Nvidia loses another patent infringement suit against Rambus
Nvidia has lost another battle in the ongoing patent-infringement lawsuit originally filed by Rambus. The US International Trade Commission has announced its conclusion that Nvidia used Rambus' patented technology without permission or a licensing agreement. As part of the ruling, the Commission calls for a ban on imports of certain Nvidia products using the technology found to be based on Rambus patents. The ban would presumably extend to many third-party products, such as PCs and motherboards, that integrate Nvidia components.
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Apple readies new Core i3/5/7 iMacs
Apple today announced an updated line of iMacs. The new series is the first to completely drop Core 2 Duo as an option, instead offering dual-core Core i3 or i5 at the lower end. Higher-end systems have a choice of quad-core Core i5 or i7. Dual-core CPUs are now rated up to 3.6GHz, whereas quad-core speeds have been boosted slightly to 2.93GHz. All systems use dedicated ATI Radeon HD GPUs, with the 4670 with 256 MB as a base option, or 5670 with 512MB and 5750 1GB in more expensive variants (the latest is the only option on all 27-inch quad-core systems). RAM on each system is 4GB DDR3-1333, and SD card slots have been given support for the SDXC format, which can in theory hold up to 2TB.
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Motorola might release a 10-inch Android 3.0 tablet
Thanks to analyst Roger Crenshaw, the latest Android tablet rumor has hit the presses this week. Crenshaw cites sources (http://www.thestreet.com/video/10816031/motorolas-tablet-plans.html#260729443001) close to the tablet's development and says Motorola is building a 10-inch tablet that will run on Android 3.0 Gingerbread.
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Nvidia now ships Fermi-based Quadros for professionals
Nvidia began shipping its long promised Fermi-based Quadro workstation graphics cards. They share the same, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1-capable cores and are theoretically up to five times faster than the respective models of previous generation. Quadro 6000 has a large 6GB of GDDR5 video memory and can handle as many as 1.3 billion triangles per second across its 448 processing cores. Quadro 5000 uses 352 cores and 2.5GB of memory, while the 4000 drops to 256 cores and 2GB of memory. A mobile workstation version, the Quadro FX 5000M, uses 320 cores and 2GB of memory even in the tighter spaces of a desktop replacement notebook.
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