Mobility

Steve Jobs sent a seismic shocker across the tech landscape in June when he announced Apple would phase out PowerPC chips and put Intel processors inside Macs starting in 2006. To some, the move seemed puzzling: Why would Jobs, the king of cool design, make a deal with half of the empire that conquered the world with cookie-cutter beige boxes?

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Electronic devices like MP3 players and laptop computers may become dramatically more portable thanks to engineers from Purdue University, Indiana, who Monday unveiled a new method of using fuel cells, powered by hydrogen instead of methanol, to automatically recharge batteries.

Intel Corp. has pronounced 2006 as the year of dual-core. At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, the chip maker announced it would offer three new dual-core products

Speed and heat are out at the world's largest chipmaker; power management and cool are in. This week Intel will reveal details about a new chip architecture that will allow the company to put a lid on the runaway power consumption of its Pentium 4 and Xeon chips and to create chips with more than one processing core.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) introduced two new low-power-consumption 64-bit microprocessors, the MT-37 and the MT-40, to its Turion mobile range on Monday. The model names identify two aspects of the processors' performance. The T signifies that they are part of the low power-consumption range of Turion mobile processors (components from the ML series consume more power), while the numbers signify that the processors' computing power is at the top of the range currently on offer.

Thin-client computing can boost staff productivity and speed things up for customers, while cutting operational costs. Sounds like one of those technology pitches that over-promises and ultimately under-delivers, right? Well, not in this case, according to J.P. Savage, the senior vice-president of systems, operations and technical services for Scotiabank. He says a move to thin-client has worked wonders for his company.