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Thursday, 9-June-2005 11:12:42 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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From Entalzar: I just found this website updated with information on the pricing for boxed AMD 64 X2 CPU’s. They are a bit pricy compared to AMD list US dollar price. Here is a web-link to the company called Tsukumo, which is located in Akihabara Tokyo. I will also be on the streets to verify this out as well. That's 3 people reporting from Akihabara now!
Speaking of which, Robert found this article on a Geek Ghetto in Tokyo.
Maligned and shunned by mainstream society, here they stayed, their tastes and habits transforming the area also known as Electric Town into what sociologists are calling an urban first -- a ghetto of geeks.
Seagate introduced a 160GB notebook hard drive that uses perpendicular recording. Standing bits on end also improves the reliability of read-write performance in demanding environments.
Aselabs have an introductory article about pipelining inside modern CPUs. Also, the decode and write-back stage are half cycles and are split in one cycle allowing the register to be read then written to in one cycle concurrently.
Xbit meanwhile finish off their detailed look at the NetBurst architecture of Intel's P4 CPUs. Most reviewers would usually explain these performance issues with the longer pipeline and sometimes with the small cache memory capacity or higher memory latency.
ArsTechnica have an editorial mourning the future of the PowerPC architecture now that Apple are moving to Intel. Xbit have published their thoughts about Apple's move also.
TechSpot have a roundup of 16x DVD burners from Plextor, NEC and LG. Not only these will support both kinds of media and burn them at 16x speeds, but also support dual layer media, which means you can store ~8 gigabytes of information in one disk, these hot tamales do it all!
TomsHardware rounded up some enormous CPU coolers. Often enough, when it comes to coolers, size seems to trump all sense of reason. Some coolers are so large that they beg the question of whether the case will fit after they are installed.
TheBestCaseScenario took a tour of Kingston's factory to see how memory is made. When the precision grinding is completed and the wafer is the correct thickness to begin the process of turning them into chips, they are cut into small squares and rectangles by a set of highly specialized diamond cutting wheels.
Hexus have some close-up pics and info of ATI's CrossFire dual videocard technology.
SimHQ are the latest to compare dual core technology from Intel and AMD. They focus on benchmarking with the Falcon 4 flight simulator game.
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