MSI, Dell prepping Pine Trail netbooks
Asus may have been the star of our first Pine Trail netbook review, but it's definitely not the only company adopting Intel's new Atom platform. Both Dell and MSI have now announced new netbooks with similar traits: Atom N450 processors, 10.1" displays, and long rated battery life. Dell will...
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National Date Nut Bread Day Shortbread
National Date Nut Bread Day - Capricorn begins Rumor: Moscone schedule + "corporate event" = Verizon iPhone? The Register reports Harvard smarties name Steve Jobs 'world's best CEO' Gizmodo's 12-city 3G data mega test: AT&T won DSLReports: Comcast settles throttling class action and leaked 2010 Verizon...
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Hynix touts 2Gb GDDR5 chip with 7Gbps data rate
Modern graphics cards have obscene amounts of memory bandwidth as it is, and their successors only seem poised to break new records. In fact, Hynix recently announced a new GDDR5 memory chip it claims to have the highest performance and density on the market. This chip can pack 2Gb...
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New NZXT case has dual 200-mm intake fans
Say what you will about Hades, it's surprisingly well ventilated—the new NZXT enclosure, that is, not the Greek underworld. NZXT's freshly announced Hades case comes with four fans: two 200-mm behemoths (one at the front and one on the side), one 120-mm at the back, and one 140-mm at...
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DFI could leave the motherboard scene
Smaller, enthusiast-focused motherboard makers were grabbing all the headlines a few years ago. Nowadays, Abit no longer even sells motherboards, and we seldom hear the DFI name anymore. This could all end with DFI pulling out of the mobo market—so says SemiAccurate, quoting both the rumor mill and its...
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NYT: Nvidia will sell x86 chips, and the FTC suit could help
Could Nvidia really launch an x86 processor and start competing with Intel on its home turf? An analyst resurrected that rumor after a long dry spell last month, and The New York Times' Bits blog has now jumped on the bandwagon, pointing out interesting new details in the...
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Otellini: The FTC doesn't have the power to fine us
In a surprising move last week, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Intel, accusing the chipmaker of hurting competition in both the microprocessor and graphics processor markets. The suit included many of the allegations AMD made before receiving a juicy $1.25-billion settlement in November. Intel already...
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ATI Stream SDK v2.0 reaches production status
AMD says it has an early Christmas present for developers: version 2.0 of the ATI Stream SDK, which has reached production status with support for the OpenCL 1.0 specification. This release comes just over two months after AMD first claimed full OpenCL compliance in the beta version of...
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