Nintendo has already revealed that its next generation console, the Wii U, will have an AMD graphics processor inside. But will all three next generation consoles also have a GPU made by AMD? PC hardware web site HardOCP seems to believe so.

In the rankings of the world's most powerful supercomputers, a Japanese machine has earned the top spot with a performance that essentially laps the competition.

Moore's 'Law' will hit the buffers in six-to-eight years' time, according to Morris Chang, chairman of leading chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

Nintendo has announced it will launch a new version of its Wii console in 2012. No technical details about the machine have been revealed, but gamers will get an early preview at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles in June.

The PlayStation 2 will always hold a special place in my heart, but the portable version seems to be a really bad idea. It does have the analogue and digital controls, with all the necessary shoulder buttons on the back. The game discs are also put in on the back, but this whole system is almost a little too bulky to be called portable. It's easy to pull out a phone or a DS and play away seeing as they don't take up as much space or look so awkward.

Toshiba, the effective monopoly supplier of 1.8-inch hard disk drives (HDD), has announced a 220GB tiny whopper. IDC says Tosh supplied more than 92 per cent of all the 1.8-inch drives shipped in the third quarter of last year.

IBM's just-announced manufacturing process for making chips with terabit transfer speeds is not the only one around, nor is it the most advanced, Intel has argued.

Flash Rods has long offered customised USB flash memory sticks in the shapes of cars, classic and new, but this DeLorean is surely the company's crowning moment. It's a superb scale model of the timeless time machine from Back to the Future, and while it doesn't have a working Flux Capacitor, it does sport a juicy bit of tech.

The Kinect has been hacked to work with Windows 7, only days after a $2,000 bounty was offered to anyone who developed a fully-documented open source driver that would allow the device and software to work with systems other than the Xbox 360.

You know those “persons familiar with the [something]” who seems to know an awful lot about corporate secrets? Well, they've blabbed again, this time to game site IGN's UK colony. The secret? The internal specs of Nintendo's 3DS. According to the fact-spilling source, the 3DS will have a pair of 266MHz ARM11 CPUs (yes, two of them), a 133MHz GPU with 4MB of dedicated VRAM, 64MB of regular RAM and 1.5GB flash storage.

Since 2007 we have seen a few hardware improvements for the Xbox 360, but the new Xbox 360 Slim in 2010 is miles better than anything Microsoft have launched before.

Sony unveiled a prototype of a 3D-enabled Vaio laptop at the IFA consumer electronics conference in Berlin this week, which it said will be available in the spring of 2011. The 16-inch screen laptop will use similar technology to Sony's Bravia TVs, company officials said. Users will be able to switch between 2D and 3D with the touch of a button.

According to a Business Wire press release, Nintendo will be reducing the pricing of its Nintendo DSi and DSi XL portable gaming systems on September 12. The release reads: “Effective Sept. 12, the new suggested retail price of the Nintendo DSi system will be $149.99, while the new suggested retail price for the Nintendo DSi XL system will be $169.99.”

IBM recently revealed some details of its new 5.2GHz microprocessor chip, but consumers shouldn't bother saving their pennies to get one. The z196, which will be at the heart of the company's new Z-series mainframes. Even if you could convince them to sell you a mainframe, it would likely break the bank at around $1 million.

Toshiba is to make an announcement later today about a data storage breakthrough, which is set to give users significantly higher capacity hard drives.

A DARPA-funded processor start-up has made bold claims about a new kind of processor that computes using probabilities, rather than the traditional ones and zeroes of conventional processors. Lyric Semiconductor, an MIT spin-off, claims that its probabilistic processors could speed up some kinds of computation by a factor of a thousand.

If the Wii and its motion control heralded a paradigm shift in gaming then Nintendo will be hoping that the 3DS – the 3D version of the DS - repeats the trick and blows the market wide open once more. I recently had some hands-on time with 3DS and was hugely impressed, if not quite as blown away as I had expected.

Flash is faster, cooler and uses less power, but there's one little problem that keeps it from ever really replacing spinning disks.

Laptop makers including Acer and Asustek are going to back an IEEE power supply standard. The IEEE PSU standard has been mooted to stop power supply manufacturers from building different adapters for different products. It wants to develop a universal power adapter that can be switched between devices and reused again and again.

Seagate has rolled out the world's first external hard drive to exceed two terabytes of storage capacity. Featuring 3TB, the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk introduced Tuesday will enable users to store up to 120 high-definition movies, 1,500 computer games, countless hours of music tracks, or thousands of digital photos, the company said.