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Yesterday marked fifty years since the first integrated circuit, or microchip, was demonstrated by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments on 12 September 1958. The original chip might not be much to look at, but then Texas Instruments admits that Kilby often remarked that if he'd known he'd be showing the first working integrated circuit for the next 40-plus years, he would've 'prettied it up a little.'
Apple have released iPhone Software Version 2.1 that contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following: Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops, significantly improved battery life for most users, improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength and much more. Discussion on the forum.
Tom's Hardware compared the latest 1TB hard drives from Hitachi and Western Digital. These new drives do not simply represent additional choice in this market. They have undergone substantial revisions to not only increase performance, but also to improve efficiency. Falling cost ensures great price per gigabyte ratios, increased energy awareness and improved performance per watt scores.
Hexus get busy with a pair of the latest Radeon HD4670 graphics cards from AMD. What we see here is that two-card HD 4670 suffers a little, which is to be expected in a multi-GPU environment. Simplifying if it some, the pleasing thing, we suppose, is that two cards offer better value than either a Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 9800 GT, based purely on 3D performance.
Western Digital has just announced that it has started shipping new, high-capacity 2.5-inch Scorpio Blue hard drives. Utilizing industry-leading 250 GB-per-platter technology, the new WD Scorpio Blue 500 GB and 400 GB SATA hard drives are designed for notebook computers and portable storage devices.
HotHardware round-up a trio of Intel X48 based motherboards from ASUS, ECS and Intel. In this article we will be looking at the latest high-end desktop chipset from Intel, featuring support for DDR2 and DDR3 memory, support for 45nm dual- and quad-core processors, and PCI Express 2.0 connectivity with 16 lanes devoted to each PEG slot and compatibility with ATI's CrossFire technology.
AnandTech have published their hands-on preview of Sony’s A900 full-frame digital SLR. The culmination of the Sony push into the Digital SLR market was unveiled on September 8, after 18 months of hints, speculation, and closed case exhibits at photography events. It is likely that anyone out there who follows photography has at least heard of the A900 - Sony's flagship DSLR and the first to showcase the new Sony 24.6MP full-frame sensor. Discussion on the forum.
Digit-Life round-up BFG’s pre-overclocked GeForce 8800 GT, 9600 GT, GTX 280 graphics cards. BFG products are popular among users. This company is headquartered in the U.S., but all its plants are located in China. BFG is a close partner of NVIDIA, so only makes graphics cards based NVIDIA GPUs. Today we're going to examine three very interesting graphics cards from BFG.
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