BACK IN SEPTEMBER ARM and Global Foundries announced that they had taped out the industry’s first 28nm ARM Cortex A9 SoC using Gate First High-K Metal Gate technology. Although not much more detail was given at the time, Global Foundries did unveil a little more of what to expect from this partnership at GTC Asia.
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EARLIER TODAY WE attended Global Foundries Technology Conference Asia 2010 (GTC) and judging by the presentations, the company is without a doubt getting ready to give it its best to beat TSMC at its own game. Global Foundries is readying its 28nm production ramp and some early products are already being made, although this is only risk production with actual full on production taking place later next year.
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WE’RE SURE THAT this isn’t coming as a surprise to anyone, but Intel will be offering embedded processors based on its Sandy Bridge core and the first models should appear around the same time as Intel’s mobile and desktop counterparts. However, the company is also readying a set of low power processors based on the mobile Sandy Bridge processors which will be slightly different from their mobile counterparts.
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ON FRIDAY WE gave you a closer look at AMD’s mobile chipsets for the Fusion platform and today we’ll look a little bit closer at the desktop chipsets. Again we’re looking at three different Hudson models, although this time things are a little bit different on the entry level compared to the mobile chipsets.
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WINDOWS PHONE 7 has finally arrived some eight months almost to the day since the new phone OS from Microsoft was first unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in February. One thing that’s certain after today’s launch is that Microsoft has the backing of the device makers with Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung all launching handsets.
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THE TECH WORLD lost two of their better people this week, both at far too young an age. It is our sad duty to inform you about the passing of Intel’s Greg Wagnon and MSI’s Cyril Pelupessy.
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UBUNTU LINUX 10.10 came out today on, well, 10/10/10. Maverick Meerkat is out for the same price as it’s predecessor, free as in beer, and free as in freedom.
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TWO SMALL LARGE flash memory devices came out this week, pushing the bounds of packaging. Kingston now has a 32GB microSD card, and SuperTalent crammed 64GB into their Pico-C format.
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SO FAR NOT a lot of information has made its way out from AMD with regards to its upcoming Fusion platforms, but we’ve gotten our hands on some information that is about to change that. AMD is readying three chipset solutions for its upcoming mobile Fusion processors, one for Ontario and two for Llano and there are some real surprises at hand.
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IT SEEMS LIKE AMD decided to call its Barts GPUs Radeon HD 6800 after all, at least according to the latest leak. Barts XT will be the Radeon HD 6870 while the Barts Pro will be the Radeon HD 6850, neither of which is a big surprise once you’ve established which series the two GPUs fall into.
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WITHOUT A DOUBT one of the biggest flaws of the USB standard is the childishly low amounts of power that can be provided and it’s been a major bugbear of the USB protocol. USB 3.0 upped it slightly, but 900mA is hardly what we’d call generous, but it seems like Intel has finally caught on and is considering some serious changes.
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IN A SHOCK to no one, SandForce announced the SF-2000 family of SATA3 SSD controllers. These new parts basically double throughput, and add a few new features as well.
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Editor’s Note: Mr. Fahey writes about his personal experience. It may not be your personal experience and nothing in this article should be considered legal advice. It is the story of one man, a smart, persistent man, solving the problem of a dead computer. You may or may not have a defective card. However, in light of the recent settlement for the class action suit involving HP, Dell and Apple models alternatives are being considered by owners. That settlement is something that you, if you’re an affected user, may opt out of and pursue legal action on your own or as part of a different class action, there are more coming, if your parts are not one of the listed parts. If you do choose to opt out of that settlement the story below is what one of your remaining options are. Mileage may vary.
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GIGABYTE’S LATEST RMA center is getting high, higher than any other support center out there. Yes, Gigabyte now has an RMA center open in Lhasa, Tibet, a mere 3650 meters above sea level.
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WE FIGURED SOME of you might be interested in knowing what Intel has planned for its next generation of Sandy Bridge Xeon processors when it comes to the model numbers and we’re afraid we have bad news; it’s gotten even more complex. If you read our piece detailing some of Intel’s new Xeon processors based on Sandy Bridge, then you’ll know that Intel has changed its numbering scheme once again and the Xeon’s now start their model name with an E and then it gets trickier from there on in.
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Although Intel has announced new high-end parts that are slated to launch later this year the i9-7900X is still Intel’s fastest desktop CPU to date.
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In this article we’ll look at the air cooled version of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64.
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Today we’ll be looking at AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU.
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In this review we’ll be looking at AMD’s other Ryzen Threadripper chip the 1920X.
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