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| Intel: Powerful GPUs Are Useless, You'd Better Upgrade Your CPU |  | Nvidia's allegations that the CPU industry had no future seem to have upset Intel. World's number one semiconductor manufacturer felt that it was about time to reply Nvidia in the same manner and released a PowerPoint slideshow claiming that powerful GPUs don't bring any ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia's Roy Taylor: Nobody Cares About ATI |  | Graphics specialist Nvidia seems to be working under increased stress as the new generation of graphics cards are slated for release. Right after its take on chip giant Intel, Nvidia's next target seems to be its arch-rival ATI, AMD's graphics subsidiary and Nvidia's fiercest competitor.
In a recent interview carried by tech website Tech Radar, Nvidia's vice president of content business development, Roy Ta ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 03:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's P45 Chipset Is Not Much of an Overclocker |  | Intel's currently unreleased P45 chipset is rumored to be a hard kill for those who want to squeeze all the best from their rig. According to a news report published by tech magazine BitTech, (quoting Tony Leach from OCZ Technology), the chipset is extremely picky to the minor BIOS tweaks.
According ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 10:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Multi-Core Computing Gets Software Boost |  | Multi-core computing is a growing concern, as both Intel and AMD are gearing up to deliver the next generation of processors, featuring multiple processing cores. For instance, AMD's upcoming Nehalem chips, slated for release during the fourth quarter of the year, will pack no less than eight cores with simultaneous threading technology.
However, the existing software cannot take full advantage of all the CPU power when running on ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google to Adopt Solid-State Drives Across Its Server Line-Up |  | Google is allegedly planning to make the transition from conventional hard-disk drives to the more reliable and energy-efficient solid-state drives. The change will affect most of the search engine's servers located at Google's US headquarters sometime during the second quarter of the year.
According to a news report issued by Chinese tech website Digitimes, Google will purchase solid-state drives from Intel. The dr ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD: Intel and Nvidia Hardware Play Blu-Ray Streams as Slideshows |  | Advanced Micro Devices claims that Intel and Nvidia cannot currently provide viable HD technologies for Blu-Ray movie playbacks. According to the company, the two chip manufacturers are not ready to deliver integrated graphics solutions able to hardware decode a high-definition stream.
AMD also claims that Nvidia and Intel graphics can only play movies back as slideshows because they lack hardware-decoding capabilities. For instance, ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia - VIA Alliance, Denied by Company's CEO |  | Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang vehemently slashed the rumors about a possible Nvidia – VIA merger and said that his company had no interest in either investing in or buying the low-voltage CPU manufacturer. The buyout rumors first emerged in early March ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD: Going Asset-Light May not be the Best Solution |  | AMD's recent approach at cutting down on costs in order to turn back to profit might force the company to sell its two fabrication facilities in Germany. Hector Ruiz, the company's CEO recently hinted at the fact that AMD might sell its customer division& ... [read more >>] | | 10 May 2008, 07:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| X58, Intel's First Nehalem Chipset |  | Intel's upcoming generation of processors, called the Nehalem, will be introduced later this year, and all the signals point to a Q4 release. As previously stated by the chip manufacturer during this spring's Intel Developer Forum, the first Nehalem units to hit the market will be built on the 45-nanometer process technology (Bloomfield silicon) and will sport four processing cores.
It is widely known that the 4-core ... [read more >>] | | 10 May 2008, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Toshiba Ships Its Portégé M800 Notebooks in Limted Units |  | Toshiba has finally unveiled its Portégé M800 notebook that is expected to ship in a limited edition. Previously demonstrated during this year's CeBIT trade show in Germany, the notebook is targeted at fashion-concerned users that need increased horsepower for their computing applications.
The 13.3-inch notebook is extremely portable and features a pearl-white finish with a silver contrast and white LED outline, a perfe ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Coolermaster's Hyper Z600: the Silent Behemoth |  | Coolermaster's Hyper Z600 heatsink is a passive cooling solution aimed at dual-core CPU users. The star-shaped behemoth is capable of cooling down processors with thermal envelopes of up to 90 watts with no performance loss or any other side effects caused by overheating.
Measuring 127.28 x 127.28 x 160 millimeters, the aluminum-nickel monster weighs in at a little more than one kilogram. The Hyper Z600 works with Intel& ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 11:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Arctic Cooling Brings the Breeze in Low-Profile Computer Cases |  | Cooling specialist Arctic Cooling has just released its Freezer 7 series of low-profile processor cooling solutions. Due to its minimal height, the Freezer 7 is especially suitable for low-profile computer cases used in media center setups.
The cooler is built on Arctic Cooling's revolutionary heatsink design, which ensures proper CPU cooling at a minimal amount of aluminum heat spreaders. According to its technical spec ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 09:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gigabyte's P45-DQ6 Motherboard Comes with Four-LAN Connectivity |  | While the vast majority of the mid-range / high-end motherboard manufacturers ship their offerings with dual-Gigabit Ethernet connections, Gigabyte ups the LAN ante with a four-LAN connector model. Most computer users usually connect to the Internet via a single network cable, but if you need more gear for a LAN party, you should check out Gigabyte's high-end DQ6 model.
The motherboard is based on Intel's P45 chipset ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Unleashes Hydra: 8-Core Competition for the Nehalems |  | Despite the fact that AMD is half dead because of its tiny CPU market share, the company is currently making the preparations for a worth-mentioning Nehalem competitor. The chip manufacturer's upcoming 45-nanometer chips in the Deneb and Propus families will undergo a sig ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 08:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 200 Million Pages Can't Be Wrong: Intel Sabotaged AMD's Business |  | The legal action filed by AMD against Intel in 2006 got new evidence to support AMD's allegations claiming that it had been sabotaged by its arch-rival on the processor market. According to the latest information emerging from the trial, AMD gathered 200 million pages of documents that say Intel paid its partners to ditch AMD.
Intel has been allegedly involved with major system vendors worldwide, such as Dell, IBM and HP ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A GPU War Expected to Burst by the End of the Year |  | Although the beginning of this year announced a deep falling for ATI, it seems that the company prepares a strong revolutionary comeback as it unveils a new weapon in the war for the all-game-graphics supremacy, the 7xx series of graphics cards. While Nvidia was celebrating its early victory on the graphics field, being all over the first pages lately, ATI quietly planned its revenge with the launch of the 7xx series.
By the e ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 11:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD: Double Your Market Share or Shut Down |  | The antitrust lawsuit filed by AMD against its arch-rival Intel unveiled more details about AMD's precarious financial state. According to a brief released by chip manufacturer's lawyers, the company has to either double its share of the microproc ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 10:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Analysts Slap Nvidia for Having Jumped at Intel's Neck |  | Capital Group analyst Ashok Kumar has issued a note claiming that Nvidia's recent take on its arch-rival Intel was a foolish action that could end up bad. According to Kumar, Nvidia's graphics technology is far superior as compared to Intel's integ ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 09:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fujitsu's HDDs to Come with Remote Control Capabilities |  | Fujitsu's upcoming generation of hard disk drives will come with remote control capabilities as well as with an extra layer of data protection. The announcement was broken today by Phoenix Technologies and Fujitsu Electronics in a joint press release.
According to the report, the upcoming 2.5" 7,200RPM SATA hard disk drives will be equipped with the Phoenix FailSafe technology. The company claims that any laptop or notebook ow ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung, TSMC and Intel Pitch at Next-Gen Silicon Wafers |  | Semiconductor specialist Samsung has just announced that it entered a partnership with its arch-rivals Intel and TSMC in order to develop next-generation silicon wafers and to improve the production process.
Since the semiconductor market is working on a commodity basis (high sales with little premiums over the production costs), wafer capacity is a key element in the companies' survival. Samsung's decision to team up with In ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Thirdwave Unveils Skulltrail Gaming Rig With SSD Storage |  | System builder Thirdwave has introduced a new Skulltrail-based gaming system built around Intel's flagship quad-core QX9775 processors. The extremely powerful computing system is packed with fans and coolers to ensure proper heat dissipation and top performance even when operating at full load.
The new desktop PC from Thirdwave is somewhat similar to the first dual G4 PowerPC offerings from Apple. It has the same number ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 11:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Embraces DirectX 10 in Its Integrated Graphics Chipsets |  | Intel has announced the availability of a new Windows Vista driver for its chipsets with integrated drivers. According to the company, the new driver is WHQL-certified and unleashes the power of Microsoft's DirectX 10 for both multimedia and gaming applications.
The DirectX technology is a suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) that takes care of all the multimedia processing. The technology can be used in Wi ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 09:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Atom Processor to Face Short Supply Later This Year |  | Intel's low-power, low-budget 45-nanometer CPU for mobile Internet devices is expected to run short in supplies during the third quarter of the year because of the increased demand on the OEM market. According to Intel, the company is struggling to deliver as many units as possible in due time, but the initial estimations seem to be outpaced.
"We are working closely with our customers to meet their needs", said ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Quad-Core Processors Go Mainstream in HP's Desktops |  | The much-hyped quad-core processors are usually associated with high-end computing and budget-busting price tags. However, the quad-core behemoths have started to show up in consumer desktop systems manufactured by system integrators such as Hewlett-Packard, Gateway or eMachines.
Such consumer-level systems are powered by both Intel's and AMD's flagship processors. While Intel's offerings are more powerful and ... [read more >>] | | 30 April 2008, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Prepares 100 Laptop Designs Ahead of the Puma Launch |  | AMD announced that it is currently working on 100 different laptop designs based on the Puma mobile architecture. The company is gearing up for a massive attack on the mobile computing market that will probably unleash in June, during the Computex show.
"That's twice as many designs as we had at the launch of our last mobile platform", said John Taylor, director of product and strategic marketing at AMD's Graphics Pr ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 08:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Launches Its Own Computer Brand for Business Customers |  | AMD has launched a new corporate initiative in the form of a new computer brand aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. Called the AMD Business Class, the new program will allow companies to standardize their OEM hardware and stick with their choice for at least 24 months.
According to the company, the new feature will bring a plus of stability and will allow customers to use the same hardware for a long time without having to forc ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cray Teams Up with Intel in Supercomputing, Leaves AMD in Agony |  | Supercomputer builder Cray has signed a multi-year collaboration agreement with Intel regarding high-performance computing systems. Under the new deal, the two partners will develop new multi-core technologies that are alleged to rush the advent of multi-petascale systems.
According to a joint statement released by the two companies, Intel will provide chips and silicon expertise to Cray, while the latter will design and manuf ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 03:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia Trumpets Death of the CPU |  | The recent conflict between Intel and Nvidia moved from the market to the personal arena, where the two competitors are throwing offenses at will. The latest hit comes from one of Nvidia's vice-presidents, in a private e-mail message claiming that the CPU is dead and has long since run out of steam.
The private mail message was intercepted by tech website Inquirer, and holds Roy Tayler's opinions regarding Intel' ... [read more >>] | | 26 April 2008, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gigabyte Boasts its 13.3-Inch Good-Looking UMPC |  | Hardware manufacturer Gigabyte might not be a reference name on the mobile computing market, yet it managed to score pretty high with its upcoming 13.3-inch sub-notebook. The company has previously released some UMPC devices built on top of VIA's low-voltage offerings, and other Atom-based models are on the hose.
The newest model backed at the company's headquarters is a 13.3-inch model, also known as the Gigabyte W3 ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Puma Mobile Platform is a Powerhog |  | Advanced Micro Devices seems to be facing some critical issues with the upcoming Puma mobile platform, slated to arrive in mid-2008. Rumors about some design flaws in the platform started to show up in early February, when tech analyst Doug Freedman of American Technology Research ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia to Introduce Monolithic Chipset for Intel Mobile Processors |  | Nvidia is reportedly planning to introduce a new series of single-chip mobile chipsets for Intel's processors. If all the mobile solutions based on Intel's CPUs were paired with its home-brewed Northbridge and Southbridge chips, things are about to change with the advent of Nvidia's monolithic MCP79 chipset.
The upcoming Centrino 2 platform is pitched as an important sales channel for Intel's own series of ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Confirms Rasterisation Capabilities for its Multi-Core Larrabee |  | As of the spring edition of Intel Developer Forum, the chip manufacturer started touting its raytracing revolution, but it forgot about another important feature of the chip: rasterisation. Just as the industry started to think that rasterisation would be hammered down in the final version of the Larrabee silicon, Intel came up with additional news about the feature.
According to Tom Forsyth, one of Intel's software engin ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 04:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's X3 Update Puts Intel in a Weak Position |  | AMD has announced a silicon update to its Phenom X3 triple-core processors that removes the ill-fated translation lookaside buffer bug. The new 8450, 8650, and 8750 models will be based on the B3 silicon revision and are expected to replace and supplement the cur ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia Tesla GPGPU Shows Up in Bull's NovaScale Supercomputer |  | System manufacturer Bull is reportedly working on a top-notch supercomputer, built around 1080 8-core Nehalem processors. The amount of simultaneous execution threads may be overwhelming, but the big news is that the supercomputer will feature 96 GPU cores delivered by Nvidia itself.
Currently known as the Bull NovaScale, the supercomputer will be able to deliver 300 Teraflops of computing power. This means that Bull's ne ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel: No Overclocking for Mainstream Nehalems |  | Intel's upcoming generation of processors will have limited overclocking capabilities. The chip manufacturer is reportedly gearing up for a strict overclocking policy, as it is leaving the LGA775 platform for the faster and more powerful Nehalem platform.
Currently known as Bloomfield, the upcoming generation of Nehalem chips will have no restrictions on overclocking, but such speed tricks will be possible only for the ch ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 06:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel: 50% Summer Price Slash for Quad-Core Chips |  | Intel has just posted the updated price list for its select quad-core processors. The new offerings are up to 50 percent cheaper, depending on the frequency clock and the market it addresses. More than that, Intel posted two new processor models in the Celeron and Core 2 Duo families.
The updated list includes the Core 2 Quad Q6700 processor running at 2.66 GHz clock speeds. Pricing for the Q6700 fell from the initial $530 to ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 11:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek's Eee PC 900 Arrives on May 12, $549 Price Tag |  | One of the strong points in Asustek's Eee PC 701 was its diminutive price tag, situated below the $400 threshold. However, the upcoming version of the notebook is slated for May 12 release and will come with a little premium, currently set at $549.
It's true that the new sub-notebook will feature additional functionality, such as a larger, 8.9-inch LCD display, increased storage capacity and a pre-installed Windows X ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The G45 Stumbles Upon HD Decode Hardware Troubles |  | Intel's long-awaited G45 chipset is reportedly choking on another problem that might delay its unveiling for a long period of time. This time, the issues are not related to driver support, as in its older brothers' case (G965 and G35), but rather a hardware-related mess up.
According to the rumors, the chipset faces a hardware decoding offload problem. This could explain why the video decode feature has never been d ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvida's SLI Technology Gets No Love From Intel's Nehalems |  | Rumor has it that the next-generation CPU micro-architecture from Intel will not come with support for Nvidia's SLI enthusiast technology. Shortly put, Intel has stripped SLI support from the Nehalem Bloomfield-ready chipsets.
The rumor comes right after Nvidia directly engaged Intel ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Announces Crossover Shipments for Q3 2008 |  | Intel's 45-nanometer desktop quad-cores are still hard to find at the retailers' stores, but the company claims that it is on schedule with ramping up its 45-nanometer production at its fabs. During yesterday's conference call, the company said that it expects shipment volumes of products made using 45nm and 65nm fabrication technologies to crossover during the third quarter of the year.
"I did show that sl ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 09:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cizmo Unveils its Centrino 2-Based Gaming Notebooks |  | German notebook vendor Cizmo has just announced its first mobile offering based on Intel's upcoming Centrino 2 platform. Despite the fact that Intel has not officially unveiled its ex-Montevina platform yet, Cizmo is the second vendor to ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PhysX, Running in a GeForce Card Near You |  | Nvidia's acquisition of Ageia earlier this year was a smart move aimed at bring particle acceleration in its mid-range / high-end graphics cards. Nvidia now plans to make the PhysX API available independently of another acceleration hardware card. As previously reported, the graphics specialist announced that ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Posts Revenue, Goes For AMD's Neck on Server Market |  | Intel has just posted its revenue for the first quarter ended March 31. Intel managed to achieve higher than expected revenue, but less profit, which should be taken as a sign that the company is starting to spend a little more.
As compared to AMD, Intel is still doing fine, and it has even managed to snatch a bigger slice of market share on the MP server market between Q4 2007 and Q1 2008. Intel's expansion on the serve ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia Confirms its 1 Billion-Transistor GT-200 GPU |  | Nvidia has officially gone public with its upcoming GT-200 graphics processor, after a long series of rumors. The company planned to talk about its new technology earlier this month during a press conference held in Munich (April 10), but the announcement would have arrived too close to the introduction of its Quadro professional series of graphics cards.
The GT-200 series of graphics cores will follow the G92-based chips and ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 11:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Atom Processor Powers Willcom's D4 WSO16SH MID |  | Intel's all-in-one-wonder Atom processor has just been announced to power Willcom's next-generation of mobile Internet devices. The first unit, the D4 WSO16SH, was showcased during this weekend, and despite its miniature size, the device manages to make no performance compromise.
Willcom's first mobile Internet device measures just 3.3 x 7.4 x 1 inches and weighs about 403 grams. However, it will hit the market ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 03:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Yorkfield Quad-Core Chips, Available In August |  | Intel seems to be facing some serious technical issues with its desktop quad-core line-up. We have previously reported about the chip manufacturer's quad-core processors running in short supply, but it seems that the problems will continue in the following mo ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Strikes Deals With UK Resellers For Larger Market Share |  | AMD is reportedly instructing its channel partners to convince users into buying more powerful hardware than they actually need. According to the company, the practice is perfectly legal and has nothing to do with anti-competitive actions; instead, it is based on good technical advice.
Giuseppe Amato, director of value propositions for EMEA at AMD, claims that the new policy adopted by the processor manufacturer is the company ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2008, 07:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Supercomputers Shape Formula 1 Cars |  | High-power computing solutions provider Appro announced that it has started deploying a new supercomputer at Renault's formula 1 headquarters in Enstone. According to the company, the new supercomputer will be exclusively built with AMD's Barcelona server processors with the B3 silicon revision.
Although Formula 1 high-performance computing is an extremely small niche, the new supercomputer might tighten the competit ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2008, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia - VIA Alliance Confirmed: Intel, Beware! |  | Nvidia's strategic alliance with VIA on the ultra-mobile PC market has been confirmed during yesterday's financial meeting held by the graphics specialist. The two companies will march together on the extremely appealing ultra-low-cost ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 10:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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