A CPU alone cannot snoothly carry the bulk of the graphical tasks that we do in our modern web browsers. Complex animations, graphics and even normal page rendering can take advantage from the GPU hardware to give you a significant boost.

Google is now .. Read Further »

You won’t see this happening everyday. The Chip giant buys a security software giant, out of nowhere.

Intel, the biggest chip-hardware player, is buying software/security maker McAfee for $7.7 billion, a huge 60% premium  over yesterday’s market .. Read Further »

Apple has overhauled its long forgotten Mac Pro lineup.

Apple has brought some massive upgrades to Mac Pros, which make them the most powerful Desktop Computers around. Revised Mac Pro workstations come along with option of 27″ LED Cinema IPS Display with 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution.

The core horsepower lies with the fact that the top model comes with up to 12 Xeon processing cores in a dual-CPU configuration(featuring the latest quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors), up to 4 512GB SSD .. Read Further »

iPhone 4 is shipping very soon and we’ve the iFixit team tearing down iPhone 4 to reveal some great hardware.

The dissasembly reveals that replacing a damager display is a little more challenging, and the display and touch panel are all glued to the front glass, so it’s a total module replacement if the glass does break, which make it ver costly on repairs. However, the good part is the new Large  Li-ion battery  which is glued or soldered to the logic board, so it’s relatively easy to replace in case you need to.

.. Read Further »

Apple’s iPhone 4 might be hottest thing today, but if we go with what CEO of Motorola’s consumer business and mobile devices division, Sanjay Jha, has to say, Motorola will ship industry’s fastest Android smartphone with 2GHz processor by the end of the year.

BIOS has been around since the invention of early PCs. It has been responsible for doing a routine check on the system hardware during boot, and then handover the OS loading (booting) process to the BootLoader by looking up the BootSector.

Evidently, it’s the one major part of the PC that’s still carried over from the PC’s ancient times,but the .. Read Further »

Gesture inputs involves touching the screen in different ways. Toshiba has simplified it even further requiring only a camera.

Toshiba calls it AirSwing, and the software runs on a PC  using only a webcam. The system doesn’t need a lot of processing power either. It had barely 3% processor usage on a ARM 11 chip .. Read Further »

In the Desktop world, AMD has long lived with the lead exploiting DirectX11 in their ATI HD 5970 graphics monster. Nvidia had previously showcased that they are all set to take the lead over there.

Today, Nvidia announced new Mobile GPU GeforceGTX 480M – The Fastest Graphics on Laptops/Mobile.

Samsung is showing off a 19-inch transparent AMOLED display at this years SID, up from the 14-inch model we saw back at CES in the CES 2010. With more than 30% transparency in newer models, it might become a great eye-candy on notebook computers very soon.

What would be even more interesting to see  is the Windshields and shop windows running these glass displays.

So all your favorite favorite sci-fi movies, as well as HUDs for helmets and car windshields would come to reality. .. Read Further »

With Processor fabrication getting better and better every year at the pace of Moore’s law, a new research will Leap frog the innovation.

Moore’s Law predicts that the amount of memory that can fit on a given area of silicon, for a fixed cost doubles every 12-18 months. The limit of this prediction is being tested as components get ever smaller and their computationally useful properties become less reliable.

Researchers have managed to create a transistor made from just seven atoms. When such technology is used to design computers, .. Read Further »