Jul 11, 2010

What Nvidia should do now

Bumpgate: Part Three – The cock up

Editors Note: From time to time, SemiAccurate will be republishing some older articles by its authors, some with additional commentary, updates and information.  We are mainly reprinting some of the oft referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 10:03AM.
Read more ▶


Jul 11, 2010
1

Nvidia chips show underfill problems

Bumpgate: Electron microscopes reveal a lot

Editors Note: From time to time, SemiAccurate will be republishing some older articles by its authors, some with additional commentary, updates and information.  We are mainly reprinting some of the oft referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 10:37AM.
Read more ▶


Jul 11, 2010

Investigation confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material

Bumpgate: We break out the electron microscope

Editors Note: From time to time, SemiAccurate will be republishing some older articles by its authors, some with additional commentary, updates and information.  We are mainly reprinting some of the oft referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 11:20AM.
Read more ▶


Jul 11, 2010

Nvidia plays the meltdown blame game

Bumpgate: Official story doesn’t mesh with reality

Editors Note: From time to time, SemiAccurate will be republishing some older articles by its authors, some with additional commentary, updates and information.  We are mainly reprinting some of the oft referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Monday, July 7, 2008 at 5:32PM.
Read more ▶


Jul 11, 2010

Nvidia recommends not buying it’s defective chips

Bumpgate: Told ya so

Editors Note: From time to time, SemiAccurate will be republishing some older articles by its authors, some with additional commentary, updates and information.  We are mainly reprinting some of the oft referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Friday, December 26, 2008 at 03:26PM.

Read more ▶


Jul 9, 2010

Super Talent Announces 4GB DDR3 DIMMs with 2000MHz Special Sauce

Beef patties, pickles, lettuce and seasame seed buns optional

The year was 2000.  Will Smith’s horrid “Will 2K” jam was finally fading from the radio waves and the scarred minds of millions across the globe.  In March, CPU underdog AMD dropped the gigahertz bomb on us, sending shockwaves throughout the tech community, and lighting a fire under Intel’s ass so intense, the heat wasn’t fully dissipated until the last Prescott chip rolled off the assembly lines.  AMD had (inadvertently or not) ignited what we all came to know as the GHz war, with Intel fighting for consumer mindshare by turning the GHz dial up to 11 (well, 3.8 anyway), while AMD desperately tried to keep up by ratcheting up their own clock speeds, and slapping on performance rating numbers to show the average Joe that they could still play with the big boys.
Read more ▶


Jul 8, 2010

Upcoming netbooks gets pushed back to clear inventory

Atom set to replace Celeron in the mobile space?

IF YOU’VE SET your mind on one of the new dual core mobile Atom netbooks that Acer has been teasing us with, well, then you might have to wait a little while longer as it seems like both Acer and Asus have decided to delay its dual core moble Atom netbooks until sometime towards the middle of August. Part of the reason behind this is meant to be stock clearing of netbooks with single core Atom processors.
Read more ▶


Jul 8, 2010

Gigabyte’s GTX460 leaks, benchmarks in tow

Not going to set the world on fire

IF THE LEAKED information in a Gigabyte presentation is indeed correct, then the GeForce GTX460 is set to launch on the 12th of July. Normally product presentation leaks contain the usual details you’d expect such as clock speeds, ports, bundles, pricing etc. except this time a full set of benchmarks were also included which makes this leak slightly more interesting than usual.
Read more ▶


Jul 7, 2010

Taiwan wants a piece of the cloud computing market

The Taiwan Cloud Computing Consortium has its first meeting

TAIWANESE COMPANIES ARE always on the lookout for the next big thing and it seems like this time around they’re taking a stab at cloud computing. The Taiwan Cloud Computing Consortium was established back in April, but only had its first meeting as of yesterday. The TCCC as it’s known as is a co-operation between the government funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and over 60 local Taiwanese technology companies.
Read more ▶