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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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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LOOK, OUT THE window, a squadron of flying pigs! No, really, they do fly, there are frozen lakes of fire being reported all over, and Nvidia’s GT300 has finally taped out.
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THE UPCOMING ATI Evergreen family finally has a name and logo, or at least they will when it is announced shortly. With a stunning level of kissing up to Redmond, the new family will be called the “7 Series”.
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WHEN YOU DO something wrong, the best thing you can do is come clean and not cover it up. Covering things up only makes things worse, especially if you do it in a panicked way.
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ONE OF THE few things worse than being woken up by an alarm clock at 7am after getting to a hotel well past midnight is being woken up before 7am by a phone call from a very angry Wolfgang Gruener. That was the first time the dirty underside of plagiarism in the IT journalism world directly made my life interesting, but far from the last.
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IT LOOKS LIKE Tweakers.net has spilled the beans of the upcoming Evergreen mobile parts from ATI. While that is the best recent leak, it is far from the only news.
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IF YOU WANT to inspect a chip, there are various ways to do it, from cheap to expensive, easy to hard. If you want to peer inside the guts of a chip package, your options are more limited, but Scanning Acoustic Microscopy is one good way to do it.
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WORD HAS REACHED us that there is an Nvidia prototype crotchtop that the company is shopping around called Firefly. The ODMs say that it will be out in the September time frame, but since Tegra is a year late already, don’t hold your breath.
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WORD HAS REACHED our tender ears that Larrabee, the upcoming Intel GPU, will not be quite as generalist as they claim. The fixed function parts will be two HD decoders.
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INTEL DROPPED A bombshell on the market today with a little bullet point and a few carefully chosen words. Opening up Atom to third parties to interface with willy-nilly went from impossible to product in the space of one slide.
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AFTER LITERALLY YEARS of silence, the new Monkey Island game is out. Yes, mere weeks after revealing it’s existence at E3, you can now get the first episode from Telltale games.
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THERE HAS BEEN a lot of false information floating around about TSMC and their 40nm process. It ranged from the overly optimistic to hopelessly wrong, so lets clear the air, it is OK now.
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