Yet To Be Named Roundup
Bulldozer, Llano, and GTX 590
Give a warm welcome to the latest on our team Thomas Ryan. He’ll be doing a weekly roundup. Please suggest a name for the roundup on twitter @SemiAccurate. Thank you.
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Give a warm welcome to the latest on our team Thomas Ryan. He’ll be doing a weekly roundup. Please suggest a name for the roundup on twitter @SemiAccurate. Thank you.
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We’re not going to see a ton of MeeGo phones, but it appears that MeeGo netbooks are a lot closer than we thought.
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Fujitsu (FJTSY) might not be the most prolific motherboard manufacturer, but they’ve taken over the business from Siemens (SI) and are producing a range of industrial level motherboards.
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It looks like Oracle (ORCL) is hell-bent on alienating all their friends and allies while protecting their own faltering hardware.
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Being the only company with a product in the market with high demand can sometimes be a serious problem and for Renesas (RNECF) things are starting to look bad, as the company is low on supply of its uPD720200 USB 3.0 host controllers and is expecting to run out sometime in May.
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We don’t have a lot of details at hand, nor has AMD (AMD) or the USB-IF issued a press release on the matter, but according to the USB-IF product database, AMD has gained USB-IF certification for both of its upcoming high-end Llano chipsets with integrated USB 3.0 support.
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A couple of weeks ago, yours truly wrote a news story relating to Texas Instruments (TXN) gaining USB-IF certification for two of its upcoming USB 3.0 host controllers that reflected on the fact that none of its smaller competitors have achieved certification, yet all of them are already shipping silicon.
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It looks like the Nvidia (NVDA) GTX590/dual GPU slides are starting to leak, and just as we said a year ago, Nvidia is bitten by their woeful power use.
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When it comes to various computer components standardisation is usually a fairly long and drawn out process and sometimes the industry uptake never ends up getting enough momentum so the standard never takes off.
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For whatever reason there seems to be something of a drive in making portable displays this year and we’ve already seen a 15.4-inch model from Mobile Monitor Technologies that launched during CES.
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It looks like an exodus of high level folk is starting at Intel (INTC) with Anand Chandrasekher leaving the company.
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We’re all familiar with Mr Blurrycam, but now it seems like manufacturers have figured out that this is a good way to put your products out there without revealing too much detail.
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In as much as we appreciate that Intel (INTC) is selling a range of CPUs and some of them have had certain functions fused off in the manufacturing process to create a range of models, something that has been done for years, we’re none too impressed by Intel’s latest move.
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You know it’s bad when a security company gets hacked, but when a company like RSA gets hacked, then it’s really bad.
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Western Digital has launched a solution for those that don’t need a little bit of extra storage, although come to think about it, 6TB isn’t really all that much, is it?
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