THE BATTLE FOR GPU SUPREMACY this coming winter solstice holiday season is looking like Nvidia is bringing a dull butter knife and a blindfold to a howitzer fight. At least that is the impression its latest round of roadmaps is giving.
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THIS WEEK’S hardware roundup has suffered a bit of a delay, so we’ll try and make up for lost time by putting some extra ‘oomph’ into it.
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NVIDIA IS DOING what it knows how to do best once again – not making chips, but renaming old parts into the new ‘GT300’ series. Yes, it is funny, but there is a good reason for the renaming.
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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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FAR IN THE EAST, HKEPC got something we’ve all been waiting for: a full review of Clarkdale and a head-to-head against Nvidia’s 9400m IGP. Pay attention to page 6, lots of interesting figures there including power consumption and 3Dmark and gaming scores. The GPU core – as powerful as it might be – doesn’t come close to Nvidia’s… But Charlie will definitely have something interesting to add to this further on…
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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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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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SemiAccurate hereby breaks in something that we intend to be your first choice in online hardware review coverage. At SemiAccurate you’ll find a one-stop selection of red-hot hardware reviews, starting right now. We’ll be gathering together here the best of what we’ve found online around the web and giving it to you straight up.
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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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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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AMD HAS FINALLY launched their new chipset, called the 785G. It is a 780G variant with a lot of polish and a few new tricks up it’s sleeve.
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