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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AMD SHOWED OFF a Llano wafer at TFE 2010. Yay fusion. Click below for some pictures, more to come later today.
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WHEN YOU DON’T have any product, you spin and spin and spin. Nvidia is doing just that with the upcoming paper ‘launch’ of the GTX580.
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THE TECH WORLD lost two of their better people this week, both at far too young an age. It is our sad duty to inform you about the passing of Intel’s Greg Wagnon and MSI’s Cyril Pelupessy.
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UBUNTU LINUX 10.10 came out today on, well, 10/10/10. Maverick Meerkat is out for the same price as it’s predecessor, free as in beer, and free as in freedom.
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TWO SMALL LARGE flash memory devices came out this week, pushing the bounds of packaging. Kingston now has a 32GB microSD card, and SuperTalent crammed 64GB into their Pico-C format.
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IN A SHOCK to no one, SandForce announced the SF-2000 family of SATA3 SSD controllers. These new parts basically double throughput, and add a few new features as well.
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GIGABYTE’S LATEST RMA center is getting high, higher than any other support center out there. Yes, Gigabyte now has an RMA center open in Lhasa, Tibet, a mere 3650 meters above sea level.
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A FEW MONTHS ago, we broke the story about large chunks of EVGA’s mobo team leaving for Sapphire. Just over a month ago, the rest of the team joined their colleagues in less green pastures.
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WESTERN DIGITAL HAS joined the 3TB drive club with their new My Book Essential external HD. If you are thinking that this is simply a 3TB drive slapped into an existing USB2/3 case, you would be right.
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WHY IS NVIDIA screwing it’s partners by cutting them out and directly competing against them? That one is easy, they are circling the wagons and grabbing a bigger share of a shrinking pie because plans A and B didn’t work out.
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