Today AMD announced a new modification of their quad-core processors aka Phenom II X4. The new CPUs are manufactured using advanced 45nm process, have higher clock speeds and larger L3 cache. But are these improvements enough to help AMD regain the high-performance processor market share?

The wait is over. Phenom II is HERE! Be prepared to replace that feeling of anticipation with one of dissappointment. Discussion.

Have you been waiting for AMD's return to competition? The Phenom II does just that. It's still not the Return of the Jedi, but on its third try AMD got it right. Phenom II is the first competitive quad-core CPU AMD has ever made....

A recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Google has cut a number of temporary employees but, even after reading the article top to bottom, it is impossible to tell just how many people were cut. The number is between a few hundred and ten thousand, how’s that for murky?

Google acknowledged in late November that it planned to significantly reduce the number of its contractors and retain all of its full-time employees. But the company wouldn't specify how many of the temporary workers were being dumped, feeding rampant speculation among bloggers and even industry analysts. Published estimates of the cost-cutting's impact ranged from a few hundred to all 10,000 of Google's contractors.

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