Friday, April 29, 2011

IT News Head Lines (Rage3D) 29/04/2011

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AMD's tops the list of Community Cross-License members for WebM Codec
Well, ok it's sorted alphabetically... but it still shows that AMD are supporting the WebM Community Cross-License project (http://www.webm-ccl.org/members/), designed to allow proponents of the Google-backed web video technology to shelter under the patent protection provided by the...

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NVIDIA Confirms SLI for AMD 9-series Chipsets
With new DX11 games coming out, lots of you guys (and gals) are building new gaming rigs and trying to decide what CPU to use. When you’re deciding what to build, finding the best CPU price performance ratio is key. After all, PC hardware doesn’t grow on trees!

Long term gamers probably...

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Intel SSD 720, 710 and 520 Series leak out, Larsen Creek and Paint Creek
Remember Intel's Larsen Creek SSD? It's not alone

By the end of the year, it looks like Intel expects to ship five new solid state storage series in total -- some of them even speedier than its current SSD 510 Series flagship. We managed to obtain this leaked roadmap listing the potential...

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XFX Published Product Pages of AMD Radeon HD 6700 series - simply HD 5700 rebadges
Back when AMD first introduced the AMD Radeon HD 6800 series, we heard how the 5700 series (codename Juniper) was going to be continued in market, unchanged. The prices dropped a little, and the cards perform nicely against the competitive cards so there was no real problem, as the HD 6800 series...

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Intel 311 SSD "Larsen Creek" Information Leaked (via ASRock Z68 documentation)
Larsen Creek will be the third SSD family from Intel to be launched in the consumer market in 2011

Larsen Creek, according to our data released by the Intel 311-series and storage capacity of at least the first models landing at timid 20GB. Quite enough to take a system unit in a standard Windows...

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Rage3D Editorial - The Keynote Speakers at AFDS & possibilities for future Fusion APU
AMD bringing Microsoft to their recently announced Fusion Developer Conference makes sense. ARM? Well, it gives a nice insight into where AMD's Fusion APU strategy could take them, powered by a heterogeneous compute platform: OpenCL.

*Microsoft, AMD and ARM - The Future of Fusion @ Rage3D.com*...

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Analysis: Why ARM-AMD makes sense
Warren East, CEO of processor licensor ARM, says there is no story here

East says that he and his CFO Tim Score were asked about AMD during analyst discussions over ARM's record first quarter financial results and that he had simply said that ARM has been trying to sell to AMD for long time – as...

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Ivy Bridge CPUs Feature PCI-Express 3.0
Slides detailing Intel's upcoming "Panther Point" chipset reveal that the next generation of LGA1155 processors will feature PCI-Express 3.0 bus to connect with graphics cards

PCI-Express 3.0 doubles bandwidth over PCI-Express 2.0, and comes with a number of new features and electrical...

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AMD Catalyst 11.4 is Released with AMD CAP 11.4 #1
The official, WHQL certified drivers for Catalyst 11.4 have been published by AMD:

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.4 Windows release include:

Feature highlights

Enhancements to the AMD VISION Engine Control Center / AMD Catalyst Control Center

New task based Display Management controls
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