E.U. Fines Memory Manufacturers $406M for Operating Cartel
Micron blew the whistle, escaping fines itself, while many other major memory manufacturers were given hefty penalties for their practices in 1998 through 2002. The European Commission Wednesday fined the world's largest memory chip makers a total of EUR331 million for having operated a cartel, in...
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AMD FirePro V4800 & FirePro V7800 Review @ Phoronix
Last month we reviewed the ATI FirePro V8800 (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14760), which is the newest ultra high-end workstation graphics card from AMD that is based upon the Evergreen graphics processor found in the consumer-grade Radeon HD 5000 series. We were blown away by the...
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AMD Chipsets in Short Supply
More fall out from the TSMC 40nm capacity shortage; when AMD were unable to deliver on requested numbers of HD 5000 ASIC's due to supply issues, partners kept ordering 55nm HD 4000 series parts to sell, as well. Now that demand has encroached on AMD chipset production as AMD authorizes...
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ATI's Eyefinity: 18 Games Benched on 3 and 6 Displays @ Techgage
As you might expect, taking the Eyefinity plunge requires a little bit of prep work. Aside from the graphics card, the most important consideration to make is with regards to the displays you plan to use. If you already own 3 or 6 displays, then you will have to work with what you have, but if you...
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GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5870 1GB Super Overclock - Overclocked Higher @ TweakTown
Overclocking on video cards has become a really big deal lately thanks to companies like MSI offering us simply awesome overclocking software that is easy to use and is compatible with all brands and models. Combine this with the release of new models from NVIDIA and fancier versions of models from...
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AMD Athlon II X2 260 Dual Core Processor Performance Review @ Legit Reviews
The AMD Athlon II series of processors is a very budget friendly series of processors. Just because they are budget friendly, by no means are they lacking in performance. Today we have the opportunity to look at one such processor. The AMD Athlon II X2 260 (P/N ADX2600CK23GM) is the fastest dual...
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Seagate's Upcoming 3TB Drives Will Need New Motherboards
Seagate has confirmed that it's launching a 3.1TB drive before the end of the year. 2.1 TB of storage ought to be enough for anybody. At least, that's what IBM and Microsoft must have been thinking when they set the maximum supported size drive of the venerable Logical Block Addressing (LBA)...
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AMD Catalyst Software: Performance, Stability and Innovation?
AMD's Terry Makedon, Manager of Software Product Management, has written an interesting view of the state of ATI Catalyst software, and the stable performance it delivers. Having experienced Eyefinity from it's early stages, I can say for sure that the ATI Catalyst team are working hard to improve...
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Google StreetView: Don't Be Evil; Stop Spying on Wi-Fi (and Delete 3 yr. of Data)
A month ago European governments raised questions of Google's Street View project, as it was discovered that the vehicles capture data on Wifi devices as well as photographs of the world. It turns out the cars collected not only the existence, but packets of transmitted data, too. "Don't be evil"...
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