XFX WAS SHOWING some things you would expect at CeBIT, and one line you definitely would not, complete with a new brand. Welcome our 6990 overlords and a new brand, Aviiq.
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A COUPLE OF updates on AMD’s Antilles/HD6990, namely power and dates, both of which are hard now. That, and it’s time to dispel another long standing and recurrent rumor.
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AT THE MSI booth in the middle of CeBIT’s hall 17, there was an AMD 6990 dual GPU card on display.
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YOU PROBABLY ARE not too familiar with Giada if you live in the US, but they are starting to make some pretty interesting products. At CES this year, they had the only finished ultra-slim Brazos HTPC that we ran across. …
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AFTER MUCH SPECULATION and a lot of last minute leaks, Apple’s new MacBook Pros are here and although they don’t bring with them any great surprises, we have to say that this is Apple’s strongest line-up of notebooks ever.
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LUCIDLOGIX HAS STARTED to ship its Virtu GPU virtualization software to motherboard partners that will enable automatic switching between the onboard graphics in Intel’s Sandy Bridge sorry, second generation Core processors and a discrete graphics card. Despite it having been nearly two months since the initial announcements, thanks to a little SATA bug, it seems like LucidLogix didn’t need to rush out its software, as currently there’s something of a shortage on suitable motherboards in the shops.
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ST-ERICSSON MIGHT NOT be a name that many of us are affiliating with high-end SoC’s for mobile devices, but as of lately the company has changed gears and is getting ready to take on the big players such as Qualcomm and TI. The latest announcement from ST-Ericsson includes a wide range of new models, but the most interesting one is the upcoming Nova A9600 SoC which should be sampling towards the end of the year with PowerVR Series6 graphics.
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NVIDIA JUST FINISHED their fiscal Q4/2011 conference call, and it was mercifully short and content free. That said, there was one thing that stuck out, GPU margins.
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IF YOU’VE EVER watched a piece of video, no matter the source or quality, on a handheld device, tablet or notebook, well heck, even on a desktop or TV in your home, you’ll have run into one problem that just about every LCD screen suffers from, poor contrast ratio. We bumped into a company at the MWC called Apical that might just be about to fix this problem for good, as they’ve worked out a very different way of improving the contrast ratio compared to current solutions.
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IMAGINTATION TECHNOLOGIES PURCHASE of Caustic Graphics was somewhat perplexing at first, but after a chat earlier today with David Harold, Imagination Technologies Director of PR, things have become a lot clearer.
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THE BIGGEST LOSER in the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia is none other than Intel. While they may try to put a brave face on the matter, the simple fact remains that their Atom line is now without a future.
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TOSHIBA IS DOING something unusual with their laptops, branching out into far more niche-y product lines. They also showed off a bunch of glasses-free 3D TVs at CES as well, although these were far from impressive.
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HATS OFF TO Intel for pulling one of the most devious PR spin and coverups of the year with their chipset problems explanation. While it may be a desperate and masterful obfuscation job, if you poke a little under the surface, you can see how badly they screwed up, and how little of the truth actually came out.
Updated: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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TODAY NVIDIA UNVEILED its latest addition to the GeForce 500 series of GPUs with the introduction of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. What we’re looking at is a $250 graphics card with performance figures that should make it a very appealing upper mid-range card, well, at least until AMD’s price cut takes effect in the retail market.
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THE FINAL KEYNOTE of the Common Platform conference was given by IBM’s Garry Patton, and he talked collaboration and tech. The list of new things thrown out was pretty dizzying, but what do you expect from someone who is in charge of semiconductor R&D?
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