Back in late 2008, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA surprised everybody with the launch of a new product aimed specifically at the low-end netbook and nettop market. The NVIDIA ION was widely acclaimed as one of the outfit's most interesting products, as it basically enabled OEMs to create low-priced PCs that offered better graphics, compared with what Intel's Atom platform was capable of. At that time, there was a wide media coverage of the new solution, generating enough hype for users to really want ION inside their low-power systems. Since its launch, ION has grown, as NVIDIA is planning the launch of this technology'... [read more >>] Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA, one of the world's leading vendors of graphics processing units, announced today the launch of its new Optimus technology, a solution designed to provide consumers with a better performance and visual experience out of their notebooks. According to details of the new technology, Optimus-enabled notebooks will enable consumers to choose the graphics processor that they want to take advantage of, with the option to route the workload to either an NVIDIA discrete GPU or the Intel integrated graphics.“Consumers no longer have to choose whether they want great graphics performance or sustained bat... [read more >>] Continuing as the only graphics solution manufacturer with cards capable of DirectX 11 graphics, Advanced Micro Devices has officially introduced the low-profile ATI Radeon HD 5570. Part of the Sunnyvale, California-based company's plan to offer DirectX 11 cards for all market segments, this accelerator is meant as a solution for end-users on a budget that still want a good performance. The adapter is based on the 40nm redwood graphics processing unit (GPU) and will best serve small form factor PCs.
The Redwood GPU is clocked at 650MHz and is accompanied by 20 texture units, 400 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR3 memory with an int... [read more >>] Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, announced today the debut of its new line of Core vPro processors, designed to meet the requirements of business users and power some of the upcoming business PCs. Based on Intel's latest Nehalem micro-architecture and the outfit's latest 32nm manufacturing process, the new CPUs will be paired with the Intel Q57 Express chipset, the 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection for notebooks and the 825780M Network Connection for desktop PCs.“Businesses, particularly those that haven’t purchased PCs for several years, face a computin... [read more >>] Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced today the expansion of its family of Radeon HD 5xxx graphics cards, with the addition of the new HD 5450 model. Designed to provide a wider range of consumers with the benefits enabled by the card's DirectX 11 capabilities, the new option becomes AMD's lowest-priced 40nm GPU with support for Microsoft's latest API. The new card comes approximately two weeks after the release of AMD's first sub US$100 DirectX 11 card, the HD 5670. “The ATI Radeon HD 5450 offers consumers another next-generation graphics product from AMD, and further reinforces our price-p... [read more >>] Sunnyvale, California-based NVIDIA, one of the world's leading graphics card makers, has recently made an announcement regarding its much-anticipated, next-generation line of GeForce cards based on the outfit's new Fermi architecture. According to one of the company's Twitter accounts, the names of the first GPUs that the aforementioned Fermi architecture will boast are GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470. While the news is yet to be confirmed by an official within the company, the news is certainly going to generate a considerable buzz, with the cards reportedly due out in March. The Twitter post on the NVIDIAGeForce account ... [read more >>] Following the release of its latest Radeon graphics card, the mainstream-oriented HD 5670 model, the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced today the release of a new set of Catalyst graphics drivers. Already leaked on the Internet late last week, release 10.1 is expected to add support for new games, to provide users with a couple of bug fixes, as well as new features. The new drives are available for users of AMD's latest generations of Radeon graphics cards and can be downloaded here at Softpedia. According to the release notes of the new Catalyst suite, users of Radeon 5700 and 5800 series of graphics cards s... [read more >>] Kingston Technology, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance memory and Flash-based storage solutions, announced today the expansion of its line of SSDNow solid state drives, with the addition of its second-generation SSDNow V+ series. Designed to provide consumers with a boost of both speed and storage, the new drives also represent the first drives to add Windows 7 TRIM support to the company's SSD family. This feature will enable users to take advantage of the same drive performance throughout its life span."The new SSDNow V+ is an ideal solid-state drive for high-level consumers and in corporate environment... [read more >>] Intel's Clarkdale central processing units were launched around the beginning of the month and it seems that AMD isn't about to leave the low-end and mainstream markets fall under the Santa Clara chip maker's monopoly. The CPU and GPU maker has just introduced a group of processors of its own, also beckoning at entry-level and mainstream systems with their prices ranging between $74 and $169. The four new chips are largely meant to balance the CPU offering from Advanced Micro Devices. The new lineup is made up of three Athlon II central processing units, as well as the Phenom II X4 910e and the Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition... [read more >>] Rambus lost a fight against the GPU maker back in late October, when the U.S. Patent Office decided that the former's claims that NVIDIA had violated its patents were groundless. While this development reinforced NVIDIA's confidence that it would win, Rambus was not deterred. Now, just after the latter stuffed its pockets with Samsung's $900 million, the company seems to have “evened the score” with NVIDIA as well, so to say.“The International Trade Commission (ITC) has made an initial determination that two of the five Rambus patents at issue are invalid and unenforceable, in an action that had been brought... [read more >>] | 
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