Friday, December 31, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 30/12/2010



Lucid's Virtu brings dynamic graphics switching to desktops
Lucid is best known for its Hydra GPU load-balancing technology, which allows graphics chips from different vendors to be teamed in hybrid multi-GPU configurations. For its next trick, dubbed Virtu, the company is tackling Optimus-style dynamic graphics switching. According to SemiAccurate, Virtu is capable of putting discrete...
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Brazos platform could power Acer tablet
On the mobile roadmap AMD showed last month, we noticed that the Brazos bubble was poking out slightly into tablet territory, with that platform's successor seemingly primed to make further headway in the tablet space. Now, DigiTimes has provided unofficial confirmation that at least one Brazos-based slate is...
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Oh My! Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough California woman arrested in insider trading case for allegedly supplying information about Nvidia and Marvell Technology X-bit labs: ITC begins to investigate Rambus' latest accusations against chip designers TC Magazine: LucidLogix develops its own graphics switching technology, calls it Virtu SemiAccurate: Intel puts GPU memory...
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Help us beta-test TR v3.0!
While Scott's busy benchmarking some very exciting hardware due out in the very near future, other members of the TR team have been putting the finishing touches on TR v3.0. We've already shown you mockups and taken you around our new comment system. Now, we're ready for the...
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Tick Tock Day Shortbread
7 Up X-bit labs: Processor architecure, instruction sets may become less important in future - analyst Fudzilla: Bezel wars are with us TC Magazine: OWC serves up 12TB quad-drive RAID storage device and MSI to pair up Big Bang boards with Killer 2100 network card? Mashable posts iPad...
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HP's slim Envy 13 drops to $999.99
Yesterday, we noticed that Dell's Adamo was the subject of a meaty price cut. Today, it's the turn of HP's slim and sexy Envy 13, which is now available for $999.99—down a whopping 30% from the previous $1,449.99 asking price. The Envy 13 offers a formula very similar to...
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