IT LOOKS LIKE we were right about Fermi being too big, too hot, and too late, Nvidia just castrated it to 448SPs. Even at that, it is a 225 Watt part, slipping into the future.
Updated: Nvidia declines to respond
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KOREAN MEMORY MANUFACTURER Hynix has announced that it has started to produce 2Gb GDDR5 memory chips using a 40nm manufacturing process. The significance of this is that Hynix will be able to get more memory chips per wafer, but apparently this isn’t the only benefit from shrinking the fab process.
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INTEL IS ABOUT to launch its first 32nm processors in early January, with 22nm next on its roadmaps, but it seems like Intel has been beaten to 16nm by the Taiwan National Nano Device Laboratories (NDL). However, NDL is a research and development outfit rather than a profit seeking enterprise and as such is looking for partners in Taiwan to take its research forward.
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REMEMBER THE TRIUMPHANT WIN for Fermi at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory that Nvidia heavily touted at its GDC conference keynote? The supercomputer project was just killed for power reasons. Fermi power reasons. Whoops.
Update: Nvidia doesn’t respond.
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WE’VE COME ACROSS an interesting bit of information that we’re fairly certain that no SSD maker would want you to know about. With the current push of SSD drives into every sector of the computer market, no-one seems to have stopped to take a closer look at the drives themselves, but instead everyone’s raving about the performance.
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SISOFT SANDRA 2010 was just released, and the big news is that it now has OpenCL based GPGPU benchmarks. They look to be a fairly well rounded and test both compute capabilities and I/O.
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WITH SEVERAL REALLY useful new standards on the horizon, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a board or two that did both, USB3.0 and SATA3, and did them well? If you have been waiting for such a beast, the ‘333 Series’ Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 and X58 Extreme 2 are the boards for you.
Updated: Name changes
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G.SKILL’S LATEST AND GREATEST memory kit, the F3-17600CL7D-4GBPIS, comes specified at an impressive 2200Mhz CAS7, and even more impressive is that it only needs 1.65V to get there.
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OFFICIAL WORD FROM NVIDIA is that gaming is now a footnote for the formerly leading graphics company, its latest and greatest Fermi chip won’t see the light of day until at least Q1 of 2010, and Fermi’s clock speeds so far are massively off what the firm had hoped for. Yup, it is a mess, just like we told you.
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HP ANNOUNCED that it will buy 3Com for $2.7 billion the other day, and with one swipe of pen on checkbook validated Cisco’s strategy. HP also showed that it won’t be able to compete in the converged network arena for years to come.
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THREE VERY INTERESTING tidbits snuck out in the Q&A session at the AMD analyst day today. It seems that Fusion and the new cores have taped out and are at the fabs.
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AT ANALYST DAY, Chekib Akrout of AMD spilled the beans on the chip company’s two new CPU cores, and Fusion. AMD’s Bulldozer and Bobcat processors plus its memory controller that is called Fusion were all outed.
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SUPERTALENT IS THE FIRST out of the gate with a USB 3.0 RAID memory stick it calls RAIDDrive. This thing is said to hit 320MBps when it’s plugged into a USB 3.0 port.
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ONE OF THE more interesting conferences of the year is AMD’s TFE, or Technical Forum and Exposition. If you have never heard of TFE, that is likely because this conference on near future thermal and power management technology is by invitation only.
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WHEN DIRECTX10 came along it wowed gamers with its features, but underwhelmed with the performance hit you took. So now, Windows 7 is just around the corner and Vista is pretty much toast. Now DirectX11 is stepping and some major gaming titles are about to get upgraded to benefit from the new API. Here’s a preview.
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