4 posts and columns on transistor

You Still Can’t Buy Plastic Logic’s Que E-Reader. Want to Buy Plastic Logic? [UPDATED]

in Media on April 6, 2010 at 4:43 am PT

Want to buy an e-reader from Plastic Logic? You will have to wait until “sometime this summer.” Want to buy the whole company? That’s a different story.

Just Slap the Thing in a MacBook, Already, Will Ya?

in News on December 2, 2009 at 2:12 pm PT

With 1.3-billion transistors and a 48-core processor, Intel’s new “Single-chip Cloud Computer” could power a formidable computer indeed. But it will be a while before it reaches market, if ever. Uncrated at an event in San Francisco Wednesday, the next-generation chip boasts approximately 10 to 20 times the processing power found inside current Intel “Core” CPUs.
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Now if Only You Could Multi-Core Your Earnings

in News on September 10, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

It’s slower than initial expectations and about six months later than originally promised, but Advanced Micro Devices’ quad-core Opteron (Barcelona) processor is still a milestone for the company and perhaps an antidote for its sagging financial fortunes. The new server chip, which puts four processors on a single silicon die, is the first of its [...]