Friday, May 14, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 14/05/2010



'GeForce GTX 465' picked apart, tested
You know those early GeForce GTX 460 listings we talked about yesterday? We may now have some specifications for the unannounced Nvidia graphics card. Chinese site eNet claims to have one of the GPUs in its possession, and it's posted some screenshots of the Nvidia driver control panel...
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Report: AMD will tap TSMC for Fusion manufacturing
Even back in 2008, we were hearing that AMD could use TSMC's 40-nm bulk silicon process to build its first Fusion CPU-GPU chimera. DigiTimes has resurrected that rumor, adding few details but quoting its ever-reliable "industry sources": AMD reportedly plans to outsource wafer starts for its Fusion CPUs...
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Gigabyte X58 mobo has nothing but PCIe x16 slots
With some of those new AMD 890FX mobos sporting outrageous numbers of PCI Express x16 slots, we were bound to see some retaliation from the Intel camp. Gigabyte has now introduced an X58 motherboard with nothing but PCIe x16 connectivity—not even a single 32-bit PCI or PCIe x1...
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Ascension Day Shortbread
Ascension Day MarketWatch: Tech stocks rise with Apple, Cisco; EA shares fall WSJ reports SAP strikes deal for Sybase The Register reports Cisco earnings beat the street TechFlash reports T-Mobile boosts profit,...
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Mac Steam client arrives, Portal offered for free
Who ever said Macs can't play games? Valve released the Mac OS X version of its Steam client earlier this afternoon, allowing users of Apple computers to access the digital distribution, multiplayer gaming, and communication service without having to install Windows. As the image below attests, the completed Mac release...
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Another iPhone 4G prototype escapes into the wild
Barely two weeks after a Gizmodo editor snagged a fourth-gen iPhone prototype (and subsequently saw his home raided by police), Engadget reports that a couple of Vietnamese publications have posted images of another iPhone 4G prototype found in the wild. The images look legit, although there are small...
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