Thursday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 10, 2005 at 4:30:40 PM
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Moore takes on nanotech.
AMD's Turion chips coming out soon.
Intel guilty of f breaking antitrust laws in Japan.
Don't count on WinFS for XP.
Moore takes on nanotech.
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Still, continuing to produce chips on silicon has its problems too. Designers have been able to put more transistors on chips for decades by shrinking the size of the transistors, but they are now at the point where some structures inside chips are only a few atoms thick.
AMD's Turion chips coming out soon.
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There are two broad classes of Turion. The ML family sports a thermal ceiling, or maximum power consumption, of 35 watts, while the MT family has a thermal ceiling of 25 watts. (Existing Athlon 64 notebook chips have thermal ceilings as high as 62 watts.) Standard AMD desktop chips have thermal ceilings in the 90-watt range. AMD has said it will also come out with even lower power notebook chips
Intel guilty of f breaking antitrust laws in Japan.
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The probe in Japan mirrors a long-running investigation by the European Union's top antitrust regulator into alleged abuses by Intel. It is also understood to focus on rebates. The European Commission said it was co-operating with the Japanese authority, saying there were “similarities“ between the two probes.
Don't count on WinFS for XP.
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WinFS was originally slated to sit atop NTFS and track metadata for all files on a system to improve organizing, searching and sharing of information. Longhorn applications could also store data directly in WinFS, which is based on Microsoft's SQL Server technology.