Neowin News Feed for: Megahertz

AMD Continues Shift Away From Megahertz Race

Tue, 25 May 2004 20:02:19 +0000

The chipmaker says it will use a "performance-power rating" to name its processors, resulting in names that have higher numbers than the clock rating expressed in megahertz. In the latest step... Read more...

ATI and Nvidia graphics chips pushing at megahertz limits

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:21:29 +0000

WE SPOKE with some folk that that really really know how graphic semiconductor works and how far 0.13Âµ chips can go. Apparently you can get to 600 MHz maximum if you are skilled and lucky... Read more...

Myths & Megahertz

Sun, 27 Apr 2003 07:56:11 +0000

Unfortunately, even some of the brightest people I know are subjugated to the megahertz myth... that more megahertz means more power. Intel established this as their method of rating processor speeds long ago, and as... Read more...

Dell adds free megahertz in laptop war

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 07:41:53 +0000

Dell Computer has given away free memory, hard-drive capacity and optical drive upgrades to entice customers. Now some buyers are getting free megahertz. The Austin, Texas-based computer giant is not charging for most processor upgrades... Read more...

AMD claims Intel agrees Megahertz Myth dead

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 01:36:44 +0000

W decided to listen to the AMD Gang of Seven (above) to see if we could separate out the blizzard of reviews of the 2700+ and 2800+ -- future products from the chip firm –... Read more...

Intel pump up the megahertz in Celerons

Mon, 13 May 2002 12:27:55 +0000

Intel have announced that they will be releasing new Celeron chips based on their Pentium 4 technology this Wednesday. These will be running at 1.7 or 1.8 Ghz, the latter being a higher speed in... Read more...