Nvidia GTX260s now losing money
NVIDIA HAS BEEN propping up volume by selling below cost for a bit now, and the latest price drop of the GTX260 is sure to bring smiles to the faces of users. The problem is that add-in-board (AIB) pa
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Intel is top chip shop again
CHIPZILLA STILL RULES THE ROOST when it comes to shifting silicon according to anal listers Isuppli. The biggest microprocessor maker on the planet managed to keep its spot at the top with a 13.1 per
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PowerColor refuses to give up on AGP
To most people the AGP interface is a thing of the past. But there are still those who have motherboards and computers with the AGP format, and has no intention of upgrading the PC for some time. Ther
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NVIDIA chops pricing on GeForce GTX 260 and GTS 250 GPUs
We welcomed NVIDIAs GeForce GTS 250 1GB card with more than a little head scratching. Basically a GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1GB card by another name, albeit with minor improvements and a slight price-drop to
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XFX launches its new Core Edition series
XFX has announced its new Core Edition series of graphics cards that will be oriented at budget-minded consumers. The lineup will include the new GTS 250 in both 512MB and 1GB versions, as well as GTX
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No plans for Nehalem Skulltrail from Intel
Intel told us that they wont do a reference motherboard for Nehalem dual socket, super desktop machine but there is still hope that partners will do it. Intel has told us that partners can do it, and
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Intel now FUDs about Ion (MCP79) battery life
Intel sent out a presentation that was leaked to a few forums, but Intels legal department was fast to take actions that led to the swift removal of these documents. Anyway, Intel talks about MCP79 an
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AMD drops out of top ten chipmaker list
According to iSuppli, AMD has slipped off the list of the worlds top ten chipmakers, following a 7.8 percent revenue drop in 2008.Its rival, Intel is still going strong and leads the pack, with a 13.8
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Nvidia rolls out Geforce 182.08 beta for HAWX
Just a week after the release of 182.08 WHQL certified drivers, Nvidia has rolled out a beta version of the same driver. This was done in order to provide an SLI profile for Ubisofts latest title, Tom
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OLPC mulls dumping AMD Geode CPUs
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC, says the non-profit organization is "almost committed" to using ARM chips in XO-2 laptops which are slated for release in 18 months.The current XO-1 un
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Nvidias GTX275 has GTX295 chip
Nvidia needs a card that is faster than GTX 260 and that wont beat GTX 285 and the answer is as you can imagine GTX 275.Our sources were told that GTX 275 will have the chip similar to the one you see
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NVIDIA Backs Away From GTS 240 Rebrand of 9800 GT
NVIDIA will not be going ahead with its controversial GTS 240 rebrand of the GeForce 9800 GT graphics card, according to a confidential email that DailyTech has seen. The GPU firm has been under press
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MSI reveals the AMD-powered VR430 laptop
MSI has now announced a new Value Series notebooks, the 14.1-inch VR430. Seen below, the laptop measures 332 x 243 x 29-34 mm, packs a 14.1-inch LCD with a top resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, and can
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EVGA Reveals X58 Classified Motherboard
EVGA announces the X58 Classified Motherboard which is sold at $449.99.This motherboard comes with never before seen features such as 3-way SLI + PhysX + 1x PCIe devide on a single board, two 8pin + 1
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Nvidia to invest in GPU startups
Over the past year, Nvidia has brought forth several parallel computing efforts to accelerate and expand its share in the semiconductor-related industry that have allegedly challenged Intel and AMDs e
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GTX260 drops to $169 in US
We were shocked to learn that Nvidia dropped Geforce GTX 260 price all the way to $169 and the cards are available at this price today at Newegg.XFX is the one to blame, as it offers its reference-clo
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Nvidia plans a 2GB GTX285
Since Radeon HD 4870 already comes in 2GB, and the HD 4890 will likely also come in 2GB versions, Nvidia doesnt really have any other choice than to launch its 2GB card in the same market segment. The
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RV790 has different pin layout
RV790 cards are shortly going into production and we have learned that RV790 Asic doesn’t have the same pin layout out as the RV770.At first we believed its the same chip, just tuned slightly faster,
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AMD CEO skeptical about Nvidia x86 plans
In an interview with Businessweek, AMD CEO Dirk Meyer talked about Nvidias x86 plans, the future of Globalfoundries and AMDs emphasis on mobile products.Meyer is not surprised by Nvidias push for an x
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Nvidia opens up graphic war chest
NVIDIA IS DRUMMING up support for for what it calls visual and high-performance computing by offering cash to companies through a GPU Ventures Program.The company has invested before in baubles like G
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Galaxy GTX285 Graphics Card on Hand
Galaxys non-reference GTX285 was unearthed last month, and now we manage to get it on hand for a close view.Different from other high-end graphics cards, Galaxy GTX285 features a small-size cooler. Yo
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Foxconn sees February revenues down over 10% on month and on year
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) on March 10 reported non-consolidated revenues of NT$82.728 billion (US$2.38 billion) for February 2009, decreasing by 10.46% on month and by 10.55% on
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AMD introduces a new ATI FirePro graphics card
AMD has introduced the ATI FirePro 2450, a low profile quad display graphics accelerator designed to consume minimal power, delivering powerful efficiency.With 512MB of on-board graphics memory the ca
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AMD ships 50 millionth Wii GPU
AMD says that the Hollywood GPU in the Wii is now the comapnys most successful game console GPU to date.With its unfortunate moniker and so-so graphics, not to mention the disappointing sales of the G
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Nvidia looking to invest in startups through the GPU Ventures Program
Long sensing a disturbance in the GPU market and pretty much fearing for its existence, Nvidia has now decided to launch the GPU Ventures Program, a project focused on finding and investing in startup
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GeForce GTX 275 said to counter the Radeon HD 4890
Planned for an April 6th release, the RV790-powered Radeon HD 4890 is now reported to be getting some competition in the form of the GeForce GTX 275. With the GTX 260 going down in price to around the
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Dual-core Atom a must to play Blu-ray, even with Ion
Intels Atom processor sounds powerful and is selling by the dozen, often inside small notebooks called netbooks. The problem is that the architecture used for the Atom processor is fairly old and perf
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Intel sees the need for a mobile mid-range processor
Intel has a bunch of different mobile processor to offer, but at the same time it has found a gap that it is now working to fill. The hole comes after Intels budget processor Atom, which is both energ
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PowerColor thinks that AGP is still not dead
During CeBIT, we had a nice chat with one of the PowerColor reps and according to them, there is still some demand on AGP market. Were not sure about the demand as AGPs last stand was really the HD 38
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RV740 in 40nm to come after RV790
ATIs upcoming 55nm RV790 is the first new chip to come from ATI in the next quarter. We were told to expect it in April time and, at the same time, we learned that RV740, ATIs first desktop 40nm chip
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