Nvidia chipsets are defective too

Bumpgate: Only 630, 7050, 7100 and 7150 changed for no reason

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Why Nvidia’s Chips are defective

Bumpgate: Part One – A long and complex story

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Why Nvidia’s duff chips are due to shoddy engineering

Bumpgate: Part Two – The underfill

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What Nvidia should do now

Bumpgate: Part Three – The cock up

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Nvidia chips show underfill problems

Bumpgate: Electron microscopes reveal a lot

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Investigation confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material

Bumpgate: We break out the electron microscope

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Nvidia plays the meltdown blame game

Bumpgate: Official story doesn’t mesh with reality

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Nvidia recommends not buying it’s defective chips

Bumpgate: Told ya so

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MSI’s two new Fuzion boards nearly here

Intel P55 and AMD 870 with Lucid Hydra

MSI IS GETTING ready to unleash two new motherboards with Lucid’s Hydra chip, but unlike the Big Bang Fuzion, the two new models should turn out to be a bit more wallet friendly. First up we have the P55A Fuzion which is the Big Bang Fuzion’s little brother so to say, as this board is also based on the Intel P55 chipset. The second board, the 870A Fuzion is based on AMD 870 chipset and is MSI’s first AMD board to feature Lucid’s Hydra.
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Texas Instruments USB 3.0 host controller almost here

Other key parts ready today

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS HASN’T been in a hurry to bring its USB 3.0 products to market, but it now appears that the company is getting ready to start rolling out its first few products. Today TI announced the availability of a USB 3.0 physical layer transceiver called the TUSB1310 which is targeting a wide range of devices such as smartphones, portable media players, navigation devices and digital still and video cameras etc.
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