to just under infinity) is available [...]

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