IT DIDN’T TAKE long before pictures of the GTX470 card without a heatsink appeared, following the tantalizing pictures of the GTX480 that came out on Tuesday. However, what’s even more interesting is that early benchmark figures have finally leaked and it’s not looking good for Nvidia.
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MOST PEOPLE were amazed by Nvidia’s Q409 results. How could it reap that much profit when it doesn’t have any competitive high-end GPU products on the market? The answer is right in Nvidia’s statements and the key is to understand what supply constraint means.
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IT DOESN’T APPEAR as if Nvidia’s secret police managed to keep Fermi, or shall we say GTX480 away from the prying eyes of the press, as Tweakers.net has scored no less than three pictures of Nvidia’s latest and greatest creation, all undressed.
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GIGABYTE HAS BEEN on a tear lately, releasing tons of USB3 based mobos around CES, so the new AMD 890 chipset had to hold the line. On the GPU front, things were a bit more interesting.
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SAPPHIRE HAS STARTED to branch out from GPUs, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have a large selection of high end GPUs to show off. New to the boys in blue this year are micro-projectors, netbooks and micro-ITX boards.
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WHAT DO YOU do when there is a major international trade show, and you can’t even supply all your partners with upcoming parts? You threaten them, which is exactly what Nvidia did for its upcoming GTX480 at CeBIT.
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NVIDIA’S NEXT GENERATION ION GPU chip is upon us, but one little detail that hadn’t quite made its way out ahead of the launch is the fact that Nvidia will have two different versions available depending on the product you buy. So when is an ION not a full ION?
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GRAPHICS CARDS HAVE quickly become the most power hungry device inside a PC and we haven’t seen a drop in the power demand of high-end graphics cards despite improved manufacturing capabilities. However, Fermi appears to be taking this to the next level, although this was sort of expected.
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AMD’S LATEST IGP CHIPSET has been launched, and with CeBIT kicking off tomorrow we should be seeing a lot more announcements, but for now, ECS, Gigabyte and MSI have announced boards based on the 890GX chipset.
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THE RUMORS AND bits about Intel’s next generation core, Sandy Bridge, are starting to come out here and there, but several big chunks have still not been outed. Here are a few of them.
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THERE ARE A lot of curious things coming out of TSMC lately, and they all seem to center around dodging real questions. The problem is yields on their 40nm process, but TSMC will not address half of the reported problems publicly.
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SHUTTLE DIDN’T HAVE all too much to show at CES last month, but it seems like the company is getting ready to at least unleash something different at CeBIT next week where the company is set to unveil its new XS35 ultra-compact PC.
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WHO WOULD’VE BELIEVED that Nvidia was willing create an exclusive card with one of its partners that would only go on sale in a single country. Well, it’s true and we have sourced proof from the exclusive online retailer that will be selling these very rare cards.
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THE MAKING OF computer chips is a complicated business, not only for the chip designers but also for the foundries. TSMC’s senior VP of R&D, Shang-Yi Chiang has announced that the company is getting ready for 22nm trial runs towards the end of 2012.
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FINNISH WEBSITE MUROPAKKETI has gotten its hands on a couple of pictures of Asus’ upcoming ROG Ares graphics card and to call this a monster card would be to put it lightly. Although it’s more or less an ATI Radeon HD 5970, Asus has tweaked the design and increased the clock speeds to be able to offer something out of the ordinary.
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