Wednesday, January 21, 2009

IT News HeadLines (HARDSPELL) 21/01/2009

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Palit cuts Nvidia GPU orders
Graphics card manufacturer Palit Microsystems recently cut orders for about 400,000 Nvidia GPUs for first quarter of 2009 due to high inventory levels, according to industry sources. Inventory pile-up
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New Quadro graphics card has low profile, two GPUs
Now you can get multi-GPU workstation graphics goodness in one of those slim desktops, too. Nvidia has announced the Quadro NVS 420, a graphics card it claims to be "the industrys only low profil
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Integrated Atom to hit netbooks later this year
Intel will introduce the current Atoms successor for netbooks and nettops in the second half of this year, DigiTimes reports. Code-named Pineview, the chip will have both a graphics core and a memory
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Logitech reports slower sales, details layoff plan
Not able to escape the wrath of the financial and economic crisis, Logitech was forced to post drops in revenue and income for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2009. According to its own data, Log
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DFI working on beefy CPU cooler
Motherboards just arent enough in these dark times so DFI is looking to tap into new markets, with one of them, as suggested by the title and pictures below being coolers. Yes, DFI will release a CPU
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Google cuts out iPhone-optimized iGoogle page
Google appears to have quickly and quietly taken down the iGoogle web site that has been specifically formatted for the iPhone web browser. Previously when you connected to iGoogle.com, the iPhones br
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Rockstar brings GTA V rumor mill to a halt
Rockstar has put an end to GTA V rumours which have been spreading around the intraweb like a bushfire on a hot, windy afternoon.In a chat with Kotaku, the outfit claims there will be no wholly new re
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Qualcomm buys a piece of AMD
Qualcomm Incorporated and AMD have announced an agreement in which Qualcomm has bought a number of graphics and multimedia technology assets, intellectual property and resources of handheld business f
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AMD cuts Phenom II prices, too
Well, that didnt take long. Within hours of Intels quiet price cut, AMD has responded by trimming prices for its new 45nm Phenom II processors. The smaller chipmakers price list hasnt been updated yet
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Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate pictured
Sapphire has designed a new graphics card model based on the AMDs graphics processor ATI Radeon HD 4670. Since the Radeon HD 4600 series uses the RV730XT graphics circuit there is excellent support fo
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Mirrors Edge on Hand
Mirrors Edge was announced on Sunday, and weve bought one copy of it to support this game. Now, lets see how the package looks like together.
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Biostar launches AMD 760G-based motherboard
Biostar Microtech International has announced TA760G M2+ and A760G M2+ motherboards powered by AMDs 760G IGP chipset.The 760G paired with AMDs SB710 southbridge offers graphics performance based on AM
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Intel to launch more 5-series chipsets in 1Q10
In addition to Intels P55 chipset which is scheduled to launch in August to September this year, Intel plans to launch four more 5-series chipsets – H57, P57, Q57 and H55 – in the first quarter of 201
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Intel Put Graphics Into Pineview Atom CPUs
Intel is planning to launch the successor to the current Atom lineup in Q4 2009 with 45nm Pineview dual core processor based on Lincroft architecture. The single core version will come along a quarter
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Intel Initiates Shipments of Low-Power Quad-Core Chips for Desktops
As expected, Intel Corp. on Monday said that it had begun shipments of quad-core microprocessors for desktop market with reduced power consumption. The move allows Intel to target new types of enterta
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AMD Will Launch Dual-core Neo CPU in 2009
AMD is reported to be ready to launch a dual-core Neo for the Congo platform in the second half of 2009AMD showed off a new platform at CES called Yukon that featured a new single-core Athlon Neo proc
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3.1GHz Phenom II X4 950 to Hit The Market in Q2
AMD officially announced its 45nm processor Phenom II Series on January 8th, and there were only two models of CPU at that time, that is Phenom II X4 920 of 2.8 GHz and Phenom II X4 940 of 3.0GHz.Expe
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53 graphic cards power consumption contrasted
NVIDIA announced CUDA technology in the mid of 2008 and AMD released Stream technology at the end of 2008. The GPU are getting more and more popular. With the high speed developing and function expend
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XFX Offers GeForce 9600GSO Far Cry2 Edition Packed With 1.5GB Memory
XFX has recently brought out a fairly creative graphics card, GeForce 9600GSO Far Cry2 Edition. Its special package design is really refreshing, but in a strange way, the package is marked with "
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Half of 731 Voters Believe ECS to Be The First One to Leave Motherboard Market
We raised a vote days before to discuss who would be the first one to leave motherboard market. Lots of readers participated in our vote, and have left lots of thoughtful speculation. According to our
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ATI HD5870x4 details leaked?
"Actually, it doesnt sound optimistic enough to me. If the die size of 205mm² is true, ATI could sell these things for really cheap. The Radeon HD 4830, with its 256mm² die size
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