AMD APPEARS TO BE getting ready to unveil a couple of additions to its range of ATI Radeon HD 5000-series cards over the next few weeks. Although the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 has already been demoed, the Radeon HD 5830 is likely to end up very high on a lot of people’s wish list if the price is right.
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, S3 graphics is getting ready to show off its first dual GPU card. However, the venue at which the company will be launching this card might give away that it’s not for gamers, but rather for those that need something a little bit out of the ordinary.
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IT IS THAT TIME of year again, Nvidia’s quarterly conference call for the financial set. Since the company gets pouty every time we try to ask it questions, we decided to publish an open list of questions for you, the people they have far less disdain for than SemiAccurate, to ask directly.
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INTEL JUST GOT some competition against its Light Peak interface, as NEC has just demoed a faster, yet to be named high-speed serial communications interface that can pull off speeds of up to 16Gbps. This puts Light Peak’s 10Gbps, er, in the shade.
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WITH ANOTHER LAUNCH of the Nvidia GT300 Fermi GF100 GTX480 upon us, it is time for an update on the status of that wayward part. Production parts have been coming back from TSMC for several weeks now, and the outlook for them is grim.
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AMD HAS ANNOUNCED its latest Catalyst 10.2 drivers, which in itself isn’t really big news as AMD has been releasing graphics drivers on a monthly basis for quite some time now. However, what is the new is that AMD is aiming to offer monthly driver updates for those with a Radeon Mobility card in their notebook, which is a huge step forward.
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IN 2004 IBM WAS STRUGGLING with its notebook and desktop unit because of a bloated structure and high costs, and Lenovo was a happy Chinese manufacturer with plenty of cash and anxious for an acquisition and expansion abroad.
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WE’RE NOT SURE if hell just froze over or not, but Verizon Wireless has announced that it has teamed up with Skype to deliver unlimited free Skype-to-Skype calls for its customers. There’s a catch of course, although it’s a rather small one.
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WE WERE EXPECTING a fair few ARM partner announcements during the Mobile World Congress and so far we haven’t been disappointed. Texas Instruments and ST-Ericsson have both announced dual core ARM CortexA9 MPCore based products with clock speeds in excess of 1GHz.
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MICROSOFT WASN’T JOKING when it said that Windows Phone 7 was redesigned from the bottom up, well, at least not as far as we could tell from today unveiling at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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OUT OF THE BLUE, Intel and Nokia announced that they’re working on a new open source Linux based operating system called MeeGo that builds on Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo platforms. This was the only joint announcement at the Mobile World Congress and we’re slightly disappointed that it wasn’t a new x86 based CPU.
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ARM LOOKS SET to have field day at the Mobile World Congress next week as its licensees show off new products. Today Marvell released details of upcoming products that looks set to draw a lot of attention for different reasons. On top of that, both NEC and Texas Instruments are set to show off new products at the show.
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A SOLUTION IS at hand for those that find it complicated to set up their 3G data connection on their notebook or netbook, as Sagem Orga had developed a SIM card with a built in WiFi hotspot in cooperation with Telefonica.
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WHAT DO YOU DO when your company does not have a competitive product in the most profitable market segment, your competitors are developing products that will kill your share in the high volume segments and the puppy in the pipeline is not looking that promising?
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IT SEEMS LIKE Asus’ spin-off of Pegatron has been given the green light, as the two companies are set to part officially on June 24th when they each get their own stock on the Taipei stock exchange. During the period between the 8th of May and the 23rd of June all trading with Asus’ stock will be suspended.
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