Thursday, March 5, 2009

IT News HeadLines (HARDSPELL) 05/03/2009


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ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer motherboard displayed
Back in October, ASUS impressed the world with the announcement of its P6TS WS Revolution motherboard, packed with six PCI-E 2.0 slots and a single nForce 200 SLI chip. At CeBIT, the company has outdo
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AMDs manufacturing spin-off officially named GlobalFoundries
After months of The Foundry Company, the new company formed by AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) finally got an official name and it is GlobalFoundries. With ATIC owning 65.8% and
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ASUS Presents New Motherboard Concept
During CeBIT 2009, ASUS showed a new motherboard concept called Marine Cool with the aim of improving stability and cooling system on the motherboards. By doing this ASUS want to presents and discusse
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Asus shows its new Formula graphics card series
Asus has showcased its newest Formula graphics card series that will be available in both ATI and Nvidia flavors. This new series is aimed at overclockers and Asus claims that these will have impressi
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Sapphire is working on a watercooled HD 4850 X2
If youre on the prowl for some Crossfire muscle, the HD 4850 X2 is definitely a card worth taking into consideration. Although its been around for months, Sapphire has decided to refresh it, by adding
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Nvidia to launch x86 SoC within 2-3 years
Although some has said this has been long coming, it finally looks like Nvidia is getting ready to get into the x86 market. However, for those of you that expected a high-end CPU for gamers, were afra
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9800 GTX+ soon to go the way of the dodo
Weve learned that the 9800 GTX+ will soon be gone from store shelves for good, as soon as the supply channels dry out. Many vendors have already removed it from their lists of available cards.Although
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TSMC to start Atom SoC production in Q4 2009
TSMC will reportedly start production of Atom system-on-chip products in Q4 2009 at the earliest.Intel announced a strategic partnership with the Taiwanese chipmaker on Tuesday, but few details were r
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CeBIT 2009: Gigabyte Showcases P55 and 790FX Motherboards
GA-IBP motherboard featuring Intel 5 Series chipset supports Intel i5 processorGigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard based on AMD790FX+SB750 chipset, supporting 45nm AMD Phenom II processor and dual-c
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AMD Finalizes The Foundry Company Spinoff
The slow economy has forced AMD, the worlds second largest chipmaker, to make some hard decisions in the wake of consecutive quarterly losses. The company has been cutting jobs and posted a massive lo
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NVIDIAs GTX 280M Uses Same G92 Chip as 9800 GTX+
NVIDIA has the fastest single GPU for the desktop in the GTX 285, a 55nm die-shrunk version of its predecessor the GTX 280. However, ATI has been able to gain a larger market share due to aggressive p
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Goodbye to traditional Intel graphics?
In a report entitled "Integrated graphics chip market to disappear by 2012," Tiburon, Calif.-based Jon Peddie Research forecasts the end of the market for "the popular integrated graphi
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Clevos Intel Core i7-based laptop is an absolute monster
News circulated around the web that Eurocom was going to release the ultimate laptop, imbued with Core i7 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 graphics card.Now, a month later, we spotted Clevo advertising
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GeForce GTS 240: does NVIDIA have another unreleased GPU at CeBIT 09?
CeBIT 09 has revealed what we already know - NVIDIA plans to launch its GeForce GTS 250 1GB tomorrow, to coincide with the official opening of the show.Shortly after that, itll follow up with another
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Mobile Geforce GTX200M i GT100M hit the booths
Along with the GTS 250, Nvidia also launched a number of mobile GPUs today. The flagship GTX 280M features 128 stream processors, 256-bit memory and it should be up to 30 percent faster than ATIs Mobi
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Nvidias Ion not so popular at Cebit
At least two top manufacturers at Cebit have said that they dont have any ongoing activities when it comes to Ion and that the GN40 chipset from Intel should meet their needs. Some of them are using S
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Intel P55 boards to ship in July
July is the start of Q3, of already an troubled 2009, and some motherboard manufacturers are already showing their early samples of LGA 1160 socket based motherboards. This will be the first socket to
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AMDs RV790 is still 55nm
We learned that ATIs upcoming performance card, codenamed RV790, is going to rely on the 55nm production process. The way we understand it, this is a slightly improved version of the original RV770 ch
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Intels P55 chipset might not support IGP CPUs
Were already seeing a lot of motherboards from CeBIT based on the upcoming Intel P55 chipset for the LGA-1156 processors which might or might not be known as Core i5, but it seems like theres a fly in
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More P55 motherboards spotted
It seems like CeBIT is the place to be when it comes to spotting P55 motherboards, as on top of the two Asus motherboards and one model from MSI that turned up yesterday, pictures of another model fro
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AMD closes Asset Smart transaction for Foundry Company
AMD has announced that it has closed its Asset Smart strategic transaction with the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) and Mubadala Development Company of Abu Dhabi, setting the stage for t
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ATI, NVIDIA Announce New Mobile GPUs
Competition in the mobile GPU segment is strong. Intel routinely leads the market with its integrated chipsets. However, with the lack of discrete Intel products, NVIDIA and AMD are left to fight for
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Galaxy GTS 250 Available Now
Galaxy today launches the newest member of the GeForce 200 family – The Galaxy GeForce GTS 250. It features 55nm G92-421-B1 GPU with 128 stream processors, 1GB/512MB of GDDR3 memory across a 256-bit w
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