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Philips pushes Linux for consumer electronics

Philips and Intel are using Linux and XScale to make it easier for manufacturers to build next-generation home entertainment devices

September 5, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Green client tech for non-desktop environments

Most of the time, I tend to pick up green tech information as it relates to products focused on the typical enterprise productivity worker or small business owners. Someone, like me, who probably is the only person using his or her "client" computer.

September 19, 2008 by Heather Clancy

Texas Instruments strives to make power management more intuitive, deep within its processors

Before I get into the guts of this post, a special thank-you to the team at Texas Instruments (Bill Krenik, CTO of the wireless business unit, and Dave Freeman, Texas Instruments Fellow, Analog & Digital Power Control Products) who were patient enough to brief me weeks and weeks and weeks ago about the various ways that the company is addressing the call for reduced energy consumption across a spectrum of technology products.

June 24, 2008 by Heather Clancy

SIA: Global chip sales showing sequential growth, hints of recovery

The latest efforts to "Go Green," along with the rise of netbook computers, helped boost global chip sales in August by 5 percent, compared to the previous month - a common way for companies to gauge their recession-recovery efforts.On a year-over-year basis, sales were down 16 percent and, on a year-to-date basis, sales were down more than 21 percent, compared to year-to-date figures the same time last year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.

October 2, 2009 by Sam Diaz

News to know: Zune VideoX; Intel; AMD; Dell; Apple

Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer?Vista SP1 available in more languagesThere's more than one way to meshLarry Dignan: Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhalesDell rolls out AMD quad-core servers; AMD lands VMware certification Seagate cuts June quarter outlook Video: Hi-tech shoe shoppingGarett Rogers: Add videos of your business to Google Maps Paula Rooney: Sun debuts MySQL 5.

April 15, 2008 by Larry Dignan

Post-PC: Why Intel Can No Longer Live in Denial

So have we entered a Post-PC era? Yes, without question. The x86 has absolutely been issued its walking papers.

September 15, 2011 by Jason Perlow

Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron

AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to exploit the improved performance and efficiency of 45nm technology. ZDNet's tests show that they have made up important ground on Intel's Xeons.

November 20, 2008 by Christoph Hochstatter

Some vacation. A week's worth of RSS feeds to read in a day. A lot of it about servers, AMD and Intel.

Of course, that's a rhetorical question. Sadly, I know I'm not alone when it comes to the pile of work that you come back to after taking a vacation.

April 13, 2007 by David Berlind

After slamming Intel for using retired benchmarks, AMD does the same thing in China

The industry's benchmarking soap opera official entered its kettle, pot, black phase today when a news report and photos of an AMD presentation in China showed AMD claiming performance supremacy over competing chips from Intel on the basis of test results using retired benchmarks. Two weeks ago, I wrote a post about how AMD is no angel, but Intel's usage of benchmarks is feloniously misleading.

March 28, 2007 by David Berlind

AMD vs. Intel: 10 notebooks tested

We put two of the toughest chip makers up against each other to see which has the biggest heart for notebooks.

July 24, 2005 by Steve Turvey