DESPTITE LACK OF support from both Intel and AMD, it seems that USB 3.0 is set to be something of a hit. NEC has announced that it has so far shipped no less than 3 million of its USB 3.0 controllers and that it’s getting ready to ramp up production.
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SPECULATIONS ABOUT A smaller Xbox 360 have taken off again today after a picture of what is said to be a new Xbox 360 motherboard has appeared on a Chinese forum. Rumours of a smaller Xbox 360 started way back in 2008 with speculations about a 45nm chip codenamed Valhalla that was supposed to appear last year but never showed up.
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NVIDIA HAS FINALLY taped out a Fermi GF100 derivative, but it is not what you might think. Contrary to its public bluster, Nvidia isn’t going for the high end this time.
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INTEL WON BACK most of the lead that AMD had earned in the server market with the Conroe and Penryn generation of CPUs, and erased the rest with the Nehalem generation. Today marks the release of Westmere-EP, the 6 core 32nm update to Nehalem, and the Intel lead just gets wider.
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IF YOU’RE LOOKING for a somewhat more affordable Xeon system, then Intel’s latest 32nm Xeon L3406 might be of interest to you, as the new CPUs start at as little as $189 for a dual core, quad threaded model. Although this CPU will fit in various motherboards, the ideal companion would be a motherboard with the Intel 3450 chipset and guess what, Asus has just announced a new motherboard based on just that chipset.
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THE EARLY RUSH to place pre-orders for the iPad has slowed down to something more akin to a trickle only days after Apple opened up its US pre-order program. On Friday last week, Apple had as many pre-orders as 25,000 an hour, but by Sunday this had slowed to a much more reasonable estimate of 1,000 units per hour.
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IT APPEARS THAT the SSD price war has finally started, at least on the entry level end of the market. Intel has announced that it is dropping the price for its entry level X25-V 40GB drive to an affordable $125, which appears to be a pretty good deal.
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ALTHOUGH A HANDFUL of USB 3.0 thumb drives have made it on to the market, it appears that they’re not as easy to make as one would at first think. It’s still early days of the USB 3.0 interface, although we’re starting to see a steady stream of USB 3.0 devices and most of them are hard drive related.
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WHAT DO YOU do if you are Intel, and your next next next generation part, Haswell, is thrown into a tizzy by the re-purposing of a major component? Easy, you smile and move on 1,394 miles to eastern Washington.
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IF YOU WANTED an iPad and haven’t placed your pre-order already, then it might be too late, as it seems like the iPad, despite plenty of criticism, is set to be yet another huge success for Apple, at least if estimated pre-order figures are anything to go by.
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ONE OF THE most studied benchmarks of the DX11 era is Heaven from Unigine. At GDC, it was showing off version 2.0 of the benchmark with more assets and features.
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WHAT DO YOU get when you cross a human sized hamster ball with VR googles and a game engine? You have a Virtusphere, and it looks like a lot of fun.
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IF YOU WANT to learn about Nvidia’s Tesla and GTX480 cards at GDC, don’t ask Nvidia, it has problems with the truth. The real story is found with the users, and they have interesting things to say about the upcoming card’s upward bound TDP.
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AMD IS FINALLY doing what we have all been waiting for, promoting its developer relations program to the masses. With that in mind, it introduced three new logos to go along with the program.
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3D API’S MIGHT not be the most exciting thing in the world, but without them we wouldn’t have any kind of 3D graphics which would make computers a lot less fun and a lot less useful for many users around the world. Khronos has announced its latest version of OpenGL which simply gets a version bump to 4.0.
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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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