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Core Frequency

Nathan Taylor has spent way too much of his life poring over technology white papers, chip diagrams and benchmark results. How can we tell? He once had in-depth discussion about the Itanium's extreme instruction-level parallelism and how it ultimately turned out that developers really wanted thread-level parallelism.

 
 
Windows 7 on cheap laptops could be Microsoft's comeback
Aug 20, 2008 12:28 PM | 3 Comments

Windows 7, which will allegedly be more modular than Vista and thus capable of being stripped down to run on lower-spec systems, may represent Microsoft big comeback on low-end systems.


AMD vs Nvidia - it's back on
Aug 13, 2008 12:25 PM | Comment Now

It's official, the fortunes of AMD / ATI ship are turning around, with their new 4870 X2 deemed the new king of the hill in PC gaming performance.


Is .tstream the next big thing for BitTorrent?
Aug 6, 2008 11:14 AM | Comment Now

You can now get streaming video via BitTorrent using the .tstream format and SwarmPlayer. Nathan Taylor explains how it works and why it's big news for online video.


Is 12mbps broadband enough?
Jul 30, 2008 11:32 AM | 3 Comments

The strangest part of this whole National Broadband debate, is how the government has clung onto its minimum 12mbps access speed figure, a number that’s surely outdated by now says Nathan Taylor.


Say hello to zen marketing, notebook buyers
Jul 16, 2008 11:18 AM | 3 Comments

Every now and then a technology company pulls a Zen marketing trick on the unassuming public. Nathan Taylor says Centrino 2 is one of those moments.


Intel’s mega-graphics chip and future of GPUs
Jul 8, 2008 12:13 PM | 1 Comment

If you think PhysX and Larrabee mean you won't need a fast CPU for games, you've been sucked in by marketing hype. Nathan Taylor delves into the real differences between graphics chips and CPUs.


The Xbox 360 glory days are over
Jul 2, 2008 11:43 AM | 10 Comments

This week's price cuts are too little too late to save the Xbox 360, says Nathan Taylor. The 360 glory days may be over, with only Fable 2 up its sleeve and Blu-Ray scoring wins for the PS3.


Why Symbian, not Mac OS X, is the future of phones
Jun 25, 2008 11:28 AM | Comment Now

Nathan Taylor gives the thumbs up to Nokia and Google's open source phone plans.


Firefox 3 is here: get it now
Jun 18, 2008 11:28 AM | Comment Now

Roughly 2.3 million people have downloaded FireFox 3, but is the new version really so special? Yes it is, says Nathan Taylor, and he explains why here.


What’s coming from Nvidia and ATI?
Jun 11, 2008 12:48 PM | Comment Now

Nathan Taylor gives the lowdown on Nvidia's fabled GeForce GTX 200 Series, and why it'll blow existing cards out of the water.


 
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Issue: 145 | December, 2009

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