Lower-cost Fermi GPUs due in mid-2010
With the launch of parts based around NVIDIA's new Fermi/GF100 architecture now literally a month away, there has been a fair amount of speculation that we wouldn't see this design shrunk to serve other markets outside of the high-end, with G92 and GT200 chips left support the rest of the graphics market.آ However, comments from NVIDIA seem to suggest that this won't be the case, with mid-2010 seeing the launch of some lower cost Fermi-based GPUs, although only the Tesla and Quadro markets are explicitly mentioned during the discussion in question.
“Fermi will show up as the GeForce and Tesla first and it will definitely show up first in the highest-performance configuration. Sometime in the mid-part of the year we will see a lower-cost version of that come out both for Quadro and Tesla,†said David White, chief financial officer of Nvidia, at Goldman Sachs Technology Conference.
X-Bit Labs has more on the story.
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TSMC to begin trial production on 22nm process in Q3 2012
TSMC's shift to a 40 nanometre manufacturing process might not have been the easiest in the company's history, but regardless the chip-making giant can't afford to rest on its laurels, and along those lines the firm has announced that the second half of 2012 will see the company beginning trial production using a high-performance 22 nanometre process.
Chiang also revealed TSMC's 28nm progress. The foundry expects to begin trial production for the silicon oxynitride (SiON)-based 28nm low-power (28LP) node at the end of June, followed by its first high-k metal gate (HKMG) for the high performance application (28HP) at the end of September. Later in December, TSMC plans to introduce its 28nm low power with HKMG (28HPL), according to Chiang.
DigiTimes have more on this story.
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Crucial begins selling SSDs with 6Gbps SATA
Now that motherboards and expansion cards with support for the latest 6Gbps Serial ATA standard are more readily available in the market, enthusiasts are doubtless hungry for devices to make use of the additional speed offered by this third generation of the SATA specification.آ While a few mechanical hard drives have hit retail shelves of late, what we really need are some 6Gbps capable SSD drives to show off what can be achieved; it now appears that Crucial have just delivered upon those requirements with the launch of a pair of 6Gbps SATA SSD units.
Of course, while even the highest-end M225 only has a top rated read speed of 250MB/s, Crucial quotes a whopping 355MB/s read speed for both RealSSD C300 variants—just above the 300MB/s maximum speed allowed by previous-gen, 3Gbps Serial ATA ports. As we noted last month, though, RealSSD C300 drives "only" have top rated write speeds of 215MB/s.
The Tech Report has more detail on these new drives.
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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta 3 released
While we're still waiting for the final release of Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 to officially bring GPU-accelerated H.264 decoding to the masses (amongst other things), a third beta of said application has now been released, which adds acceleration for additional Intel graphics chips (most notably their GMA 500 used in some netbooks) as well as Broadcom's own Crystal HD video decoding chip.
You can download this latest beta for Windows, Linux or MacOS X from the Adobe Labs web site.
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Second-tier makers unlikely to start mass shipping NVIDIA Fermi cards until April
Late March may have been confirmed as the official launch date of NVIDIA's new Fermi-based GeForce GTX 470 and 480 parts, but according to some sources we won't be seeing boards from the company's so-called "second tier" manufacturers until April.
The sources expect Nvidia will give supply priority to first-tier makers or makers that only produce Nvidia cards. Makers including XFX and PNY are already offering pre-orders for these upcoming cards with GTX 480 priced at around US$679.99 and GTX 470 at about US$499.99.
DigiTimes has the story.
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