Blizzard might sell 7 million copies of StarCraft 2
This is not a gaming website, but this night comes out the highly anticipated StarCraft 2, twelve years afer the first part. Activision Blizzard could be on track to sell 7 million copies in the first fiscal year when it is finally is released tomorrow, according to industry sources. If this proves to be true, the company could earn an estimated $171 million in profit for the current fiscal year on an estimated $350 million in sales.
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AMD Phenom X6 1035T to start shipping in Europe
Although AMD won’t introduce many new processors this summer, several interesting parts will appear soon. The 2.6GHz six-core Phenom II X6 1035T is one of them. It’s still not available in retail, but some OEMs have started offering it as an option in their systems. When it hits retail, the 1035T should be the cheapest six-core on the market, costing about four times less than the cheapest Intel six-core. The 2.7GHz 1045T should also appear sometime in this quarter.
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Windows 7 sales rise rapidly
It seems that Windows 7 sales are growing steadily and Microsoft has apparently sold 175 million copies since launch. At the moment, some 16 percent of PCs worldwide use Microsoft’s latest OS. Just last month Redmond confirmed sales of 150 million units, so it turns out that 25 million copies were sold in about a month’s time.
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IP4 address pool almost depleted
The Internet currently uses IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) which addresses computers using 32-bit numbers, allowing for the availability of a total of 4 billion IP addresses. According to experts, about 94 percent of those addresses have already been allocated, and the Internet may run out of IP addresses by 2011, at least under the current IPv4 system.
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ASUS GeForce GTX 460 TOP: Finally a Proper Fermi!
Ever since the first Fermi-based graphics card appeared at the end of March, it was clear that something just doesn’t smell alright about it. The first cards from the GeForce GTX 400 series were obviously engineered under great pressure. The result was chips that were fast, but the price, consumption, heating and yield percentage of which was far from commendable, as much as Nvidia tried to convince us otherwise. Yet everyone has the right to a second chance, so Nvidia figured that the correct perspective isn’t in weakening the way too expensive GF100 chip and its installation onto weaker card revisions (as confirmed by GeForce GTX 465, the review of which we’ve recently published (Reviews/Graphics-cards/ASUS-GeForce-GTX-465-A-Step-Down.html)), instead going for developing a weaker, but more economical version of the chip, something that the upper intermediate class cards could be based on.
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