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LPCM is not always equal to bitstream {Engadget HD}
Jul 12th 2009 8:18AM Users: Your ears screw up the sound far more than any part of your setup.
Memorex hears the cry of underserved female gadget hounds, delivers the pink {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2009 6:36AM BdgBill:
Sounds good. Want to swap?
Sony's VAIO P 'mark 2' hopefully learns from past mistakes {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2009 6:33AM My single experience of a Sony laptop left me wondering how a new computer could possibly be so sluggish. After a few weeks I put Ubuntu on it and have enjoyed it ever since. A couple of the function keys don't work, but at least it boots in less than 3 minutes.
Memorex hears the cry of underserved female gadget hounds, delivers the pink {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2009 4:43AM Problem: Women feel "underserved" by electronics companies.
Solution: Electronics companies make stuff pink.
How can you argue with that kind of logic?
NVIDIA's 40nm GeForce G210 and GeForce GT 220 desktop GPUs emerge {Engadget}
Jul 9th 2009 3:30PM Hung,
It was serious, and your answer was seriously informative. Thanks!
Apple dreaming of object identification, new messaging UI in iPhone OS patent {Engadget}
Jul 9th 2009 12:58PM I assumed that you were a cock until i followed the link.
Apple dreaming of object identification, new messaging UI in iPhone OS patent {Engadget}
Jul 9th 2009 12:57PM willies willies...i love willies!
NVIDIA's 40nm GeForce G210 and GeForce GT 220 desktop GPUs emerge {Engadget}
Jul 9th 2009 12:45PM Another thing that confuses me:
Rather than shrinking dies all the time, wouldn't it be better to have larger die with a lower transistor density? The thermal density would be lower and the larger surface area would improve heat transfer to the heatsink...both of which would reduce thermal fatigue. Of course, you'd have longer tracks in some places which would be harder to drive and would generate more heat, but still. Anyone know why this isn't done?
My guess is that manufacturers don't care about thermal fatigue, since power dissipation and clock speed are usually more important to customers (except maybe the military). Thoughts?
NVIDIA's 40nm GeForce G210 and GeForce GT 220 desktop GPUs emerge {Engadget}
Jul 9th 2009 11:40AM Oooh, i like the shiny picture. Thanks for making this clear to me - I feel silly now!
But...I dont quite follow your explanation about power. Intuitively, I would have thought that smaller feature sizes would result in higher gate capacitance and hence require a larger vcore (and hence greater power dissipation, contrary to your claim) to achieve equivalent clock rate to a larger design. Why isn't this the case?!
Also I would also have guessed that you'd get greater gate leakage at smaller nodes, what with the dielectrics becoming correspondingly thinner (I assume?!). AFAIK they used the same high-k dielectrics at the 65nm node, so unless they've got some exotic new material why doesn't leakage increase?
Also, does 'nm' mean 'nautical miles' or 'nano metres'?
Please help! I'm so confused!
NVIDIA's 40nm GeForce G210 and GeForce GT 220 desktop GPUs emerge {Engadget}
Jul 9th 2009 9:29AM It looks a lot bigger than 40nm in that photo.
