More Nvidia Ion system designs appear at Computex
COMPUTEX — Ever since Nvidia formally launched its Ion chipset together with the Acer AspireRevo two months ago, it's been promising scores of additional Ion-based systems. (Two scores, to be precise—the exact quote is "over 40.") At Computex today, we got to see a number of those new designs, both...
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Nvidia demos Tegra-powered netbooks
COMPUTEX — The Tegra brand may conjure up images of fancy, multimedia-friendly smart phones, but Nvidia isn't afraid of exploring other venues for its new system-on-a-chip. At the company's meeting room in Taipei's International Convention Center today, we got to see a handful of Tegra-based netbooks running Windows CE. The systems...
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P55 motherboards, Lynnfield info run loose at Computex
COMPUTEX — On Tuesday, we got to see Intel's upcoming Lynnfield processors in action. Since then, during our encounters with motherboard manufacturers, we've seen a generous collection of boards based on Lynnfield's companion chipset, the P55 Express. In the image gallery below, you'll see photos of future P55 boards from...
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Thursday Shortbread
Thursday DSLReports: Is 'consumption-based billing' really inevitable? DailyTech reports Motorola DOCSIS 3.0 SB6120 cable modems hit Fry's Electronics C|Net reports 6 months on, no ISPs joining RIAA piracy fight Ars Technica reports Yahoo! blitzes...
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AMD displays first DirectX 11 graphics processor
COMPUTEX — At an event here in Taipei this morning, AMD gave the first public glimpse of running DirectX 11 hardware. AMD's Rick Bergman and TSMC's Rick Tsai displayed a wafer of an upcoming 40nm, DirectX 11 AMD GPU scheduled for release by the end of this year.
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Morning, folks. We have several things in the works for you today, including more Computex coverage from Cyril, who's writing up today's exploits at some crazy hour in Taipei. Also should have a new blog post for you, and I'll be working all day on compiling data on the latest...
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Asus shows super-HD gaming, SATA 6Gbps mobo
COMPUTEX — Can you play Far Cry 2 on an eight-megapixel display with a current-gen graphics card? You can, as we found out today at Asus' Computex booth. The company showed us its new GeForce GTX 295 Mars graphics card, which has higher-than-normal clock speeds (648MHz for the core) and...
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Wednesday Shortbread
Wednesday TweakTown covers AMD Fusion press conference - The future is Fusion DigiTimes reports DRAM prices may return to cost levels in 3Q09, says A-Data chairman and Nvidia's 5-year plan coming to fruition as GPU compute goes...
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Big, expensive Corsair case has hot-swap drive bays
COMPUTEX — Corsair is getting into enthusiast enclosures, and it's not starting small. We stopped by the firm's meeting room in the Grand Hyatt hotel today and got to see the Obsidian Series 800D, a $299 steel-and-aluminum chassis with a sleek, black brushed metal finish and plenty of enthusiast-friendly perks.
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We get a first glance at Pine Trail netbooks
COMPUTEX — Intel isn't just focusing on fancy quad-core processors at Computex—far from it. At a keynote presentation earlier today, Intel's Mooly Eden and Sean Maloney gave the first public demo of Pine Trail, the next-generation Atom platform for netbooks. We elbowed our way into the front row of eager attendees...
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Intel shows off Lynnfield and Clarksfield PCs, Nehalem-EX
COMPUTEX — We started our Computex marathon this morning by paying a visit to Intel's Francois Piednoel, who showed us a desktop PC and a notebook based on upcoming mainstream Core i7 derivatives. Piednoel also let us snap a picture of an eight-core Nehalem-EX processor in the flesh. Let's start with...
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Tuesday Shortbread
Tuesday AMD processor pricing effective June 1, 2009 DSLReports: Comcast eyeing 100Mbps? BFG 100 day power supply trade up program Channel Register reports Intel confirms end of Psion 'netbook' legal fight ...
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AMD's 'Istanbul' six-core Opteron processors
The new "Istanbul" Opteron packs six cores into a single chip, which makes it the fastest, most power-efficient Opteron yet. But can it match Intel's formidable Nehalem Xeons? The answer might surprise you in more ways than one.
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Monday Shortbread
Monday Global chip sales up 6.4% in April TechRadar UK: The future of graphics cards revealed Channel Register reports AMD cuts Opteron prices pre-Istanbul Global Foundries 45nm, 32nm, and 28nm caught on video AMD triples the performance of ATI embedded graphics chips Bright Side of News reveals...
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Morning all. News around here may follow a bit of a different rhythm this week, since Cyril's in Taipei to cover Computex. I expect we'll see updates at odd hours and the like, once the show starts. For now, though, I'm trying to close out a review for, hopefully, later today....
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