WE CAN’T HELP but to giggle a little bit when big companies like Dell manage to leak their own upcoming products ahead of the actual launch. It seems that Dell’s new Inspiron notebooks have tipped up on its website with just about all of the specs you’d need to make a purchasing decision, although with the slight caveat that the models aren’t actually on sale as yet.
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WHAT DO YOU do when the next generation display interface refuses to become the standard, despite all its apparent advantages? Well, if you’re Chrontel, then you make bridge chips that allow for the new interface, in this case DisplayPort, to be fitted to the graphics card, while the panel manufacturers can continue to churn out panels with LVDS or mini-LVDS interfaces.
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2011 SHOULD HOPEFULLY prove to be a big year for AMD, as it’s the year when its Fusion platform will launch and it seems like the company is already having high hopes for its new platform, so let’s hope it delivers. We’re not sure that AMD is aiming for the right market though, as it seems like at least some forces within AMD want to stick Fusion in a slate, or rather, tablet device.
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THE OFFICIALL WORD has finally made its way out from Nvidia in the shape of an interview with Drew Henry, the general manager for the MCP business unit at Nvidia. There are some very interesting comments in the interview and among other things he claims that Nvidia is happy with the Fermi yields.
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AN UNCONFIRMED RUMOUR about Nvidia’s third GF100 based card has appeared on a German website, stating that the new card should launch on the first day of Computex. It’s said to be called the GeForce GTX460, but it looks set to be quite different from the two models that Nvidia has launched so far.
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ATI IS ON A ROLL, having taped out its next generation GPU family called Southern Islands. ATI might call it the HD6xxx series, and it could be out before Nvidia gets its GTX4xx line of GPUs fully fleshed out and to market.
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NVIDIA’S TEGRA LINE is not doing well. Sales expectations are being guided down, and the chip is losing major contracts in shocking numbers. To make things more palatable to the financial community, Nvidia is playing a very cynical PR game for the technically unaware.
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NVIDIA SEEMS TO BE telling porkies again, this time in an area where it is quick to criticize others. Its OpenGL 4.0 driver promises once again suggest that honesty is not a core corporate value at Nvidia.
Updated: They are out, sort of.
Updated 2x: Failed by 2 weeks according to their own words.
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WE’RE SORRY IF you’re sick and tired of reading about USB 3.0 this and USB 3.0 that, lately, but Blackmagic Design has actually launched what appears to be the first really useful USB 3.0 product beyond various storage solutions. Well, so it has a fairly limited appeal, as Blackmagic Designs new Intensity Shuttle is an external HDMI and analogue video capture product.
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IT LOOKS LIKE Nvidia’s legendary honesty is matched only by its counting skills, at least that is what it looks like after the GTX470 and GTX480 launch numbers leaked. If you believed the 30,000 number, well, it was off by a lot.
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GTX480 MAY HAVE ‘LAUNCHED’ but the story is far from over. The first derivative part, GF104, is coming, and there is a mysterious new code name on the far horizon.
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DURING THE USB-IF developer’s conference we had a chat with a representative from Texas Instruments, as the company was demoing various upcoming USB 3.0 solutions, including a USB 3.0 hub design, a USB 3.0 repeater and USB 3.0 to SATA bridge solutions.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the GPU roadmaps are being torn up and plan B’s are coming out of the woodwork left and right. The current problem? TSMC’s 28nm process, or lack thereof.
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LAST MAY, we said that GTX480, then called GT300, was going to be hot, slow, big, underperforming, hard to manufacture, and most of all late. Almost a year later, Nvidia can’t even launch PR quantities at the promised spec of 512 shaders.
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CONSIDERING THE COST of Nvidia’s new flagship graphics cards, there’s no wonder that its partners are already looking at ways of reducing the manufacturing costs. Inno3D is the first one to release details of a modified GTX470 PCB and it comes in green rather than black, which is the colour of the first retail cards, although this doesn’t appear to be cost-down version, quite the opposite.
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