Intel X79 Enthusiast Chipset Sketched in Roadmap
Intel's next platform for enthusiasts (successor to LGA1366, X58), will consist of a 2011-pin LGA socket, the Sandy Bridge-E (enthusiast) processor that features a massive quad-channel DDR3 memory controller and 32+ lane PCI-Express 2.0 hub, and the X79 chipset. Intel is looking to skip the...
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AMD can't find a new CEO
Two months and no one named It seems that AMD is having some difficulty finding someone to take the role of CEO. Dirk Meyer announced he was quitting two months ago, after a disagreement with the board over strategy. However since then no one has been named as a likely replacement. Some of that...
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AMD's Next Generation GPU Graphics chip 'Southern Islands' Tapes Out
AMD's Radeon HD 7000 series could be here as soon as July 2011, or late as July 2012, depending on the vagaries of TSMC's 28nm process production: The SI tapeout happened in in February, more likely earlier than later, so lets call it 6 weeks ago. For those doing the math, both of the last two...
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A note on rumors about GTX 590 issues
The TechReport's Scott Wasson has some interesting tidbits to give us about the rumors regarding the GeForce GTX 590 "issues." Yesterday afternoon was interesting because I spent much of it revisiting the GeForce GTX 590, looking for problems. As you may have heard, some reviewers using early...
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AMD's Catalyst Misses The Support Train, Again
AMD will once again be months late in supporting the newest X.Org / Linux kernel releases. While AMD released the Catalyst 11.3 driver this morning, if you're an early adopter of Ubuntu 11.04, Fedora 15, or any other Linux distribution shipping with xorg-server 1.10, the proprietary Radeon /...
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AMD Catalyst 11.3 Drops Support For Old X.Org
For anyone still using X.Org 6.8, support for the very old monolithic X has been dropped. With the month ending, Linux users were beginning to wonder where is this month's proprietary driver update, but AMD's web team has just uploaded the Catalyst 11.3 binary Linux driver. What's changed though...
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AMD Catalyst 11.3 Released
AMD has released their third official Catalyst driver for 2011, Catalyst 11.3. Feature highlights: Seamless GPU Compute support The AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) OpenCL runtime is now enabled by default within AMD Catalyst. Applications that leverage OpenCL for GPU based compute...
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