AMD LAUNCHED IT’S first new GPU architecture in four years last week, Cayman aka the HD6900 series. Lets take a look at the cards themselves, and how they perform, with a lot of emphasis on the new PowerTune feature.
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Much to chagrin of graphics chip Etch-a-Sketcher’s everywhere, Elpida is rolling out its new DRAM chips on a 30nm process. Sampling of certain 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM modules has already begun, and large-scale availability of these minified silicon marvels is expected in Q1 2011. Benefits of this process enhancement are good for everybody as chips will be smaller, cheaper, larger, and faster and consume less power to boot.
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NVIDIA’S FIRST DESIGN win as far as smartphones are concerned was announced today by LG in the shape of the Optimus 2X, an Android handset with a pretty rich feature set outside of the Tegra 2 processor. The Optimus 2X is equipped with a 1GHz dual core Tegra 2 processor, a 4-inch screen and some other goodies that should make this a really attractive Android handset in terms of features.
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MANY OF YOU might not remember the glory days – well, ok, they weren’t that glorious – when PowerVR was a name that you had to consider when you bought a desktop 3D graphics card, but the company behind the technology is still alive and kicking, more so than ever and they are buying Caustic Graphics. Ok, hang on; let’s start from the beginning shall we, as neither of these companies is that well known outside of their respective circles, so let’s take a look at what’s going on here.
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RUMOURS ARE STARTING to come in that Apple is considering dumping Nvidia graphics on its entry level notebooks in favour of Intel’s new integrated graphics in the upcoming Sandy Bridge processors. Considering that Apple has to move away from Nvidia’s chipset if it’s planning to bring its entire line of notebooks to the Sandy Bridge platform, then Apple doesn’t have much choice.
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GOOGLE ITSELF HAS revealed more details about its upcoming Chrome OS and surprisingly its first Chrome notebook which will be part of a pilot program open to both businesses and the public. This is not the first cloud based OS around, but it’s most likely set to be the one to have the biggest impact once it launches next year.
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TODAY NVIDIA LAUNCHED YET another Nvidia GeForce R-series card, short for rebrand, but that is not the only one. At CES, Nvidia will launch the GF119 along with a whole series of all new rebrands.
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THE MUCH RUMOURED and anticipated Google Nexus S has finally been unveiled by Google, alongside the even much more anticipated release of Android 2.3. The bad news in the first case is that you have to wait until the 16th of December to be able to purchase one and in the latter case that so far only Nexus One owners will be able to get their hands on Android 2.3 initially, well, that’s only bad news if you don’t own a Nexus One.
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IT DIDN’T TAKE long for Nvidia to announce its first mobile GeForce 500-series part and the GeForce GT 540M is what brings its mobile GPU’s forward a generation, or does it? Considering that pretty much all of the specifications are the same as the GeForce GT 435M, bar some adjustments in clock speed, this seems to be yet another rebrand to please its OEM partners, albeit this time it appears to be a China exclusive.
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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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EARLIER TODAY WE attended the launch of three new U-series notebooks from Asus and with the U-series being Asus’ “super mobility” series of notebooks, our expectations were set fairly high, especially after yesterday’s leak of the U36. To be fair, the U36 didn’t disappoint in the flesh, but the other two models, the U31 and U41 are fairly run-of-the-mill models considering the category Asus has placed them in.
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A DAY AHEAD of the official launch, Asus’ new U36 notebook has made its way online courtesy of no less than three leaks, one of them being by the company itself. The company might very well unveil more new models tomorrow and either which way, we’ll be at the launch event to bring you the full details.
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For all the marvelous feats that modern “smart” phones can perform, I am constantly amazed by the constant stupidity of my own handset. Why, for instance, is there no option to disable the ringer during a calendar event for a class or meeting? Why does it tell me I have 300,000 updates to install and not give me a single button to “Install All”? Why does it not have a telescoping handle and constant vibrate mode for impromptu back-rubs? Luckily it would appear that Nokia and other developers for iToys and RoboPhones are working on fixing at least some of these important issues.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the CFast cards we exclusively showed you last spring are actually dead, the CF association didn’t deem 300MBps fast enough. Instead, they went with a newer spec that will hit 500MBps. Unfortunately, it is still a compact flash card, so no one really cares.
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WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST bit of noise, AMD has – well, we can’t really call it launch, but you get the picture – released its Radeon HD 6300M and 6500M series of mobile GPUs. Now these GPU families aren’t new to us, as we discovered that Acer is getting ready to support both in its TimelineX series of notebooks a little while back.
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