AMD’s Southern Islands tapes out
Birds bring news of new GPUs
Spring is here and the birds are flying north from their winter hiding spots, and they bring with them news from the Southern Islands. Edited 1x.
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Spring is here and the birds are flying north from their winter hiding spots, and they bring with them news from the Southern Islands. Edited 1x.
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Up until now Intel (INTC) hasn’t unveiled which PCI Express spec its upcoming LGA-1155 Ivy Bridge processors will support, but their latest roadmaps includes an update which reveals support for PCI Express 3.0, even though it’s a feature that’s not even highlighted on the slide.
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Intel (INTC) might not have launched its new chipsets with support for the Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-series of processors yet, nor the processors in question, but details of upcoming motherboards keep trickling out and today we can give you the full specifications of Asus’ upcoming P8B WS boards.
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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 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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Crucial is dropping a BoM on enterprise server memory customers with their new BoM-controlled RDIMM line. It may not seem like much if you don’t need it, but to those that do, it is worth more than gold.
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It looks like Nvidia (NVDA)just abruptly ended the term of their CFO for reasons that they don’t want public. The official explanation on why David White is going is for ‘personal reasons’, nothing to worry about there, really.
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Intel (INTC) is desperately trying to stem the tides of defection among server vendors moving to ARM (ARMH), but they are hamstrung by the company’s own market manipulation. The exclusion of competitors not only meant tepid chips that no one wants, it is now excluding the very partners that Intel wants.
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If you recall, Nvidia is claiming that their ‘new’ 500 series cards are new GPUs, but anyone testing the parts knows that they are mere bug fixes.
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This is part 2 of 2. Part 1 can be found here, and discusses the funny money around the Nokia/Microsoft deal, and how it is nothing like what the press reported.
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OCZ Technologies has just announced that they are buying Indilinx, one of the first makers of SSD and related flash controllers.
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Nvidia’s problem with honesty has cropped up again, and once again, Jen-Hsun Huang showed off something that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
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AMD’s Antilles dual GPU card, now known as the HD6990 is finally here, and it is the fastest card money can buy, period. There is only one problem, and unfortunately it is a showstopper.
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WE’RE STILL WAITING for details of AMD’s upcoming high-end APUs and CPUs to leak, but details of AMD’s upcoming E-series processors have appeared on the interweb.
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WE’VE SEEN ALL sorts of DisplayLink implementations over the past few years ranging from simple USB to display interface adapters to monitors and docking stations.
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