According to Reuters, the rather imposing block of machines pictured below is now at the top of the heap in Britain. HECToR (for High-End Computing Terascale Resource) is the equivalent power of 12,000 desktop PCs, or enough to perform some 63 million calculations per second, which’ll apparently be used to study everything from climate change […]

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Seems like the the new trend in the market is the ultra-lowcost notebook/pc. Intel has recently released details of its Shelton’08-based low-cost notebook platform (Basic Platform) to partners and has set the launch schedule for the third quarter this year. An Intel’s single-core Diamondville CPU with a core frequency of 1.6GHz, 533MHz FSB and power […]

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AMD on Friday confirmed that it will delay its quad-core Phenom 9900 and 9700 chips that were expected in the first quarter. These chips will be pushed into the second quarter, but AMD will deliver an energy efficient Phenom and triple core offerings on time. The company said the delay isn’t part of a widely […]

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Shuttle introduced its $199 KPC Linux PC in the price of affordable open-source PCs area.
It’ll have an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB hard drive. What it won’t have: an optical drive or a PCI Express slot. Is a very good looking box which comes in […]

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