Tech News
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Jedi Knights in the UK
Published: Tuesday, October 9, 2001 | By: DennisThe national Statistics office in the UK, the office responsible for the Census there, has recieved a lot of entries for Jedi Knight in the religion portion of the survey.
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Inphi Breaks the 50Gbps Barrier
Published: Tuesday, October 9, 2001 | By: DennisInphi's high-speed integrated circuits, manufactured using indium phosphide technology, lead the speed breakthrough in optical networking.
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MSI K7T266 Pro2 RU Review @ BlorgOC Another Red Motherboard?
Published: Monday, October 8, 2001 | By: DennisMSI has gone gun ho with the red PCB's after the release of the limited edition K7T, they now seem to have 4 motherboards using the red resist along with a MX400 video card.
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Removal of Floppy Bogus?
Published: Monday, October 8, 2001 | By: DennisA couple of days ago we posted that on a leaked document from Intel they had requested the removal of floppy drives and PS/2 ports. Today they respond by saying that the document was interpreted incorrectly. Instead Intel claims that they are giving mfg's and OEM's the option of not including the floppy drive and other legacy connections in their products in their new chipsets.
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Copper Core "ThermoEngine"
Published: Monday, October 8, 2001 | By: DennisWe have seen some of these before though I don't believe anyone was brave enough to try them out. The 2FastCPU gang was, and from their report the heatsink does quite well.
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333 MHz DDR @ LostCircuts
Published: Monday, October 8, 2001 | By: DennisI'm not a big fan of SIS chipsets but it is good to see an alternative to the Intel offering for the Pentium 4, and with a performance boost to boot. Kyle at [H]ard|OCP spoke of this chipset when he was on The Screen Savers and if SIS can get this chip to market it should do well.
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Encryption laws not expected to change
Published: Monday, October 8, 2001 | By: DennisSeveral key people are of the opinion that basic encryption laws are not going to change. As a result of the status quo remaining, we'll all feel good about making secure on-line transactions. Check out the details here
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Intel Develops a new way to produce silicon chips
Published: Monday, October 8, 2001 | By: DennisIntel has released some details into their solution for fitting a billion or more transistors on one chip.
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No More Floppy Drives?
Published: Friday, October 5, 2001 | By: DennisHere is an interesting bit of news. Intel wants to phase out the use of floppy drives by 2nd Quarter of 2002. Though that isn?t all either they are requesting that the PS/2 ports for Keyboard and Mouse be removed as well.
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AMD Blames Intel for 3Q Loss
Published: Friday, October 5, 2001 | By: DennisAMD projected a major loss for the 3rd Quarter and didn't blame it on the bad economy or even the Sept. 11th attack but rather is pointing fingers at Intel. Aggressive pricing and marketing drove the active selling price of processors down.
