THERE HAVE BEEN lots of rumblings lately about a settlement between Nvidia and Intel over the chipset lawsuit. SemiAccurate has now heard from multiple sources that a settlement has indeed been reached.
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A LOT OF people don’t understand what AMD is trying to accomplish with it’s Technical Forum and Exposition (TFE). Rather than go into a long rant, we decided to interview TFE’s founder, Dr. Gamal Refai-Ahmed.
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AMD CONFIRMED WHAT we all knew, Cayman and Antilles are going to be the 6900 series. While not in the slides, they confirmed which is which in their talks.
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AMD IS AT it again, this time with mobile GPU code names. Welcome the ‘Vancouver’ series of mobile GPUs, basically a mobile version of the 6800 line.
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AMD IS THROWING out the code names like you knew they would at the 2010 Analyst Day. Couple that with a bunch of demos, and you have something interesting.
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THERE HAVE BEEN rumblings of AMD’s Bulldozer core being pulled in, and some very wild dates are floating. It is true that they are pulling it in, but not nearly as much as some speculate.
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IT LOOKS LIKE AMD just did a stealth price drop on the PhenomX6 1090T chip. Most etailers have whacked their price from the high $200s to the mid-$200s.
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LOOKS LIKE ASUS has jumped the gun on the GTX580 launch, putting it on their web site now. It confirms a lot of the specs, basically that the card is a warmed over GF100.
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POWERCOLOR IS DAYS away from launching a custom HD6850 chip, overclocked to over 800MHz. The company also just took a foray into the enthusiast power supply market too. Joy.
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ALBATRON HAS BEEN offering more specialty products, and the latest was more than enough to make us sit up and notice, 16GB DIMMs. The company has several memory products to back that up as well.
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IT’S THAT TIME of year again, yes, November, time for new high end GPUs to bloom. Luckily, ATI, sorry, AMD, is right on schedule. Cayman samples are now at AIBs.
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THE DESPERATION AT Nvidia has reached silly proportions, with the paper launch of the GTX580 pulled in from ‘Cayman Day’ to ‘Investor Conference Call Day’, both holidays in November. I wonder how many reviewers will overlook the fact that there won’t be cards this year?
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AMD TOOK THE worst possible route in naming their new 68×0 cards, and the explanations for it only make things worse. No, scratch that, it isn’t the worst possible route, but it does destroy a long standing and well thought out convention.
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TODAY, AMD IS launching two new cards from it’s Northern Islands family of GPUs, the HD6850 and HD6870. These cards, based on the ‘Barts’ chip are both mid-range players that will redefine mainstream performance and devastate Nvidia’s margins.
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AMD SHOWED OFF a Llano board last week in Los Angeles, and again today in Taipei. Take a look at it, and notice two things, how small the heat sink is, and how few components are on the board.
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