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Intel Reconfigures Its P55 Core-Logic Sets into the B3 Stepping

The B3 was announced yesterday and it is the latest stepping of the P55 core-logic chipset. The P55 are motherboard chipsets that have full support for the new Core i7 and i5 processors based on the 45nm Lynnfield core. Among the features of these processors are the support for eight PCI Express 2.0 x1 ports (2.5GT/s...

11 November 2009
08:43 GMT

NVIDIA ION 2 Scheduled for Q4 2009 Release

The netbook and nettop market segments continue to grow, as chip makers are expected to update their portfolios with new solutions that should enable better performance and power consumption. Such is the case with graphics chip maker NVIDIA, which is currently expected to update its ION platform with the much-anticip...

27 October 2009
10:38 GMT

ION 2 Ships in 2009 with Support for VIA's Nano Processors

Since earlier this year, there have been reports according to which NVIDIA is planning on releasing the second generation of its ION platform, which is essentially a chipset that allows PC manufacturers to develop low-power and compact computer systems that deliver the necessary performance to run some of today'...

9 October 2009
06:06 GMT

NVIDIA Postpones Chipset Investments, Blames It All on Intel

More than one year ago, there were reports on the Internet that claimed NVIDIA would soon announce it would get out of the global chipset market, a claim that was never confirmed by the company. Later on, NVIDIA announced that it had entered a legal dispute with Intel, the world's leading chip maker, according t...

9 October 2009
04:09 GMT

IDF 2009: Intel Showcases Mini-ITX H57-Based Motherboard

At this year's IDF 2009 event, the world's leading chip maker, Intel had a number of new products to detail. The company officially announced the debut of its much-anticipated Calpella platform, bringing the appreciated Nehalem architecture into the notebook space, but also a number of in-development projec...

25 September 2009
03:36 GMT

AMD Intros New Server Platform

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has announced today the launch of its new server platform, designed specifically to enable customers to take full advantage of the chip maker's latest generation of six-core Opteron processors, formerly codenamed 'Istanbul'. The new chipset series is p...

21 September 2009
03:07 GMT

NVIDIA Reportedly Plans New Intel-Ready MCP89, MCP99 Chipsets

One of the hot topics in today's computer industry is the ongoing battle between two of the world's largest manufacturers of computer hardware, NVIDIA and Intel. Early this year, the two engaged in a legal dispute that saw the latter filing a complaint against its Santa Clara, California-based neighbor, cla...

14 August 2009
06:12 GMT

Recent Hack Enables SLI on P45 Motherboards

Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, and NVIDIA, the inventor of the GPU and a leading vendor of discrete desktop graphics cards, haven't exactly been best buddies in recent years. Two of the world's leading chip makers have recently engaged in a legal dispute over the latter&rsquo...

6 August 2009
10:39 GMT

AMD's 785G Is Officially Here

Following a streak of leaked details that have recently surfaced on the Internet, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just announced the official launch of its latest desktop chipset, the much-anticipated 785G, coming to provide mainstream users with a series of new features. Building on the chip m...

4 August 2009
06:47 GMT

Intel Langwell Chipset to Be Manufactured by TSMC

Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading chipmaker, is said to be planning a contract with foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for the production of the much-anticipated Langwell chipset. This chipset has been designed for the company's Moorestown platform and is ...

29 July 2009
06:19 GMT

Biostar Unveils the 785G-Based 'TA785GE 128M' Motherboard

Desktop PC sales might be hurting in favor of an increasing popularity for portable PC systems, but that doesn't stop hardware manufacturers from releasing the latest components made available by technology advancements. Such is the case with Taiwanese motherboard maker Biostar, which has just announced the rele...

22 July 2009
10:53 GMT

Apple Releases Bluetooth Firmware Update 2.0

Apple has released a new firmware update for Macintosh systems equipped with Bluetooth based on the Broadcom chipset. Bluetooth Firmware Update 2.0 is a free download that provides bug fixes and enhanced compatibility with the Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse and Apple Wireless Keyboard, according to the Mac maker. On the...

18 June 2009
04:05 GMT

SiS Follows NVIDIA and Launches Atom-Supporting Chipset

Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) has just announced the release of its most recent SiS672/96/307DV chipset, designed to provide support for the latest low-power Intel Atom 230 processor. When combined with the aforementioned processor, SiS' solution is capable of delivering support to system builders that are lo...

7 May 2009
06:57 GMT

AMD's SB850 Chipset Specifications Leaked

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is expected to update its desktop computer platform with the release of the highly anticipated RD890 chipset, accompanied by the southbridge chip SB850. The details on these two products have been scarce but, thanks to a recently leaked roadmap of AMD's future p...

17 April 2009
09:04 GMT

VIA Releases HD-Capable VX855 IGP for Netbooks

VIA Technologies has announced today the introduction of a new power-efficient all-in-one chipset that is meant to boost the visual performance of the small form factor and mobile PC systems currently available on the market. The new product, dubbed VX855 media system processor, is capable of offering hardware H.264 ...

12 March 2009
08:05 GMT

Qualcomm Announces Low-Cost MSM7227 Chipset

Qualcomm has recently announced the development of a new Mobile Station Modem MSM7227 chipset, one that has been designed to aim at the sub-$150 smartphone area of the market. The new MSM7227 solution is stated to be able to offer advanced processing and rich multimedia while supporting HSDPA/HSUPA for broadband data...

14 February 2009
05:40 GMT

NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI Chipset Slated for March Release

It looks like we should be expecting a few more products from the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker, NVIDIA, as recent rumors point to a new nForce 980a SLI chipset. Said product is slated to be released next month, which could mean that motherboard makers might be showcasing some new products, based ...

6 February 2009
03:54 GMT

AMD's 760G Chipset Offers Affordable Alternative to 780G

After much anticipation, Sunnyvale, California-based AMD has finally unveiled its latest motherboard product, coming in the form of a new AM2-compatible 760G chipset. The new model, which the manufacturer quietly introduced yesterday, has been designed to provide PC users on a budget with an alternative to low-cost, ...

20 January 2009
06:00 GMT

Intel's Lynnfield CPUs and P55 Chipset Postponed Until the End of August

After having announced its Q4 2008 financial results, the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker Intel is said to be planning to postpone the release of its next-generation mainstream processors, codenamed Lynnfield. In addition, the company is also considering delaying the launch of the P55 chipset, which is now e...

16 January 2009
03:57 GMT

BlueSn0w Brings Bluetooth to the iPhone

For months, the iPhone Bluetooth Project has been quietly working to develop a Bluetooth solution for the iPhone. While readers can express their discontent on the lack of built-in bluetooth in the iPhone, command-line-savvy users can actually give this tool a go right now. A post on the official iBluetooth Project ...

5 January 2009
05:37 GMT

AMD to Provide Better Overclocking with RD890 in Q2 2009

AMD is expected to unveil a new desktop platform, which will provide users with the computing power of the company's latest Phenom II processors, designed using a 45nm process technology. While the new CPUs would be supported by the current AM2/AM2+ - based motherboards, they are designed to work on the new AM3 ...

30 December 2008
06:52 GMT

NVIDIA-Based iMac, Mac Minis Debuting at Macworld 2009

A forum user going through the extension files that ship with the Late 2008 MacBooks has discovered references to a “Macmini3,1” and “iMac9,1,” sources inform. The entries for the unannounced Mac models list their chipset as the exact same ones employed by the NVIDIA-powered unibody MacBooks. ...

22 December 2008
07:02 GMT

AMD Updates 2009 Chipset Schedule

It appears that the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro has just updated its chipset schedule for the upcoming year. The company is now reported to be planning the release of a new, low-end, integrated graphics processor chipset that is expected to be based on the company's RS780 architecture. The new IGP...

3 December 2008
11:20 GMT

XFX to Unveil Mobo Based on Intel G31 Chipset

With almost every major motherboard maker out there unveiling their new X58-based desktop boards, it looks as if some of NVIDIA's board partners have decided to shift sides for a while, by revealing products that are based on Intel's chipset. One such board partner is XFX and it is set to introduce a new de...

18 November 2008
06:10 GMT

Notebook Vendors Say GeForce 9400M Could Grab 20% Market Share

Just recently, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA released its new integrated graphics, notebook chipset, the MCP79, which had initially been launched with the refreshed lineup of portable computer systems from Apple, the MacBook and MacBook Pro. The graphics company has already expressed its expectations regarding...

27 October 2008
05:05 GMT

A Global View on Intel's P55

As the launch date of Intel's next-generation Core i7 processors is approaching fast, more and more eyes turn towards the giant chip manufacturer and its roadmap for future products. November will bring us three new chips from Intel, all based on the Nehalem architecture, and they will go hand in hand with the P...

22 October 2008
03:07 GMT

NVIDIA Planning New AMD-Supporting Chipset

Earlier this year, a number of rumors indicated that the Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA was expected to announce that it would quit its chipset business as it intended to concentrate on its upcoming graphics card lineup. The rumors were dismissed by the company quite rapidly, but kept on going for some time, af...

17 October 2008
06:41 GMT

New MacBooks to Drop Intel Chipsets for NVIDIA's MCP79 Platform

Apple is said to have abandoned Intel's integrated graphics chipsets for NVIDIA's new chipsets aimed at mobile platforms. Sources also report that the new 13-inch notebooks are going to pack chipsets from NVIDIA's MCP79 platform, as predicted by technology journalists last week.AppleInsider is citing p...

13 October 2008
06:51 GMT

Gigabyte X58 Extreme Mobo Almost Ready to Launch

After ASUS' upcoming high-end X58-enabled Rampage II Extreme motherboard has been spotted on the Internet quite a few times already, it looks like the time has come for one of Gigabyte's upcoming Core i7-supporting motherboards to show us what it is capable of. Obviously, you shouldn't expect anything...

10 October 2008
06:59 GMT

$20 Is the Price for Atom's Chipset

Intel's Atom processor has been around for a while; we all know it already as the most power efficient and cheapest CPU on the market. Even so, there are not too many things that we are aware of when it comes to the Atom chipset. That would be the 945GC chipset, the one that makes the Atom microprocessor do its...

10 October 2008
06:31 GMT

Claim - NVIDIA Staffers Already Seeing the New MacBook Pros

NVIDIA units being included in new MacBook Pros is again subject of speculation regarding Apple's rumored MacBook line refresh. Citing “various sources,” TUAW claims NVIDIA is not only tasked with crafting parts of the new MacBooks, but that it is actually showing off the new notebook models to its s...

6 October 2008
04:40 GMT

Motherboard Makers Almost Ready with X58 Mobos

Details on Intel X58-based motherboards have been popping up on the Internet for some time now, somehow despite the fact that these boards aren't expected to be released until sometime in mid-November, along with Intel's lineup of the next-generation Core i7 processors. Now, it looks like several major moth...

29 September 2008
04:13 GMT

NVIDIA Offers a Good Indication of Blu-ray in New MacBooks

With Apple's new MacBook line approaching its (inevitable) official confirmation, speculation is starting to emerge regarding NVIDIA's new MCP7A chipset line. It is proposed that NVIDIA's latest chipset will make up the basis of new MacBooks in a move that would see Apple dropping the standard Intel la...

22 September 2008
08:53 GMT

NVIDIA to Finally Launch MCP7A IGP Chipset in September

NVIDIA's upcoming Intel-supporting IGP chipset has been delayed several times until now. Of course, this statement is true only if we also take into account the many rumors that surfaced in the meanwhile, indicating that the MCP7A IGP chipset was about to be rolled out on the market. To add more fuel to the fire...

12 September 2008
04:39 GMT

Nvidia: No SLI for AMD-Based Motherboards

Nvidia finally decided to let more customers enjoy its SLI technology by opening up a software SLI licensing to OEMs and ODMs, yet, while Intel is included in the list, the graphics card manufacturer specifically stated that AMD would be left out. Even so, this is a step forward since, for quite a long time, only Nvi...

2 September 2008
03:04 GMT

Intel Releases Security BIOS Firmware Updates for Several Boards

Intel has issued BIOS security updates for several desktop and mobile motherboards. The updates address a flaw in the Q35 chipset that can be exploited in order to run rootkits within the System Management Mode (SMM). The affected motherboard models are DQ35JO, DQ35MP, DP35DP, DG33FB, DG33BU, DG33TL, DX38BT and ...

27 August 2008
18:00 GMT

Intel's Ibex Peak Details Surface

Recently, a new round of rumors regarding Intel's next-generation mainstream and entry-level chipset, codenamed Ibex Peak, has surfaced. It looks like the upcoming chipset, due to be released in Q3 2009, is to be used for four of the company's future platforms, including the Nehalem-supporting Calpella, whi...

14 August 2008
06:30 GMT

Intel to Release New B43 Express Chipset

After announcing that its upcoming Nehalem architecture will be branded as Intel Core i7, the Santa Clara-based chip manufacturer is rumored to be working on a new chipset, which will be targeted at the small and medium business users. The rumors are yet to be confirmed but, from the looks of it, the company will be ...

11 August 2008
04:48 GMT

Foxconn Announces World's First 790GX and SB750 Solution

It's official: AMD's latest chipset has finally landed. Consequently, as expected, a number of motherboard manufacturers have already announced their brand new AM2+-based mobos. Over the next few days, we are probably also going to see quite a few 790GX-based platforms being announced. One step ahead of the...

6 August 2008
04:28 GMT

AMD's 790GX Platform Officially Launched

Advanced Micro Devices, better known just as AMD, has officially launched its latest and highly anticipated mainstream chipset. Based on one of the company’s earlier products, the 780G, the 790GX comes in a better and improved package. Now that the official release took place, this can only mean that the next couple ...

6 August 2008
03:30 GMT

NVIDIA Remains Active on the Chipset Market

The past few weeks brought a lot of news about NVIDIA, chipset manufacturer and worldwide leader in terms of graphics cards. All culminated with yesterday's news, which informed us that the Santa Clara company was on its way out of the chipset market. NVIDIA's Brian Burke seems to have contacted DailyTech t...

2 August 2008
03:32 GMT

NVIDIA Throws in the Towel - No More nForce

Most recent reports on NVIDIA seem to indicate that the Santa Clara chip maker is far from doing well. All of the company's business sections have to deal with one or another significant issue and, from the looks of it, all of them will most likely leave their mark on the company's overall performance. So m...

1 August 2008
09:16 GMT

New Intel-based NVIDIA Chipset to Arrive in August

Even if most news items about NVIDIA place the green company in not too bright a light, we must not doubt that it will continue to release new products. And that's besides the highly anticipated 55nm GeForce cards, which should virtually put the Santa-Clara based chip manufacturer in the leading position in the ...

18 July 2008
03:47 GMT

Upcoming X58 Motherboards Might Support SLI

As we mentioned in a number of previous articles, the Santa Clara-based chip manufacturer NVIDIA has seen better days. Partially responsible for this is the fact that AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, has succeeded in providing us with two of the best video cards currently available on the market. This has put eno...

14 July 2008
05:21 GMT

iPhone 3G 'Dissected'

As a big fan of the iPhone (and if you have a weak heart), it's probably best to move along while there's still time, as one of the first iPhone 3G units sold in New Zealand has just been "dissected." All of its inner parts have been removed and are now lying lifeless on a white table. Look... if you dare!i...

11 July 2008
04:40 GMT

NVIDIA Uses VIA to Get to Intel

These days, NVIDIA is almost constantly in the news, but not because it necessarily has something to brag about. It seems rather unfortunate that today's current leading graphics manufacturer is faced with so many things that it has to deal with. As we told you last week, the company had to cope with an impressi...

8 July 2008
11:07 GMT

AMD's Upcoming Chipsets Could Bring PCIe 3.0 support

It seems that today's news is all about AMD and that should make one wonder what the future of the computing industry holds. With all of the company's on-going projects, AMD is bound to make a serious impact through the release of its new product lineup.This time around, we are talking about a possible PCIe...

2 July 2008
10:42 GMT

AMD's SB800 Is a Completely New Southbridge

As we have already presented to you yesterday, details about AMD's chipset roadmap for 2009 have been found loose on the web. But because such information tends to come in bits and pieces, today we found another set of details regarding AMD's future chipsets and this time we get to take a more thorough look...

2 July 2008
04:52 GMT

Price Cuts for ASUS P45 Motherboards

It is a known fact that ASUSTek likes to pride itself as being one of the leading manufacturers of motherboards and even of consumer electronics. As if that wasn't enough, the company's ego might have just received a sudden boost from the recent "quarrel" with fellow Taiwanese competitor, Gigabyte, a feud t...

19 June 2008
03:07 GMT

Get Ready for the Next Intel Ready NVIDIA Chipset

Although Intel hasn't yet allowed NVIDIA to develop a chipset that can support the next-generation Nehalem processors, the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer is prepping a new chipset with support for Intel's CPUs. This new chipset is expected to compete with Intel's current G45 chipset, and will ...

16 June 2008
09:21 GMT


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