IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 14/09/2010

Eat a Hoagie Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough Ars Technica: Intel's walled garden plan to put A/V vendors out of business Jon Peddie predicts quick rise of CPU-integrated graphics, death of IGPs by 2015 VR-Zone: Intel Sandy Bridge silicon exposed and Sandy Bridge hits retail on January 9, 2011 Fudzilla: Intel on...
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18W Fusion APU goes head to head with Core i5
As usual, AMD was camped out in a hotel room not far from the IDF venue today, where it was showing off its own upcoming chip based on a new CPU architecture with integrated graphics.  In this case, the chip in question was the "APU" code-named Zacate, based on dual...
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Gigabyte dresses up Sandy Bridge in gold, blue
IDF —Motherboard makers have, of course, been prepping for Intel's next-gen Sandy Bridge processors for some time now, and the folks at Gigabyte gave us a sneak peek, here at IDF, at their upcoming motherboards based on Intel 6-series chipsets. Gigabyte wouldn't...
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DisplayLink preps USB 3.0 display adapters
Many moons have passed since we reviewed DisplayLink's original USB 2.0 to DVI adapter. DisplayLink has been improving that product and the matching software since, but it's about take a great leap forward thanks to—you've guessed it—USB 3.0. The firm says it's showcasing a "USB 3.0 chip platform for...
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Report: High-end MSI graphics cards and motherboards to be ruggedized
In a report regarding MSI's August revenues, DigiTimes has revealed that the company plans to introduce "ruggedized" motherboards and graphics cards. No additional details are provided other than the fact that these rugged models will be restricted to the high end of MSI's lineup. Differentiating motherboards and graphics cards...
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Live blog: IDF 2010 Otellini and Perlmutter keynote
Join us as we frantically type from the IDF keynote!
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Video transcode engine could be lurking in Sandy Bridge GPU
A purported Sandy Bridge die shot is making the rounds and may reveal some additional video goodness built into Intel's next-gen CPU. SemiAccurate has spotted an unassuming logic block that it says is responsible for video transcoding. According to the site, the transcode block only takes up...
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'Radeon HD 6770' graphics card pictured
As we noted in our GeForce GTS 450 review, AMD's 6000-series Radeons are getting close to release. How close? Enough that two photos of a "Barts XT" graphics card—purportedly destined to become the Radeon HD 6770—have surfaced on Chinese site ChipHell. You can view the shots without registering...
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