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Intel again accused of faking true CPU performance and it's not AMD doing the blaming

Sayan Sen — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:18:01 +0000

Intel has been caught in the past trying to make its CPU appear faster or trying to make rival CPUs appear slower. That accusation is back again on Team Blue and AMD is not the one accusing. Read more...

Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits

Steven Parker — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:39:24 +0000

According to an email sent last February by Microsoft general manager John Kalkman, the software giant lowered Windows Vista's minimum hardware requirements to ridiculous levels only because Intel needed to sell more graphics chipsets. The... Read more...

New Bluetooth Spec Boasts Pairing, Power Efficiency

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:59:55 +0000

At the CTIA, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced a new version of its wireless specification, Version 2.1 + Enhanced Data Rate. The new Bluetooth Core specification will make the initial connection of Bluetooth devices... Read more...

W3C to Develop New HTML Spec

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:41:43 +0000

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced plans to create a new HTML standard and to enhance the XHTML specification. The W3C is issuing a call for participation in the working group that will oversee... Read more...

External PCI-Express Cabling Spec Now Official

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:33:14 +0000

After many years of slow development and support for external PCI-Express device, the PCI Special Interests Group (PCI-SIG) announced this week the availability of the PCI-E external cable specification revision 1.0. Cables will be developed... Read more...

PCI Sig approves external cabling spec 1.0

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:50:30 +0000

ASUS's XGSTATION WAS a foray into the world of external graphics cards, but things are looking far more official after the PCI-SIG rubber-stamped specification which calls for PCI Express External cabling. The standards body... Read more...

PCI-SIG releases the PCIe 2.0 spec

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:27:35 +0000

The PCI-SIG announced today that the final version of the PCI Express Base 2.0 Specification is now out and available to members. PCIe 2.0 adds a number of enhancements including increased signaling speed (5GHz) which... Read more...

AMD Unveils Virtualization Spec for Developers

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:44:03 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices announced the broad availability of its I/O virtualization technology specification. The specifications will allow software designers to take advantage of the new feature of the forthcoming AMD processors. AMD is... Read more...

Router Functions Dropped From PS3 Spec

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:53:15 +0000

The PlayStation 3 will no longer act as a home network router, according to Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi, who has revealed that the functionality has been dropped because it would have been too... Read more...

WLAN Security Spec Goes Open Source

Thu, 05 May 2005 11:56:20 +0000

Wireless LAN (WLAN) chipset maker Atheros Communications has released one of its key security technologies to the open source community. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company submitted code for its JumpStart for Wireless security... Read more...

Wireless USB 1.0 spec to be finalized next month

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:38:23 +0000

Version 1.0 of the Wireless USB (Universal Serial Bus) specification, which is being promoted as the successor to the USB data transfer method between electronics devices, should be approved by mid-May, Intel (Profile, Products, Articles)... Read more...

'Palladium' Echoes in New Handheld Security Spec

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:56:41 +0000

Intel, IBM and NTT DoCoMo have released a specification to create a "trusted mobile platform," which appears to take the foundation of Microsoft's own trust initiative, "Palladium," into the mobile space. The three companies placed... Read more...

New Group Established to Carry On SATA Spec Development

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 08:32:51 +0000

Dedicated to sustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of Serial ATA technology, 40 leading computer component and peripheral companies announced today the formation of the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO). The new organization... Read more...

Wi-Fi Security Spec Ratified

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:41:56 +0000

On Thursday, a new wireless standard was ratified. This new standard is called 802.11i, and is far more secure than its predecessors. This new standard is planned to be brought out officially in... Read more...

Bluetooth group preps 2.1Mbps spec

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:32:47 +0000

A new version of Bluetooth is making its way to consumers (sooner or later). This new version dubbed Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) increases data transmission by compressing the data better. Bluetooth EDR... Read more...

Microsoft teams on Web services spec

Thu, 08 Jan 2004 21:15:21 +0000

Microsoft, BEA Systems and Tibco Software on Wednesday published a specification designed to communicate events between Web services. The specification, called Web Services Eventing, is intended to simplify the development of applications... Read more...

More PSP details emerge as Sony ponders spec change

Marcel Klum — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:46:26 +0000

A presentation from the SCEE Technology Group has revealed further details of how the PlayStation Portable will work, but developers claim that Sony is considering changing the spec of the device to add more memory.... Read more...

Microsoft, IBM Team on Spec

Tom Warren — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:42:19 +0000

Led by Microsoft Corp. and IBM, a group of companies last week announced a new Web services specification for handling security in Web services environments. At Burton Group Inc.'s Catalyst conference in San... Read more...

Microsoft spec invites controversy

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:38:44 +0000

A Web services security specification, introduced this week by IBM and Microsoft, could emerge as a rival to the existing Sun Microsystems-backed Liberty Alliance Project. A group of major players on the... Read more...

Wi-Fi spec approved, next under way

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:55:11 +0000

The cycle of increasing throughput in the wireless-networking industry continued Thursday as a standards-governing body approved a new specification and began work on another spec that promises to lead to even higher data-transmission speeds. ... Read more...

ATI Radeon 9700 spec revealed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:31:33 +0000

The Radeon 9700 will be clocked at 315MHz for the high-end, retail version of the GPU and we expect to see OEM versions that will have a lower clock speed, the chip will have eight... Read more...

Matrox Parhelia 512 Spec Sheet - Hoax?

Sun, 12 May 2002 09:46:49 +0000

Warp2search, NVnews, and Tweakers.com.au have all passed on information to us regarding the Matrox Parhelia 512. A "fact" sheet has been released, and with it a wiff of "fakeness" - who knows. The... Read more...