Gigabyte prepared three Sandy Bridge-supporting motherboards
The Sandy Bridge launch is set for early January but that hasn't stopped multiple manufacturers from playing harbingers and showing off motherboards that will support Intel's chips, so it comes to no surprise that Gigabyte has now provided quite an in-depth scoop on its SB-ready offering. The motherboards presented by Gigabyte are three mid-range models, the P67A-UD3R and P67A-UD3 which have a full ATX form and the H67MA-UD2H which has a micro ATX form factor.
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PlayStation Portable 2 may have Xbox-level power
A new rumor mentioned that Sony's often-rumored PSP2 may count on Xbox 360-level performance to give the company back the gaming crown it lost to Apple. The choice of processor wasn't mentioned, but the design is expected to have 1GB of RAM, or twice as much as Microsoft's TV console. Website Kotaku didn't have insight but was persuaded it was much more powerful than the current PSP. The existing design is virtually unchanged on the inside from its 2004 original, which uses a 333MHz MIPS processor and just 64MB of RAM. Reaching Xbox 360 performance may be difficult or impossible, as Microsoft is using a triple-core 3.2GHz processor and dedicated ATI graphics. The fastest known mobile chip so far is NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra 2, which still trails well behind but would be much faster.
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Sony returns to profit
Sony revealed ther results for its summer quarter that brought it back to health. The company had a net profit of about $384 million versus a loss of $326 million a year ago and owed much of this to its Networked Products group, which covers both PlayStation consoles and its VAIO PCs. Computers were the biggest help, as the company was facing expanding market share in all regions . SCE, the gaming division, also marked its fourth quarter of being profitable and earned $161 million in profit on its own. Although PS3 sales are still growing slowly, Sony's ability to get PS3 assembly costs under check has kept it from being a money losing operation.
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GeForce GTX 580 specs revealed
Details of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580 have spilled out with a pair of Chinese leaks. Specs have emerged from Chiphell website, that back the notion of it having 512 processing cores (CUDA cores) but add that it would have a 772MHz core clock and 2GHz memory. It would have more memory bandwidth at 192.4GB, but contrary to rumors it would still use a 384-bit memory bus and rely mostly on brute force to run faster. A set of photos have likewise surfaced from PCInLife and suggest that the design will be visually different than the reference GTX 480, though not a major break from NVIDIA's familiar two-slot design. The stock board has dual DVI outputs and what's likely an HDMI output.
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Intel opens it's largest factory so far
CPU giant Intel has opened its largest assembly and test facility in Vietnam. The $1 billion dollar factory takes up the space equivalent to five and a half football fields and is located at an industrial park in Ho Chi Minh City. Production at the facility is said to already be underway, with chipsets for notebooks and mobile devices headed worldwide distribution.
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Apple takes 47 percent of industry's cellphone profits
According to a Canaccord Genuity analysis, Apple took 47 percent of the cellphone industry's operating profits during the third quarter of 2010. This figure is vastly disproportionate to the company's actual marketshare, measured at 3.9 percent. If considered together, a combined force of Apple, RIM and HTC accounted for 71 percent of profits.
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Nintendo sees loss for first time in seven years
For the six fiscal months ended September 30th, 2010, Nintendo saw its first semi-annual loss in seven years, thanks mostly to a steep decline in DS handheld sales. Year-over-year, DS sales which include DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL dropped to 6.69 million worldwide, from 11.7 million in the same period last year. The drop in sales makes sense though, given that the market has been very close to saturation for some time. Additionally, the Nintendo 3DS is set for launch early next year, so consumers appear to be bidding their time and waiting on the new, updated handheld.
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OCZ launches RevoDrive X2
OCZ Technology announces the launch of The RevoDrive X2 PCI-Express SSD, a follow-up to the successful RevoDrive, with increased performance and capacity to serve high-performance computing consumers. The RevoDrive X2 upgrades the original architecture to deliver transfer rate up to 740MB/s and up to 120,000 IOPS, nearly triple the throughput of other high-end SATA-based solutions with a substantial reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) to the consumer.
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China now owns world's fastest supercomputer
Nvidia isn't holding back on brag today as no less than 7,168 of its Fermi-based Tesla M2050 GPUs, together with 14,336 CPUs, are powering the Tianhe-1A supercomputer announced at HPC 2010 China as the world's fastest supercomputer with a measures performance of whopping 2.507 petaflops.
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Firefox 4 RC pushed to early 2011
Mozilla has revised its release schedule for Firefox 4 due to the longer than estimated work on improving the software. As such, the release candidate is now due to arrive in early 2011, while the next beta build, v8, is now due to arrive on November 12. The final software will ship shortly after the final release candidate.
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