Intel releases non-extreme Core i7-980 CPU
The Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor may have been taken off Intel's menu (although it's still available for orders until September 30th) but now another, very similar hexa-core chip has taken its place, offering pretty much the same performance for a lower price tag.
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Updated Nvidia driver now supports SLI on AMD motherboards
At the end of April, Nvidia said it was responding to customers requests by bringing SLI to AMD-based boards. It announced that it had licensed SLI to the world's leading motherboard companies for integration onto their upcoming mothers featuing AMD's 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets. ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock and MSI were among the first to implement the technology which had previously been limited to systems running Intel CPUs.
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Cabled PCI Express taking on Thunderbolt
PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) is about to develop the new technology under a new working group. The PCI Express cabled standard will take on the Thunderbolt interconnect developed by Intel and Apple. It would be based on PCIe 3.0, likely supporting a maximum of four parallel lanes for throughput up to 32 Gbit/s. A further version based on PCI Express 4.0 (16 GT/s) could push up throughput even further, though cable length is likely to be limited to about three meters.
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Geohot now works for Facebook
Website TechUnwrapped has reported that infamous jailbreaker George Geohot Hotz is now working at Facebook, following his Sony lawsuit. Earlier this year, Hotz was sued by Sony after the jailbreaker created a custom firmware for the PS3 using a root key. The custom firmware allowed users to run homebrew software and Linux on their devices and Hotz condemned all types of piracy, even blocking it with his firmware. Regardless, Sony was not a fan and took the teen to court. Hotz and Sony settled after a meaningless trial, and Hotz is no longer able to have a PSN account or ever modify any Sony devices.
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PCI Express 4.0 brings even larger throughput
PCI group doesn't see need to abandon copper interconnects just yet - according to reports from the PCI Special Interest Group developers conference, PCI Express 4.0 is expected to deliver at least 16 GT/s when it debuts, double the 8 GT/s throughput achieved with PCIe Gen 3. The next advancement of PCI Express isn't expected to make a hardware debut for about four years.
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µTorrent updated to version 3.0
Very popular torrent client µTorrent reached a new phase in its life with the arrival of the full and final 3.0 build which brings a simplified interface, stability improvements and quite a few added features that boost usability.
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Micron reports both revenue and profits slip
In the quarter ended June 2nd (the company's Q3 of fiscal year 2011), memory maker Micron Technology has recorded sales of $2.13 billion, down a bit both sequentially and on-year, and saw its net income reach $75 million (up over the $72m of Q2 but down from $93m of Q3 FY2010).
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DisplayPort standard gets active cables support
VESA announces support for longer active cables for DisplayPort standard. The Video Electronics Standards Association announced an extension to the DisplayPort v1.2 standard to support active cables, which can be as much as five times longer than passive cables. To achieve the extra length, active cables boost and equalize the attenuated DisplayPort signal.
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