IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 01/09/2010

Mass production of 24nm flash memory begins at Toshiba
Add Toshiba to the growing list of flash memory providers who have upgraded to the next generation of fabrication technologies. The company has kicked off mass production of 24-nm MLC NAND. According to the official press release, the first chips rolling off the production line have two...
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Gmail can now prioritize your inbox
According to the official Gmail blog, Google is in the process of introducing a powerful new tool to deal with the deluge of e-mail users face on a daily basis. The feature, called Priority Inbox, goes beyond filtering out spam (which is a real shame, since I now make...
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Kanter dissects Bulldozer microarchitecture
David Kanter over at RealWorldTech has cooked up another of his exquisitely detailed expositions of a CPU microarchitecture, this time focusing on AMD's upcoming Bulldozer architecture. Kanter offers an introduction to the philosophy behind Bulldozer, and then he dives right into the nuts and bolts. There's information...
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Intel cuts Core i7-950 to $294, adds new Core i3
Without fanfare or press announcements this weekend, Intel quietly updated its price list with two notable changes: a sizable price cut for the Core i7-950, which is now down to $294, and the addition of a quicker-than-ever Core i3 processor, the 3.33GHz Core i3-560. The i7-950 was previously selling for...
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Lucid to bring load-balancer tech to graphics cards
Well, well. It looks like the folks at Lucid have been keeping busy. After getting its Hydra GPU load balancer onto motherboards last year, the Israeli firm now plans to bring similar vendor-agnostic multi-GPU capabilities... to graphics cards themselves. We're not talking about expensive multi-GPU boards, either.
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Eat Outside Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough TC Magazine reports Intel slashes Core i7-950 price tag, intros new chips AnandTech: Intel's Core 2011 roadmap revealed - Sandy Bridge part II TC Magazine: EVGA rolls out the X58 SLI3 USB 3.0 / SATA 6.0Gbps-ready motherboard and MSI GeForce GTX 460 Hawk graphics...
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Toshiba's Nile-powered Satellite T235D notebook
Does AMD finally have a good alternative to Intel's CULV platform, and should this 13" Toshiba notebook be on your shopping list this back-to-school season?
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Google Chrome to gain GPU acceleration
Death, taxes and Google adding features to their Chrome browser—it's nice to know there are still a few certainties in life. According to this post on Google's official Chrome blog, GPU acceleration will be incorporated into upcoming Chrome browser releases. That's definitely an important step for the Google browser. The...
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Cheap dongle involved in easy three-way
One of the weaknesses of AMD's Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming technology to date has been display support.  The great majority of Radeon HD 5800-series graphics cards will drive three monitors simultaneously, but one of those displays must accept a DisplayPort input, due to limitations in the GPUs' output capabilities.  That restriction...
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GeForce drivers reveal future 400-series cards
Well, it looks like AMD isn't the only one to get careless with future GPU names in its drivers. As TechConnect Magazine reports, Nvidia's GeForce 259.47 drivers also betray the existence of quite a few unannounced cards, both desktop and mobile. Among the leaked model names: GeForce GTS 455 and...
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Purported Radeon HD 6800 benchmarks leaked
While we're on the subject of next-gen, non-ATI-branded Radeon graphics cards, a Chinese website has obtained performance data for one of those still-unannounced products. PCinlife actually has two rounds of numbers purportedly obtained from an unspecified Radeon HD 6800-series GPU—and that thing looks to be quite the...
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