Monday, February 23, 2009

IT News HeadLines (HARDSPELL) 23/02/2009


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AMD Demos 6-core Opteron "Istanbul"
AMD provided a live demonstration of their 6-core Opteron processor code-named "Istanbul." It is basically a 6-core version of 45nm "Shanghai" Opteron and is pin compatible with th
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GeForce GTS 240 scratches appears
NVIDIA will release the new GeForce 9800GT, dubbed GeForce GTS 240, in April this year. Earlier on NVIDIA took the 65nm G92 GPU, used by GeForce 9800GT, and moved it to the 55nm node. Even if the shru
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AMD Phenom II X4 hits 4.4GHz on air
AMDs Phenom II processors are truly mean overclockers under extreme cold, but with more conventional cooling the processors are yet to really impress. They are still much better than the last series o
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Nvidia confirms Ion platform for VIA, scheduled for release in 2009
Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, has revealed to Digitimes that Nvidia will launch an Ion platform (Ion 2) supporting VIA Technologies Nano CPUs in 2009. The platform is already in develop
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Nvidia CEO speaks out against Intel lawsuit
Intel recently filed a lawsuit with the Court of Chancery in the state of Delaware against Nvidia, asking the court to declare that Nvidia is not licensed to produce chipsets that are compatible with
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AMD pushes Yukon platform into all-in-one PC market
AMD has began to push its Yukon platform into the low-cost all-in-one PC market giving vendors the opportunity to differentiate themselves in the (currently Intel Atom dominated) market by offering ri
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Intel X58 sales to peak in Q1
Bloomfield, Core i7 CPUs are definitely the best CPUs that Intel has ever made, but it doesnt look like it will sell that many of them.Lynnfield will make the Nehalem platform a bit more popular, but
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Intel best selling chipsets are G31 / P31
Intel expects that its best selling chipsets in Q1 2009 will be G31 and P31 based. These two will sell so well, that nothing else will come even close. If Intels plan works well, by the end of this qu
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Phenom II 940 and 920 to EOL this year
AMDs 45nm Phenom II AM2+ based wont have a long and happy life. According to the latest information, AMD will accept last orders for Phenom II 940 at 3.0GHz and Phenom II 920 at 2.8GHz in late Q2 2009
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Intel six core 32nm comes after Q1 2010
According to Intels latest plans the Nehalem iteration called Bloomfield should last at least until the end of Q1 2010. We are talking roughly one year from today and we are still not sure that even t
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Q6600 to finally retire in Q2 2009
Intel is getting ready to retire its first 65nm based quad-core, the legendary Q6600. This 2.4GHz Kentsfield 65nm based chip is by far one of the best selling high end chips that came out of Intel in
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AMD Sempron X2 2300 Reaches Store in Japan
AMDs dual-core Sempron X2 2300 has been available in Japan at JPY2480 (about $27), according to the guys at AKIBA. This is the second model of Sempron dual-core CPU after Sempron X2 2100 announced in
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