Several PC makers expect to have Nehalem-EX 16-core DP desktops, in fact super workstations, at the chip's launch towards year-end

With MARS, Asus managed to do its own version of a "beyond GTX295" dual GPU card. It has two full-speed GTX285 cards per slot, a total of 2GB RAM, a full complement of 240 shaders and 512-bit buses per GPU

The past two years weren't exactly exciting in the PC CPU arena... but that's changing.

Red Hat will announce its first high performance computing (HPC) optimised distro, the Red Hat HPC, on 7 October.

High performance computing (HPC) may be the pinnacle of the computer speed pyramid, but not its profit pyramid.

One would think that, with ever cheaper, faster and more reliable SSD drives, the idea of a small "Turbo Memory" or "Flash Cache", would be passe by now. Not so.

They're not common yet, but dual SIM smartphones could be all the rage for overseas travellers one day.

So it'll probably be more expensive than the Eee 900, but take a look at the specs to see what's changed.

This year's huge components expo to see early intros of both Intel and AMD next generation CPUs.