SUPER TALENT just announced a line of DIMMs it is calling ‘green’ because they use less raw materials and packaging. It’s a good idea with an attractive marketing spin for the company, but the truly important ramifications are more subtle.
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INTEL HAS TALKED about Becton, now called Nehalem EX, without going into many technical details. At Hot Chips 21, it is starting to talk about the guts of the chip, and it is very different from the EX-free Nehalems.
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AMD FINALLY STARTED to publicly talk about Magny-Cours and socket G34 during the Hot Chips 21 conference. The socket has a lot of complexities, so for now, we will only take a look at the interconnects, both on chip and off.
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HAVING HAD more than my fair share of conversations with Nvidia personnel, one thing became painfully clear – they just didn’t get the concepts of reliability and testing. This became painfully clear with their flailing over the bumpgate fiasco.
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HOW DO YOU SAY irony in corporate-speak? How about AT&T selling a service that it can’t show, demonstrate or debug properly in its stores because its IT department only lets its staff use Internet Explorer.
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ONE OF THE best open secrets in the industry is about Larrabee and it’s eventual integration into Intel’s core Core CPU line. It is going to happen, just a bit later than many expect.
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NVIDIA KEEPS HOWLING that it will have GT300 out this year, so we did a little digging on the topic. All you can say is that it seems willing to fritter away large swaths of its and TSMC’s cash to meet a PR goal.
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WHAT DO YOU do when a large company you are doing business with flatly refuses to obey the law? T-Mobile did that to us the other day, and now they have taken customer service to a low that is hard to put into words. Yes Virginia, it can get worse.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the first GT300 chip out the door is not only big, but it will be expensive too. GT300 is going to have an NVIO chip like some of it’s predecessors.
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EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE you hear of poor corporate behavior, but T-Mobile just told me that it simply would not follow the law. No, really, one of its droids was read the law, offered a chance to look it up, and still said no way.
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WORD IS HITTING the street about the last ATI Evergreen card. The top 5 were recently named, but there is a sixth lurking in the shadows.
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SONY HAS FINALLY done the right thing, somewhat, years late, and admitted their overpriced but fragile laptops are affected by defective Nvidia chips. How much do you think it cost Nvidia, $119M or so?
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AMD FINALLY CAME out with their dual core Neo CPU line. The new models are the BGA packaged Athlon Neo X2 L325 and Turion Neo X2 625.
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SINCE WE BROKE the news about Nvidia’s GT300 and it’s huge die size, there is more about the family that has come to light. It will have some ankle biting offspring in short order.
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INTEL PUT OUT four new Nehalem CPUs today for both server and workstation markets. They are mostly just speed and power variants of the current chips, both on the low and high end.
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