Neowin News Feed for: Fastest

Seagate demonstrates the world's fastest NVMe SSD yet, plans to launch it this summer

Adrian Potoroaca — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:08:01 +0000

We will have to change the definition of 'fast' storage, as Seagate has just revealed a production-ready NVMe drive design that makes even the second fastest look like a turtle. Read more...

"World's fastest cable broadband" unveiled in UK by Virgin Media

Andy Weir — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:26:57 +0000

Most of us can still remember the horrors of dial-up internet: being unable to make a phone call while online; the seemingly endless wait while the modem tried to establish a connection; the pain of... Read more...

AMD's fastest CPU reviewed: Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition

Julio Franco — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:48:57 +0000

Without any challenge to present at the Core i7 performance level, AMD is trying to pressure Intel in the value segment before their Core i5 CPUs make it to market. The new Phenom II X4... Read more...

Asus announce fastest smartphone

Damien Reynolds — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:34:53 +0000

Today Asus announced a new smartphone coming on the market very soon and they claim it will be the fastest out there. The Smartphone itself will be running a 800mhz Marvell processor that will allow... Read more...

Oak Ridge supercomputer fastest for open research

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:03:31 +0000

The Cray XT supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is now the World's fastest unclassified supercomputer, boasting a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops and a sustained performance of 1.3 petaflops. The only computer... Read more...

Western Digital launches world's fastest SATA disk

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:13:42 +0000

Overclockers and gamers, prepare to meet your next hard drive: the 300GB VelociRaptor from Western Digital. Said to be 35% faster than previous WD Raptors, the 10,000 RPM drive features a 3Gbps SATA interface, 16MB... Read more...

Microsoft fastest to issue OS patches, Sun Slowest

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:35:09 +0000

Symantec's comprehensive security report on the malware industry from July 1 to December 31, 2007, is now avaible in its 100+ page glory. Symantec broke down information on patch development time by operating system... Read more...

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 - Fastest Yet!

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:10:16 +0000

The R680 designates, in reality, the Radeon HD 3870 X2, which is based on two RV670 GPUs. As we've seen, the history of multi GPU cards is pretty diverse and if this HD 3870 X2... Read more...

Small Businesses Switch to Vista Fastest, Study Says

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:56:40 +0000

Nearly half of businesses are in some phase of preparing to update desktops to Windows Vista, with small businesses moving the fastest to implement the OS, according to a xreport released last week. The number... Read more...

Britain's Fastest Supercomputer unveiled

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:00:37 +0000

A supercomputer that could help answer some of science's biggest questions will be unveiled on Monday. With the power of 12,000 desktop PCs, the mammoth machine called HECToR is the country's fastest computer and one... Read more...

Google: iPhone Fastest Rising Search Query in 2007

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:08:28 +0000

After going through billions of search queries, Google has concluded that this year, the iPhone was the fastest rising search query not only in the United States but in the whole world. Every year, Google.com... Read more...

Outback race to flush out fastest dunny

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:38:32 +0000

The world's eyes, and noses, are on the outback central western Queensland town of Winton today for the Australian Dunny Derby. Organiser Robin Stevens says she is amused that media outlets around the world are... Read more...

Seagate Announces World's Fastest Hard Drive

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:59:08 +0000

Largest hard drive? Been there, done that. Let's do speed now. Seagate has announced "the world's fastest hard drive". The Savvio 15K touts a seek time of a mere 2.9 ms. The drive offers a... Read more...

Apple is Fastest Growing US Retailer

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:57:11 +0000

Apple Europe boss Pascal Cagni revealed some new retail set-ups from the company during Tuesday's Showtime keynote, but it now seems the firm plans to launch new in-store designs as soon as later this month.... Read more...

MacBook Pro Fastest Core Duo Notebook

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:41:10 +0000

According to a series of benchmarks, out of all Intel powered Macs, the MacBook Pro faired fastest in testing Photoshop CS 2 via Rosetta. What is interesting is that though in Rosetta, the Photoshop... Read more...

The Fastest Graphics Cards of Summer 2005

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:33:00 +0000

X-bit labs has posted a comprehensive article today containing benchmark results from 17 graphics cards in 30 popular games. The roundup includes cards from entry level, mainstream, and high end price segments (including SLI... Read more...

IBM Says Its Supercomputer Is World's Fastest

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:27:18 +0000

International Business Machines Corp. on Wednesday said it has developed the world's fastest computer, putting it back on top after a Japanese supercomputer claimed the title some two years ago. The world's largest computer company... Read more...

Philips Launches World's Fastest DVD Burner

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:39:16 +0000

Remember the old CD burner wars. When 4x was the top dog. It's back again, but this the CD burner war is the DVD burner war. Philips announced that they have created... Read more...

ATi releases RADEON X800, world's fastest visual processor

Tue, 04 May 2004 18:19:01 +0000

To the delight of gamers everywhere, ATI Technologies Inc. today launched its RADEON™ X800 Visual Processing Unit (VPU) which will deliver the industry’s most awesome gaming experience possible on a PC. With the introduction of... Read more...

Slowest Athlon 64 humbles fastest P4 in gaming

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:52:44 +0000

GERMAN HARDWARE Web site Hard Tecs 4U has published one of the first reviews of the AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor. This new model runs at the same 2 GHz frequency as the flagship product,... Read more...

AMD-Intel fans sock it out over fastest machine

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 08:47:49 +0000

AT COMDEX I was at a party in the Bellagio's penthouse suite, and for a brief moment, I found myself standing between the people claiming the fastest PCs in existence, one an Intel P4, the... Read more...

The Fastest, The Hardest: DDR533 from GeIL

Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:02:04 +0000

Memory companies continue to push the speeds of their modules higher and higher following the requests of computer hardware enthusiasts. GeIL recently announced the fastest DDR SDRAM devices ever running at 533MHz, speed meant to... Read more...

AMD to release its fastest desktop chip

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:35:38 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices plans to launch its newest processor for desktop PCs in early May, sources have said. The chipmaker is set to deliver its new Athlon XP 3200+ chip during the first half of... Read more...

Fastest PCs Just Not Fast Enough

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:46:14 +0000

When is a computer with a 1.5-GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM just not good enough? Apparently, when you're trying to play the latest version of SimCity. PC gamer Nicolai Fuhrman... Read more...

Gainward set to unleash fastest TI 4200 yet

Sat, 06 Jul 2002 07:39:43 +0000

Gainward has announced a new graphics card sporting Nvidia's TI 4200 chip that is clocked at default to 270/570MHz. This is really close to TI 4400 clock speeds and exceeds regular TI 4200... Read more...

AMD to release it's fastest chip to date

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 12:22:14 +0000

Thanks to Fawkes from our BPN Forum AMD will introduce its newest desktop PC processor, the 1.8GHz Athlon XP 2200+, next Monday, sources say. The new chip, AMD's highest-performance desktop chip... Read more...

Japanese supercomputer takes world's fastest title from US

Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:20:49 +0000

Thanks M F for sending this in. A new Japanese supercomputer has taken the title of world's fastest away from the US. The NEC Earth Simulator processes data five times faster than its... Read more...

Toshiba, MIPS to develop fastest 64-bit embedded processor

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:40:33 +0000

Thanks Sleeper for the heads up. Toshiba Corp. and MIPS Technologies Inc. late today announced plans to co-develop next-generation, 64-bit microprocessors, based on MIPS' code-named "Amethyst" RISC processor core. Toshiba will... Read more...