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Lenovo responds to laptop reliability study

20th Nov 2009 Lenovo has responded to a SquareTrade study into brand reliability, questioning both the methodology and the motives. [12]

Dell ultra-thin Adamo XPS launches

19th Nov 2009 Dell's ultra-thin MacBook Air-alike - teased back in September - has gone live on the company's website, and it's an interestingly-shaped beast with some impressive specs. [26]

Swindon scores WiFi mesh

18th Nov 2009 Swindon is set to be blanketed with WiFi, offering all residents a completely free 1Mb/s Internet connection - with the possibility to upgrade to 20Mb/s. [20]

Study reveals laptop brand reliability

18th Nov 2009 A study carried out by SquareTrade reveals which laptop brands are the most reliable - with Apple making a surprisingly poor showing with its MacBook and MacBook Pro ranges. [32]

AMD supercomputer tops TOP500 list

17th Nov 2009 AMD-based systems accounted for the top three supercomputers in this year's TOP500 list - but are overwhelmingly outnumbered by systems based on rival Intel's chips. [8]

Intel settles AMD court case, pays $1.25 billion

12th Nov 2009 Intel and AMD today announced they have settled all outstanding disputes, with Intel paying AMD $1.25 billion. [34]

OCZ to launch 6Gb/s SSD

11th Nov 2009 OCZ has announced a partnership with SSD specialist SandForce to launch a new range of consumer- and enterprise-grade SSDs - including models with 6Gb/s interfaces. [16]

Nvidia denies x86 chip plans

9th Nov 2009 Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has denied rumours that his company is looking to challenge Intel's CPU dominance with the launch of its own range of x86 chips. [14]

Eee Keyboard delayed

6th Nov 2009 Asus has announced that the Eee Keyboard will now not ship until early next year - although it's using the delay to upgrade the 5" resistive touchscreen to a capacitive model. [16]

New York files antitrust suit against Intel

5th Nov 2009 New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has filed a federal antitrust suit against chip maker Intel, claiming that it bribed and threatened OEMS to maintain a monopoly. [16]

VIA announces new Nano chip

4th Nov 2009 VIA has announced a new Nano range - the Nano 3000 series - which it hopes will challenge Intel's dominance of the netbook market, offering improved performance over the Atom. [18]

Win $1,500 in this month's Gigabyte comp

3rd Nov 2009 The second round of the Beat Me If You Dare overclocking competition is upon us. [52]

Sapphire launches Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X

3rd Nov 2009 Today marks the day when you can place your order for the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-x graphics card. [16]

New dual-GPU ATI Radeon 5970 spotted

2nd Nov 2009 The first look at ATI's forthcoming dual-gpu, DX11 graphics card. [54]

Six-core Core i7s photographed in the bit-tech lab

30th Oct 2009 First look at the new six-core CPU from Intel - will it be a Core i9? Who knows... [47]

Tilera unveils 100-core processor

29th Oct 2009 High-performance computing specialist Tilera has announced the creation of the world's first 100-core processor, aimed at providing a simpler cloud computing platform. [17]

Sony recalls 69,000 PSUs

29th Oct 2009 Sony has issued a world-wide product recall for 69,000 Vaio power supplies which have a fault in the insulation leading to short circuits and potential shocks. [2]

Intel SSD update bricks drives

29th Oct 2009 An update for Intel's X-25M SSD range - designed to boost performance by up to 40 percent - has caused issues for those running Windows 7. [12]

Intel Core i7-930 arriving Q1 2010

28th Oct 2009 Intel may be scrapping the Core i7-920, but its replacement, the 2.88GHz Core i7-930, will fill the gap in Q1 2010. [29]

Braidwood's SSD cache is cited for 2011

27th Oct 2009 Sources tell bit-tech that Intel's Braidwood cache technology is pushed back as far as 2011 now. [8]

FTC 'close' to Intel filing

26th Oct 2009 Recent reports claim that the US Federal Trade Commission is close to filing a complaint alleging the Intel has engaged in anti-competitive practices. [24]

Asus refines AMD core unlocking

21st Oct 2009 Asus latest BIOS' on all AMD motherboards featuring ACC now has better support for Phenom II X2 core unlocking [21]

Nvidia announces RealityServer

21st Oct 2009 Nvidia has teamed up with rendering expert Mental Images to launch the RealityServer - a cloud-based 3D rendering platform featuring thousands of processing cores. [7]

Rumour: 32nm Xeon a timed Apple exclusive

16th Oct 2009 Rumours claim that Apple has signed an agreement with Intel that will see Gulftown-based Xeons launching in Mac Pros. [38]

Nvidia doesn't care what physics library devs use

14th Oct 2009 Nvidia's Tony Tamasi has said that he doesn't mind what physics library developers use, as long as it runs on Nvidia GPUs. [9]

ATI Stream SDK now supports GPU-accelerated OpenCL

14th Oct 2009 AMD has announced the release of the ATI Stream SDK Beta 4, which finally introduces support for GPGPU computing. [8]

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