HardwareStrong Intel sales push global PC chip market to record Q2

Intel drove the PC microprocessor business to a new record in the second quarter as sales grew by more than 16% compared to last year.

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Hardwarethe secrets of Virtual benchmarketing

Marketing and benchmarking can lead to some pretty smart, but very misleading results. As promised, I shall give you a very good example of it. One promoted by some of the smartest people industry in fact. But first, a bit of background.   If you read our article about the nuts and bolds of virtualization, you might remember that...

HardwareBadaboom: A Full Test of Elemental's GPU Accelerated H.264 Transcoder

It's finally here, a GPU accelerated H.264 transcoder that promises to speed up one of the most time intensive things you can do on your desktop. Unfortunately the first incarnation of Elemental's Badaboom media converter is hardly a replacement for established H.264 codecs/frontends, despite delivering solid performance....