WE’VE COVERED BOTH Asus and Gigabyte’s upcoming LGA-1155 boards in some detail, so we figured it was time to take a look at what MSI has up its sleeve. Today we’ll take a closer look at MSI’s H67 mATX boards which consists of at least four different models, although there might be more models coming.
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TODAY WE HAVE something a little bit different from or usual content, as we have a Q&A with Terrance Shih who is a PM at VIA Labs. We asked him some questions about VIA Labs, its USB 3.0 product line and how they see themselves positioned in the market, so with no further ado, here’s what he had to say.
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ALTHOUGH IT’S NOT the first time a motherboard manufacturer – or computer accessory manufacturer for that matter – has teamed up with a professional PC gamer to flog its wares, we have to wonder what ASRock was thinking when they teamed up with Fatal1ty, aka Johnathan Wendel. As much as he was one of the best professional gamers out there in first person shooter games, he’s become more of a brand than a gamer these days and in all honesty, we can’t say that we think he’s a great brand.
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In the spirit of the season, Rambus Inc. is giving out another round of subpoenas to all of its friends in the tech industry. Most interesting among the defendants perhaps is nVidia, who only months ago signed a licensing agreement with Rambus to end an ITC blockade of its products, (virtually their whole portfolio), which infringed on Rambus’s patents. Round 2, or 3, or 400ish… Ding!
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IT’S BEEN A LONG time since Zotac last had a new AMD mini-ITX board in its line-up, but today the company launched two new models, both using AMD chipsets which is a first for Zotac. The 880G-ITX and the M880G-ITX are quite similar if you just compare features, but the two couldn’t actually be more different.
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WORD BACKING UP our exclusive story about Intel and Nvidia settling their patent feud is finally starting to trickle out. As we said over two weeks ago, this case is settled and both sides are just waiting for the ink to dry.
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If IBM has its way, QPI and HyperTransport are about to look about as fast as your mom’s 56K modem. It seems that copper interconnects are simply not good enough anymore, and IBM researchers have developed a way to incorporate nano-scale CMOS optical devices onto the same slab of silicon your old-and-busted electron based transistors are fabbed on. This allows chips to use pulses of light to communicate with each other rather than electrical signals to achieve some mind boggling bandwidth numbers.
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THE IVY BRIDGE server code names are starting to leak out of Intel central at long last. This one is a high end server part with some interesting connotations.
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ALTHOUGH FRESCO LOGIC is still a USB-IF certification short of a sellable product, the company has finally launched its two port xHCI 1.0 FL1009 USB 3.0 host controller. Earlier today we had a chance to sit down for a chat with Bob McVay, the CTO of Fresco Logic and he gave us an insight into Fresco Logic and why it has taken so long time to bring this product to market, among many things.
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WE’VE ALREADY DUG out some early Sandy Bridge pricing, but is seems like the floodwalls have opened and by now we have what’s hopefully going to be Intel’s launch pricing for its new series of desktop parts. This time we can offer you a top to bottom price list as well, including the S and T models as well as the Core i3’s and Pentium’s.
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IF YOU ARE one of the people craving large amounts of memory in your server but wincing at the DIMM counts for Sandy Bridge and Bulldozer servers, there is hope. That hope comes in the form of an LR-DIMM.
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A LOT OF people have been wondering what is going on with AMD’s Llano chip, tipped to arrive before Ontario, now delayed until Q2/2011. The story is a bit complex, but after weeks of digging, we can bring it to you with a new surprise ending.
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AMD DID MENTION that it wanted a slice of the tablet market and it seems like this is happening sooner rather than later, as Acer has announced that it will be launching an AMD powered tablet sometime in February next year. At the same time the company announced that it’s readying two Android tablets, both powered by ARM and all three tablets are said to have dual core processors.
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CONSIDERING WE’RE STILL about a month and a half from Intel’s Sandy Bridge launch, we’re surprised to see that the pricing has already leaked, courtesy of a Swedish online retailer. The best part of the new is that the overclockable K models are only slightly more expensive than the non K models, something which should be good news for those wanting to try their luck at overclocking their new Sandy Bridge setup.
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WE’RE NOT SURE what’s going on over at AMD, but in a blog post on AMD’s official blog, AMD’s product marketing director, John Taylor, is commending both Intel and ARM for adding support for OpenCL to its products. It does, of course, also tell the tale of how AMD has been supporting OpenCL since 2009, but that’s a different story, right?
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