INTEL DIDN’T HAVE much to announce at Computex as far as new products go, but they did offer a peek into the future. Sandy Bridge, Oak Trail, and Canoe Lake were things bandied about at Dadi Perlmutter’s keynote.
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AMD SHOWED OFF working Fusion silicon at Computex today. Here is some raw video of the live demo at the AMD press conference.
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WHAT DO YOU get if you supply 1500W to a CPU, encrypt everything with removable keys, and control the whole thing with your phone? That is easy, the new Gigabyte motherboards.
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A YEAR AGO, AMD showed off the first Evergreen part, it was a Juniper wafer and a card behind the scenes. Tomorrow morning, Taiwan time, a few birds told us that AMD will be showing off Fusion silicon.
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GLOBAL FOUNDRIES HAD a press conference today that not only announced a two huge fab expansions, but also explained why they chose the term global. ATIC, the investment arm of Abu Dhabi is thinking long term, and that is what you need in the foundry business.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the GTX480M notebooks are floating, just like we said at CeBIT, and at Computex, they are the highlight of the Clevo booth. While the performance may not impress many enthusiasts, several of their other designs just might.
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EVERY ONCE IN a while comes a magical moment when a lot of disparate things collide in the presence of a video camera. That, and a shocking lack of alcohol, lead to the first SemiAccurate video, an entry in AMD’s “What Would You Do With 48 Cores?” contest.
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SEMIACCURATE MANAGED TO snap a few pics of six new Gigabyte mobos, from fire-breathing Intel X58s and AMD 890FXs to diminutive micro-ATX systems. There is a lot to like in this new round of motherboards.
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I AM NOT sure why the technical world suddenly all came to the same misunderstanding that Intel’s Larrabee is dead, it most assuredly is not. In fact, if you actually read the not-an-anouncement from Intel yesterday, you will see that it simply does not put the knife in, but rather brings a lot of clarity to the chip’s position.
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NOTEBOOKS WITH INTEL’s Core i range of processors appear to be getting shrinking and Asus smallest model should be the 12-inch UL20FT which is set to launch at Computex. The chassis should be similar to the UL20A, but we don’t have the exact details so you’ll have to bear with us until Computex for the final list of features.
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INTEL SHOULD BE getting ready to out a few new LGA-1156 processors very soon, although we don’t have a precise date. The good news is that we’ll see two more quad cores as well as an additional dual core model. All three models are an evolutionary step and there isn’t all that much to get excited about with the possible exception being the Core i5 760.
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NO, IT’S NOT April fools, Google really did announce Google TV at Google I/O today and although it might sound utterly daft to incorporate Google search into a TV, the demos shown were quite impressive, when they worked. It’s early days as yet, but it seems like Google has managed to drum up enough support from a wide range of key players to make it a success, a huge success at that.
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IT’S ABOUT TIME that Intel has gotten around to removing one of its dumbest restrictions on netbooks, screen size. Up until now netbooks have been restricted to 10-inch displays or below, well, at least if the manufacturers wanted to get special pricing from Intel for the CPU’s and chipsets. There have been a few larger models in the market, but most of them have used Nvidia’s ION chipset, so those models have fit into a slightly more expensive product category.
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ASUS LAUNCHED A range of new bamboo notebooks late last week in Taipei, Taiwan and we were on location and snapped a few shots of these so called environmentally friendly models. Although the lid and wrist rest on all three models are made from bamboo which can be considered quite environmentally friendly, the rest of the notebooks are using more common notebook materials.
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PROJECT NATAL IS set to be announced at E3 next month and should launch in October or November, at least in some parts of the world. There are still many parts that are unclear, including the pricing of what is set to be a potential winner for Microsoft in the console war. Now a Swedish online retailer has gone and posted a price of the upcoming Xbox 360 accessory and might prove to be a bit more expensive than expected.
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